10,000 metres at the V Olympic Winter Games
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Pictogram for Speed skating
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Venue | St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink | ||||||||||||
Dates | February 3 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 47 from 11 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 17:26.3 | ||||||||||||
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Åke Seyffarth | Sweden | ||
Lassi Parkkinen | Finland | ||
Pentti Lammio | Finland |
The 10,000 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Tuesday, February 3, 1948.
Twenty-seven speed skaters from eleven nations competed.
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1948 Winter Olympics.
(*) The record was set on naturally frozen ice.