The men's 10,000 metres in speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics took place on 17 February, at the L'Anneau de Vitesse.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new Olympic record was set.
Date Athlete Time OR WR 17 February 15:23.6 OR
Results
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Johnny Höglin 15:23.6 OR Fred Anton Maier 15:23.9 Örjan Sandler 15:31.8 4 Per Willy Guttormsen 15:32.6 5 Kees Verkerk 15:33.9 6 Jonny Nilsson 15:39.6 7 Magne Thomassen 15:44.9 8 Peter Nottet 15:54.7 9 Valery Lavrushkin 15:54.8 10 Stanislav Selyanin 15:56.4 11 Günter Traub 16:01.3 12 Jouko Launonen 16:02.1 13 Jan Bols 16:09.5 14 Kimmo Koskinen 16:15.7 15 Paul Enock 16:21.2 16 Anatoly Mashkov 16:22.1 17 Hermann Strutz 16:24.9 18 Jürgen Traub 16:33.8 19 Renato De Riva 16:39.5 20 Raimo Hietala 16:45.9 21 Bill Lanigan 16:50.1 22 Yoshiaki Demachi 16:54.6 23 Bob Hodges 17:01.9 24 Giancarlo Gloder 17:03.2 25 Bill Cox 17:08.2 26 François Perrenoud 17:10.2 27 György Ivánkai 17:36.2 28 Hirofumi Otsuka 17:38.8
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