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

The men's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics took place on 13 February, at the Hamar Olympic Hall. 32 competitors from 17 nations participated in the competition.

## Records

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

| World record | Johann Olav Koss (NOR) | 6:35.53 | Hamar, Norway | 4 December 1993 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Olympic record | Tomas Gustafson (SWE) | 6:44.63 | Calgary, Canada | 17 February 1988 |

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

| Date | Pair | Athlete | Country | Time | OR | WR |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 13 February | Pair 2 | Kjell Storelid | Norway | 6:42.68 | OR | |
| 13 February | Pair 4 | Johann Olav Koss | Norway | 6:34.96 | OR | WR |

## Results

| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Time behind | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 4 | o | Johann Olav Koss | Norway | 6:34.96 | – | (WR) |
| | 2 | i | Kjell Storelid | Norway | 6:42.68 | +7.72 | |
| | 6 | o | Rintje Ritsma | Netherlands | 6:43.94 | +8.98 | |
| 4 | 3 | o | Falko Zandstra | Netherlands | 6:44.58 | +9.62 | |
| 5 | 5 | o | Bart Veldkamp | Netherlands | 6:49.00 | +14.04 | |
| 6 | 6 | i | Toshihiko Itokawa | Japan | 6:49.36 | +14.40 | |
| 7 | 14 | o | Jaromir Radke | Poland | 6:50.40 | +15.44 | |
| 8 | 12 | o | Frank Dittrich | Germany | 6:52.27 | +17.31 | |
| 9 | 10 | i | Michael Hadschieff | Austria | 6:53.02 | +18.06 | |
| 10 | 12 | i | Christian Eminger | Austria | 6:53.18 | +18.22 | |
| 11 | 9 | o | Andrey Anufriyenko | Russia | 6:53.23 | +18.27 | |
| 12 | 1 | o | Jonas Schön | Sweden | 6:53.39 | +18.43 | |
| 13 | 9 | i | Kazuhiro Sato | Japan | 6:54.83 | +19.87 | |
| 14 | 11 | o | Per Bengtsson | Sweden | 6:57.37 | +22.41 | |
| 15 | 4 | i | Roberto Sighel | Italy | 6:57.70 | +22.74 | |
| 16 | 11 | o | Radik Bikchentayev | Kazakhstan | 6:58.17 | +23.21 | |
| 17 | 15 | i | Neal Marshall | Canada | 6:58.44 | +23.48 | |
| 18 | 13 | i | Paweł Zygmunt | Poland | 6:58.91 | +23.95 | |
| 19 | 5 | i | Yevgeny Sanarov | Kazakhstan | 6:59.02 | +24.06 | |
| 20 | 2 | o | Dezideriu Horvath | Romania | 6:59.04 | +24.08 | |
| 21 | 1 | i | Yuriy Shulha | Ukraine | 6:59.32 | +24.36 | |
| 22 | 10 | o | Mike Hall | Canada | 6:59.58 | +24.62 | |
| 23 | 16 | i | Alexander Baumgärtel | Germany | 6:59.64 | +24.68 | |
| 24 | 8 | i | Toru Aoyanagi | Japan | 6:59.88 | +24.92 | |
| 25 | 7 | i | Danny Kah | Australia | 7:00.02 | +25.06 | |
| 26 | 3 | i | Atle Vårvik | Norway | 7:00.83 | +25.87 | |
| 27 | 14 | i | Vadim Sayutin | Kazakhstan | 7:01.93 | +26.97 | |
| 28 | 7 | o | Martin Feigenwinter | Switzerland | 7:02.12 | +27.16 | |
| 29 | 15 | i | Thomas Kumm | Germany | 7:02.18 | +27.22 | |
| 30 | 8 | o | Brian Wanek | United States | 7:05.95 | +30.99 | |
| 31 | 16 | i | Oleg Pavlov | Russia | 7:07.09 | +32.13 | |
| 32 | 13 | o | Vitaly Novichenko | Belarus | 7:17.55 | +42.59 | |
