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

Women's 5000 metres; at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Utah Olympic Oval
Dates	February 23
Competitors	16 from 7 nations
Winning time	6:49.91 WR
Medalists

The Women's 5000 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.[1]

Claudia Pechstein secures her third gold medal in the distance, having won each of the three times that this distance has been skated by women in the Olympics between 1994 and 2002. With the win, Pechstein also secures at least one medal in four consecutive Winter Games (1992–2002). Clara Hughes and Gretha Smit surprise by ending up on the podium alongside Pechstein. Smit, who broke the world record en route to finishing second, only started competing in long track skating a year before the Games, although she and her sisters had proven almost unbeatable in marathon skating, which is performed in groups.

Records

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

World record	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (GER)	6:52.44	Salt Lake City, United States	March 10, 2001	[2]
Olympic record	Claudia Pechstein (GER)	6:59.61	Nagano, Japan	February 20, 2002	[2]

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

Date[2]	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
23 February 2002	Pair 1	Gretha Smit	Netherlands	6:49.22	OR	WR
23 February 2002	Pair 7	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	6:46.91	OR	WR

Results

Rank	Pair	Name	Country	Time	Behind	Notes
	7	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	6:46.91	-	WR
	1	Gretha Smit	Netherlands	6:49.22	+2.31
	6	Clara Hughes	Canada	6:53.53	+6.62
4	5	Cindy Klassen	Canada	6:55.89	+8.98
5	2	Varvara Barysheva	Russia	6:56.97	+10.06
6	8	Anni Friesinger	Germany	6:58.39	+11.48
7	8	Tonny de Jong	Netherlands	7:01.17	+14.26
8	7	Maki Tabata	Japan	7:06.32	+19.41
9	3	Catherine Raney	United States	7:06.89	+19.98
10	3	Kristina Groves	Canada	7:07.16	+20.25
11	5	Valentina Yakshina	Russia	7:08.42	+21.51
12	6	Daniela Anschütz	Germany	7:10.17	+23.26
13	4	Marja Vis	Netherlands	7:19.08	+32.17
14	2	Annie Driscoll	United States	7:35.23	+48.32
-	1	Lyudmila Prokasheva	Kazakhstan	DNF	-
-	4	Nami Nemoto	Japan	DNF	-

References

"Speed Skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Women's 5,000 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
"Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Speed Skating" (PDF). Salt Lake City Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. February 2002. Retrieved February 5, 2010.

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[SR-1] "Speed Skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Women's 5,000 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2018.

[SpeedSkating-2] "Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Speed Skating" (PDF). Salt Lake City Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. February 2002. Retrieved February 5, 2010.