The women's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics took place on February 20, at the M-Wave.
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 February 20 Pair 2 Tonny de Jong 7:12.77 OR February 20 Pair 5 Lyudmila Prokasheva 7:11.14 OR February 20 Pair 7 Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann 6:59.65 OR WR February 20 Pair 8 Claudia Pechstein 6:59.61 OR WR
Results
Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Behind Notes 8 O Claudia Pechstein 6:59.61 - (WR) 7 O Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann 6:59.65 +0.04 5 O Lyudmila Prokasheva 7:11.14 +11.53 4 6 O Barbara de Loor 7:11.81 +12.20 5 2 O Tonny de Jong 7:12.77 +13.16 6 3 O Carla Zijlstra 7:12.89 +13.28 7 5 I Kirstin Holum 7:14.20 +14.59 8 6 I Emese Hunyady 7:15.23 +15.62 9 4 I Elena Belci 7:15.58 +15.97 10 7 I Jennifer Rodriguez 7:16.78 +17.17 11 1 O Mie Uehara 7:21.72 +22.11 12 3 I Svetlana Vysokova 7:22.18 +22.58 13 1 I Anette Tønsberg 7:28.39 +28.78 14 8 I Heike Warnicke 7:30.83 +31.22 15 2 I Nami Nemoto 7:36.77 +37.16
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