Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Utah Olympic Oval
Dates	February 9
Competitors	32 from 14 nations
Winning time	6:14.66
Medalists
Jochem Uytdehaage  Netherlands Derek Parra  United States Jens Boden  Germany

Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men

The Men's 5000 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

Derek Parra and Jens Boden broke their personal bests by 15 seconds to win surprise medals, while Jochem Uytdehaage skated a new world record.

Records

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

World record	Gianni Romme (NED)	6:18.72	Calgary, Canada	30 January 2000
Olympic record	Gianni Romme (NED)	6:22.20	Nagano, Japan	8 February 1998

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date[1]	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
9 February	Pair 5	Jens Boden	Germany	6:21.73	OR
9 February	Pair 12	Derek Parra	United States	6:17.98	OR	WR
9 February	Pair 15	Jochem Uytdehaage	Netherlands	6:14.66	OR	WR

Results

Rank	Pair	Name	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	15	Jochem Uytdehaage	Netherlands	6:14.66	-	WR
	12	Derek Parra	United States	6:17.98	+3.32
	5	Jens Boden	Germany	6:21.73	+7.07
4	9	Dmitry Shepel	Russia	6:21.85	+7.19
5	2	K. C. Boutiette	United States	6:22.97	+8.31
6	13	Carl Verheijen	Netherlands	6:24.71	+10.05
7	9	Roberto Sighel	Italy	6:25.11	+10.45
8	5	Bart Veldkamp	Belgium	6:25.88	+11.22
9	11	Frank Dittrich	Germany	6:25.89	+11.23
10	10	Lasse Sætre	Norway	6:25.92	+11.26
11	12	Dustin Molicki	Canada	6:26.29	+11.63
12	16	Toshihiko Itokawa	Japan	6:27.52	+12.86
13	10	Keiji Shirahata	Japan	6:28.95	+14.29
14	13	Pawel Zygmunt	Poland	6:29.71	+15.05
15	8	Jondon Trevena	United States	6:30.15	+15.49
16	6	Enrico Fabris	Italy	6:30.19	+15.53
17	8	Hiroki Hirako	Japan	6:30.46	+15.80
18	4	Mark Knoll	Canada	6:30.63	+15.97
19	7	Radik Bikchantayev	Kazakhstan	6:31.47	+16.81
20	1	Stefano Dongrandi	Italy	6:32.37	+17.71
21	15	Eskil Ervik	Norway	6:32.80	+18.14
22	6	Johan Röjler	Sweden	6:33.18	+18.52
23	3	Steven Elm	Canada	6:34.76	+20.10
24	3	Cedric Kuentz	France	6:35.05	+20.39
25	14	Vadim Sayutin	Russia	6:35.33	+20.67
26	14	Stian Bjørge	Norway	6:36.04	+21.38
27	11	Yury Kokhanets	Russia	6:36.48	+21.82
28	1	Lee Seung-Hwan	South Korea	6:37.67	+23.01
29	4	Sergey Ilyushchenko	Kazakhstan	6:38.09	+23.43
30	16	Bob de Jong	Netherlands	6:43.97	+29.31
31	2	Vladimir Kostin	Kazakhstan	6:44.10	+29.44
32	7	Rene Taubenrauch	Germany	7:19.76	+65.10

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