Speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Speed skating
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1932 Winter Olympics
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The 5000 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Thursday, February 4, 1932.

Eighteen speed skaters from six nations competed.

Like all other speed skating events at this Olympics the competition was held for the only time in packstyle format, having all competitors skate at the same time. This was the common style in North America and gave the runners from the United States and Canada a major advantage over the European rivals.

Contents

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
 Irving Jaffee
United States (USA)
 Eddie Murphy
United States (USA)
 Willy Logan
Canada (CAN)

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1932 Winter Olympics.

World Record 8:21.6(*) Ivar Ballangrud Davos (SUI) January 11, 1930
Olympic Record 8:39.0 Clas Thunberg Chamonix (FRA) January 26, 1924

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

Results

First round

Heat 1

Place Name Time Qual.
1  Irving Jaffee (USA) 9:52.0 Q
2  Eddie Murphy (USA) Q
3  Ivar Ballangrud (NOR) Q
4  Harry Smyth (CAN) Q
5  Ossi Blomqvist (FIN)
 Alexander Hurd (CAN) DNF
 Shozo Ishihara (JPN) DNF
 Michael Staksrud (NOR) DNF
 Tomeju Uruma (JPN) DNF

Heat 2

Place Name Time Qual.
1  Bernt Evensen (NOR) 10:01.4 Q
2  Herbert Taylor (USA) Q
3  Willy Logan (CAN) Q
4  Frank Stack (CAN) Q
5  Erling Lindboe (NOR)
6  Carl Springer (USA)
 Yasuo Kawamura (JPN) DNF
 Tokuo Kitani (JPN) DNF
 Ingvar Lindberg (SWE) DNF

Final

Place Name Time
1  Irving Jaffee (USA) 9:40.8
2  Eddie Murphy (USA) 2 m behind
3  Willy Logan (CAN) 4 m behind
4  Herbert Taylor (USA)
5  Ivar Ballangrud (NOR)
6  Bernt Evensen (NOR)
7  Frank Stack (CAN)
8  Harry Smyth (CAN)

References