Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres
| Men's 5000 metres at the XV Olympic Winter Games | ||||||||||
 Pictogram for speed skating | ||||||||||
| Venue | Olympic Oval | |||||||||
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| Dates | February 17 | |||||||||
| Competitors | 38 from 18 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 6:44.63 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics | |||||
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| 500 m | men | women | |||
| 1000 m | men | women | |||
| 1500 m | men | women | |||
| 3000 m | women | ||||
| 5000 m | men | women | |||
| 10000 m | men | ||||
The men's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place on 17 February, at the Olympic Oval.[1]
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:[2][3]
| World record |  Geir Karlstad (NOR) | 6:43.59 | Calgary, Canada | 4 December 1987 |
| Olympic record |  Eric Heiden (USA) | 7:02.29 | Lake Placid, United States | 16 February 1980 |
The following new Olympic record was set.
| Date | Athlete | Time | OR | WR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 February |  Tomas Gustafson (SWE) | 6:44.63 | OR |
Results
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Tomas Gustafson | Sweden | 6:44.63 | OR |
 | Leo Visser |  Netherlands | 6:44.98 | |
 | Gerard Kemkers | Netherlands | 6:45.92 | |
| 4 | Eric Flaim | United States | 6:47.09 | |
| 5 | Michael Hadschieff |  Austria | 6:48.72 | |
| 6 | Dave Silk | United States | 6:49.95 | |
| 7 | Geir Karlstad | Norway | 6:50.88 | |
| 8 | Roland Freier |  East Germany | 6:51.42 | |
| 9 | Mark Greenwald | United States | 6:51.98 | |
| 10 | Danny Kah |  Australia | 6:52.14 | |
| 11 | Roberto Sighel |  Italy | 6:53.04 | |
| 12 | Rolf Falk-Larssen | Norway | 6:54.37 | |
| 13 | Herbert Dijkstra | Netherlands | 6:54.63 | |
| 14 | Toru Aoyanagi |  Japan | 6:54.70 | |
| 15 | Bruno Milesi | Italy | 6:54.93 | |
| 16 | Pertti Niittylä |  Finland | 6:55.18 | |
| 17 | Dmitry Bochkaryov |  Soviet Union | 6:56.57 | |
| 18 | Timo Järvinen | Finland | 6:56.68 | |
| 19 | Per Bengtsson | Sweden | 6:57.05 | |
| 20 | Christian Eminger | Austria | 6:57.22 | |
| 21 | Ben Lamarche |  Canada | 6:57.63 | |
| 22 | Hans van Helden |  France | 6:57.69 | |
| 23 | Sergey Berezin | Soviet Union | 6:58.08 | |
| 24 | Hansjörg Baltes |  West Germany | 6:59.45 | |
| 25 | Jiří Kyncl |  Czechoslovakia | 6:59.82 | |
| 26 | Yury Klyuyev | Soviet Union | 7:00.01 | |
| 27 | Munehisa Kuroiwa | Japan | 7:01.55 | |
| 28 | Song Yong-Hun |  North Korea | 7:01.56 | |
| 29 | Kim Gwan-Gyu | .svg.png){kind=small} South Korea | 7:02.13 | |
| 30 | Joakim Karlberg | Sweden | 7:02.30 | |
| 31 | Jean Pichette | Canada | 7:04.95 | |
| 32 | Yoshiyuki Shimizu | Japan | 7:05.35 | |
| 33 | Frode Syvertsen | Norway | 7:05.57 | |
| 34 | Gordon Goplen | Canada | 7:08.49 | |
| 35 | Im Ri-Bin | North Korea | 7:10.13 | |
| 36 | Hwang Ik-Hwan | South Korea | 7:10.65 | |
| 37 | Julian Green |  Great Britain | 7:13.20 | |
| 38 | Craig McNicoll | Great Britain | 7:34.14 |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Calgary 1988 Official Report". XV Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1988. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
- ↑ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
- ↑ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - Olympic Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.