Short-track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metre relay

The men's 5000 metre relay competition in short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 11 February (semifinals) and 16 February (finals), at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing. The Canadian team won gold, with South Korea winning silver and Italy the bronze.

The defending champion were Hungary, with China and Canada being second and third in 2018. The Netherlands were the 2021 World Short Track Speed Skating champion, Hungary and Italy were the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Many top athletes did not participate in the championship, however. Canada were leading the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup with four races completed before the Olympics, followed by South Korea and Hungary.

Qualification

The top with the top 8 countries qualified a relay through the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup, including host nation China.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

Results Semifinals Rank Heat Country Athletes TimeSemifinals results Notes 1 1 Charles HamelinMaxime LaounSteven DuboisPascal Dion 6:38.752 QA 2 1 Pietro SighelYuri ConfortolaTommaso DottiAndrea Cassinelli 6:38.899 QA 3 1 Kazuki YoshinagaShogo MiyataKota KikuchiKatsunori Koike 6:40.446 QB 4 1 Wu DajingRen ZiweiSun LongLi Wenlong 6:51.040 ADVA 1 2 Lee June-seoKim Dong-wookHwang Dae-heonKwak Yoon-gy 6:37.879 QA 2 2 Semen ElistratovKonstantin IvlievPavel SitnikovDenis Ayrapetyan 6:37.925 QA 3 2 Itzhak de LaatSjinkie KnegtSven RoesJens van 't Wout 6:37.927 QB 4 2 Shaoang LiuShaolin Sándor LiuJohn-Henry KruegerBence Nógrádi 6:45.172 QB

Finals Final B Rank Country Athletes Time Notes 6 Shaoang LiuShaolin Sándor LiuJohn-Henry KruegerBence Nógrádi 6:39.713 7 Itzhak de LaatSjinkie KnegtSven RoesJens van 't Wout 6:39.780 8 Kazuki YoshinagaShogo MiyataKota KikuchiKatsunori Koike 6:40.545

Final A Rank Country Athletes TimeFinals results Notes Charles HamelinSteven DuboisJordan Pierre-GillesPascal Dion 6:41.257 Lee June-seoHwang Dae-heonKwak Yoon-gyPark Jang-hyuk 6:41.679 Pietro SighelYuri ConfortolaTommaso DottiAndrea Cassinelli 6:43.431 4 Semen ElistratovKonstantin IvlievPavel SitnikovDenis Ayrapetyan 6:43.440 5 Wu DajingRen ZiweiSun LongLi Wenlong 6:51.654

Controversy During the semifinals of the event, the Chinese team fell with 10 laps to go. There was no obvious obstruction on the Chinese skater, but they were advanced to the A final, with no team disqualified during the race. The Chinese team were advanced, even though they finished last in the race and there was no impeding action on the team.

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