Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the I Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Stade Olympique de Chamonix
Date	26–27 January 1924
No. of events	5
Competitors	31 from 10 nations
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Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics
500 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
All-round	men
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At the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, five speed skating events were contested, all for men. The competitions were held on Saturday, January 26, 1924 and on Sunday, January 27, 1924. Charles Jewtraw won the first gold medal of the 1924 Winter Games, and Clas Thunberg and Roald Larsen each won medals in all five events, with Thunberg winning 3 gold.^[1]

Medal summary[]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Charles Jewtraw  United States	44.0	Oskar Olsen  Norway	44.2	Roald Larsen  Norway Clas Thunberg  Finland	44.8
1500 metres details	Clas Thunberg  Finland	2:20.8	Roald Larsen  Norway	2:22.0	Sigurd Moen  Norway	2:25.6
5000 metres details	Clas Thunberg  Finland	8:39.0	Julius Skutnabb  Finland	8:48.0	Roald Larsen  Norway	8:50.2
10,000 metres details	Julius Skutnabb  Finland	18:04.8	Clas Thunberg  Finland	18:07.8	Roald Larsen  Norway	18:12.2
All-round details	Clas Thunberg  Finland	198.023	Roald Larsen  Norway	199.763	Julius Skutnabb  Finland	202.347

Participating nations[]

Eleven speed skaters competed in all four individual events.

A total of 31 speed skaters from ten nations competed at the Chamonix Games:

•  Belgium (4)
•  Canada (1)
•  Finland (3)
•  France (4)
•  Great Britain (4)
•  Latvia (1)
•  Norway (5)
•  Poland (1)
•  Sweden (2)
•  United States (6)

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Finland	4	2	2	8
2	United States	1	0	0	1
3	Norway	0	3	4	7
Totals (3 nations)		5	5	6	16

References[]

External links[]

• International Olympic Committee results database
• Official Report (digitized copy online)
• "Results of the 1924 Olympic Games Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 7 September 2012.