Editing 1960 Winter Olympics (section)

=== Speed skating ===
{{Main|Speed skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics}}
Women were allowed to compete in the Olympic [[speed skating]] competition for the first time in 1960. Multiple nations had requested the inclusion of women's speed skating events in the program for the 1956 Games, but the request was rejected by the IOC.<ref>{{cite book|title=Historical Dictionary of the Modern Olympic Movement|last1=Findling|first1=John E.|last2=Pelle|first2=Kimberly D.|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|location=Westport, USA|year=1996|page=259|isbn=0313284776}}</ref>  The issue was revisited for the 1960 Games, and since women had been competing internationally since 1936 and there was a World Championship for women's speed skating, the IOC agreed to four events; 500, 1,000, 1,500, and 3,000 meters (the same as the number of men's events).<ref name="srss">{{cite web|title=Speed Skating at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Games|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1960/SSK/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417054029/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1960/SSK/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 17, 2020|access-date=August 10, 2011}}</ref>  Most of the events were held on the Squaw Valley Olympic Skating Rink, which was an outdoor skating oval, and featured artificial ice, a first for the Olympic speed skating competition. Given the altitude and the artificial ice, the rink was the fastest in the world, as evidenced by [[Norway at the 1960 Winter Olympics|Norwegian]] [[Knut Johannesen]]'s world record in the 10,000 meter event. At 15:46.6 he was the first skater ever to break the 16-minute barrier, and eclipsed the previous world record by 46 seconds.<ref name=srss/>  Despite Johannesen's victory, the Soviets dominated the speed skating events, winning all but two of the races. [[Yevgeny Grishin (speed skater)|Yevgeny Grishin]] won both the 500 and 1,500 meter races, though he shared the 1,500 meter gold medal with Norwegian [[Roald Aas]]. Grishin said that "watching the Soviet flag wave in the blue American sky" was the proudest moment of his life.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://radiovesti.ru/brand/60935/episode/1359901/|title = Зимняя Олимпиада 1960 года: советский флаг в американском небе}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Speed Skating at the 1960 Squaw Valley Winter Games:Men's 1,500 metres|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1960/SSK/mens-1500-metres.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418034803/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/1960/SSK/mens-1500-metres.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 18, 2020|access-date=August 10, 2011}}</ref>  [[Lidiya Skoblikova]] from the Soviet Union was the other double gold medalist, when she won the 1,500 and 3,000 meter events. [[Poland at the 1960 Winter Olympics|Polish]] skaters [[Helena Pilejczyk]] and [[Elwira Seroczyńska]] placed second and third in the 1,500 meter event, which were Poland's only medals of the Games. They were just the second and third Poles ever to win Winter Olympic medals.<ref>{{cite web|title=Poland|publisher=Sports Reference LLC|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/POL/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417093102/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/POL/|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 17, 2020|access-date=August 10, 2011}}</ref>