| Speed Skating at the VII Olympic Winter Games |
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| «1952 | 1960» |
At the 1956 Winter Olympics, four speed skating events were contested. The competitions were held from Saturday, January 28 to Tuesday, January 31, 1956.
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| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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| 500 metres |
Yevgeny Grishin Soviet Union (URS) |
Rafayel Grach Soviet Union (URS) |
Alv Gjestvang Norway (NOR) |
| 1500 metres |
Yevgeny Grishin Soviet Union (URS) Yuri Mikhaylov Soviet Union (URS) |
Toivo Salonen Finland (FIN) |
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| 5000 metres |
Boris Shilkov Soviet Union (URS) |
Sigvard Ericsson Sweden (SWE) |
Oleg Goncharenko Soviet Union (URS) |
| 10000 metres |
Sigvard Ericsson Sweden (SWE) |
Knut Johannesen Norway (NOR) |
Oleg Goncharenko Soviet Union (URS) |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| 1 | Soviet Union | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | Sweden | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Norway | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Finland | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Total | 5 | 3 | 4 | 12 | |
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