Speed skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the IV Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Riessersee
Date	11–14 February 1936
No. of events	4
Competitors	52 from 16 nations
← 1932 1948 →

Speed skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics

500 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
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At the 1936 Winter Olympics, four speed skating events were contested. The competitions were held on Tuesday, 11 February 1936, Wednesday, 12 February 1936, Thursday, 13 February 1936, and on Friday, 14 February 1936.

Medal summary

Medal winner shown below

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Ivar Ballangrud Norway	43.4	Georg Krog Norway	43.5	Leo Freisinger United States	44.0
1500 metres details	Charles Mathiesen Norway	2:19.2 OR	Ivar Ballangrud Norway	2:20.2	Birger Wasenius Finland	2:20.9
5000 metres details	Ivar Ballangrud Norway	8:19.6 OR	Birger Wasenius Finland	8:23.3	Antero Ojala Finland	8:30.1
10,000 metres details	Ivar Ballangrud Norway	17:24.3 OR	Birger Wasenius Finland	17:28.2	Max Stiepl Austria	17:30.0

Participating nations

Seventeen speed skaters competed in all four events.

A total of 52 speed skaters from 16 nations competed at the Garmisch-Partenkirchen Games:

Australia (1)
Austria (8)
Belgium (2)
Canada (1)
Czechoslovakia (2)
Estonia (1)
Finland (5)
Germany (2)
Hungary (1)
Japan (7)
Latvia (3)
Netherlands (5)
Norway (7)
Poland (1)
Sweden (1)
United States (5)

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Norway	4	2	0	6
2	Finland	0	2	2	4
3	Austria	0	0	1	1
3	United States	0	0	1	1
Totals (4 entries)		4	4	4	12

References

"Speed Skating at the 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 23 October 2019.
Organisationskomitee für die IV. Olympischen Winterspiele (1936). IV. Olympische Winterspiele 1936 Amtlicher Bericht (PDF) (in German). Knorr & Hirth. p. 437. Retrieved 30 November 2010.

External links

International Olympic Committee results database
"Results of the 1936 Olympic Games Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
(ed.) Peter von le Fort (1936). IV. Olympische Winterspiele 1936 Amtlicher Bericht (PDF) (in German). Berlin: Reichssportverlag. Retrieved 10 June 2008. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
"Australians at the Olympics: A definitive history" by Gary Lester ISBN 0-949853-05-4 (suspected errata listed in Errata/0949853054)
"2002 Australian Winter Olympic Team Guide" PDF file
"The Compendium: Official Australian Olympic Statistics 1896-2002" Australian Olympic Committee ISBN 0-7022-3425-7 (Inconsistencies in sources mentioned in Wikibooks:Errata/0702234257)
(ed.) Peter von le Fort (1936). IV. Olympische Winterspiele 1936 Amtlicher Bericht (PDF) (in German). Berlin: Reichssportverlag. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 August 2007. Retrieved 10 June 2008. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)

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