The men's 10,000 metres in speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics took place on 7 February, at the Makomanai Open Stadium.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new World and Olympic records was set during the competition.
Date Pair Athlete Country Time OR WR 7 February Pair 2 Sten Stensen 15:07.08 OR 7 February Pair 8 Kees Verkerk 15:04.70 OR 7 February Pair 12 Ard Schenk 15:01.35 OR
Results
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Ard Schenk 15:01.35 Kees Verkerk 15:04.70 Sten Stensen 15:07.08 4 Jan Bols 15:17.99 5 Valery Lavrushkin 15:20.08 6 Göran Claeson 15:30.19 7 Kimmo Koskinen 15:38.87 8 Gerd Zimmermann 15:43.92 9 Dan Carroll 15:44.41 10 Kiyomi Ito 15:48.17 11 Per Willy Guttormsen 15:48.71 12 Osamu Naito 15:52.93 13 Dag Fornæss 15:53.33 14 Kevin Sirois 15:58.61 15 Örjan Sandler 16:04.90 16 Bruno Toniolli 16:14.52 17 Giancarlo Gloder 16:21.42 18 Colin Coates 16:29.94 19 Jouko Salakka 16:35.64 20 David Hampton 16:39.01 21 Clark King 16:39.82 22 Richard Tourne 16:48.70 23 John Blewitt 16:51.50 24 Luvsansharavyn Tsend 17:15.34
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