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 1928 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics

At the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, four speed skating events were scheduled, all for men, but medals were only awarded for three events, because the 10.000 m event was not completed. The Allround event, which was only organized in 1924, was removed from the program...

 programme. The competition was held on Monday, February 13, 1928.

Thirty-three speed skaters from 14 nations competed.

Medalists

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1928 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	8:39.0	Clas Thunberg Clas Thunberg Arnold Clas Robert Thunberg was a Finnish speed skater who won five Olympic gold medals – three at the inaugural Winter Olympics held in Chamonix in 1924 and two at the 1928 Winter Olympics held in St. Moritz...	Chamonix Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics...  (FRA France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... )	January 26, 1924

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

Results

Place	Athlete	Time
1		8:50.5
2		8:59.1
3		9:01.1
4		9:01.3
5		9:01.5
6		9:06.3
7		9:07.3
8		9:08.9
9		9:09.7
10		9:09.9
11		9:10.0
12		9:11.8
13		9:14.0
14		9:19.5
15		9:19.7
16		9:26.7
17		9:29.2
18		9:33.3
19		9:34.2
20		9:34.4
21		9:35.2
22		9:38.9
23		9:45.0
24		9:46.2
25		9:49.8
26		9:53.5
27		9:57.8
28		9:58.5
29		10:10.3
30		10:18.8
31		10:40.0
32		10:55.6
–		DNF