Speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's 5000 metres
# Speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Women's 5000 metres

The women's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics took place on 25 February, at the Hamar Olympic Hall.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

| World record | Gunda Niemann-Kleemann (GER) | 7:13.29 | Hamar, Norway | 6 December 1993 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Olympic record | Yvonne van Gennip (NED) | 7:14.13 | Calgary, Canada | 28 February 1988 |

## Results

| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Behind |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 4 | I | Claudia Pechstein | Germany | 7:14.37 | - |
| | 6 | O | Gunda Niemann-Kleemann | Germany | 7:14.88 | +0.51 |
| | 5 | O | Hiromi Yamamoto | Japan | 7:19.68 | +5.31 |
| 4 | 2 | I | Elena Belci | Italy | 7:20.33 | +5.96 |
| 5 | 6 | I | Svetlana Bazhanova | Russia | 7:22.68 | +8.31 |
| 6 | 8 | I | Lyudmila Prokasheva | Kazakhstan | 7:28.58 | +14.21 |
| 7 | 7 | O | Carla Zijlstra | Netherlands | 7:29.42 | +15.05 |
| 8 | 7 | I | Seiko Hashimoto | Japan | 7:29.79 | +15.42 |
| 9 | 1 | O | Miki Ogasawara | Japan | 7:30.47 | +16.10 |
| 10 | 1 | I | Annamarie Thomas | Netherlands | 7:32.39 | +18.02 |
| 11 | 2 | O | Tonny de Jong | Netherlands | 7:36.07 | +21.70 |
| 12 | 8 | O | Emese Hunyady | Austria | 7:38.62 | +24.25 |
| 13 | 3 | I | Tatyana Trapeznikova | Russia | 7:40.55 | +26.18 |
| 14 | 5 | I | Cerasela Hordobețiu | Romania | 7:41.65 | +27.28 |
| 15 | 3 | O | Emese Dörfler-Antal | Austria | 7:46.78 | +32.41 |
| 16 | 4 | O | Ingrid Liepa | Canada | 7:49.39 | +35.02 |
