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
VenueOlympic Oval
DatesFebruary 17
Competitors38 from 18 nations
Winning time6:44.63
Medalists
 Tomas Gustafson  Sweden
 Leo Visser  Netherlands
 Gerard Kemkers  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 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place on 17 February, at the Olympic Oval.

38 competitors from 18 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) 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 World and Olympic records were set during the competition:

Date Pair Athlete Country Time OR WR
17 February Pair 1 Dmitriy Bochkaryov  Soviet Union 6:56.57 OR
17 February Pair 2 Leo Visser  Netherlands 6:44.98 OR
17 February Pair 9 Tomas Gustafson  Sweden 6:44.63 OR

Results

[1]

Rank Pair Lane Athlete Country Time Time behind Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) 9 i Tomas Gustafson  Sweden 6:44.63 – OR
2nd, silver medalist(s) 2 o Leo Visser  Netherlands 6:44.98 +0.35
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 4 o Gerard Kemkers  Netherlands 6:45.92 +1.29
4 8 i Eric Flaim  United States 6:47.09 +2.46
5 3 o Michael Hadschieff  Austria 6:48.72 +4.09
6 11 i Dave Silk  United States 6:49.95 +5.32
7 3 i Geir Karlstad  Norway 6:50.88 +6.25
8 10 i Roland Freier  East Germany 6:51.42 +6.79
9 7 i Mark Greenwald  United States 6:51.98 +7.35
10 12 o Danny Kah  Australia 6:52.14 +7.51
11 16 o Roberto Sighel  Italy 6:53.04 +8.41
12 6 o Rolf Falk-Larssen  Norway 6:54.37 +9.74
13 5 o Herbert Dijkstra  Netherlands 6:54.63 +10.00
14 7 o Toru Aoyanagi  Japan 6:54.70 +10.07
15 16 i Bruno Milesi  Italy 6:54.93 +10.30
16 10 o Pertti Niittylä  Finland 6:55.18 +10.55
17 1 o Dmitry Bochkaryov  Soviet Union 6:56.57 +11.94
18 15 i Timo Järvinen  Finland 6:56.68 +12.05
19 19 i Per Bengtsson  Sweden 6:57.05 +12.42
20 4 i Christian Eminger  Austria 6:57.22 +12.59
21 2 i Ben Lamarche  Canada 6:57.63 +13.00
22 17 o Hans van Helden  France 6:57.69 +13.06
23 6 i Sergey Berezin  Soviet Union 6:58.08 +13.45
24 5 i Hansjörg Baltes  West Germany 6:59.45 +14.82
25 14 i Jiří Kyncl  Czechoslovakia 6:59.82 +15.19
26 1 i Yury Klyuyev  Soviet Union 7:00.01 +15.38
27 9 o Munehisa Kuroiwa  Japan 7:01.55 +16.92
28 18 o Song Yong-Hun  North Korea 7:01.56 +16.93
29 17 o Kim Gwan-Gyu  South Korea 7:02.13 +17.50
30 15 o Joakim Karlberg  Sweden 7:02.30 +17.67
31 12 i Jean Pichette  Canada 7:04.95 +20.32
32 13 i Yoshiyuki Shimizu  Japan 7:05.35 +20.72
33 8 o Frode Syvertsen  Norway 7:05.57 +20.94
34 14 o Gordon Goplen  Canada 7:08.49 +23.86
35 19 o Im Ri-Bin  North Korea 7:10.13 +25.50
36 13 o Hwang Ik-Hwan  South Korea 7:10.65 +26.02
37 11 i Julian Green  Great Britain 7:13.20 +28.57
38 18 i Craig McNicoll  Great Britain 7:34.14 +49.51

References

  1. 1 2 "Calgary 1988 Official Report" (PDF). XV Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1988. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
  2. ↑ "5000m Men World Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
  3. ↑ "5000m Olympic Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved October 30, 2016.

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