Speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics – Men's 10000 metres

10000 metres at the III Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for Speed skating
Venue	James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink
Dates	February 5 to February 8
Competitors	18 from 6 nations
Winning time	19:13.6
Medalists
Irving Jaffee  United States Ivar Ballangrud  Norway Frank Stack 23x15px Canada

Speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	(women)
1000 m		(women)
1500 m	men	(women)
5000 m	men
10000 m	men

The 10000 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Friday, February 5, 1932, on Saturday, February 6, 1932, and on Monday, February 8, 1932.

Eighteen speed skaters from six nations competed.

Like all other speed skating events at this Olympics the competition was held for the only time in packstyle format, having all competitors skate at the same time. This was the common style in North America and gave the runners from the United States and Canada a major advantage over the European rivals.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Irving Jaffee  United States	Ivar Ballangrud  Norway	Frank Stack 23x15px Canada

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1932 Winter Olympics.

World Record	17:17.4(*)	Armand Carlsen	Davos (SUI)	February 5, 1928
Olympic Record	18:04.8	Julius Skutnabb	Chamonix (FRA)	January 27, 1924

(*) The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice.

In the later cancelled first heat Alexander Hurd skated 17:41.3 minutes. In the reskated heat he set a time of 17:56.2 minutes, but both in packstyle format.

Results

First round

Both heats were held on the afternoon of Friday, February 5, 1932.

Heat 1

After this heat a protest was lodged against two of the skaters (Alexander Hurd and Edwin Wedge) for not setting the pace for the agreed numbers of laps.

Place	Name	Time	Qual.
1	22x20px Alexander Hurd (CAN)	17:41.3	(Q)
2	Valentine Bialas (USA)		(Q)
3	Ivar Ballangrud (NOR)		(Q)
4	Edwin Wedge (USA)		(Q)
5	Shozo Ishihara (JPN)
6	Michael Staksrud (NOR)
7	Ossi Blomqvist (FIN)
–	22x20px Marion McCarthy (CAN)	DNF
	Tomeju Uruma (JPN)	DNF

Heat 2

After this heat again a protest was lodged against a skater (Frank Stack) this time for interference on the home stretch.

Place	Name	Time	Qual.
1	Eddie Schroeder (USA)	17:52.2	(Q)
2	22x20px Frank Stack (CAN)		(Q)
3	Irving Jaffee (USA)		(Q)
4	Bernt Evensen (NOR)		(Q)
5	Hans Engnestangen (NOR)
6	Ingvar Lindberg (SWE)
7	Tokuo Kitani (JPN)
–	Yasuo Kawamura (JPN)	DNF
	22x20px Willy Logan (CAN)	DNF

After both heats the referee Joseph K. Savage from the United States referred the matter to the three technical delegates. Herbert J. Clarke from Great Britain, Water Jakobsson from Finland, and Hermann Kleeberg from Germany decided at their meeting to have both heats reskated, and in fairness to all concerned all the original starters were allowed to compete the following morning.

Both reskated heats were held on the morning of Saturday, February 6, 1932.

Heat 1

Place	Name	Time	Qual.
1	22x20px Alexander Hurd (CAN)	17:56.2	Q
2	Ivar Ballangrud (NOR)		Q
3	Valentine Bialas (USA)		Q
4	Edwin Wedge (USA)		Q
5	Ossi Blomqvist (FIN)
6	Michael Staksrud (NOR)
–	Shozo Ishihara (JPN)	DNF
	22x20px Marion McCarthy (CAN)	DNF
	Tomeju Uruma (JPN)	DNF

Heat 2

Place	Name	Time	Qual.
1	Irving Jaffee (USA)	18:05.4	Q
2	22x20px Frank Stack (CAN)		Q
3	Bernt Evensen (NOR)		Q
	Eddie Schroeder (USA)		Q
5	22x20px Willy Logan (CAN)
6	Hans Engnestangen (NOR)
–	Ingvar Lindberg (SWE)	DNF
	Tokuo Kitani (JPN)	DNF
	Yasuo Kawamura (JPN)	DNF

Note that exactly the same eight skaters qualified in the reskated heats.

Final

Place	Name	Time
1	Irving Jaffee (USA)	19:13.6
2	Ivar Ballangrud (NOR)	5 m behind
3	22x20px Frank Stack (CAN)	6 m behind
4	Edwin Wedge (USA)
5	Valentine Bialas (USA)
6	Bernt Evensen (NOR)
7	22x20px Alexander Hurd (CAN)
8	Eddie Schroeder (USA)

References

• Official Olympic Report