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Sports > Olympics > Winter Olympics Through The Years > 1956 Olympics

Speed Skating

Men

Event		Time
500m	Yevgeny Grishin, USSR	40.2	WR
1500m	Yevgeny Grishin, USSR & Yuri Mikhailov, USSR	2:08.6	WR
5000m	Boris Shilkov, USSR	7:48.7	OR
10,000m	Sigvard Ericsson, SWE	16:35.9	OR

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