The 10000 metres speed skating

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

event was part of the speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics

-Medal summary:-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:-Medal table:-References:*...

 programme. The competition was held on Tuesday, February 3, 1948.

Twenty-seven speed skaters from eleven nations competed.

Medalists

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1948 Winter Olympics.

World Record	17:01.5(*)	Charles Mathiesen Charles Mathiesen Charles Mathiesen was a speed skater whose speed skating career lasted for 18 years , while being at the world top during most of those years.-Biography:Mathiesen was born in Drammen, Norway...	Hamar Hamar is a town and municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hedmarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Hamar. The municipality of Hamar was separated from Vang as a town and municipality of its own in 1849...  (NOR Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... )	March 3, 1940
Olympic Record	17:24.3	Ivar Ballangrud Ivar Ballangrud Ivar Ballangrud was a Norwegian speed skater, a four-time Olympic champion in Speed Skating. As the only triple gold medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Ballangrud was the most successful athlete there.-Biography:Ivar Ballangrud was one of the best speed skaters in the world for a period of 15...	Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a mountain resort town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Oberbayern region, and the district is on the border with Austria...  (GER Nazi Germany Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by... )	February 14, 1936

(*) The record was set on naturally frozen ice.

Results

Place	Athlete	Time
1		17:26.3
2		17:36.0
3		17:42.7
4		17:45.6
5		17:54.7
6		17:55.3
7		18:05.8
8		18:08.0
9		18:39.6
10		19:25.5
11		19:44.0
12		19:54.8
13		20:15.5
14		20:16.4
15		20:16.5
16		20:23.8
17		21:20.3
18		21:34.8
19		26:22.4
–		DNF
		DNF
		DNF
		DNF
		DNF
		DNF
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–		DQ