Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres speed skating; at the IX Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Eisschnelllaufbahn Innsbruck
Date	5 February 1964
Competitors	42 from 19 nations
Winning time	7:38.4 OR
Medalists

The men's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place on 5 February, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2]^[3]

World record	Jonny Nilsson (SWE)	7:34.3	Karuizawa, Japan	23 February 1963
Olympic record	Boris Shilkov (URS)	7:48.7	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	29 January 1956

The following new Olympic record was set.

Date	Athlete	Time	OR	WR
5 February	Knut Johannesen (NOR)	7:38.4	OR

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Knut Johannesen	Norway	7:38.4	OR
	Per Ivar Moe	Norway	7:38.6
	Fred Anton Maier	Norway	7:42.0
4	Viktor Kosichkin	Soviet Union	7:45.8
5	Hermann Strutz	Austria	7:48.3
6	Jonny Nilsson	Sweden	7:48.4
7	Ivar Nilsson	Sweden	7:49.0
8	Rudi Liebrechts	Netherlands	7:50.9
9	Kees Verkerk	Netherlands	7:51.1
10	Muzakhid Khabibulin	Soviet Union	7:52.3
11	Günter Traub	United Team of Germany	7:53.9
12	Kurt Stille	Denmark	7:56.1
13	Gerd Zimmermann	United Team of Germany	7:56.8
14	Renato De Riva	Italy	7:57.5
15	Kalervo Hietala	Finland	7:58.8
16	Terry Malkin	Great Britain	7:59.4
17	Choi Yeong-Bae	South Korea	8:03.4
18	Jouko Launonen	Finland	8:03.5
19	Örjan Sandler	Sweden	8:05.3
20	Dick Hunt	United States	8:09.7
21	Toivo Salonen	Finland	8:10.2
22	Tony Bullen	Great Britain	8:12.4
23	Satoshi Shinpo	Japan	8:12.5
24	Toyofumi Aruga	Japan	8:15.9
25	Ralf Olin	Canada	8:18.2
26	György Ivánkai	Hungary	8:19.4
26	Yoshihiro Kawano	Japan	8:19.4
28	Bak Sung-Wun	North Korea	8:20.2
29	Wayne LeBombard	United States	8:21.3
30	Kim Choon-Bong	North Korea	8:22.9
31	Luvsansharavyn Tsend	Mongolia	8:23.9
32	Ruedi Uster	Switzerland	8:24.8
33	Oldřich Teplý	Czechoslovakia	8:25.6
34	Peter Nottet	Netherlands	8:26.1
35	Gerald Koning	Canada	8:26.9
36	Choi Nam-Yeon	South Korea	8:28.0
37	Reinhold Seeböck	Austria	8:29.6
38	Stan Fail	United States	8:31.9
39	Jürgen Schmidt	United Team of Germany	8:36.6
40	Peter Büttner	Switzerland	8:45.5
41	Mihály Martos	Hungary	8:47.1
42	Gerhard Strutz	Austria	8:50.4

1 2 "Offizieller Bericht der IX. Olympischen Winterspiele Innsbruck 1964" (PDF). Austrian Federal Publishing House for Instruction, Science and Art, Vienna and Munich. LA84 Foundation. 1964. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
↑ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
↑ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - Olympic Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.

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