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

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

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]

Medalists

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

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.

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Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics

500 m	men	women
1000 m		women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men