Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics, was held from 30 January to 7 February. Eight events were contested at the Eisschnelllaufbahn Innsbruck.

Speed skating at the IX Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Eisschnelllaufbahn Innsbruck
Date	30 January – 7 February 1964
No. of events	8
Competitors	134 from 22 nations

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	5	5	2	12
2	Norway (NOR)	1	3	3	7
3	Sweden (SWE)	1	0	0	1
	United States (USA)	1	0	0	1
5	Finland (FIN)	0	1	1	2
6	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	0	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	0	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	11	6	25

The Soviet Union led the medal table with five gold and twelve total, with four of the gold medals won by Lidiya Skoblikova, who swept the women's events.

North Korea's Han Pil-Hwa was the first medalist for her country in the Olympics, and the first Asian woman to win a medal in the Winter Olympics.

Skoblikova easily led the individual medal table, while Knut Johannesen was the most successful male skater with one gold and one bronze medal.

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Terry McDermott  United States	40.1 (OR)	Alv Gjestvang  Norway Yevgeny Grishin  Soviet Union Vladimir Orlov  Soviet Union	40.6	none awarded
1500 metres	Ants Antson  Soviet Union	2:10.3	Kees Verkerk  Netherlands	2:10.6	Villy Haugen  Norway	2:11.2
5000 metres	Knut Johannesen  Norway	7:38.4 (OR)	Per Ivar Moe  Norway	7:38.6	Fred Anton Maier  Norway	7:42.0
10,000 metres	Jonny Nilsson  Sweden	15:50.1	Fred Anton Maier  Norway	16:06.0	Knut Johannesen  Norway	16:06.3

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Lidiya Skoblikova  Soviet Union	45.0 (OR)	Irina Yegorova  Soviet Union	45.4	Tatyana Sidorova  Soviet Union	45.5
1000 metres	Lidiya Skoblikova  Soviet Union	1:33.2 (OR)	Irina Yegorova  Soviet Union	1:34.3	Kaija Mustonen  Finland	1:34.8
1500 metres	Lidiya Skoblikova  Soviet Union	2:22.6 (OR)	Kaija Mustonen  Finland	2:25.5	Berta Kolokoltseva  Soviet Union	2:27.1
3000 metres	Lidiya Skoblikova  Soviet Union	5:14.9	Han Pil-Hwa  North Korea Valentina Stenina  Soviet Union	5:18.5	none awarded

Records

Five new Olympic records were set in Innsbruck.

Event	Date	Team	Time	OR	WR
Men's 500 metres	4 February	Terry McDermott (USA)	40.1	OR
Men's 5000 metres	5 February	Knut Johannesen (NOR)	7:38.4	OR
Women's 500 metres	30 January	Lidiya Skoblikova (URS)	45.0	OR
Women's 1000 metres	1 February	Lidiya Skoblikova (URS)	1:33.2	OR
Women's 1500 metres	31 January	Lidiya Skoblikova (URS)	2:22.6	OR

Participating NOCs

Twenty-two nations competed in the speed skating events at Innsbruck. Mongolia and North Korea made their Olympic speed skating debuts.

•  Austria (7)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Canada (4)
•  Czechoslovakia (2)
•  Denmark (1)
•  Finland (10)
•  France (3)
•  Great Britain (3)
•  United Team of Germany (13)
•  Hungary (3)
•  Italy (2)
•  Japan (8)
•  North Korea (9)
•  South Korea (4)
•  Mongolia (3)
•  Netherlands (5)
•  Norway (9)
•  Poland (3)
•  Soviet Union (16)
•  Sweden (10)
•  Switzerland (3)
•  United States (15)