Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Speed Skating at the IX Olympic Winter Games

At the 1964 Winter Olympics, eight speed skating events were contested. The competitions were held from Thursday, January 30 to Sunday, February 2, 1964 (women) and from Tuesday, February 4 to Friday, February 7, 1964 (men).

Russian Lidia Skoblikova of the USSR Olympic team won all four women's events, and with a total of six gold medals from 1960 and 1964, she has (by 2006) still won the most Olympic skating gold medals.

Medal summary

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
500 metres	Terry McDermott  United States	Alv Gjestvang  Norway Yevgenij Grishin  Soviet Union Vladimir Orlov  Soviet Union
1500 metres	Ants Antson  Soviet Union	Kees Verkerk  Netherlands	Villy Haugen  Norway
5000 metres	Knut Johannesen  Norway	Per Ivar Moe  Norway	Fred Anton Maier  Norway
10000 metres	Jonny Nilsson  Sweden	Fred Anton Maier  Norway	Knut Johannesen  Norway

Women

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
500 metres	Lidiya Skoblikova  Soviet Union	Irina Egorova  Soviet Union	Tatyana Sidorova  Soviet Union
1000 metres	Lidiya Skoblikova  Soviet Union	Irina Egorova  Soviet Union	Kaija Mustonen  Finland
1500 metres	Lidiya Skoblikova  Soviet Union	Kaija Mustonen  Finland	Berta Kolokoltseva  Soviet Union
3000 metres	Lidiya Skoblikova  Soviet Union	Han Pil-Hwa  North Korea Valentina Stenina  Soviet Union

Medal table

1	Soviet Union	5	5	2	12
2	Norway	1	3	3	7
3	United States	1	0	0	1
	Sweden	1	0	0	1
5	Finland	0	1	1	2
6	North Korea	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
Total		8	11	6	25

References

• International Olympic Committee results database
• "Results of the 1964 Olympic Games Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 27 August 2012.
• "Results of the 1964 Olympic Games Women". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 27 August 2012.