Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink
Dates	February 16
Competitors	29 from 15 nations
Winning time	7:02.29 OR
Medalists
Eric Heiden  United States Kay Stenshjemmet  Norway Tom Erik Oxholm  Norway
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Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
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The men's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics took place on 16 February, at the James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink.^[1][2]

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[3][4]

World record	Kay Arne Stenshjemmet (NOR)	6:56.9	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	19 March 1977
Olympic record	Fred Anton Maier (NOR)	7:22.4	Grenoble, France	15 February 1968

The following new Olympic records was set.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
16 February	Pair 1	Tom Erik Oxholm	Norway	7:05.59	OR
16 February	Pair 2	Eric Heiden	United States	7:02.29	OR

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Rank	Pair	Lane	Athlete	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	2	i	Eric Heiden	United States	7:02.29	–	OR
	4	i	Kay Stenshjemmet	Norway	7:03.28	+0.99
	1	i	Tom Erik Oxholm	Norway	7:05.59	+3.30
4	2	o	Hilbert van der Duim	Netherlands	7:07.97	+5.68
5	3	i	Øyvind Tveter	Norway	7:08.36	+6.07
6	6	o	Piet Kleine	Netherlands	7:08.96	+6.67
7	3	o	Mike Woods	United States	7:10.39	+8.10
8	8	i	Ulf Ekstrand	Sweden	7:13.13	+10.84
9	5	o	Yep Kramer	Netherlands	7:14.09	+11.80
10	10	i	Andreas Ehrig	East Germany	7:14.56	+12.27
11	4	o	Viktor Lyoskin	Soviet Union	7:16.24	+13.95
12	1	o	Tomas Gustafson	Sweden	7:16.85	+14.56
13	9	i	Dmitry Ogloblin	Soviet Union	7:16.92	+14.63
14	10	o	Jan Junell	Sweden	7:19.50	+17.21
15	8	o	Sergey Berezin	Soviet Union	7:19.93	+17.64
16	14	i	Yasuhiro Shimizu	Japan	7:21.50	+19.21
17	12	i	Pertti Niittylä	Finland	7:21.51	+19.22
18	7	i	Craig Kressler	United States	7:25.43	+23.14
19	7	o	Colin Coates	Australia	7:27.25	+24.96
20	9	o	Craig Webster	Canada	7:28.94	+26.65
21	5	i	Masahiko Yamamoto	Japan	7:33.02	+30.73
22	11	o	Andrei Erdely	Romania	7:34.41	+32.12
23	14	o	Maurizio Marchetto	Italy	7:35.50	+33.21
24	11	i	Na Yun-Su	South Korea	7:39.62	+37.33
25	6	i	Masayuki Kawahara	Japan	7:42.18	+39.89
26	12	o	Alan Luke	Great Britain	7:52.65	+50.36
27	15	i	John French	Great Britain	7:59.62	+57.33
28	13	i	Geoff Sandys	Great Britain	8:01.09	+58.80
29	13	o	Tömörbaataryn Nyamdavaa	Mongolia	8:07.68	+1:05.39