Speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Richmond Olympic Oval
Date	February 13, 2010
Competitors	28 from 16 nations
Medalists
Sven Kramer   Netherlands   Lee Seung-hoon   South Korea   Ivan Skobrev   Russia

Speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10000 m		men
Team pursuit		men		women

The men's 5000 metres speed skating competition of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver was held at the Richmond Olympic Oval on February 13, 2010.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Sven Kramer (NED)	6:03.32	Calgary, Canada	November 17, 2007	[1]
Olympic record	Jochem Uytdehaage (NED)	6:14.66	Salt Lake City, United States	February 22, 2002

The following new Olympic record was set during this competition.

Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record
February 13	Pair 11	Sven Kramer	Netherlands	6:14.60	OR

OR = Olympic record

Results

Rank	Pair	Lane	Name	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	11	i	Sven Kramer	Netherlands	6:14.60		OR
	12	i	Lee Seung-hoon	South Korea	6:16.95	+2.35
	13	i	Ivan Skobrev	Russia	6:18.05	+3.45
4	14	i	Håvard Bøkko	Norway	6:18.80	+4.20
5	12	o	Bob de Jong	Netherlands	6:19.02	+4.42
6	10	i	Alexis Contin	France	6:19.58	+4.98
7	13	o	Enrico Fabris	Italy	6:20.53	+5.93
8	10	o	Henrik Christiansen	Norway	6:24.80	+10.20
9	7	o	Jan Blokhuijsen	Netherlands	6:26.30	+11.70
10	6	i	Sverre Haugli	Norway	6:27.05	+12.45
11	14	o	Chad Hedrick	United States	6:27.07	+12.47
12	11	o	Shani Davis	United States	6:28.44	+13.84
13	8	i	Lucas Makowsky	Canada	6:28.71	+14.11
14	2	o	Trevor Marsicano	United States	6:30.93	+16.33
15	6	o	Dmitry Babenko	Kazakhstan	6:31.19	+16.59
16	3	i	Sławomir Chmura	Poland	6:33.20	+18.60
17	8	o	Shane Dobbin	New Zealand	6:33.39	+18.78
18	2	i	Denny Morrison	Canada	6:33.78	+19.17
19	9	i	Hiroki Hirako	Japan	6:33.90	+19.30
20	5	o	Haralds Silovs[2]	Latvia	6:35.69	+21.09
21	7	i	Johan Röjler	Sweden	6:35.88	+21.28
22	4	i	Patrick Beckert	Germany	6:36.02	+21.42
23	9	o	Marco Weber	Germany	6:36.45	+21.85
24	1	o	Roger Schneider	Switzerland	6:39.30	+24.69
25	4	o	Luca Stefani	Italy	6:41.75	+27.15
26	1	i	Robert Lehmann	Germany	6:43.77	+29.17
27	5	i	Shigeyuki Dejima	Japan	6:43.82	+29.22
	3	o	Aleksandr Rumyantsev	Russia	(6:35.43)	–	DSQ[3]

Notes and references

1. "Evolution of the world record 5000 meters Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 19 November 2013.
2. Later the same day Silovs competed in the short track 1500 m competition, where he finished in 10th place.
3. Rumyantsev was disqualified for a line violation during a turn

External links

• "Results of the 2010 Olympic Games 5000 meters Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 27 August 2012.