Winter Olympics : Speed Skating in 1956

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 MEDAL COUNTS:

    
COUNTRY
TOTAL
 GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE


Soviet UnionSoviet Union
7
4
1
2



NorwayNorway
2
0
1
1



SwedenSweden
2
1
1
0



FinlandFinland
1
0
0
1






 MEDAL WINNERS:

             GOLD                            SILVER                         BRONZE                           
Men's 500m   Yevgeniy Grischin URS    40.2 | Rafael Gratsch   URS    40.8 | Alv Gjestvang      NOR      41
Men's 1500m  Yevgeniy Grischin URS 02:08.6 |                              | Toivo Salonen      FIN 02:09.4
             Yury Michailov    URS 02:08.6 |                              |                               
Men's 5000m  Boris Schikov     URS 07:48.7 | Sigvard Ericsson SWE 07:56.7 | Oleg Gontscharenko URS 07:57.5
Men's 10000m Sigvard Ericsson  SWE 16:35.9 | Knut Johannesen  NOR 16:36.9 | Oleg Gontscharenko URS 16:42.3