Competitors 47 from 17 nations Start date 1956 | Winning time 40.2 | |
Location Lake Misurina, Auronzo di Cadore, Italy Venues Lake Misurina, Cortina d'Ampezzo | ||
The 500 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on naturally frozen ice on the Lake Misurina. It was held on Saturday, 28 January 1956, and started at noon and ended at 1:15 PM.
Contents
Forty-seven speed skaters from 17 nations competed.
Records
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1956 Winter Olympics.
(*) The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice.
Yevgeny Grishin equalizied his own world record.
Results
Yevgeny Grishin set a new world record only six days before this event on the same venue. He equalizied his world record time and won the gold medal.
Johnny Sands and Yuri Mikhaylov did not finish after a fall.