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.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new Olympic records was set.
Date Pair Athlete Country Time OR WR 16 February Pair 1 Tom Erik Oxholm 7:05.59 OR 16 February Pair 2 Eric Heiden 7:02.29 OR
Results
Rank Pair Lane Athlete Country Time Time behind Notes 2 i Eric Heiden 7:02.29 4 i Kay Stenshjemmet 7:03.28 1 i Tom Erik Oxholm 7:05.59 4 2 o Hilbert van der Duim 7:07.97 5 3 i Øyvind Tveter 7:08.36 6 6 o Piet Kleine 7:08.96 7 3 o Mike Woods 7:10.39 8 8 i Ulf Ekstrand 7:13.13 +10.84 9 5 o Yep Kramer 7:14.09 +11.80 10 10 i Andreas Ehrig 7:14.56 +12.27 11 4 o Viktor Lyoskin 7:16.24 +13.95 12 1 o Tomas Gustafson 7:16.85 +14.56 13 9 i Dmitry Ogloblin 7:16.92 +14.63 14 10 o Jan Junell 7:19.50 +17.21 15 8 o Sergey Berezin 7:19.93 +17.64 16 14 i Yasuhiro Shimizu 7:21.50 +19.21 17 12 i Pertti Niittylä 7:21.51 +19.22 18 7 i Craig Kressler 7:25.43 +23.14 19 7 o Colin Coates 7:27.25 +24.96 20 9 o Craig Webster 7:28.94 +26.65 21 5 i Masahiko Yamamoto 7:33.02 +30.73 22 11 o Andrei Erdely 7:34.41 +32.12 23 14 o Maurizio Marchetto 7:35.50 +33.21 24 11 i Na Yun-Su 7:39.62 +37.33 25 6 i Masayuki Kawahara 7:42.18 +39.89 26 12 o Alan Luke 7:52.65 +50.36 27 15 i John French 7:59.62 +57.33 28 13 i Geoff Sandys 8:01.09 +58.80 29 13 o Tömörbaataryn Nyamdavaa 8:07.68 +1:05.39
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