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Men's 10,000 metres speed skating

at the VII Olympic Winter Games

Pictogram for speed skating

Venue

Lake Misurina

Date

31 January 1956

Competitors

32 from 15 nations

Winning time

16:35.9 OR

Medalists

		Sigvard Ericsson Sweden
		Knut Johannesen Norway
		Oleg Goncharenko Soviet Union

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Speed skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics

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The 10,000-metre speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics programme. It was the last speed skating contest at this Games. The competition was held on naturally frozen ice on the Lake Misurina. It was held on Tuesday, 31 January 1956, from 10 a.m. to 3:15 p.m. Thirty-two speed skaters from 15 nations competed.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Sigvard Ericsson Sweden	Knut Johannesen Norway	Oleg Goncharenko Soviet Union

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1956 Winter Olympics.

World Record	16:32.6(*)	Hjalmar Andersen	Hamar (NOR)	10 February 1952
Olympic Record	16:45.8(*)	Hjalmar Andersen	Oslo (NOR)	19 February 1952

(*) The record was set on naturally frozen ice.

At first Oleg Goncharenko who skated in the third pair set a new Olympic record with 16:42.3 minutes. In the seventh pair Knut Johannesen bettered the Olympic record with 16:36.9 minutes. Finally Sigvard Ericsson set a new Olympic record with 16:35.9 minutes on the way to win the tenth heat and the gold medal.

Results

Place	Speed skater	Time
1	Sigvard Ericsson (SWE)	16:35.9 OR
2	Knut Johannesen (NOR)	16:36.9
3	Oleg Goncharenko (URS)	16:42.3
4	Sverre Ingolf Haugli (NOR)	16:48.7
5	Kees Broekman (NED)	16:51.2
6	Hjalmar Andersen (NOR)	16:52.6
7	Boris Yakimov (URS)	16:59.7
8	Olle Dahlberg (SWE)	17:01.3
9	Boris Tsybin (URS)	17:03.4
10	Helmut Kuhnert (EUA)	17:04.6
11	Johnny Cronshey (GBR)	17:05.6
12	Juhani Järvinen (FIN)	17:05.9
13	Sven Andersson (SWE)	17:13.5
14	Vladimír Kolář (TCH)	17:16.9
15	Gunnar Ström (SWE)	17:17.0
16	Vladimir Shilykovski (URS)	17:17.6
17	Kauko Salomaa (FIN)	17:19.0
18	Wim de Graaff (NED)	17:21.6
19	Knut Tangen (NOR)	17:22.3
20	John Hearn (GBR)	17:27.6
21	Hans Keller (EUA)	17:27.7
22	Taketsugu Asazaka (JPN)	17:35.3
23	Yoshiyasu Gomi (JPN)	17:35.9
24	Toivo Salonen (FIN)	17:37.6
25	Egbert van't Oever (NED)	17:37.7
26	Bohumil Jauris (TCH)	17:38.4
27	Colin Hickey (AUS)	17:45.6
27	Pat McNamara (USA)	17:45.6
29	Arthur Mannsbarth (AUT)	17:47.8
30	Kim Jong-Sun (KOR)	17:52.6
31	Ralf Olin (CAN)	17:59.2
32	Carlo Calzà (ITA)	18:32.8