Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics

Men's 500 metres speed skating
at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
Men's 500 metres speed skating; at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink
Date	26 February 1960
Competitors	48 from 16 nations
Winning time	2:10.4
Medalists
	← 1956 1964 →

The 1500 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 Friday, February 26, 1960. Forty-eight speed skaters from 16 nations competed.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Roald Aas (NOR) Yevgeny Grishin (URS)	no silver awarded as there was a tie for gold	Boris Stenin (URS)

Records

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

World record	2:06.3(*)	Juhani Järvinen	Squaw Valley/Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink (USA)	March 1, 1959
Olympic record	2:08.6(**)	Yevgeny Grishin	Cortina d'Ampezzo/Lake Misurina (ITA)	January 30, 1956
Olympic record	2:08.6(**)	Yuri Mikhaylov	Cortina d'Ampezzo/Lake Misurina (ITA)	January 30, 1956

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

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

Results

Yevgeny Grishin who was the first speed skater to defend his 500 metres Olympic title was also able to repeat his win in the 1500 metres event. In 1956 he shared the win with fellow countryman Yuri Mikhaylov. This time Grishin tied with Roald Aas. Grishin was the second speed skater to win two gold medals in 1500 metres competitions after Clas Thunberg won in 1924 and 1928.

Place	Speed skater	Time
1	Roald Aas (NOR)	2:10.4
1	Yevgeny Grishin (URS)	2:10.4
3	Boris Stenin (URS)	2:11.5
4	Jouko Jokinen (FIN)	2:12.0
5	Juhani Järvinen (FIN)	2:13.1
5	Per-Olof Brogren (SWE)	2:13,1
7	Toivo Salonen (FIN)	2:13,1
8	André Kouprianoff (FRA)	2:13.3
9	Helmut Kuhnert (EUA)	2:13.6
10	Raymond Gilloz (FRA)	2:14.2
11	Knut Johannesen (NOR)	2:14.5
12	Gennadi Voronin (URS)	2:14.7
13	Kurt Stille (DEN)	2:15.8
14	Colin Hickey (AUS)	2:16.1
15	Wim de Graaff (NED)	2:16.5
15	Gunnar Sjölin (SWE)	2:16.5
17	Dick Hunt (USA)	2:17.7
18	Olle Dahlberg (SWE)	2:18.3
18	Manfred Schüler (EUA)	2:18.3
20	Mario Gios (ITA)	2:18.6
21	Fumio Nagakubo (JPN)	2:18.7
22	Floyd Bedbury (USA)	2:18.9
23	Keijo Tapiovaara (FIN)	2:19.2
24	Hermann Strutz (AUT)	2:19.4
25	Antonio Nitto (ITA)	2:19.6
26	Terry Monaghan (GBR)	2:19.9
27	Renato De Riva (ITA)	2:20.6
28	Bo Karenus (SWE)	2:21.1
29	Yoshitaki Hori (JPN)	2:21.7
29	Keith Meyer (USA)	2:21.7
31	Harald Norden (EUA)	2:22.1
31	Lev Zaytsev (URS)	2:22.1
33	Takeo Mizoo (JPN)	2:22.6
34	Shuji Kobayashi (JPN)	2:23.0
35	Eddie Rudolph (USA)	2:23.1
36	Ralf Olin (CAN)	2:23.5
37	Roy Tutty (AUS)	2:23.8
38	Günther Tilch (EUA)	2:24.8
39	Hroar Elvenes (NOR)	2:24.9
40	Terry Malkin (GBR)	2:25.0
41	Jang Yeong (KOR)	2:25.3
42	Choi Yeong-bae (KOR)	2:26.7
43	Johnny Sands (CAN)	2:28.4
44	Jang In-won (KOR)	2:30.7
45	Larry Mason (CAN)	2:35.3
—	Nils Aaness (NOR)	DNF
	Henk van der Grift (NED)	DNF
	Franz Offenberger (AUT)	DNF