Speed skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres
| 10,000 metres at the VII Olympic Winter Games
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Pictogram for Speed skating
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| Venue | Lake Misurina | ||||||||||||
| Dates | January 31 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 32 from 15 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 16:35.9 | ||||||||||||
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Sigvard Ericsson |
 Sweden
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Knut Johannesen |
 Norway
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Oleg Goncharenko |
 Soviet Union
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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, January 31, 1956, from 10 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.
Thirty-two speed skaters from 15 nations competed.
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1956 Winter Olympics.
(*) 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.
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