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

5000 metres
at the I Olympic Winter Games

Pictogram for Speed skating
VenueStade Olympique de Chamonix
DatesJanuary 26
Competitors22 from 10 nations
Winning time8:39.0
Medalists
   Finland
   Finland
   Norway
Speed skating
at the
1924 Winter Olympics
500 m men
1500 m men
5000 m men
10000 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 (FIN)
 Julius Skutnabb
Finland (FIN)
 Roald Larsen
Norway (NOR)

Records

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

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

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

Results

PlaceAthleteTime
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

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