Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres


The men's 5000 metres speed skating competition of the 2014 Sochi Olympics was held at 15:30 MSK on 8 February 2014 at the Adler Arena Skating Center. All the medals were won by Dutch athletes — Sven Kramer, who set a new Olympic record, Jan Blokhuijsen, and Jorrit Bergsma.
Jan Szymański in the second pair set the time of 6:26.35, which was only beaten by both athletes in the 6th pair, and Håvard Bøkko set the new leading time. Already in the next, 7th pair Denis Yuskov beat Bøkko' s time by more than three seconds, and in the middle of the distance developed even a bigger lead. In the next pair, Ivan Skobrev, the bronze medalist of the 2010 Olympics, failed to improve Yuskov's result and was provisionally left second. In the 10th pair, Sven Kramer, widely regarded as the main gold medal contender, initially was losing to the Yuskov's pace, but then accelerated and set the new Olympic record. The athletes in the 11th and 12th pairs all lost to Kramer but beat Yuskov, finally taking places from the second to the fifth, with all three Dutch athletes in medal positions. Only one pair remained, featuring Lee Seung-hoon, the 2010 silver medalist and the 2010 champion at 10000 m. However, he started to lose to Kramer's pace early in the race, and ended up twelfth, losing also to Patrick Beckert from his pair.

Qualification

A total of twenty-eight speed skaters could qualify for this distance, with a maximum of three skaters per country. The top 16 of the 2013–14 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 5000 and 10000 metres standings after the fourth World Cup race in Berlin secured a spot for their country. Then the additional 12 spots were awarded based on a time ranking of all times skated in the World Cup 5000 metres. A reserve list was also made. Each athlete qualifying must have also hit a maximum time standard of 6:33.00 over the distance.
Alexis Contin of France and Haralds Silovs of Latvia qualified but withdrew. They were not replaced.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
At the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships the track record was set by Sven Kramer at 6:14.41.
The following records were set during this competition.
DateRoundAthleteCountryTimeRecord
8 FebruaryPair 10Sven Kramer6:10.76OR, TR

OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

Competition schedule

All times are.
DateTimeEvent
8 February15:305000 m men's final

Results

The races were started at 15:30.
On 24 November 2017, Russian skater Aleksandr Rumyantsev was disqualified for a doping violation.
RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeTime behindNotes
10OSven Kramer6:10.76OR, TR
12IJan Blokhuijsen6:15.71
11IJorrit Bergsma6:16.66
12OBart Swings6:17.79
11OSverre Lunde Pedersen6:18.84
7ODenis Yuskov6:19.51
8OIvan Skobrev6:19.83
13IPatrick Beckert6:21.18+10.42
6OHåvard Bøkko6:22.83+12:07
106IMoritz Geisreiter6:24.79+14.03
119OAleksandr Rumyantsev6:24.93+14.17
1213OLee Seung-hoon6:25.61+14.85
132OJan Szymański6:26.35+15.59
148IShane Dobbin6:26.90+16.14
159IDmitry Babenko6:28.26+17.50
167IEmery Lehman6:29.94+19.18
173OAndrea Giovannini6:30.84+20.08
183IEwen Fernandez6:31.08+20.32
1910IJonathan Kuck6:31.53+20.77
201OPatrick Meek6:32.94+22.18
215IAlexej Baumgärtner6:34.35+23.58
222IMathieu Giroux6:35.77+25.01
231ISebastian Druszkiewicz6:37.16+26.40
244OKim Cheol-min6:37.28+26.52
255OSimen Spieler Nilsen6:42.47+31.71
264IShane Williamson6:42.88+32.12

OR = Olympic record, TR = track record