Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 5000 metres

The women's 5000 metres speed skating competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at Gangneung Oval in Gangneung on 16 February 2018.[1][2][3] The event was won by Esmee Visser, skating her first Olympic race. The defending champion Martina Sáblíková finished second. Natalya Voronina was third, also earning her first Olympic medal.

Women's 5000 metres
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueGangneung Oval
Date16 February
Competitors12 from 9 nations
Winning time6:50.23
Medalists
Esmee Visser  Netherlands
Martina Sáblíková  Czech Republic
Natalya Voronina  Olympic Athletes from Russia
Speed skating at the
2018 Winter Olympics
Qualification
500 mmenwomen
1000 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
3000 mwomen
5000 mmenwomen
10,000 mmen
Mass startmenwomen
Team pursuitmenwomen

Summary

Skating in the first pair, Annouk van der Weijden raced to a time of 6:54.17, shaving two seconds off her personal best and taking the lead. She retained it until the fourth pair, where Esmee Visser, in a consistent race lapping in the low 32 seconds, posted a time of 6:50.23. This, too, was a personal best - over 6 seconds faster than her second-place time at the 2018 Dutch Olympic qualifying tournament,[4] and a marked improvement over her season-start PB of 7:14.xx. In the last pair, Martina Sáblíková, recently recovered from a protracted back injury that hamstrung her preparations for the Olympics, skated to a silver medal time of 6:51.85; direct competitor Natalya Voronina took the bronze medal position, surpassing van der Weijden's time by 0.19s and nudging her off the podium into fourth place. Five-time Olympic gold medalist and the Olympic record holder at this distance Claudia Pechstein — now 45 years of age — came home in eighth place.

In the victory ceremony, the medals were presented by Sam Ramsamy, member of the International Olympic Committee, accompanied by Choi Jae-seok, ISU Speed Skating Technical Committee member.

Records

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

World record Martina Sáblíková (CZE)6:42.66Salt Lake City, United States18 February 2011
Olympic record Claudia Pechstein (GER)6:46.91Salt Lake City, United States23 February 2002
Track record Martina Sáblíková (CZE)6:52.3811 February 2017

The following record was set during this competition.

DateRoundAthleteCountryTimeRecord
16 FebruaryPair 4Esmee Visser Netherlands6:50.23TR

TR = track record

Results

The races were started at 20:00.[5]

RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeTime behindNotes
4OEsmee Visser Netherlands6:50.23–TR
6OMartina Sáblíková Czech Republic6:51.85+1.62
6INatalya Voronina Olympic Athletes from Russia6:53.98+3.75
41IAnnouk van der Weijden Netherlands6:54.17+3.94
55IIvanie Blondin Canada6:59.38+9.15
63OIsabelle Weidemann Canada6:59.88+9.65
71OMaryna Zuyeva Belarus7:04.41+14.18
85OClaudia Pechstein Germany7:05.43+15.20
94IMisaki Oshigiri Japan7:07.71+17.48
102IJelena Peeters Belgium7:10.26+20.03
112OCarlijn Schoutens United States7:13.28+23.05
123INana Takagi Japan7:17.45+27.22

References
  1. "Venues". www.pyeongchang2018.com/. Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Retrieved 16 December 2017.
  2. "Schedule". POCOG. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  3. Start list
  4. "Van der Weijden en Visser pakken olympische tickets op 5.000 meter" (in Dutch). Retrieved 16 February 2018.
  5. Final results
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