Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres
# Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

The men's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics took place on 8 February, at the M-Wave arena.

## Records

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

| World record | Gianni Romme (NED) | 6:30.63 | Heerenveen, Netherlands | 7 December 1997 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Olympic record | Johann Olav Koss (NOR) | 6:34.96 | Hamar, Norway | 13 February 1994 |

The following new world and olympic records was set during this competition.

| Date | Pair | Athlete | Country | Time | OR | WR |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 8 February | Pair 12 | Bart Veldkamp | Belgium | 6:28.31 | OR | WR |
| 8 February | Pair 13 | Rintje Ritsma | Netherlands | 6:28.24 | OR | WR |
| 8 February | Pair 16 | Gianni Romme | Netherlands | 6:22.20 | OR | WR |

## Results

| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Time behind | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 16 | i | Gianni Romme | Netherlands | 6:22.20 | - | (WR) |
| | 13 | o | Rintje Ritsma | Netherlands | 6:28.24 | +6.04 | |
| | 12 | i | Bart Veldkamp | Belgium | 6:28.31 | +6.11 | |
| 4 | 15 | o | Bob de Jong | Netherlands | 6:31.37 | +9.17 | |
| 5 | 15 | i | Frank Dittrich | Germany | 6:32.17 | +9.97 | |
| 6 | 14 | o | René Taubenrauch | Germany | 6:35.21 | +13.01 | |
| 7 | 13 | i | Keiji Shirahata | Japan | 6:36.71 | +14.51 | |
| 8 | 16 | o | Kjell Storelid | Norway | 6:37.12 | +14.92 | |
| 9 | 11 | o | Roberto Sighel | Italy | 6:38.33 | +16.13 | |
| 10 | 5 | o | Marnix ten Kortenaar | Austria | 6:38.35 | +16.15 | |
| 11 | 10 | o | Lasse Sætre | Norway | 6:38.95 | +16.75 | |
| 12 | 14 | i | Remi Hereide | Norway | 6:39.35 | +17.15 | |
| 13 | 12 | o | Alexander Baumgärtel | Germany | 6:39.44 | +17.24 | |
| 14 | 9 | i | K. C. Boutiette | United States | 6:39.67 | +17.47 | |
| 15 | 3 | i | Vadim Sayutin | Russia | 6:39.92 | +17.72 | |
| 16 | 10 | o | Dave Tamburrino | United States | 6:41.19 | +18.99 | |
| 17 | 1 | i | Takahiro Nozaki | Japan | 6:42.30 | +20.10 | |
| 18 | 7 | o | Paweł Zygmunt | Poland | 6:45.59 | +23.39 | |
| 19 | 1 | i | Cédric Kuentz | France | 6:45.90 | +23.70 | |
| 20 | 11 | i | Andrey Krivosheyev | Russia | 6:46.57 | +24.37 | |
| 21 | 7 | i | Martin Feigenwinter | Switzerland | 6:47.08 | +24.88 | |
| 22 | 9 | i | Yury Kokhanets | Russia | 6:47.21 | +25.01 | |
| 23 | 6 | o | Steven Elm | Canada | 6:48.67 | +26.47 | |
| 24 | 5 | i | Mark Knoll | Canada | 6:50.55 | +28.35 | |
| 25 | 6 | i | Hiroyuki Noake | Japan | 6:51.35 | +29.15 | |
| 26 | 3 | o | Sergey Kaznacheyev | Kazakhstan | 6:51.50 | +29.30 | |
| 27 | 2 | i | Radik Bikchentayev | Kazakhstan | 6:52.65 | +30.45 | |
| 28 | 4 | o | Serhiy Priz | Ukraine | 6:54.27 | +32.07 | |
| 29 | 8 | o | Choi Jae-bong | South Korea | 6:54.62 | +32.42 | |
| 30 | 8 | i | Dezideriu Horvath | Romania | 6:57.08 | +34.88 | |
| 31 | 2 | o | Fausto Marreiros | Portugal | 7:01.87 | +39.67 | |
| 32 | 4 | i | Vitaly Novichenko | Belarus | 7:19.76 | +57.56 | |
