Speed Skating — 5,000 metres, Men

Times held 24
Total participants 546
Total countries 39

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1924 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 22 10
1928 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 33 14
1932 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 18 6
1936 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 37 16
1948 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 40 14
1952 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 35 13
1956 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 46 17
1960 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 37 15
1964 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 42 19
1968 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 38 17
1972 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 28 14
1976 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 31 17
1980 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 29 15
1984 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 42 20
1988 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 38 18
1992 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 36 20
1994 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 32 17
1998 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 32 19
2002 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 32 14
2006 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 28 15
2010 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 28 16
2014 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 26 14
2018 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 22 14
2022 5,000 metres, Men Olympic 20 12

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1924 Clas ThunbergFIN Julius SkutnabbFIN Roald LarsenNOR
1928 Ivar BallangrudNOR Julius SkutnabbFIN Bernt EvensenNOR
1932 Irving JaffeeUSA Eddie MurphyUSA Willy LoganCAN
1936 Ivar BallangrudNOR Birger WaseniusFIN Antero OjalaFIN
1948 Reidar LiaklevNOR Odd LundbergNOR Göthe HedlundSWE
1952 Hjalmar AndersenNOR Kees BroekmanNED Sverre HaugliNOR
1956 Boris ShilkovURS Sigvard EricssonSWE Oleg GoncharenkoURS
1960 Viktor KosichkinURS Knut JohannesenNOR Jan PesmanNED
1964 Knut JohannesenNOR Per Ivar MoeNOR Fred Anton MaierNOR
1968 Fred Anton MaierNOR Kees VerkerkNED Peter NottetNED
1972 Ard SchenkNED Roar GrønvoldNOR Sten StensenNOR
1976 Sten StensenNOR Piet KleineNED Hans van HeldenNED
1980 Eric HeidenUSA Kay Arne StenshjemmetNOR Tom Erik OxholmNOR
1984 Tomas GustafsonSWE Igor MalkovURS René SchöfischGDR
1988 Tomas GustafsonSWE Leo VisserNED Gerard KemkersNED
1992 Geir KarlstadNOR Falko ZandstraNED Leo VisserNED
1994 Johann Olav KossNOR Kjell StorelidNOR Rintje RitsmaNED
1998 Gianni RommeNED Rintje RitsmaNED Bart VeldkampBEL
2002 Jochem UytdehaageNED Derek ParraUSA Jens BodenGER
2006 Chad HedrickUSA Sven KramerNED Enrico FabrisITA
2010 Sven KramerNED Lee Seung-HunKOR Ivan SkobrevRUS
2014 Sven KramerNED Jan BlokhuijsenNED Jorrit BergsmaNED
2018 Sven KramerNED Ted-Jan BloemenCAN Sverre Lunde PedersenNOR
2022 Nils van der PoelSWE Patrick RoestNED Hallgeir EngebråtenNOR

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Norway NOR 9 6 8 23
Netherlands NED 6 9 7 22
United States USA 3 2 0 5
Sweden SWE 3 1 1 5
Soviet Union URS 2 1 1 4
Finland FIN 1 3 1 5
Canada CAN 0 1 1 2
Republic of Korea KOR 0 1 0 1
Belgium BEL 0 0 1 1
East Germany GDR 0 0 1 1
Germany GER 0 0 1 1
Italy ITA 0 0 1 1
Russian Federation RUS 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Sven Kramer NED 3 1 0 4
Ivar Ballangrud NOR 2 0 0 2
Tomas Gustafson SWE 2 0 0 2
Knut Johannesen NOR 1 1 0 2
Fred Anton Maier NOR 1 0 1 2
Sten Stensen NOR 1 0 1 2

