Speed skating at the 1996 Asian Winter Games – Men's 5000 metres
# Speed skating at the 1996 Asian Winter Games – Men's 5000 metres

The men's 5000 metres at the 1996 Asian Winter Games was held on 5 February 1996 in Harbin, China.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Games records were as follows.

| World Record | Johann Olav Koss (NOR) | 6:34.96 | Hamar, Norway | 13 February 1994 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Games Record | Kazuhiro Sato (JPN) | 7:16.98 | Sapporo, Japan | 10 March 1990 |

## Results

| Rank | Athlete | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Mitsuru Watanabe (JPN) | 7:03.99 | GR |
| | Daigo Miyaki (JPN) | 7:05.83 | |
| | Yevgeniy Sanarov (KAZ) | 7:06.21 | |
| 4 | Shigekazu Nemoto (JPN) | 7:08.72 | |
| 5 | Sergey Tsybenko (KAZ) | 7:10.48 | |
| 6 | Choi Jae-bong (KOR) | 7:14.41 | |
| 7 | Radik Bikchentayev (KAZ) | 7:14.84 | |
| 8 | Wan Chunbo (CHN) | 7:15.11 | |
| 9 | Nyamdondovyn Ganbold (MGL) | 7:29.61 | |
| 10 | Liu Yanfei (CHN) | 7:29.80 | |
| 11 | Feng Qingbo (CHN) | 7:31.29 | |
| 12 | Jeong Seong-hyeon (KOR) | 7:50.79 | |
