Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres

Men's 10,000 metres
at the XV Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
VenueOlympic Oval
DatesFebruary 21
Competitors32 from 19 nations
Winning time13:48.20
Medalists
 Tomas Gustafson  Sweden
 Michael Hadschieff  Austria
 Leo Visser  Netherlands
Speed skating at the
1988 Winter Olympics
500 m   men   women
1000 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men women
10,000 m men

The men's 10,000 metres in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place on 21 February, at the Olympic Oval.

32 competitors from 19 nations participated in the event.[1]

Records

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

World record  Geir Karlstad (NOR) 13:48.51 Calgary, Canada 6 December 1987
Olympic record  Eric Heiden (USA) 14:28.13 Lake Placid, United States 23 February 1980

The following new Olympic and World records were set during the competition:

Date Pair Athlete Country Time OR WR
21 February Pair 1 Yury Klyuyev Soviet Union 14:09.68 OR
21 February Pair 2 Gerard Kemkers Netherlands 14:08.34 OR
21 February Pair 4 Leo Visser Netherlands 14:00.55 OR
21 February Pair 5 Michael Hadschieff Austria 13:56.11 OR
21 February Pair 9 Tomas Gustafson Sweden 13:48.20 OR WR

Results

[1]

Rank Pair Lane Athlete Country Time Time Behind Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) 9 o Tomas Gustafson Sweden 13:48.20 – (WR)
2nd, silver medalist(s) 5 i Michael Hadschieff Austria 13:56.11 +7.91
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 4 i Leo Visser Netherlands 14:00.55 +12.35
4 10 o Eric Flaim United States 14:05.57 +17.37
5 2 o Gerard Kemkers Netherlands 14:08.34 +20.14 Fall
6 1 o Yury Klyuyev Soviet Union 14:09.68 +21.48
7 16 i Roberto Sighel Italy 14:13.60 +25.40
8 9 i Roland Freier East Germany 14:19.16 +30.98
9 6 o Sergey Berezin Soviet Union 14:20.48 +32.28
10 3 o Ben Lamarche Canada 14:21.39 +33.19
11 5 o Herbert Dijkstra Netherlands 14:22.53 +34.33
12 11 i Joakim Karlberg Sweden 14:22.94 +34.74
13 14 o Bruno Milesi Italy 14:23.84 +35.64
14 7 i Dave Silk United States 14:25.56 +37.36
15 7 o Pertti Niittylä Finland 14:26.57 +38.37
16 15 i Jiří Kyncl Czechoslovakia 14:27.32 +39.12
17 12 i Timo Järvinen Finland 14:27.69 +39.49
18 2 i Aleksandr Mozin Soviet Union 14:28.91 +40.71
19 3 o Christian Eminger Austria 14:30.21 +42.01
20 14 i Gordon Goplen Canada 14:31.18 +42.98
21 4 o Frode Syvertsen Norway 14:32.08 +43.88
22 13 o Kim Gwan-Gyu South Korea 14:34.65 +46.45
23 11 o Hans van Helden France 14:34.84 +46.64
24 8 o Toru Aoyanagi Japan 14:34.87 +46.67
25 10 i Jeff Klaiber United States 14:38.60 +50.40
26 16 o Colin Coates Australia 14:41.88 +53.68
27 1 i Hansjörg Baltes West Germany 14:45.41 +57.21
28 8 i Yoshiyuki Shimizu Japan 14:47.21 +59.01
29 13 i Lu Shuhai China 14:49.52 +1:01.32
30 15 o Julian Green Great Britain 14:59.53 +1:11.33
- 6 i Geir Karlstad Norway DNF
- 12 o Song Yong-Hun North Korea DQ

References

  1. 1 2 "Calgary 1988 Official Report" (PDF). XV Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1988. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
  2. ↑ "10 000m Men World Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  3. ↑ "10 000m Men Olympic Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved October 30, 2016.

Sports-Reference - 1988 - Men's 10000 metres

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/20/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.