Speed skating at the 1952 Winter Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres
| 10,000 metres at the VI Olympic Winter Games
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Pictogram for Speed skating
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| Venue | Bislett Stadion, Oslo | ||||||||||||
| Dates | February 19 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 30 from 12 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 16:45.8 | ||||||||||||
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Hjalmar Andersen |
 Norway
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Kees Broekman |
 Netherlands
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Carl-Erik Asplund |
 Sweden
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The 10,000-metre speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1952 Winter Olympics programme. It was the last speed skating contest at this Games. The competition was held on Tuesday, February 19, 1952, at 10 a.m..
Thirty speed skaters from 12 nations competed.
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1952 Winter Olympics.
(*) The record was set on naturally frozen ice.
Four speed skaters were faster than the standing Olympic record. Hjalmar Andersen set a new Olympic record with 16:45.8 minutes.
Yoshiyasu Gomi fell once and Egbert van 't Oever fell twice. Ingar Nordlund and Johnny Werket gave up.
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