Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

5000 metres at the I Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for Speed skating
Venue	Stade Olympique de Chamonix
Dates	January 26
Competitors	22 from 10 nations
Winning time	8:39.0
Medalists
Clas Thunberg   Finland   Julius Skutnabb   Finland   Roald Larsen   Norway

Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics
500 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
All-round	men

The 5000 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Saturday, January 26, 1924.

Twenty-two speed skaters from ten nations competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Clas Thunberg  Finland	Julius Skutnabb  Finland	Roald Larsen  Norway

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1924 Winter Olympics.

World Record	8:26.5(*)	Harald Strøm	Kristiania (NOR)	February 18, 1922
Olympic Record		-

(*) The record was set on naturally frozen ice.

Results

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Clas Thunberg (FIN)	8:39.0
2	Julius Skutnabb (FIN)	8:48.4
3	Roald Larsen (NOR)	8:50.2
4	Sigurd Moen (NOR)	8:51.0
5	Harald Strøm (NOR)	8:54.6
6	Valentine Bialas (USA)	8:55.0
7	Fridtjof Paulsen (NOR)	8:59.0
8	Richard Donovan (USA)	9:05.6
9	Léonhard Quaglia (FRA)	9:08.6
10	Asser Wallenius (FIN)	9:12.8
11	Alberts Rumba (LAT)	9:14.4
12	Eric Blomgren (SWE)	9:14.6
13	Charles Jewtraw (USA)	9:27.0
14	Bill Steinmetz (USA)	9:35.0
15	Axel Blomqvist (SWE)	9:48.8
16	Leon Jucewicz (POL)	10:05.6
17	Gaston Van Hazebroeck (BEL)	10:13.8
18	André Gegout (FRA)	10:15.2
19	George de Wilde (FRA)	10:39.8
20	Albert Tebbit (GBR)	11:01.0
21	Marcel Moens (BEL)	11:30.4
–	Charles Gorman (CAN)	DNF

References

• Official Olympic Report
• "Results of the 1924 Olympic Games 5000 meters Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 27 August 2012.