Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 10000 metres
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The Men's 10000 m speed skating
competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics
was held in Salt Lake City, Utah
, United States
.
Two-time gold medal winner Gianni Romme
won a silver in the 10000, while Jochem Uytdehaage
wins with a world record time, becoming the first man to break the 13-minute barrier.
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
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
Salt Lake City is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Utah. The name of the city is often shortened to Salt Lake or SLC. With a population of 186,440 as of the 2010 Census, the city lies in the Salt Lake City metropolitan area, which has a total population of 1,124,197...
, 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 |
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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 |
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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 |