Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres

Women's 1000 metres speed skating
at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
Women's 1000 metres speed skating; at the VIII Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink
Date	22 February 1960
Competitors	22 from 10 nations
Winning time	1:34.1 OR
Medalists
	1964 →

The women's 1000 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics programme. It was the first appearance of women's speed skating events at the Olympics. The competition was held on the Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink and for the first time at the Olympics on artificially frozen ice. It was held on Monday, February 22, 1960. Twenty-two speed skaters from ten nations competed.^[1]

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Klara Guseva Soviet Union	Helga Haase United Team of Germany	Tamara Rylova Soviet Union

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1960 Winter Olympics.

World Record	1:33.4(*)	Tamara Rylova	Medeo (URS)	January 12, 1955
Olympic Record		-

(*) The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice.

Klara Guseva set the first Olympic record with 1:34.1 minutes.

Results

Place	Speed skater	Time
1	Klara Guseva (URS)	1:34.1 OR
2	Helga Haase (EUA)	1:34.3
3	Tamara Rylova (URS)	1:34.8
4	Lidiya Skoblikova (URS)	1:35.3
5	Helena Pilejczyk (POL)	1:35.8
5	Hatsue Takamizawa (JPN)	1:35.8
7	Fumie Hama (JPN)	1:36.1
8	Jeanne Ashworth (USA)	1:36.5
9	Eevi Huttunen (FIN)	1:37.2
10	Iris Sihvonen (FIN)	1:37.3
11	Christina Scherling (SWE)	1:37.5
12	Elsa Einarsson (SWE)	1:38.0
13	Doreen Ryan (CAN)	1:38.1
14	Françoise Lucas (FRA)	1:38.4
15	Jeanne Omelenchuk (USA)	1:39.8
16	Yoshiko Takano (JPN)	1:39.9
17	Natascha Liebknecht (EUA)	1:43.5
18	Sigrit Behrenz (EUA)	1:43.8
19	Margaret Robb (CAN)	1:45.8
20	Han Hye-Ja (KOR)	1:48.8
—	Kim Gyeong-Hoe (KOR)	DNF
—	Elwira Seroczyńska (POL)	DNF