The men's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics took place on 12 February, at the Zetra Ice Rink.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
Results
Rank Pair Lane Athlete Country Time Time behind 1 i Tomas Gustafson 7:12.28 - 4 i Igor Malkov 7:12.30 +0.02 7 i René Schöfisch 7:17.49 +5.21 4 4 o Andreas Ehrig 7:17.63 +5.35 5 3 i Oleg Bozhev 7:17.96 +5.68 6 12 o Pertti Niittylä 7:17.97 +5.69 7 2 o Bjørn Nyland 7:18.27 +5.99 8 7 o Werner Jäger 7:18.61 +6.33 9 1 o Hilbert van der Duim 7:19.39 +7.11 10 3 o Geir Karlstad 7:20.24 +7.96 11 10 o Hans van Helden 7:24.59 +12.31 12 11 o Mike Woods 7:24.81 +12.53 13 9 o Michael Hadschieff 7:25.07 +12.79 14 8 o Robert Vunderink 7:25.19 +12.91 15 5 o Rolf Falk-Larssen 7:25.54 +13.26 16 8 i Claes Bengtsson 7:26.57 +14.29 17 6 i Frits Schalij 7:28.17 +15.89 18 5 i Jan Junell 7:29.98 +17.70 19 12 i Tibor Kopacz 7:32.69 +20.41 20 13 i Heinz Steinberger 7:32.72 +20.44 21 17 o Mark Mitchell 7:34.32 +22.04 22 11 i Maurizio Marchetto 7:36.87 +24.59 23 17 i Im Ri-Bin 7:37.49 +25.21 24 10 o Masahito Shinohara 7:37.94 +25.66 25 14 o Colin Coates 7:38.08 +25.80 26 15 i Toshiaki Imamura 7:38.16 +25.88 27 15 o Lee Yeong-Ha 7:39.17 +26.89 28 20 i Wolfgang Scharf 7:40.90 +28.62 29 9 i Andreas Lemcke 7:41.69 +29.41 30 14 i Na Yun-Su 7:42.45 +30.17 31 20 o Jean-Noël Fagot 7:44.60 +32.32 32 2 i Sergey Berezin +33.66 33 16 i Kim Hwang-Hyun 7:46.12 +33.84 34 16 o Zhao Shijian 7:46.68 +34.40 35 18 i Mark Huck 7:46.91 +34.63 36 6 o Benoît Lamarche 7:47.25 +34.97 37 19 o Hansjörg Baltes 7:50.33 +38.05 38 21 o Jean Pichette 7:50.39 +38.11 39 13 o Bae Ki-Tae 7:50.82 +38.54 40 18 o Li Wei 7:55.70 +43.42 41 19 i Bryan Carbis 8:01.44 +49.16 21 i Behudin Merdović –
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