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

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]

Men's 5000 metres at the XV Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Olympic Oval
Dates	17 February
Competitors	38 from 18 nations
Winning time	6:44.63 OR
Medalists
Tomas Gustafson  Sweden Leo Visser  Netherlands Gerard Kemkers  Netherlands

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	O	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.