Speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Speed skating; at the V Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink
Date	31 January – 3 February 1948
No. of events	4
Competitors	68 from 15 nations

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

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Finn Helgesen Norway	43.1	Ken Bartholomew United States Thomas Byberg Norway Robert Fitzgerald United States	43.2	None awarded
1500 metres	Sverre Farstad Norway	2:17.6	Åke Seyffarth Sweden	2:18.1	Odd Lundberg Norway	2:18.9
5000 metres	Reidar Liaklev Norway	8:29.4	Odd Lundberg Norway	8:32.7	Göthe Hedlund Sweden	8:34.8
10,000 metres	Åke Seyffarth Sweden	17:26.3	Lassi Parkkinen Finland	17:36.0	Pentti Lammio Finland	17:42.7

Twelve speed skaters competed in all four events.

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


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 nations)		4	6	3	13

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