Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 10000 metres
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The Men's 10000 m 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...

 competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics
2002 Winter Olympics
The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event that was celebrated in February 2002 in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Approximately 2,400 athletes from 77 nations participated in 78 events in fifteen disciplines, held throughout...

 was held in Salt Lake City, Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah
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, United States
United States
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Two-time gold medal winner Gianni Romme
Gianni Romme
Gianni Petrus Cornelis Romme is a Dutch marathon and a former long track speed skater. He is also a coach since the 2006-07 speed skating season....

 won a silver in the 10000, while Jochem Uytdehaage
Jochem Uytdehaage
Jochem Simon Uytdehaage is a former Dutch long track speed skater and two-time Olympic champion. He retired in 2007 at the age of 30, following two consecutive seasons of poor results.-Biography:...

 wins with a world record time, becoming the first man to break the 13-minute barrier.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
Date Round Athlete Country Time OR WR
22 February Pair 2 Gianni Romme
Gianni Romme
Gianni Petrus Cornelis Romme is a Dutch marathon and a former long track speed skater. He is also a coach since the 2006-07 speed skating season....

 
13:10.03 OR
22 February Pair 4 Jochem Uytdehaage
Jochem Uytdehaage
Jochem Simon Uytdehaage is a former Dutch long track speed skater and two-time Olympic champion. He retired in 2007 at the age of 30, following two consecutive seasons of poor results.-Biography:...

 
12:58.92 OR WR

Results

Rank Pair Name Country Time Time Behind Notes
4 Jochem Uytdehaage
Jochem Uytdehaage
Jochem Simon Uytdehaage is a former Dutch long track speed skater and two-time Olympic champion. He retired in 2007 at the age of 30, following two consecutive seasons of poor results.-Biography:...

 
12:58.92 -
2 Gianni Romme
Gianni Romme
Gianni Petrus Cornelis Romme is a Dutch marathon and a former long track speed skater. He is also a coach since the 2006-07 speed skating season....

 
13:10.03 +11.11
8 Lasse Sætre
Lasse Sætre
Lasse Sætre is a former speed skater from Norway, who for several years was among the world's best long distance skaters. Sætre who grew up in Nord-Odal competed in the 1998, 2002 and 2006 Olympics, and won a 10,000-m bronze in the 2002 Winter Olympics. He won another 10,000-m bronze in the 2003...

 
13:16.92 +18.00
4 5 Keiji Shirahata  13:20.40 +21.48
5 7 Jens Boden
Jens Boden
Jens Boden is a German speed skater, who won the bronze medal in the 5000 metres at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City.-External links:*...

 
13:23.43 +24.51
6 1 Dmitry Shepel  13:23.83 +24.91
7 1 Roberto Sighel
Roberto Sighel
Roberto Sighel is a former Italian speedskater, with particularly strong achievements in the allround samalogue competitions.His skating career was unusually long, competing at top international level from 1988 to 2002...

 
13:26.19 +27.27
8 7 Kjell Storelid
Kjell Storelid
Kjell Storelid is a former speed skater from Norway. Storelid's best achievement on the ice was two silver medals on 5,000 m and 10,000 m at the Winter Olympics 1994 in Lillehammer - behind Johann Olav Koss. In the two next Olympic games Storelid came 5th and 8th on 10,000 m...

 
13:27.24 +28.32
9 3 Bart Veldkamp
Bart Veldkamp
Bart Veldkamp is a retired speed skater, who represented both the Netherlands and Belgium in international competitions, including the Winter Olympics.-Short biography:...

 
13:27.48 +28.56
10 8 Frank Dittrich  13:28.73 +29.81
11 6 Toshihiko Itokawa  13:31.96 +33.04
12 3 Jason Hedstrand  13:32.99 +34.07
13 4 Derek Parra
Derek Parra
Derek Parra is a Mexican-American speed skater from San Bernardino, California, who graduated from Eisenhower High School in 1988. Parra won two medals at the 2002 Winter Olympics, held in Salt Lake City, Utah....

 
13:33.44 +34.52
14 5 Pawel Zygmunt  13:35.50 +36.58
15 6 Bob de Jong
Bob de Jong
Bob Johannes Carolus de Jong is a Dutch speed skater who specializes in long distances: five and ten kilometers.-Speed skating career:...

 
13:48.93 +50.01
16 2 Dustin Molicki 13:54.49 +55.57
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