Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

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Men's 5000 metres
at the XV Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
VenueOlympic Oval
Dates17 February
Competitors38 from 18 nations
Winning time6:44.63 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Tomas Gustafson
 Sweden
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Leo Visser
 Netherlands
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Gerard Kemkers
 Netherlands
← 1984
1992 →

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][2]

Records[edit]

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:[3][4]

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[edit]

[1]

Rank Pair Lane Athlete Country Time Time behind Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 9 I Tomas Gustafson  Sweden 6:44.63 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 2 O Leo Visser  Netherlands 6:44.98 +0.35
3rd place, 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 I 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[edit]

  1. ^ a b "Calgary 1988 Official Report" (PDF). XV Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1988. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Speed Skating at the 1988 Calgary Winter Games: Men's 5,000 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  3. ^ "5000m Men World Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  4. ^ "5000m Olympic Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved 30 October 2016.