The men's 5000 m competition in

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at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 6 February, at the National Speed Skating Oval ("Ice Ribbon") in

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. The event was won by

Nils van der Poel Nils Göran van der Poel (; born 25 April 1996) is a Swedish speed skater who is the current World and Olympic record holder and reigning World and Olympic champion in the 5,000 m event and the 10,000 m event. Van der Poel won the 20 ...

of Sweden.

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of the Netherlands won the silver medal, and

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of Norway the bronze medal. For van der Poel and Engebråten these are the first Olympic medals. Van der Poel's medal was the first Olympic medal in speed skating for Sweden since 1988, when

Tomas Gustafson Sven Tomas Gustafson (born 28 December 1959) is a retired Swedish speed skater, and one of the most successful distance skaters of the 1980s. Early career Born in Katrineholm, he won the World Junior Championships title, in Grenoble, France, i ...

won both 5000 m and 10000 m. The defending champion and the Olympic record holder was Sven Kramer. The silver medalist, Ted-Jan Bloemen, qualified for the Olympics as well. The bronze medalist, Sverre Lunde Pedersen, was not selected to skate at the event.

is the 2021 World Single Distances champion at the 5000 m distance, with

and

Sergey Trofimov Sergey Sergeyevich Trofimov (russian: Сергей Сергеевич Трофимов; born 27 July 1995) is a Russian speed skater. He competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip- ...

being the silver and bronze medalist, respectively. Van der Poel was also the world record holder at the start of the Olympics. He was leading the

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at long distances with four races completed before the Olympics, followed by Bloemen and

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. Van der Poel's world record, 6:01.56 in Salt Lake City on 3 December 2021, was thus the season best time. Sven Kramer was skating in the first pair and set the lead in the event. In pair 3,

improved Kramer's time by over 7 seconds, 0.12 seconds short of Kramer's Olympic record, and

became second. In pair 5, Patrick Roest, skating essentially alone, since his competitor was far behind, took the lead, setting a new Olympic record. This situation remained until the last pair, when Nils van der Poel, skating behind the Roest's scheme most of the distance, caught up at the last kilometer and became the champion with the new Olympic record. In the flower ceremony after the race, the three medalists were handed an olympic mascot to take themselves from a board held by

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, President of the

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, dressed in face mask due to the ongoing pandemic. The medal ceremony was scheduled for the day after the race.

Qualification

A total of 20 entry quotas were available for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per NOC. The first 14 athletes qualified through their performance at the

, while the last six earned quotas by having the best times among athletes not already qualified. A country could only earn the maximum three spots through the World Cup rankings. The qualification time for the event (6:30.00) was released on July 1, 2021, and was unchanged from 2018. Skaters had the time period of July 1, 2021 – January 16, 2022 to achieve qualification times at valid

(ISU) events.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows. A new Olympic record was set in the competition.

Results

The races were started at 16:30.Final results
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References

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