Speed skating at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink in 1960
Venue	Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink
Date	20–27 February 1960
No. of events	8
Competitors	103 from 17 nations

Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m		women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men

At the 1960 Winter Olympics, eight speed skating events were contested in Squaw Valley, California. For the first time in Olympic history, women participated in the Olympic speed skating events after the USOC's proposal to include the women's events was approved by the IOC. The competitions were held from Saturday, February 20, to Tuesday, February 23, 1960 (women), and from Wednesday, February 24, to Saturday, February 27, 1960 (men).^[1]

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Yevgeny Grishin  Soviet Union	40.2 =WR	Bill Disney  United States	40.3	Rafayel Grach  Soviet Union	40.4
1500 metres	Roald Aas  Norway Yevgeny Grishin  Soviet Union	2:10.4	not awarded as there was a tie for gold		Boris Stenin  Soviet Union	2:11.5
5000 metres	Viktor Kosichkin  Soviet Union	7:51.3	Knut Johannesen  Norway	8:00.8	Jan Pesman  Netherlands	8:05.1
10,000 metres	Knut Johannesen  Norway	15:46.6 WR	Viktor Kosichkin  Soviet Union	15:49.2	Kjell Bäckman  Sweden	16:14.2

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Helga Haase  United Team of Germany	45.9	Natalya Donchenko  Soviet Union	46.0	Jeanne Ashworth  United States	46.1
1000 metres	Klara Guseva  Soviet Union	1:34.1	Helga Haase  United Team of Germany	1:34.3	Tamara Rylova  Soviet Union	1:34.8
1500 metres	Lidiya Skoblikova  Soviet Union	2:25.2 WR	Elwira Seroczyńska  Poland	2:25.7	Helena Pilejczyk  Poland	2:27.1
3000 metres	Lidiya Skoblikova  Soviet Union	5:14.3	Valentina Stenina  Soviet Union	5:16.9	Eevi Huttunen  Finland	5:21.0

Participating nations

104 Athletes from seventeen nations competed in the speed skating events at Squaw Valley. Out of 249 entries, 8 did not finish and 1 got disqualified.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	6	3	3	12
2	Norway	2	1	0	3
3	United Team of Germany	1	1	0	2
4	Poland	0	1	1	2
	United States	0	1	1	2
6	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		9	7	8	24

References

External links

• International Olympic Committee results database
• 1960 VIII Olympic Games Final Report
• "Results of the 1960 Olympic Games Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved September 7, 2012.
• "Results of the 1960 Olympic Games Women". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved September 7, 2012.