The men's 10,000 metres
speed skating
Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors racing, race each other in travelling a certain distance on Ice skate, skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marath ...
competition of the
2018 Winter Olympics
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, opening =
, closing =
, opened_by = President Moon Jae-in
, cauldron = Kim Yun-a
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was held on 15 February 2018 at
Gangneung Oval
The Gangneung Oval (Korean: 강릉 스피드 스케이팅 경기장) is a speed skating oval in South Korea, which was used for the speed skating competitions at the 2018 Winter Olympics. The building of the oval was started in September 2013. Th ...
in
Gangneung
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, South Korea.
Summary
The event was won by
Ted-Jan Bloemen
Ted-Jan Bloemen (born 16 August 1986) is a Dutch-Canadian long track speed skater. He started competing for the Canadian national speed skating team during the 2014–15 season, but before that, he competed for the Netherlands in international c ...
, the world record holder at this distance. Defending champion
Jorrit Bergsma
Jacob Jorrit Bergsma (; born 1 February 1986) is a Dutch speed skater and marathon skater. At the 2014 Winter Olympics, he won the gold medal in the 10,000 m. His coach is Jillert Anema.
Biography
Bergsma has been skating for the BAM team si ...
was second, and
Nicola Tumolero
Nicola Tumolero (born 24 September 1994) is an Italian Speed skating, speed skater.
Skating career
Tumolero won gold in the 5,000 meters at the 2018 European Speed Skating Championships. This was Italy's second-ever gold at the European champion ...
won the bronze medal. During the competition, first Bergsma and then Bloemen set Olympic records.
This was the first skating event at the 2018 Olympics not won by a Dutch skater.
For Tumolero, this was his first Olympic medal; for Bloemen the gold followed his silver medal at the
5000 m distance a few days earlier.
In the victory ceremony, the medals were presented by Ivan Dibos, member of the
International Olympic Committee
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, accompanied by
Nick Thometz
Keith James "Nick" Thometz (born September 16, 1963 in Minneapolis, Minnesota) is an American former ice speed-skater. For most of 1987 he held the World record for men's 500 meter speed skating. At the Speed Skating World Cup of 1986-1987 he wo ...
,
ISU Speed Skating Technical Committee member.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic and track records were as follows.
The following record was set during this competition.
Results
The race was held at 20:00, local time (
UTC+9).
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics - Men's 10,000 metres
Men's speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics