Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Speed skating at the Olympics
Men's 5000 metres
at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
VenueJames B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink
DatesFebruary 16
Competitors29 from 15 nations
Winning time7:02.29 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Eric Heiden
 United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Kay Stenshjemmet
 Norway
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Tom Erik Oxholm
 Norway
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The men's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics took place on 16 February, at the James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink.[1][2]

Records

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

World record  Kay Arne Stenshjemmet (NOR) 6:56.9 Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union 19 March 1977
Olympic record  Fred Anton Maier (NOR) 7:22.4 Grenoble, France 15 February 1968

The following new Olympic records was set.

Date Pair Athlete Country Time OR WR
16 February Pair 1 Tom Erik Oxholm  Norway 7:05.59 OR
16 February Pair 2 Eric Heiden  United States 7:02.29 OR

Results

[1]

Rank Pair Lane Athlete Country Time Time behind Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 2 i Eric Heiden  United States 7:02.29 – OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 i Kay Stenshjemmet  Norway 7:03.28 +0.99
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 1 i Tom Erik Oxholm  Norway 7:05.59 +3.30
4 2 o Hilbert van der Duim  Netherlands 7:07.97 +5.68
5 3 i Øyvind Tveter  Norway 7:08.36 +6.07
6 6 o Piet Kleine  Netherlands 7:08.96 +6.67
7 3 o Mike Woods  United States 7:10.39 +8.10
8 8 i Ulf Ekstrand  Sweden 7:13.13 +10.84
9 5 o Yep Kramer  Netherlands 7:14.09 +11.80
10 10 i Andreas Ehrig  East Germany 7:14.56 +12.27
11 4 o Viktor Lyoskin  Soviet Union 7:16.24 +13.95
12 1 o Tomas Gustafson  Sweden 7:16.85 +14.56
13 9 i Dmitry Ogloblin  Soviet Union 7:16.92 +14.63
14 10 o Jan Junell  Sweden 7:19.50 +17.21
15 8 o Sergey Berezin  Soviet Union 7:19.93 +17.64
16 14 i Yasuhiro Shimizu  Japan 7:21.50 +19.21
17 12 i Pertti Niittylä  Finland 7:21.51 +19.22
18 7 i Craig Kressler  United States 7:25.43 +23.14
19 7 o Colin Coates  Australia 7:27.25 +24.96
20 9 o Craig Webster  Canada 7:28.94 +26.65
21 5 i Masahiko Yamamoto  Japan 7:33.02 +30.73
22 11 o Andrei Erdely  Romania 7:34.41 +32.12
23 14 o Maurizio Marchetto  Italy 7:35.50 +33.21
24 11 i Na Yun-Su  South Korea 7:39.62 +37.33
25 6 i Masayuki Kawahara  Japan 7:42.18 +39.89
26 12 o Alan Luke  Great Britain 7:52.65 +50.36
27 15 i John French  Great Britain 7:59.62 +57.33
28 13 i Geoff Sandys  Great Britain 8:01.09 +58.80
29 13 o Tömörbaataryn Nyamdavaa  Mongolia 8:07.68 +1:05.39

References

  1. ^ a b "The Official Report of the XIIIth Olympic Winter Games Lake Placid 1980 - Official Results" (PDF). Lake Placid Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1980. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
  2. ^ "Speed Skating at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Games: Men's 5,000 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2019.
  3. ^ "5000m Men World Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
  4. ^ "5000m Men Olympic Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved November 2, 2016.