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 1936 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics

At the 1936 Winter Olympics, four speed skating events were contested. The competitions were held on Tuesday, February 11, 1936, Wednesday, February 12, 1936, Thursday, February 13, 1936, and on Friday, February 14, 1936.-Medal summary:...

 programme. The competition was held on Wednesday, February 12, 1936.

Thirty-seven speed skaters from 16 nations competed.

Medalists

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1936 Winter Olympics.

World Record	8:17.2(*)	Ivar Ballangrud Ivar Ballangrud Ivar Ballangrud was a Norwegian speed skater, a four-time Olympic champion in Speed Skating. As the only triple gold medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Ballangrud was the most successful athlete there.-Biography:Ivar Ballangrud was one of the best speed skaters in the world for a period of 15...	Oslo 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... )	January 18, 1936
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.

Nine speed skaters bettered the twelve years old Olympic record. Ivar Ballangrud

Ivar Ballangrud

Ivar Ballangrud was a Norwegian speed skater, a four-time Olympic champion in Speed Skating. As the only triple gold medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Ballangrud was the most successful athlete there.-Biography:Ivar Ballangrud was one of the best speed skaters in the world for a period of 15...

set a new Olympic record with 8:19.6 seconds.

Results

Place	Athlete	Time
1		8:19.6
2		8:23.3
3		8:30.1
4		8:32.0
5		8:35.0
6		8:36.6
7		8:36.9
8		8:38.4
9		8:38.5
10		8:43.3
11		8:46.5
12		8:47.7
13		8:48.5
		8:48.5
15		8:49.1
16		8:51.5
17		8:53.2
18		8:53.4
19		8:53.9
20		8:54.7
21		8:55.9
22		9:00.4
		9:00.4
24		9:02.6
25		9:04.5
26		9:06.4
27		9:08.7
		9:08.7
29		9:11.9
30		9:15.0
31		9:20.1
32		9:25.8
33		9:48.9
34		10:03.0
35		10:52.6
–		DNF
		DNF