Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Men's 10000 metres

Men's 10000 metres; at the XI Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Makomanai Open Stadium
Dates	February 7
Competitors	24 from 14 nations
Winning time	15:01.35
Medalists
	← 1968 1976 →

Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m		women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10000 m	men

The men's 10000 metres in speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics took place on 7 February, at the Makomanai Open Stadium.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2]^[3]

World record	Ard Schenk (NED)	14:55.9	Oslo, Norway	25 January 1972
Olympic record	Johnny Höglin (SWE)	15:23.6	Grenoble, France	17 February 1968

The following new World and Olympic records was set during the competition.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR
7 February	Pair 2	Sten Stensen	Norway	15:07.08	OR
7 February	Pair 8	Kees Verkerk	Netherlands	15:04.70	OR
7 February	Pair 12	Ard Schenk	Netherlands	15:01.35	OR

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Ard Schenk	Netherlands	15:01.35	OR
	Kees Verkerk	Netherlands	15:04.70
	Sten Stensen	Norway	15:07.08
4	Jan Bols	Netherlands	15:17.99
5	Valery Lavrushkin	Soviet Union	15:20.08
6	Göran Claeson	Sweden	15:30.19
7	Kimmo Koskinen	Finland	15:38.87
8	Gerd Zimmermann	West Germany	15:43.92
9	Dan Carroll	United States	15:44.41
10	Kiyomi Ito	Japan	15:48.17
11	Per Willy Guttormsen	Norway	15:48.71
12	Osamu Naito	Japan	15:52.93
13	Dag Fornæss	Norway	15:53.33
14	Kevin Sirois	Canada	15:58.61
15	Örjan Sandler	Sweden	16:04.90
16	Bruno Toniolli	Italy	16:14.52
17	Giancarlo Gloder	Italy	16:21.42
18	Colin Coates	Australia	16:29.94
19	Jouko Salakka	Finland	16:35.64
20	David Hampton	Great Britain	16:39.01
21	Clark King	United States	16:39.82
22	Richard Tourne	France	16:48.70
23	John Blewitt	Great Britain	16:51.50
24	Luvsansharavyn Tsend	23x15px Mongolia	17:15.34