The Men's 5000 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Derek Parra and Jens Boden broke their personal bests by 15 seconds to win surprise medals, while Jochem Uytdehaage skated a new world record.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
Date Round Athlete Country Time OR WR 9 February Pair 5 Jens Boden 6:21.73 OR 9 February Pair 12 Derek Parra 6:17.98 OR WR 9 February Pair 15 Jochem Uytdehaage 6:14.66 OR WR
Results
Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Time behind Notes 15 O Jochem Uytdehaage 6:14.66 - WR 12 I Derek Parra 6:17.98 +3.32 5 I Jens Boden 6:21.73 +7.07 4 9 I Dmitry Shepel 6:21.85 +7.19 5 2 O K. C. Boutiette 6:22.97 +8.31 6 13 O Carl Verheijen 6:24.71 +10.05 7 9 O Roberto Sighel 6:25.11 +10.45 8 5 O Bart Veldkamp 6:25.88 +11.22 9 11 O Frank Dittrich 6:25.89 +11.23 10 10 O Lasse Sætre 6:25.92 +11.26 11 12 O Dustin Molicki 6:26.29 +11.63 12 16 I Toshihiko Itokawa 6:27.52 +12.86 13 10 I Keiji Shirahata 6:28.95 +14.29 14 13 I Pawel Zygmunt 6:29.71 +15.05 15 8 O Jondon Trevena 6:30.15 +15.49 16 6 O Enrico Fabris 6:30.19 +15.53 17 8 I Hiroki Hirako 6:30.46 +15.80 18 4 O Mark Knoll 6:30.63 +15.97 19 7 O Radik Bikchentayev 6:31.47 +16.81 20 1 O Stefano Donagrandi 6:32.37 +17.71 21 15 I Eskil Ervik 6:32.80 +18.14 22 6 I Johan Röjler 6:33.18 +18.52 23 3 I Steven Elm 6:34.76 +20.10 24 3 O Cedric Kuentz 6:35.05 +20.39 25 14 I Vadim Sayutin 6:35.33 +20.67 26 14 O Stian Bjørge 6:36.04 +21.38 27 11 I Yury Kokhanets 6:36.48 +21.82 28 1 I Lee Seung-hwan 6:37.67 +23.01 29 4 I Sergey Ilyushchenko 6:38.09 +23.43 30 16 O Bob de Jong 6:43.97 +29.31 31 2 I Vladimir Kostin 6:44.10 +29.44 32 7 I Rene Taubenrauch 7:19.76 +65.10
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