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

Men's 5000 metres; at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink
Dates	February 16
Competitors	29 from 15 nations
Winning time	7:02.29
Medalists
	← 1976 1984 →

Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10000 m	men

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]

Records

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

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

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Eric Heiden	United States	7:02.29	OR
	Kay Stenshjemmet	Norway	7:03.28
	Tom Erik Oxholm	Norway	7:05.59
4	Hilbert van der Duim	Netherlands	7:07.97
5	Øyvind Tveter	Norway	7:08.36
6	Piet Kleine	Netherlands	7:08.96
7	Mike Woods	United States	7:10.39
8	Ulf Ekstrand	Sweden	7:13.13
9	Yep Kramer	Netherlands	7:14.09
10	Andreas Ehrig	East Germany	7:14.56
11	Viktor Lyoskin	Soviet Union	7:16.24
12	Tomas Gustafson	Sweden	7:16.85
13	Dmitry Ogloblin	Soviet Union	7:16.92
14	Jan Junell	Sweden	7:19.50
15	Sergey Berezin	Soviet Union	7:19.93
16	Yasuhiro Shimizu	Japan	7:21.50
17	Pertti Niittylä	Finland	7:21.51
18	Craig Kressler	United States	7:25.43
19	Colin Coates	Australia	7:27.25
20	Craig Webster	Canada	7:28.94
21	Masahiko Yamamoto	Japan	7:33.02
22	Andrei Erdely	Romania	7:34.41
23	Maurizio Marchetto	Italy	7:35.50
24	Na Yun-Su	23x15px South Korea	7:39.62
25	Masayuki Kawahara	Japan	7:42.18
26	Alan Luke	Great Britain	7:52.65
27	John French	Great Britain	7:59.62
28	Geoff Sandys	Great Britain	8:01.09
29	Tömörbaataryn Nyamdavaa	23x15px Mongolia	8:07.68