Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres at the XIV Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Zetra Ice Rink
Dates	February 12
Competitors	42 from 20 nations
Winning time	7:12.28
Medalists
Tomas Gustafson   Sweden   Igor Malkov   Soviet Union   René Schöfisch   East Germany

Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men

The men's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics took place on 12 February, at the Zetra Ice Rink.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2][3]

World record	Aleksandr Baranov (URS)	6:54.66	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	18 March 1982
Olympic record	Eric Heiden (USA)	7:02.29	Lake Placid, United States	16 February 1980

Results

^[1]

Rank	Pair	Lane	Athlete	Country	Time	Time behind
	1	i	Tomas Gustafson	Sweden	7:12.28	-
	4	i	Igor Malkov	Soviet Union	7:12.30	+0.02
	7	i	René Schöfisch	East Germany	7:17.49	+5.21
4	4	o	Andreas Ehrig	East Germany	7:17.63	+5.35
5	3	i	Oleg Bozhev	Soviet Union	7:17.96	+5.68
6	12	o	Pertti Niittylä	Finland	7:17.97	+5.69
7	2	o	Bjørn Nyland	Norway	7:18.27	+5.99
8	7	o	Werner Jäger	Austria	7:18.61	+6.33
9	1	o	Hilbert van der Duim	Netherlands	7:19.39	+7.11
10	3	o	Geir Karlstad	Norway	7:20.24	+7.96
11	10	o	Hans van Helden	France	7:24.59	+12.31
12	11	o	Mike Woods	United States	7:24.81	+12.53
13	9	o	Michael Hadschieff	Austria	7:25.07	+12.79
14	8	o	Robert Vunderink	Netherlands	7:25.19	+12.91
15	5	o	Rolf Falk-Larssen	Norway	7:25.54	+13.26
16	8	i	Claes Bengtsson	Sweden	7:26.57	+14.29
17	6	i	Frits Schalij	Netherlands	7:28.17	+15.89
18	5	i	Jan Junell	Sweden	7:29.98	+17.70
19	12	i	Tibor Kopacz	Romania	7:32.69	+20.41
20	13	i	Heinz Steinberger	Austria	7:32.72	+20.44
21	17	o	Mark Mitchell	United States	7:34.32	+22.04
22	11	i	Maurizio Marchetto	Italy	7:36.87	+24.59
23	17	i	Im Ri-Bin	North Korea	7:37.49	+25.21
24	10	o	Masahito Shinohara	Japan	7:37.94	+25.66
25	14	o	Colin Coates	Australia	7:38.08	+25.80
26	15	i	Toshiaki Imamura	Japan	7:38.16	+25.88
27	15	o	Lee Yeong-Ha	South Korea	7:39.17	+26.89
28	20	i	Wolfgang Scharf	West Germany	7:40.90	+28.62
29	9	i	Andreas Lemcke	West Germany	7:41.69	+29.41
30	14	i	Na Yun-Su	South Korea	7:42.45	+30.17
31	20	o	Jean-Noël Fagot	France	7:44.60	+32.32
32	2	i	Sergey Berezin	Soviet Union	7:45.94	+33.66
33	16	i	Kim Hwang-Hyun	North Korea	7:46.12	+33.84
34	16	o	Zhao Shijian	China	7:46.68	+34.40
35	18	i	Mark Huck	United States	7:46.91	+34.63
36	6	o	Ben Lamarche	Canada	7:47.25	+34.97
37	19	o	Hansjörg Baltes	West Germany	7:50.33	+38.05
38	21	o	Jean Pichett	Canada	7:50.39	+38.11
39	13	o	Bae Ki-Tae	South Korea	7:50.82	+38.54
40	18	o	Li Wei	China	7:55.70	+43.42
41	19	i	Bryan Carbis	Great Britain	8:01.44	+49.16
-	21	i	Behudin Merdović	Yugoslavia	DQ

References

1. "Sarajevo 1984 Official Report" (PDF). Organising Committee of the XlVth Winter Olympic Games 1984 at Sarajevo. LA84 Foundation. 1984. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
2. "5000m Men World Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
3. "5000m Men Olympic Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved November 1, 2016.

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