Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres
{{Infobox Olympic event
|event = Men's 5000 metres
|games = 2014 Winter
|image = Men's 5000m, 2014 Winter Olympics, Podium.jpg
|image_size = 250px
|caption = The podium
|venue = Adler Arena Skating Center
|date = 8 February 2014
|competitors = 26
|nations = 14
|longnames = yes
|win_value = 6:10.76 {{OlyR|speed skating}}
|gold = Sven Kramer
|goldNOC = NED
|silver = Jan Blokhuijsen
|silverNOC = NED
|bronze = Jorrit Bergsma
|bronzeNOC = NED
|prev = 2010
|next = 2018
}}
{{Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics}}
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.{{cite web |url=http://www.sochi2014.com/en/speed-skating-men-s-5000-m |title=Speed Skating Schedule and Results – Men's 5000 m |publisher=SOOC |accessdate=8 February 2014 |archive-date=29 January 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140129072432/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/speed-skating-men-s-5000-m |url-status=dead }} All the medals were won by Dutch athletes — Sven Kramer, who set a new Olympic record, Jan Blokhuijsen (silver), and Jorrit Bergsma (bronze).{{cite web|url = https://www.bbc.com/sport/0/winter-olympics/26056127|title= Sven Kramer defends 5000m speed skating title|date=8 February 2014|work=BBC Sport|accessdate=14 February 2014}}
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.{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/live/winter-olympics/25885403 |title=Sochi 2014: Day one |date=8 February 2013 |publisher=BBC Sport |accessdate=9 February 2014}}
Qualification
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.{{cite web |url=http://isuprod.blob.core.windows.net/media/128207/2014-owg-qualification-status-soqc-9-dec-2013.pdf |title=Qualification of NOC event quota places for the Olympic Winter Games 2014 |date=9 December 2013 |website=www.isu.org |publisher=International Skating Union |accessdate=7 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116073620/http://isuprod.blob.core.windows.net/media/128207/2014-owg-qualification-status-soqc-9-dec-2013.pdf |archivedate=16 January 2014 }} Each athlete qualifying must have also hit a maximum time standard of 6:33.00 over the distance.{{cite web |url=http://isuprod.blob.core.windows.net/media/108393/1799-owg-2014-ss-qualifying-procedure.pdf |title=Qualification Competition and Qualifying Times for Speed Skating Events at the 2014 Winter Olympics |website=www.isu.org |publisher=International Skating Union |accessdate=8 February 2014 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131224113151/http://isuprod.blob.core.windows.net/media/108393/1799-owg-2014-ss-qualifying-procedure.pdf |archivedate=24 December 2013 }}
Alexis Contin of France and Haralds Silovs of Latvia qualified but withdrew. They were not replaced.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
{{World Olympic Record
| world_athlete = {{flagathlete|Sven Kramer|NED}}
| world_mark = 6:03.32
| world_place = Calgary, Canada
| world_date = 17 November 2007
| world_ref =
| olympic_athlete = {{flagIOCathlete|Sven Kramer|NED|2010 Winter}}
| olympic_mark = 6:14.60
| olympic_place = Vancouver, Canada
| olympic_date = 13 February 2010
| olympic_ref
|}}
At the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships the track record was set by Sven Kramer at 6:14.41.{{cite web |title=Visitenkarte der Eisbahn: Adler Arenea Sotschi |url=http://www.speedskatingnews.info/data/rink/RUSI/ |publisher=speedskatingnews |accessdate=5 February 2014}}
The following records were set during this competition.
{{see also|World and Olympic records set at the 2014 Winter Olympics}}
| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" | |||||
| Date | Round | Athlete | Country | Time | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 February | Pair 10 | align="left"| Sven Kramer | align="left"| {{FlagIOC|NED|2014 Winter}} | 6:10.76 | OR, TR |
OR = Olympic record, TR = track record
Competition schedule
All times are (UTC+4).
