Yevgeny grishin biography of william hill
The Soviet Union won six medals—exactly half of the medals awarded—in speed skating, with two each being won by Yevgeny Grishin and Oleg Goncharenko....
Speed Skating at the 1956 Winter Olympics
The 1956 Olympic speed skating events took place on Lago di Misurina, a lake in the Italian Alps situated at an altitude of 1,754 m above sea level.
The track on the lake was designed by the Swedish expert Gösta Nilsson, and was set on a large ice floe.
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To avoid cracks in the ice, a two meters lane had been made through the ice around the track, so it was literally an “island” of ice on the frozen lake. The lake is a mountain tarn, surrounded by high mountains, which protected it from wind and, with the altitude, made for a very fast track.
In a test race a week before the Olympics, Soviet skater Yevgeny Grishin broke the 500 m world record, and he would equal that during the Olympics, and also break the 1,500 m world record during the Olympics.
And the fact that Grishin was a skater from the Soviet Union was the big news of the 1956 Olympic speed skating competition.
Soviet skaters had never before competed in the Winter Olympics, althoug