Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres; at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	M-Wave
Dates	8 February
Competitors	32 from 19 nations
Winning time	6:22.20
Medalists
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Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10000 m	men

The men's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics took place on 8 February, at the M-Wave arena.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Gianni Romme (NED)	6:30.63	Heerenveen, Netherlands	7 December 1997
Olympic record	Johann Olav Koss (NOR)	6:34.96	Hamar, Norway	13 February 1994

The following new world and olympic records was set during this competition.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
8 February	Pair 12	Bart Veldkamp	Belgium	6:28.31	OR	WR
8 February	Pair 13	Rintje Ritsma	Netherlands	6:28.24	OR	WR
8 February	Pair 16	Gianni Romme	Netherlands	6:22.20	OR	WR

Rank	Pair	Name	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	16	Gianni Romme	Netherlands	6:22.20	-	(WR)
	13	Rintje Ritsma	Netherlands	6:28.24	+6.04
	12	Bart Veldkamp	Belgium	6:28.31	+6.11
4	15	Bob de Jong	Netherlands	6:31.37	+9.17
5	15	Frank Dittrich	Germany	6:32.17	+9.97
6	14	René Taubenrauch	Germany	6:35.21	+13.01
7	13	Keiji Shirahata	Japan	6:36.71	+14.51
8	16	Kjell Storelid	Norway	6:37.12	+14.92
9	11	Roberto Sighel	Italy	6:38.33	+16.13
10	5	Marnix ten Kortenaar	Austria	6:38.35	+16.15
11	10	Lasse Sætre	Norway	6:38.95	+16.75
12	4	Remi Hereide	Norway	6:39.35	+17.15
13	12	Alexander Baumgärtel	Germany	6:39.44	+17.24
14	9	K. C. Boutiette	United States	6:39.67	+17.47
15	3	Vadim Sayutin	Russia	6:39.92	+17.72
16	10	Dave Tamburrino	United States	6:41.19	+18.99
17	1	Takahiro Nozaki	Japan	6:42.30	+20.10
18	7	Paweł Zygmunt	Poland	6:45.59	+23.39
19	1	Cédric Kuentz	France	6:45.90	+23.70
20	11	Andrey Krivosheyev	Russia	6:46.57	+24.37
21	7	Martin Feigenwinter	Switzerland	6:47.08	+24.88
22	9	Yury Kokhanets	Russia	6:47.21	+25.01
23	6	Steven Elm	Canada	6:48.67	+26.47
24	5	Mark Knoll	Canada	6:50.55	+28.35
25	6	Hiroyuki Noake	Japan	6:51.35	+29.15
26	3	Sergey Kaznacheyev	Kazakhstan	6:51.50	+29.30
27	2	Radik Bikchentayev	Kazakhstan	6:52.65	+30.45
28	4	Serhiy Priz	Ukraine	6:54.27	+32.07
29	8	Choi Jae-bong	23x15px South Korea	6:54.62	+32.42
30	8	Dezideriu Horvath	Romania	6:57.08	+34.88
31	2	Fausto Marreiros	Portugal	7:01.87	+39.67
32	4	Vitaly Novichenko	Belarus	7:19.76	+57.56