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
10000 m men

The men's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place on 17 February, at the Olympic Oval.[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 Athlete Country Time Time behind Notes
1st 9 Tomas Gustafson Sweden 6:44.63 - OR
2nd 2 Leo Visser Netherlands 6:44.98 +0.35
3rd 4 Gerard Kemkers Netherlands 6:45.92 +1.29
4 8 Eric Flaim United States 6:47.09 +2.46
5 3 Michael Hadschieff Austria 6:48.72 +4.09
6 11 Dave Silk United States 6:49.95 +5.32
7 3 Geir Karlstad Norway 6:50.88 +6.25
8 10 Roland Freier East Germany 6:51.42 +6.79
9 7 Mark Greenwald United States 6:51.98 +7.35
10 12 Danny Kah Australia 6:52.14 +7.51
11 16 Roberto Sighel Italy 6:53.04 +8.41
12 6 Rolf Falk-Larssen Norway 6:54.37 +9.74
13 5 Herbert Dijkstra Netherlands 6:54.63 +10.00
14 7 Toru Aoyanagi Japan 6:54.70 +10.07
15 16 Bruno Milesi Italy 6:54.93 +10.30
16 10 Pertti Niittylä Finland 6:55.18 +10.55
17 1 Dmitry Bochkaryov Soviet Union 6:56.57 +11.94
18 15 Timo Järvinen Finland 6:56.68 +12.05
19 19 Per Bengtsson Sweden 6:57.05 +12.42
20 4 Christian Eminger Austria 6:57.22 +12.59
21 2 Ben Lamarche Canada 6:57.63 +13.00
22 17 Hans van Helden France 6:57.69 +13.06
23 6 Sergey Berezin Soviet Union 6:58.08 +13.45
24 5 Hansjörg Baltes West Germany 6:59.45 +14.82
25 14 Jiří Kyncl Czechoslovakia 6:59.82 +15.19
26 1 Yury Klyuyev Soviet Union 7:00.01 +15.38
27 9 Munehisa Kuroiwa Japan 7:01.55 +16.92
28 12 Song Yong-Hun North Korea 7:01.56 +16.93
29 17 Kim Gwan-Gyu South Korea 7:02.13 +17.50
30 15 Joakim Karlberg Sweden 7:02.30 +17.67
31 12 Jean Pichette Canada 7:04.95 +20.32
32 13 Yoshiyuki Shimizu Japan 7:05.35 +20.72
33 8 Frode Syvertsen Norway 7:05.57 +20.94
34 14 Gordon Goplen Canada 7:08.49 +23.86
35 19 Im Ri-Bin North Korea 7:10.13 +25.50
36 13 Hwang Ik-Hwan South Korea 7:10.65 +26.02
37 11 Julian Green Great Britain 7:13.20 +28.57
38 18 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. ↑ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
  3. ↑ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - Olympic Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.

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