Speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Speed skating

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Venue| St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink
Date| 31 January – 3 February 1948
No. of events| 4
Competitors| 68 from 15 nations

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Speed skating at the
1948 Winter Olympics

500 m| men
1500 m| men
5000 m| men
10,000 m| men

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At the 1948 Winter Olympics, four speed skating events were contested.[1]

## Medal summary

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Event  | Gold  | Silver  | Bronze

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500 metres
details | Finn Helgesen
Norway | 43.1  | Ken Bartholomew
United States

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Thomas Byberg
Norway

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Robert Fitzgerald
United States | 43.2  | None awarded |
1500 metres
details | Sverre Farstad
Norway | 2:17.6  | Åke Seyffarth
Sweden | 2:18.1  | Odd Lundberg
Norway | 2:18.9
5000 metres
details | Reidar Liaklev
Norway | 8:29.4  | Odd Lundberg
Norway | 8:32.7  | Göthe Hedlund
Sweden | 8:34.8
10,000 metres
details | Åke Seyffarth
Sweden | 17:26.3  | Lassi Parkkinen
Finland | 17:36.0  | Pentti Lammio
Finland | 17:42.7

## Participating nations

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Twelve speed skaters competed in all four events.

A total of 68 speed skaters from 15 nations competed at the St. Moritz Games:

* Austria (3)
* Belgium (1)
* Canada (4)
* Czechoslovakia (1)
* Denmark (1)
* Finland (5)
* Great Britain (5)
* Hungary (5)
* Italy (4)
* Netherlands (4)
* Norway (12)
* South Korea (3)
* Sweden (6)
* Switzerland (5)
* United States (9)

## Medal table

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Rank| Nation| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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1|  Norway| 3| 2| 1| 6
2|  Sweden| 1| 1| 1| 3
3|  United States| 0| 2| 0| 2
4|  Finland| 0| 1| 1| 2
Totals (4 entries)| 4| 6| 3| 13

## References

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1. ^ "Speed Skating at the 1948 Sankt Moritz Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 October 2019.

## External links

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* International Olympic Committee results database
* "Results of the 1948 Olympic Games Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 7 September 2012.

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Events at the 1948 Winter Olympics (St. Moritz)

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