The 5000 metres speed skating

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

event was part of the speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics

At the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix, five speed skating events were contested, all for men. The competitions were held on Saturday, January 26, 1924 and on Sunday, January 27, 1924....

 programme. The competition was held on Saturday, January 26, 1924.

Twenty-two speed skaters from ten nations competed.

Medalists

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1924 Winter Olympics.

World Record	8:26.5(*)	Harald Strøm Harald Strøm Harald Strøm was a Norwegian speed skater, world champion, European champion and world record holder on 5000 metres...	Kristiania Oslo Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...  (NOR Norway Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million... )	February 18, 1922
Olympic Record		-

(*) The record was set on naturally frozen ice.

Results

Place	Athlete	Time
1		8:39.0
2		8:48.4
3		8:50.2
4		8:51.0
5		8:54.6
6		8:55.0
7		8:59.0
8		9:05.6
9		9:08.6
10		9:12.8
11		9:14.4
12		9:14.6
13		9:27.0
14		9:35.0
15		9:48.8
16		10:05.6
17		10:13.8
18		10:15.2
19		10:39.8
20		11:01.0
21		11:30.4
–		DNF