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Speed Skating

Men

Event		Time
500m	Yevgeny Kulikov, USSR	39.17	OR
1000m	Peter Mueller, USA	1:19.32
1500m	Jan Egil Storholt, NOR	1:59.38	OR
5000m	Sten Stensen, NOR	7:24.48
10,000m	Piet Kleine, NED	14:50.59	OR

Women

Event		Time
500m	Sheila Young, USA	42.76	OR
1000m	Tatiana Averina, USSR	1:28.43	OR
1500m	Galina Stepanskaya, USSR	2:16.58	OR
3000m	Tatiana Averina, USSR	4:45.19	OR

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