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Speed skating at the V Olympic Winter Games
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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.

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Finn Helgesen  Norway	43.1	Ken Bartholomew  United States Thomas Byberg  Norway 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

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

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
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

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

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

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