| Men's 5000 metres speed skating at the IX Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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 Pictogram for speed skating | |||||||||||||
| Venue | Eisschnelllaufbahn Innsbruck | ||||||||||||
| Date | 5 February 1964 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 42 from 19 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 7:38.4 OR | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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| Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics | ||
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| 500 m | men | women |
| 1000 m | women | |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 3000 m | women | |
| 5000 m | men | |
| 10,000 m | men | |
The men's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place on 5 February, at the Eisschnellaufbahn. [1]
Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating. In the Olympic Games, long-track speed skating is usually referred to as just "speed skating", while short-track speed skating is known as "short track". The ISU, the governing body of both ice sports, refers to long track as "speed skating" and short track as "short track skating".
The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Innsbruck, Austria, from January 29 to February 9, 1964. The Games included 1091 athletes from 36 nations, and the Olympic Torch was carried by Joseph Rieder, a former alpine skier who had participated in the 1956 Winter Olympics.
