Speed skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Speed skating; at the II Olympic Winter Games
	The St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink in 1928
Venue	St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink
Date	13–14 February 1928
No. of events	4
Competitors	40 from 14 nations

At the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, four speed skating events were scheduled, all for men, but medals were only awarded for three events, because the 10.000 m event was not completed. The Allround event, which was only organized in 1924, was removed from the program. The competitions were held on Monday, 13 February 1928 and on Tuesday, 14 February 1928.^[1]

In the 10,000-meter race, Irving Jaffee was leading the competition, having outskated Norwegian defending world champion Bernt Evensen in their heat, when rising temperatures thawed the ice.^[2] In a controversial ruling, the Norwegian referee canceled the entire competition. Although the International Olympic Committee reversed the referee's decision and awarded Jaffee the gold medal, the International Skating Union later overruled the IOC and restored the ruling.^[3] Evensen, for his part, publicly said that Jaffee should be awarded the gold medal, but that never happened.

Medal summary

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Bernt Evensen Norway	43.4	none awarded		John Farrell United States	43.6
	Clas Thunberg Finland				Jaakko Friman Finland
	Clas Thunberg Finland				Roald Larsen Norway
1500 metres	Clas Thunberg Finland	2:21.1	Bernt Evensen Norway	2:21.9	Ivar Ballangrud Norway	2:22.6
5000 metres	Ivar Ballangrud Norway	8:50.5	Julius Skutnabb Finland	8:59.1	Bernt Evensen Norway	9:00.1
10,000 metres	The competition was cancelled in the fifth heat because of thawing ice