The men's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics took place on 8 February, at the M-Wave arena.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
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 6:28.31 OR WR 8 February Pair 13 Rintje Ritsma 6:28.24 OR WR 8 February Pair 16 Gianni Romme 6:22.20 OR WR
Results
Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Time behind Notes 16 i Gianni Romme 6:22.20 - (WR) 13 o Rintje Ritsma 6:28.24 +6.04 12 i Bart Veldkamp 6:28.31 +6.11 4 15 o Bob de Jong 6:31.37 +9.17 5 15 i Frank Dittrich 6:32.17 +9.97 6 14 o René Taubenrauch 6:35.21 +13.01 7 13 i Keiji Shirahata 6:36.71 +14.51 8 16 o Kjell Storelid 6:37.12 +14.92 9 11 o Roberto Sighel 6:38.33 +16.13 10 5 o Marnix ten Kortenaar 6:38.35 +16.15 11 10 o Lasse Sætre 6:38.95 +16.75 12 14 i Remi Hereide 6:39.35 +17.15 13 12 o Alexander Baumgärtel 6:39.44 +17.24 14 9 i K. C. Boutiette 6:39.67 +17.47 15 3 i Vadim Sayutin 6:39.92 +17.72 16 10 o Dave Tamburrino 6:41.19 +18.99 17 1 i Takahiro Nozaki 6:42.30 +20.10 18 7 o Paweł Zygmunt 6:45.59 +23.39 19 1 i Cédric Kuentz 6:45.90 +23.70 20 11 i Andrey Krivosheyev 6:46.57 +24.37 21 7 i Martin Feigenwinter 6:47.08 +24.88 22 9 i Yury Kokhanets 6:47.21 +25.01 23 6 o Steven Elm 6:48.67 +26.47 24 5 i Mark Knoll 6:50.55 +28.35 25 6 i Hiroyuki Noake 6:51.35 +29.15 26 3 o Sergey Kaznacheyev 6:51.50 +29.30 27 2 i Radik Bikchentayev 6:52.65 +30.45 28 4 o Serhiy Priz 6:54.27 +32.07 29 8 o Choi Jae-bong 6:54.62 +32.42 30 8 i Dezideriu Horvath 6:57.08 +34.88 31 2 o Fausto Marreiros 7:01.87 +39.67 32 4 i Vitaly Novichenko 7:19.76 +57.56
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