Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

The men's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place on 5 February, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.[1][2]

Men's 5000 metres speed skating at the IX Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Eisschnelllaufbahn Innsbruck
Date	5 February 1964
Competitors	42 from 19 nations
Winning time	7:38.4 OR
Medalists
Knut Johannesen  Norway Per Ivar Moe  Norway Fred Anton Maier  Norway

Records

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

World record	Jonny Nilsson (SWE)	7:34.3	Karuizawa, Japan	23 February 1963
Olympic record	Boris Shilkov (URS)	7:48.7	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	29 January 1956

The following new Olympic record was set.

Date	Athlete	Time	OR	WR
5 February	Knut Johannesen (NOR)	7:38.4	OR

Results

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Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Knut Johannesen	Norway	7:38.4	OR
	Per Ivar Moe	Norway	7:38.6
	Fred Anton Maier	Norway	7:42.0
4	Viktor Kosichkin	Soviet Union	7:45.8
5	Hermann Strutz	Austria	7:48.3
6	Jonny Nilsson	Sweden	7:48.4
7	Ivar Nilsson	Sweden	7:49.0
8	Rudi Liebrechts	Netherlands	7:50.9
9	Kees Verkerk	Netherlands	7:51.1
10	Muzakhid Khabibulin	Soviet Union	7:52.3
11	Günter Traub	United Team of Germany	7:53.9
12	Kurt Stille	Denmark	7:56.1
13	Gerd Zimmermann	United Team of Germany	7:56.8
14	Renato De Riva	Italy	7:57.5
15	Kalervo Hietala	Finland	7:58.8
16	Terry Malkin	Great Britain	7:59.4
17	Choi Yeong-Bae	South Korea	8:03.4
18	Jouko Launonen	Finland	8:03.5
19	Örjan Sandler	Sweden	8:05.3
20	Dick Hunt	United States	8:09.7
21	Toivo Salonen	Finland	8:10.2
22	Tony Bullen	Great Britain	8:12.4
23	Satoshi Shinpo	Japan	8:12.5
24	Toyofumi Aruga	Japan	8:15.9
25	Ralf Olin	Canada	8:18.2
26	György Ivánkai	Hungary	8:19.4
	Yoshihiro Kawano	Japan	8:19.4
28	Bak Sung-wun	North Korea	8:20.2
29	Wayne LeBombard	United States	8:21.3
30	Kim Choon-bong	North Korea	8:22.9
31	Luvsansharavyn Tsend	Mongolia	8:23.9
32	Ruedi Uster	Switzerland	8:24.8
33	Oldřich Teplý	Czechoslovakia	8:25.6
34	Peter Nottet	Netherlands	8:26.1
35	Gerald Koning	Canada	8:26.9
36	Choi Nam-Yeon	South Korea	8:28.0
37	Reinhold Seeböck	Austria	8:29.6
38	Stan Fail	United States	8:31.9
39	Jürgen Schmidt	United Team of Germany	8:36.6
40	Peter Büttner	Switzerland	8:45.5
41	Mihály Martos	Hungary	8:47.1
42	Gerhard Strutz	Austria	8:50.4

References

1. "Offizieller Bericht der IX. Olympischen Winterspiele Innsbruck 1964" (PDF). Austrian Federal Publishing House for Instruction, Science and Art, Vienna and Munich. LA84 Foundation. 1964. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
2. "Speed Skating at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's 5,000 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
3. "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
4. "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - Olympic Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.