Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Women's 5000 metres

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Women's 5000 metres
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Speed skating pictogram.svg
Venue National Speed Skating Oval ,
Beijing
Date10 February 2022
Competitors12 from 10 nations
Winning time6:43.51
Medalists
Gold medal icon.svg Irene Schouten Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Silver medal icon.svg Isabelle Weidemann Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Bronze medal icon.svg Martina Sáblíková Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic
  2018
2026  

The women's 5000 m competition in speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 10 February, at the National Speed Skating Oval ("Ice Ribbon") in Beijing. [1] Irene Schouten of the Netherlands, who already became the champion on 3000 m a few days earlier, won the event. Isabelle Weidemann of Canada won the silver medal, and Martina Sáblíková of the Czech Republic, the 2010 and 2014 Olympic champion at this distance, bronze.

The 2018 champion, Esmee Visser, did not qualify for the Olympics. The 2018 silver medalist, Sáblíková, and the bronze medalist, Natalya Voronina, the world record holder at the start of the Olympics, both qualified. Schouten was the 2021 World Single Distances champion at the 5000 m distance. Voronina and Carlijn Achtereekte were the silver and bronze medalist, respectively. Weidemann was leading the 2021–22 ISU World Cup in long distances with three races completed before the Olympics, followed by Ragne Wiklund, Schouten, and Francesca Lollobrigida. Schouten skated the season best time, 6:45.69 in Heerenveen on 31 October 2021. [2]

Maryna Zuyeva won the first pair and set the lead. Her time was better than the track record, but still 16 seconds above the Olympic record. Voronina has improved her time in pair 3 by 6 seconds. In pair 4, Sáblíková took the lead, improving Voronina's time by 7 seconds, with two pairs to go. Weidemann in pair 5 further improved Sáblíková's time by 2 seconds, but skated still slower than the Olympic record. In the last pair Schouten set a new Olympic record, thereby winning the event.

Qualification

A total of 12 entry quotas were available for the event, with a maximum of two athletes per NOC. The first eight athletes qualified through their performance at the 2021–22 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, while the last four earned quotas by having the best times among athletes not already qualified. A country could only earn the maximum two spots through the World Cup rankings. [3]

The qualification time for the event (7:20.00 or 4:08.00 (3000 m)) was released on 1 July 2021, and was unchanged from 2018. [4] Skaters had the time period of 1 July 2021 to 16 January 2022 to achieve qualification times at valid International Skating Union (ISU) events. [4]

Records

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

World recordFlag of Russia.svg  Natalya Voronina  (RUS)6:39.02 Salt Lake City, United States 15 February 2020
Olympic recordFlag of Germany.svg  Claudia Pechstein  (GER)6:46.91 Salt Lake City, United States 23 February 2002
Track recordFlag of the People's Republic of China.svg  Chen Xiangyu  (CHN)7:28.048 April 2021

A new Olympic record was set in the competition.

DateRoundAthleteCountryTimeRecord
10 FebruaryPair 6 Irene Schouten Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 6:43.51 OR , TR

Results

The races were started at 20:00. [5]

RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeTime behindNotes
Gold medal icon.svg6I Irene Schouten Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 6:43.51 OR , NR
Silver medal icon.svg5I Isabelle Weidemann Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 6:48.18+4.67
Bronze medal icon.svg4I Martina Sáblíková Flag of the Czech Republic.svg  Czech Republic 6:50.09+6.58
46O Francesca Lollobrigida Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 6:51.76+8.25 NR
55O Ragne Wiklund Flag of Norway.svg  Norway 6:56.34+12.83
63O Natalya Voronina Russian Olympic Committee flag.png  ROC 6:56.99+13.48
73I Sanne in 't Hof Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 6:59.77+16.26
84O Misaki Oshigiri Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 7:01.17+17.66
91O Maryna Zuyeva Flag of Belarus.svg  Belarus 7:02.91+19.40
101I Momoka Horikawa Flag of Japan.svg  Japan 7:06.92+23.41
112I Han Mei Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 7:08.37+24.86
122O Magdalena Czyszczoń Flag of Poland.svg  Poland 7:21.49+37.98

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