Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

500 metres at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for Speed skating
Venue	Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink
Competitors	46 from 15 nations
Winning time	40.2
Medalists
Yevgeny Grishin  Soviet Union Bill Disney  United States Rafayel Grach  Soviet Union

Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m		women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10000 m	men

The 500 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 Wednesday, February 24, 1960.

Forty-six speed skaters from 15 nations competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yevgeny Grishin  Soviet Union	Bill Disney  United States	Rafayel Grach  Soviet Union

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1960 Winter Olympics.

World record	40.2(*)	Yevgeny Grishin	Cortina d'Ampezzo/Lake Misurina (ITA)	January 22, 1956
	40.2(*)	Yevgeny Grishin	Cortina d'Ampezzo/Lake Misurina (ITA)	January 28, 1956
Olympic record	40.2(*)	Yevgeny Grishin	Cortina d'Ampezzo/Lake Misurina (ITA)	January 28, 1956

(*) The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice.

Yevgeny Grishin equalized his own standing world and Olympic record.

Results

Yevgeny Grishin was the first speed skater who was able to defend his 500 metres Olympic title.

Place	Speed skater	Time
1	Yevgeny Grishin (URS)	40.2 =WR
2	Bill Disney (USA)	40.3
3	Rafayel Grach (URS)	40.4
4	Hans Wilhelmsson (SWE)	40.5
5	Gennadi Voronin (URS)	40.7
6	Alv Gjestvang (NOR)	40.8
7	Terry McDermott (USA)	40.9
	Toivo Salonen (FIN)	40.9
9	Fumio Nagakubo (JPN)	41.1
10	Henk van der Grift (NED)	41.2
	Yuri Malyshev (URS)	41.2
	Eddie Rudolph (USA)	41.2
13	Colin Hickey (AUS)	41.3
14	Hroar Elvenes (NOR)	41.4
15	André Kouprianoff (FRA)	41.5
16	Yoshitaki Hori (JPN)	41.8
	Juhani Järvinen (FIN)	41.8
18	Raymond Gilloz (FRA)	42.0
19	Leo Tynkkynen (FIN)	42.1
20	Knut Johannesen (NOR)	42.3
	Helmut Kuhnert (EUA)	42.3
	Herbert Söllner (EUA)	42.3
	Günther Tilch (EUA)	42.3
24	Nils Aaness (NOR)	42.5
	Manfred Schüler (EUA)	42.7
26	Per-Olof Brogren (SWE)	42.8
27	22x20px Johnny Sands (CAN)	42.9
28	Wim de Graaff (NED)	43.0
29	Franz Offenberger (AUT)	43.1
30	Olle Dahlberg (SWE)	43.1
	22x20px Ralf Olin (CAN)	43.3
32	Mario Gios (ITA)	43.4
33	Jan Pesman (NED)	43.4
	Gunnar Sjölin (SWE)	43.4
35	Roy Tutty (AUS)	43.5
36	Takeo Mizoo (JPN)	43.7
	Antonio Nitto (ITA)	43.7
38	Terry Monaghan (GBR)	44.0
39	Renato De Riva (ITA)	44.1
40	Hermann Strutz (AUT)	44.4
41	22x20px Larry Mason (CAN)	44.7
42	Jouko Jokinen (FIN)	45.1
43	Shinkichi Takemura (JPN)	45.9
44	22x20px Jang Yeong (KOR)	50.0
—	Bill Carow (USA)	DNF
	Terry Malkin (GBR)	DNF

References

• Official Olympic Report
• sports-reference