Best performance by country

Olympic and Intercalated results only.
Country Games Athlete/Team Placement
Australia AUS 1976 Winter Olympics Colin Coates 10 See all
1988 Winter Olympics Danny Kah 10
Austria AUT 1936 Winter Olympics Max Stiepl 5 See all
1964 Winter Olympics Hermann Strutz 5
1988 Winter Olympics Michael Hadschieff 5
Belarus BLR 1994 Winter Olympics Vitali Novichenka 32 See all
1998 Winter Olympics Vitali Novichenka 32
Belgium BEL 1998 Winter Olympics Bart Veldkamp 3 Bronze See all
Canada CAN 2018 Winter Olympics Ted-Jan Bloemen 2 Silver See all
Czechoslovakia TCH 1956 Winter Olympics Vladimír Kolář 13 See all
Democratic People's Republic of Korea PRK 1984 Winter Olympics Im Ri-Bin 23 See all
Denmark DEN 1964 Winter Olympics Kurt Stille 12 See all
East Germany GDR 1984 Winter Olympics René Schöfisch 3 Bronze See all
Estonia EST 1928 Winter Olympics Aleksander Mitt 21 See all
Finland FIN 1924 Winter Olympics Clas Thunberg 1 Gold See all
France FRA 2010 Winter Olympics Alexis Contin 6 See all
Germany GER 2002 Winter Olympics Jens Boden 3 Bronze See all
Great Britain GBR 1948 Winter Olympics Johnny Cronshey 11 See all
1960 Winter Olympics Terry Monaghan 11
Hungary HUN 1948 Winter Olympics Kornél Pajor 10 See all
Italy ITA 2006 Winter Olympics Enrico Fabris 3 Bronze See all
Japan JPN 1994 Winter Olympics Toshihiko Itokawa 6 See all
Kazakhstan KAZ 2010 Winter Olympics Dmitry Babenko 15 See all
2014 Winter Olympics Dmitry Babenko 15
Latvia LAT 1924 Winter Olympics Alberts Rumba 11 See all
Lithuania LTU 1928 Winter Olympics Kęstutis Bulota 25 See all
Mongolia MGL 1972 Winter Olympics Luvsansharavyn Tsend 28 See all
Netherlands NED 1972 Winter Olympics Ard Schenk 1 Gold See all
1998 Winter Olympics Gianni Romme 1 Gold
2002 Winter Olympics Jochem Uytdehaage 1 Gold
2010 Winter Olympics Sven Kramer 1 Gold
2014 Winter Olympics Sven Kramer 1 Gold
2018 Winter Olympics Sven Kramer 1 Gold
New Zealand NZL 2018 Winter Olympics Peter Michael 4 See all
Norway NOR 1928 Winter Olympics Ivar Ballangrud 1 Gold See all
1936 Winter Olympics Ivar Ballangrud 1 Gold
1948 Winter Olympics Reidar Liaklev 1 Gold
1952 Winter Olympics Hjalmar Andersen 1 Gold
1964 Winter Olympics Knut Johannesen 1 Gold
1968 Winter Olympics Fred Anton Maier 1 Gold
1976 Winter Olympics Sten Stensen 1 Gold
1992 Winter Olympics Geir Karlstad 1 Gold
1994 Winter Olympics Johann Olav Koss 1 Gold
People's Republic of China CHN 1992 Winter Olympics Liu Yanfei 24 See all
Poland POL 1994 Winter Olympics Jaromir Radke 7 See all
Portugal POR 1998 Winter Olympics Fausto Marreiros 31 See all
ROC ROC 2022 Winter Olympics Sergey Trofimov 4 See all
Republic of Korea KOR 2010 Winter Olympics Lee Seung-Hun 2 Silver See all
Romania ROU 1984 Winter Olympics Tibor Kopacz 19 See all
Russian Federation RUS 2010 Winter Olympics Ivan Skobrev 3 Bronze See all
Soviet Union URS 1956 Winter Olympics Boris Shilkov 1 Gold See all
1960 Winter Olympics Viktor Kosichkin 1 Gold
Sweden SWE 1984 Winter Olympics Tomas Gustafson 1 Gold See all
1988 Winter Olympics Tomas Gustafson 1 Gold
2022 Winter Olympics Nils van der Poel 1 Gold
Switzerland SUI 1976 Winter Olympics Franz Krienbühl 17 See all
2018 Winter Olympics Livio Wenger 17
Ukraine UKR 1994 Winter Olympics Yuriy Shulha 21 See all
Unified Team EUN 1992 Winter Olympics Yevgeny Sanarov 8 See all
United States USA 1932 Winter Olympics Irving Jaffee 1 Gold See all
1980 Winter Olympics Eric Heiden 1 Gold
2006 Winter Olympics Chad Hedrick 1 Gold
West Germany FRG 1972 Winter Olympics Gerd Zimmermann 9 See all
Yugoslavia YUG 1992 Winter Olympics Bajro Čenanović 36 See all