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

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Men's 5000 metres
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
The podium
VenueAdler Arena Skating Center
Date8 February 2014
Competitors26 from 14 nations
Winning time6:10.76 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Sven Kramer
 Netherlands
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jan Blokhuijsen
 Netherlands
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Jorrit Bergsma
 Netherlands
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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.[1] All the medals were won by Dutch athletes — Sven Kramer, who set a new Olympic record, Jan Blokhuijsen (silver), and Jorrit Bergsma (bronze).[2]

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.[3]

Qualification

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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.[4] Each athlete qualifying must have also hit a maximum time standard of 6:33.00 over the distance.[5]

Alexis Contin of France and Haralds Silovs of Latvia qualified but withdrew. They were not replaced.

Records

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

World record  Sven Kramer (NED) 6:03.32 Calgary, Canada 17 November 2007
Olympic record  Sven Kramer (NED) 6:14.60 Vancouver, Canada 13 February 2010

At the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships the track record was set by Sven Kramer at 6:14.41.[6]

The following records were set during this competition.

Date Round Athlete Country Time Record
8 February Pair 10 Sven Kramer  Netherlands 6:10.76 OR, TR

OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

Competition schedule

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All times are (UTC+4).

Date Time Event
8 February 15:30 5000 m men's final

Results

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The races were started at 15:30.[7] On 24 November 2017, Russian skater Aleksandr Rumyantsev was disqualified for a doping violation.[8]

Sven Kramer
Jan Blokhuijsen
Jorrit Bergsma
Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Time behind Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 10 O Sven Kramer  Netherlands 6:10.76 OR, TR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 12 I Jan Blokhuijsen  Netherlands 6:15.71 +4.95
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 11 I Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands 6:16.66 +5.90
4 12 O Bart Swings  Belgium 6:17.79 +7.03
5 11 O Sverre Lunde Pedersen  Norway 6:18.84 +8.08
6 7 O Denis Yuskov  Russia 6:19.51 +8.75
7 8 O Ivan Skobrev  Russia 6:19.83 +9.07
8 13 I Patrick Beckert  Germany 6:21.18 +10.42
9 6 O Håvard Bøkko  Norway 6:22.83 +12:07
10 6 I Moritz Geisreiter  Germany 6:24.79 +14.03
11 9 O Aleksandr Rumyantsev  Russia 6:24.93 +14.17
12 13 O Lee Seung-hoon  South Korea 6:25.61 +14.85
13 2 O Jan Szymański  Poland 6:26.35 +15.59
14 8 I Shane Dobbin  New Zealand 6:26.90 +16.14
15 9 I Dmitry Babenko  Kazakhstan 6:28.26 +17.50
16 7 I Emery Lehman  United States 6:29.94 +19.18
17 3 O Andrea Giovannini  Italy 6:30.84 +20.08
18 3 I Ewen Fernandez  France 6:31.08 +20.32
19 10 I Jonathan Kuck  United States 6:31.53 +20.77
20 1 O Patrick Meek  United States 6:32.94 +22.18
21 5 I Alexej Baumgärtner  Germany 6:34.35 +23.58
22 2 I Mathieu Giroux  Canada 6:35.77 +25.01
23 1 I Sebastian Druszkiewicz  Poland 6:37.16 +26.40
24 4 O Kim Cheol-min  South Korea 6:37.28 +26.52
25 5 O Simen Spieler Nilsen  Norway 6:42.47 +31.71
26 4 I Shane Williamson  Japan 6:42.88 +32.12

OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

References

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  1. ^ "Speed Skating Schedule and Results – Men's 5000 m". SOOC. Archived from the original on 29 January 2014. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  2. ^ "Sven Kramer defends 5000m speed skating title". BBC Sport. 8 February 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  3. ^ "Sochi 2014: Day one". BBC Sport. 8 February 2013. Retrieved 9 February 2014.
  4. ^ "Qualification of NOC event quota places for the Olympic Winter Games 2014" (PDF). www.isu.org. International Skating Union. 9 December 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  5. ^ "Qualification Competition and Qualifying Times for Speed Skating Events at the 2014 Winter Olympics" (PDF). www.isu.org. International Skating Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 December 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
  6. ^ "Visitenkarte der Eisbahn: Adler Arenea Sotschi". speedskatingnews. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  7. ^ Final Results
  8. ^ "IOC sanctions four Russian athletes as part of Oswald Commission findings - Olympic News". 14 July 2021.