Speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

5000 metres at the III Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for Speed skating
Venue	James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink
Dates	February 4
Competitors	18 from 6 nations
Winning time	9:40.8
Medalists
Irving Jaffee   United States   Eddie Murphy   United States   Willy Logan   Canada

Speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	(women)
1000 m		(women)
1500 m	men	(women)
5000 m	men
10000 m	men

The 5000 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Thursday, February 4, 1932.

Eighteen speed skaters from six nations competed.

Like all other speed skating events at this Olympics the competition was held for the only time in packstyle format, having all competitors skate at the same time. This was the common style in North America and gave the runners from the United States and Canada a major advantage over the European rivals.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Irving Jaffee United States (USA)	Eddie Murphy United States (USA)	Willy Logan Canada (CAN)

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1932 Winter Olympics.

World Record	8:21.6(*)	Ivar Ballangrud	Davos (SUI)	January 11, 1930
Olympic Record	8:39.0	Clas Thunberg	Chamonix (FRA)	January 26, 1924

(*) The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice.

Results

First round

Heat 1

Place	Name	Time	Qual.
1	Irving Jaffee (USA)	9:52.0	Q
2	Eddie Murphy (USA)		Q
3	Ivar Ballangrud (NOR)		Q
4	Harry Smyth (CAN)		Q
5	Ossi Blomqvist (FIN)
–	Alexander Hurd (CAN)	DNF
	Shozo Ishihara (JPN)	DNF
	Michael Staksrud (NOR)	DNF
	Tomeju Uruma (JPN)	DNF

Heat 2

Place	Name	Time	Qual.
1	Bernt Evensen (NOR)	10:01.4	Q
2	Herbert Taylor (USA)		Q
3	Willy Logan (CAN)		Q
4	Frank Stack (CAN)		Q
5	Erling Lindboe (NOR)
6	Carl Springer (USA)
–	Yasuo Kawamura (JPN)	DNF
	Tokuo Kitani (JPN)	DNF
	Ingvar Lindberg (SWE)	DNF

Final

Place	Name	Time
1	Irving Jaffee (USA)	9:40.8
2	Eddie Murphy (USA)	2 m behind
3	Willy Logan (CAN)	4 m behind
4	Herbert Taylor (USA)
5	Ivar Ballangrud (NOR)
6	Bernt Evensen (NOR)
7	Frank Stack (CAN)
8	Harry Smyth (CAN)

References

• Official Olympic Report
• "Results of the 1932 Olympic Games 5000 meters Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 27 August 2012.