The men's 10,000 metres in speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics took place on 23 February, at the James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new Olympic and World records was set during the competition.
Date Pair Athlete Country Time OR WR 23 February Pair 1 Tom Erik Oxholm 14:36.60 OR 23 February Pair 2 Eric Heiden 14:28.13 OR WR
Results
Rank Pair Lane Athlete Country Time Time behind Notes 2 i Eric Heiden 14:28.13 6 i Piet Kleine 14:36.03 1 o Tom Erik Oxholm 14:36.60 4 1 i Mike Woods 14:39.53 +11.40 5 3 o Øyvind Tveter 14:43.53 +15.40 6 3 i Hilbert van der Duim 14:47.58 +19.45 7 2 o Viktor Lyoskin 14:51.72 +23.59 8 8 o Andreas Ehrig 14:51.94 +23.80 9 4 o Yasuhiro Shimizu 14:57.48 +29.35 10 9 i Sergey Berezin 15:04.68 +36.55 11 5 o Yep Kramer 15:04.79 +36.66 12 6 o Tomas Gustafson 15:05.18 +37.05 13 4 i Alf Rekstad 15:05.70 +37.57 14 7 i Örjan Sandler 15:11.52 +43.39 15 10 i Andreas Dietel 15:15.03 +46.90 16 10 o Dmitry Ogloblin 15:20.14 +52.01 17 5 i Masahiko Yamamoto 15:26.92 +58.79 18 7 o Colin Coates 15:28.30 +1:00.17 19 11 i Pertti Niittylä 15:29.98 +1:01.85 20 12 i Andrei Erdely 15:31.73 +1:03.60 21 9 o Ulf Ekstrand 15:33.42 +1:05.29 22 12 o Maurizio Marchetto 15:56.73 +1:28,60 23 13 o Na Yun-Su 16:00.41 +1:32,28 24 11 i John French 16:17.56 +1:49.43 - 6 i Craig Kressler DNF
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