The 10,000 metres
speed skating
Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors racing, race each other in travelling a certain distance on Ice skate, skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marath ...
event was part of the
speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics
At the 1960 Winter Olympics, eight speed skating events were contested in Squaw Valley, California. For the first time in Olympic history, women participated in the Olympic speed skating events after the USOC's proposal to include the women's ev ...
programme. It was the last speed skating contest at this Games. The competition was held on the
Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink
The Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink was a temporary venue constructed for the 1960 Winter Olympics in Olympic Valley, California (which was known at that time as "Squaw Valley"). Located outdoors near the Blyth Arena, it hosted the speed skati ...
and for the first time at the Olympics on artificially frozen ice. It was held on Saturday, February 27, 1960. Thirty speed skaters from 15 nations competed.
Medalists
Records
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1960 Winter Olympics.
''(*)'' The record was set on naturally frozen ice.
''(**)'' The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice.
At first
Kjell Bäckman
Kjell Hilding "Tjalle" Bäckman (21 February 1934 – 9 January 2019) was a Swedish speed skater. He competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics
The 1960 Winter Olympics (officially the VIII Olympic Winter Games and also known as Squaw Valley ...
bettered the world record with 16:14.2 minutes. Then
Knut Johannesen
Knut ("Kupper'n") Johannesen (born 6 November 1933) is a former speed skater from Norway.
Biography
Born in Oslo and representing the skating club ASK (''Arbeidernes Skøyteklubb'' – later called ''Aktiv Skøyteklubb'') Johannesen won the Wor ...
set a new world record with 15:46.6 minutes and bettered the old record by more than 45 seconds.
Results
Nikolajs Štelbaums was disqualified.
References
External links
Official Olympic Report*
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Men's speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics