Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

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5000 metres
at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
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Pictogram for Speed skating
Venue Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink
Dates February 25
Competitors 37 from 15 nations
Winning time 7:51.3
Medalists
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1st Viktor Kosichkin  Soviet Union
2nd Knut Johannesen  Norway
3rd Jan Pesman  Netherlands
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1964 →
Speed skating
at the
1960 Winter Olympics
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500 m men women
1000 m women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men
10000 m men

The 5000 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on the Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink and for the first time at the Olympics on artificially frozen ice. It was held on Thursday, February 25, 1960.

Thirty-seven speed skaters from 15 nations competed.

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
 Viktor Kosichkin (URS)  Knut Johannesen (NOR)  Jan Pesman (NED)

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1960 Winter Olympics.

World Record 7:45.6(*) Soviet Union Boris Shilkov Medeo (URS) January 9, 1955
Olympic Record 7:48.7(*) Soviet Union Boris Shilkov Cortina d'Ampezzo/Lake Misurina (ITA) January 29, 1956

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

Results

Place Speed skater Time
1  Viktor Kosichkin (URS) 7:51.3
2  Knut Johannesen (NOR) 8:00.8
3  Jan Pesman (NED) 8:05.1
4  Torstein Seiersten (NOR) 8:05.3
5  Valeri Kotov (URS) 8:05.4
6  Oleg Goncharenko (URS) 8:06.6
7  Ivar Nilsson (SWE) 8:09.1
 Keijo Tapiovaara (FIN) 8:09.1
9  André Kouprianoff (FRA) 8:10.4
10  Raymond Gilloz (FRA) 8:11.5
11  Terry Monaghan (GBR) 8:15.3
12  Kjell Bäckman (SWE) 8:16.0
13  Olle Dahlberg (SWE) 8:17.0
14  Arnold Uhrlass (USA) 8:18.0
15  Juhani Järvinen (FIN) 8:19.2
16  Mario Gios (ITA) 8:20.3
17  Dick Hunt (USA) 8:21.3
18  Hermann Strutz (AUT) 8:21.9
19  Jeen van den Berg (NED) 8:22.4
20  Kees Broekman (NED) 8:22.9
21  Leo Tynkkynen (FIN) 8:24.3
22  Helmut Kuhnert (GER) 8:25.1
23  Takeo Mizoo (JPN) 8:28.7
24  Shuji Kobayashi (JPN) 8:29.8
25  Roald Aas (NOR) 8:30.1
26  Renato De Riva (ITA) 8:32.4
27  Kurt Stille (DEN) 8:33.0
28 22x20px Ralf Olin (CAN) 8:36.8
29  Franz Offenberger (AUT) 8:38.2
30  Floyd Bedbury (USA) 8:39.6
31  Antonio Nitto (ITA) 8:40.4
32  Sepp Biebl (EUA) 8:48.0
33  Terry Malkin (GBR) 8:56.1
34 22x20px Choi Yeong-Bae (KOR) 8:57.8
35 22x20px Jang In-Won (KOR) 9:01.6
36  Heinz Wolfram (EUA) 9:18.2
37 22x20px Larry Mason (CAN) 9:23.5

References