Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

The 5000 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 Thursday, February 25, 1960. Thirty-seven speed skaters from 15 nations competed.^[1]

Men's 5000 metres speed skating at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink
Date	25 February 1960
Competitors	37 from 15 nations
Winning time	7:51.3
Medalists
Viktor Kosichkin  Soviet Union Knut Johannesen  Norway Jan Pesman  Netherlands
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Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Viktor Kosichkin (URS)	Knut Johannesen (NOR)	Jan Pesman (NED)

Records

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

World Record	7:45.6(*)	Boris Shilkov	Medeo (URS)	January 9, 1955
Olympic Record	7:48.7(*)	Boris Shilkov	Cortina d'Ampezzo/Lake Misurina (ITA)	January 29, 1956

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

Results

Place	Speed skater	Time
1	Viktor Kosichkin (URS)	7:51.3
2	Knut Johannesen (NOR)	8:00.8
3	Jan Pesman (NED)	8:05.1
4	Torstein Seiersten (NOR)	8:05.3
5	Valery Kotov (URS)	8:05.4
6	Oleg Goncharenko (URS)	8:06.6
7	Ivar Nilsson (SWE)	8:09.1
	Keijo Tapiovaara (FIN)	8:09.1
9	André Kouprianoff (FRA)	8:10.4
10	Raymond Gilloz (FRA)	8:11.5
11	Terry Monaghan (GBR)	8:15.3
12	Kjell Bäckman (SWE)	8:16.0
13	Olle Dahlberg (SWE)	8:17.0
14	Arnold Uhrlass (USA)	8:18.0
15	Juhani Järvinen (FIN)	8:19.2
16	Mario Gios (ITA)	8:20.3
17	Dick Hunt (USA)	8:21.3
18	Hermann Strutz (AUT)	8:21.9
19	Jeen van den Berg (NED)	8:22.4
20	Kees Broekman (NED)	8:22.9
21	Leo Tynkkynen (FIN)	8:24.3
22	Helmut Kuhnert (EUA)	8:25.1
23	Takeo Mizoo (JPN)	8:28.7
24	Shuji Kobayashi (JPN)	8:29.8
25	Roald Aas (NOR)	8:30.1
26	Renato De Riva (ITA)	8:32.4
27	Kurt Stille (DEN)	8:33.0
28	Ralf Olin (CAN)	8:36.8
29	Franz Offenberger (AUT)	8:38.2
30	Floyd Bedbury (USA)	8:39.6
31	Antonio Nitto (ITA)	8:40.4
32	Sepp Biebl (EUA)	8:48.0
33	Terry Malkin (GBR)	8:56.1
34	Choi Yeong-Bae (KOR)	8:57.8
35	Jang In-Won (KOR)	9:01.6
36	Heinz Wolfram (EUA)	9:18.2
37	Larry Mason (CAN)	9:23.5