| class=wikitable
! Date !! Time !! Event | ||
| 8 February | 15:30 | style=background:lemonchiffon|5000 m men's final |
Results
The races were started at 15:30.[http://live.isuresults.eu/2013-2014/sochi/r1501.htm Final Results]
On 24 November 2017, Russian skater Aleksandr Rumyantsev was disqualified for a doping violation.{{cite web| url = https://www.olympic.org/news/ioc-sanctions-four-russian-athletes-as-part-of-oswald-commission-findings-2017-11-24| title = IOC sanctions four Russian athletes as part of Oswald Commission findings - Olympic News| date = 14 July 2021}}
File:Men's 5000m, 2014 Winter Olympics, Sven Kramer.jpg
File:Men's 5000m, 2014 Winter Olympics, Jan Blokhuijsen.jpg
File:Men's 5000m, 2014 Winter Olympics, Jorrit Bergsma.jpg
| class="wikitable sortable" style="text-align:center"
! Rank !! Pair !! Lane !! Name !! Country !! Time !! Time behind !! Notes | |||||||
| {{gold01}} | 10 | O | align="left"| Sven Kramer | align="left"| {{flagIOC|NED|2014 Winter}} | 6:10.76 | {{sort|+0|—}} | OR, TR |
| {{silver02}} | 12 | I | align="left"| Jan Blokhuijsen | align="left"| {{flagIOC|NED|2014 Winter}} | 6:15.71 | {{sort|+04.95|+4.95}} | |
| {{bronze03}} | 11 | I | align="left"| Jorrit Bergsma | align="left"| {{flagIOC|NED|2014 Winter}} | 6:16.66 | {{sort|+05.90|+5.90}} | |
| {{sort|04|4}} | 12 | O | align="left"| Bart Swings | align="left"| {{flagIOC|BEL|2014 Winter}} | 6:17.79 | {{sort|+07.03|+7.03}} | |
| {{sort|05|5}} | 11 | O | align="left"| Sverre Lunde Pedersen | align="left"| {{flagIOC|NOR|2014 Winter}} | 6:18.84 | {{sort|+08.08|+8.08}} | |
| {{sort|06|6}} | 7 | O | align="left"| Denis Yuskov | align="left" | {{flagIOC|RUS|2014 Winter}} | 6:19.51 | {{sort|+08.75|+8.75}} | |
| {{sort|07|7}} | 8 | O | align="left"| Ivan Skobrev | align="left"| {{flagIOC|RUS|2014 Winter}} | 6:19.83 | {{sort|+09.07|+9.07}} | |
| {{sort|08|8}} | 13 | I | align="left"| Patrick Beckert | align="left"| {{flagIOC|GER|2014 Winter}} | 6:21.18 | +10.42 | |
| {{sort|09|9}} | 6 | O | align="left" | Håvard Bøkko | align="left" | {{flagIOC|NOR|2014 Winter}} | 6:22.83 | +12:07 | |
| 10 | 6 | I | align="left" | Moritz Geisreiter | align="left" | {{flagIOC|GER|2014 Winter}} | 6:24.79 | +14.03 | |
| 11 | 9 | O | align="left"| Aleksandr Rumyantsev | align="left"| {{flagIOC|RUS|2014 Winter}} | 6:24.93 | +14.17 | |
| 12 | 13 | O | align="left"| Lee Seung-hoon | align="left"| {{flagIOC|KOR|2014 Winter}} | 6:25.61 | +14.85 | |
| 13 | 2 | O | align="left" | Jan Szymański | align="left" | {{flagIOC|POL|2014 Winter}} | 6:26.35 | +15.59 | |
| 14 | 8 | I | align="left"| Shane Dobbin | align="left"| {{flagIOC|NZL|2014 Winter}} | 6:26.90 | +16.14 | |
| 15 | 9 | I | align="left"| Dmitry Babenko | align="left"| {{flagIOC|KAZ|2014 Winter}} | 6:28.26 | +17.50 | |
| 16 | 7 | I | align="left"| Emery Lehman | align="left"| {{flagIOC|USA|2014 Winter}} | 6:29.94 | +19.18 | |
| 17 | 3 | O | align="left" | Andrea Giovannini | align="left" | {{flagIOC|ITA|2014 Winter}} | 6:30.84 | +20.08 | |
| 18 | 3 | I | align="left" | Ewen Fernandez | align="left" | {{flagIOC|FRA|2014 Winter}} | 6:31.08 | +20.32 | |
| 19 | 10 | I | align="left"| Jonathan Kuck | align="left"| {{flagIOC|USA|2014 Winter}} | 6:31.53 | +20.77 | |
| 20 | 1 | O | align="left" | Patrick Meek | align="left" | {{flagIOC|USA|2014 Winter}} | 6:32.94 | +22.18 | |
| 21 | 5 | I | align="left" | Alexej Baumgärtner | align="left" | {{flagIOC|GER|2014 Winter}} | 6:34.35 | +23.58 | |
| 22 | 2 | I | align="left" | Mathieu Giroux | align="left" | {{FlagIOC|CAN|2014 Winter}} | 6:35.77 | +25.01 | |
| 23 | 1 | I | align="left" | Sebastian Druszkiewicz | align="left" | {{flagIOC|POL|2014 Winter}} | 6:37.16 | +26.40 | |
| 24 | 4 | O | align="left" | Kim Cheol-min | align="left" | {{flagIOC|KOR|2014 Winter}} | 6:37.28 | +26.52 | |
| 25 | 5 | O | align="left" | Simen Spieler Nilsen | align="left" | {{flagIOC|NOR|2014 Winter}} | 6:42.47 | +31.71 | |
| 26 | 4 | I | align="left" | Shane Williamson | align="left" | {{flagIOC|JPN|2014 Winter}} | 6:42.88 | +32.12 |
OR = Olympic record, TR = track record
References
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