The competition was held on naturally frozen ice on the Lake Misurina.

It was held on Saturday, 28 January 1956, and started at noon and ended at 1:15 PM.

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

Yevgeny Grishin set a new world record only six days before this event on the same venue.

He equalized his world record time and won the gold medal.