The men's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics took place on 11 February, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
Results
Rank Pair Lane Athlete Country Time Time behind 3 i Sten Stensen 7:24.48 - 9 i Piet Kleine 7:26.47 +1.99 2 i Hans van Helden 7:26.54 +2.06 4 3 o Viktor Varlamov 7:30.97 +6.49 5 4 i Klaus Wunderlich 7:33.82 +9.34 6 13 o Dan Carroll 7:36.46 +11.98 7 9 o Vladimir Ivanov 7:37.73 +13.25 8 1 i Örjan Sandler 7:39.69 +15.21 9 13 i Jan Egil Storholt 7:40.60 +16.12 10 6 o Colin Coates 7:41.96 +17.48 11 7 o Lee Yeong-Ha 7:44.21 +19.73 12 5 o Mike Woods 7:48.08 +23.60 13 16 i Amund Sjøbrend 7:48.28 +23.80 14 15 i Sergey Marchuk 7:51.37 +26.98 15 2 o Herbert Schwarz 7:52.26 +27.78 16 11 i Lennart Carlsson 7:53.02 +28.54 17 8 o Franz Krienbühl 7:53.11 +28.63 18 8 i Manfred Winter 7:58.28 +33.60 19 15 o Eric Heiden 7:59.00 +34.52 20 5 i Olavi Köppä 7:59.52 +35.04 21 1 o Maurizio Marchetto 8:04.07 +39.59 22 11 o Masahiko Yamamoto 8:06.97 +42.49 23 10 o Andy Barron 8:10.00 +45.52 24 6 o Masayuki Kawahara 8:10.08 +46.60 25 16 o Dan Johansson 8:12.37 +47.89 26 7 i Geoff Sandys 8:13.03 +48.55 27 4 o Ludwig Kronfuß 8:19.72 +55.24 28 12 o Ivano Bamberghi 8:21.04 +56.56 29 12 i Hubert Gundolf 8:29.34 +1:04.86 30 10 i Gilbert Van Eesbeeck 8:29.78 +1:05.30 31 14 i Loris Vellar 8:31.85 +1:07.37
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