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
Venue	Olympic Oval
Dates	17 February 1988
Competitors	38 from 18 nations
Winning time	6:44.63 OR
Medalists
Tomas Gustafson   Sweden Leo Visser   Netherlands Gerard Kemkers   Netherlands
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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

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

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Rank	Pair	Lane	Athlete	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	9	I	Tomas Gustafson	Sweden	6:44.63	—	OR
	2	O	Leo Visser	Netherlands	6:44.98	+0.35
	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

1. "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.