1956 Winter Olympics / Speed Skating
Speed skating at the VII Olympic Winter Games |
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Competition venue | Misurina lake |
Nations | 18th |
Athletes | 83 (83 men) |
date | 28–31 January 1956 |
decisions | 4th |
← Oslo 1952 |
At the VII Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1956 , four speed skating competitions were held. The venue was Lake Misurina .
Balance sheet
Medal table
space | country |
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total |
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1 |
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4th | 1 | 2 | 7th |
2 |
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1 | 1 | - | 2 |
3 |
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- | 1 | 1 | 2 |
4th |
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- | - | 1 | 1 |
Medalist
competitor | gold | silver | bronze |
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500 m |
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1500 m |
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5000 m |
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10,000 m |
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Results
500 m
space | country | athlete | Time (s) |
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Yevgeny Grishin | 40.2 ( OR ) |
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Rafael Gratsch | 40.8 |
3 |
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Alv Gjestvang | 41.0 |
4th |
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Yuri Sergeyev | 41.1 |
5 |
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Toivo saloons | 41.7 |
6th |
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Bill Carow | 41.8 |
7th |
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Colin Hickey | 41.9 |
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Bengt Malmsten | ||
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Matti Hamberg | 42.2 |
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Juhani Järvinen | ||
32 |
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Franz Offenberger | 43.8 |
34 |
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Helmut Kuhnert | 44.0 |
37 |
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Ernst Biel | 44.2 |
40 |
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Erich Kull | 44.3 |
41 |
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Kurt Eminger | 44.4 |
Date: January 28, 1956
47 participants from 17 countries, 45 of them in the ranking.
1500 m
space | country | athlete | Time (min) |
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Yevgeny Grishin | 2: 08.6 ( OR ) |
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Yuri Mikhailov | ||
3 |
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Toivo saloons | 2: 09.4 |
4th |
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Juhani Järvinen | 2: 09.7 |
5 |
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Robert Merkulow | 2: 10.3 |
6th |
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Sigvard Ericsson | 2: 11.0 |
7th |
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Colin Hickey | 2: 11.8 |
8th |
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Boris Shilkov | 2: 11.9 |
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Knut Johannesen | 2: 12.2 |
10 |
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Roald Carrion | 2: 12.9 |
31 |
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Franz Offenberger | 2: 17.3 |
32 |
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Arthur Mannsbarth | 2: 17.4 |
35 |
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Hans Keller | 2: 18.1 |
38 |
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Kurt Eminger | 2: 19.0 |
46 |
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Juerg Rohrbach | 2: 21.7 |
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Erich Kull |
Date: January 30, 1956
54 participants from 18 countries, 53 of them in the ranking.
5000 m
space | country | athlete | Time (min) |
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Boris Shilkov | 7: 48.7 ( OR ) |
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Sigvard Ericsson | 7: 56.7 |
3 |
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Oleg Goncharenko | 7: 57.5 |
4th |
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Kees Broekman | 8: 00.2 |
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Willem de Graaf | ||
6th |
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Roald Carrion | 8: 01.6 |
7th |
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Olle Dahlberg | 8: 01.8 |
8th |
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Knut Johannesen | 8: 02.3 |
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Helmut Kuhnert | 8: 04.3 |
10 |
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Torstein Seiersten | 8: 06.4 |
28 |
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Arthur Mannsbarth | 8: 23.6 |
30th |
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Hans Keller | 8: 24.5 |
34 |
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Franz Offenberger | 8: 30.8 |
38 |
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Kurt Eminger | 8: 39.4 |
39 |
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Juerg Rohrbach | 2: 19.0 |
Date: January 29, 1956
46 participants from 17 countries, all in the ranking.
10,000 m
space | country | athlete | Time (min) |
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Sigvard Ericsson | 16: 35.9 ( OR ) |
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Knut Johannesen | 16: 36.9 |
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Oleg Goncharenko | 16: 42.3 |
4th |
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Sverre Ingolf Haugli | 16: 48.7 |
5 |
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Kees Broekman | 16: 51.2 |
6th |
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Hjalmar Andersen | 16: 52.6 |
7th |
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Boris Yakimov | 16: 59.7 |
8th |
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Olle Dahlberg | 17: 01.3 |
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Boris Zybin | 17: 03.4 |
10 |
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Helmut Kuhnert | 17: 04.6 |
21st |
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Hans Keller | 17: 27.7 |
29 |
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Arthur Mannsbarth | 17: 47.8 |
Date: January 31, 1956
32 participants from 15 countries, all in the ranking.
Web links
- Speed skating at the 1956 Olympic Games in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Official report of the 1956 Winter Olympics (PDF; 25.7 MB)