Speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's 5000 metres

The women's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics took place on 25 February, at the Hamar Olympic Hall.[1][2]

Women's 5000 metres
at the XVII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
VenueHamar Olympic Hall
DatesFebruary 25
Competitors16 from 9 nations
Winning time7:14.37
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s)Claudia Pechstein
 Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s)Gunda Niemann-Kleemann
 Germany
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)Hiromi Yamamoto
 Japan
← 1992
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Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:[3][4]

World record  Gunda Niemann-Kleemann (GER)7:13.29 Hamar, Norway6 December 1993
Olympic record  Yvonne van Gennip (NED)7:14.13 Calgary, Canada28 February 1988

Results

[1]

RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeBehind
4IClaudia Pechstein  Germany7:14.37-
6OGunda Niemann-Kleemann  Germany7:14.88+0.51
5OHiromi Yamamoto  Japan7:19.68+5.31
42IElena Belci  Italy7:20.33+5.96
56ISvetlana Bazhanova  Russia7:22.68+8.31
68ILyudmila Prokasheva  Kazakhstan7:28.58+14.21
77OCarla Zijlstra  Netherlands7:29.42+15.05
87ISeiko Hashimoto  Japan7:29.79+15.42
91OMiki Ogasawara  Japan7:30.47+16.10
101IAnnamarie Thomas  Netherlands7:32.39+18.02
112OTonny de Jong  Netherlands7:36.07+21.70
128OEmese Hunyady  Austria7:38.62+24.25
133ITatyana Trapeznikova  Russia7:40.55+26.18
145ICerasela Hordobețiu  Romania7:41.65+27.28
153OEmese Dörfler-Antal  Austria7:46.78+32.41
164OIngrid Liepa  Canada7:49.39+35.02

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