Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres

Men's 5000 metres speed skating
at the I Olympic Winter Games
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Pictogram for speed skating
VenueStade Olympique de Chamonix
Date26 January 1924
Competitors22 from 10 nations
Winning time8:39.0 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Clas Thunberg  Finland
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Julius Skutnabb  Finland
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Roald Larsen  Norway
Speed skating at the
1924 Winter Olympics
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1500 mmen
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The 5000 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Saturday, January 26, 1924. Thirty-one speed skaters from thirteen nations were due to compete, but nine athletes withdrew, so in the end twenty-two speed skaters from ten nations competed.[1] The Canadian athlete Charles Gorman abandoned the race after the first round.[2]

Medalists
Gold Silver Bronze
Clas Thunberg
 Finland		 Julius Skutnabb
 Finland		 Roald Larsen
 Norway

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1924 Winter Olympics.

World record Harald Strøm (NOR)8:26.5 Kristiania, Norway17 February 1922[3][lower-alpha 1]
Olympic recordN/AN/A N/AN/AN/A

The following records were set during this competition.

DateRoundAthleteCountryTimeRecord
26 January 1924Pair 3 Léonhard Quaglia  France9:08.6OR, NR
26 January 1924Pair 6 Fridtjof Paulsen  Norway8:59.0OR
26 January 1924Pair 8 Harald Strøm  Norway8:54.6OR
26 January 1924Pair 14 Julius Skutnabb  Finland8:48.4OR
26 January 1924Pair 15 Clas Thunberg  Finland8:39.0OR

Results

The event was held Saturday afternoon.[2]

RankPairNameCountryTimeTime behindNotes
1st place, gold medalist(s)15 Clas Thunberg  Finland8:39.0—OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s)14 Julius Skutnabb  Finland8:48.0+9.0OR
3rd place, bronze medalist(s)19 Roald Larsen  Norway8:50.2+11.2[lower-alpha 2]
420 Sigurd Moen  Norway8:51.0+12.0[lower-alpha 3]
58 Harald Strøm  Norway8:54.6+15.6OR
614 Valentine Bialas  United States8:55.0+16.0
76 Fridtjof Paulsen  Norway8:59.0+20.0OR
89 Richard Donovan  United States9:05.6+26.6
93 Léonhard Quaglia  France9:08.6+29.6OR, NR
1012 Asser Wallenius  Finland9:12.8+33.8
1115 Alberts Rumba  Latvia9:14.4+35.4
1220 Eric Blomgren  Sweden9:14.6+35.6[lower-alpha 4]
138 Charles Jewtraw  United States9:27.0+48.0
1418 Bill Steinmetz  United States9:35.0+56.0[lower-alpha 5]
156 Axel Blomqvist  Sweden9:48.8+69.8
1619 Leon Jucewicz  Poland10:05.6+86.6[lower-alpha 6]
179 Gaston Van Hazebroeck  Belgium10:13.8+94.8
1818 André Gegout  France10:15.2+96.2[lower-alpha 7]
1917 George de Wilde  France10:39.8+120.8[lower-alpha 8]
2017 Albert Tebbit  Great Britain11:01.0+142.0[lower-alpha 9]
2112 Marcel Moens  Belgium11:30.4+171.4
3 Charles Gorman  CanadaDNF
1 Louis De Ridder  BelgiumDNS
2 Christfried Burmeister  EstoniaDNS
4 Bernard Sutton  Great BritainDNS
5 Frederick Dix  Great BritainDNS
7 Cyril Horn  Great BritainDNS
10 Alexander Spengler  SwitzerlandDNS
11 Philippe Van Volckxsom  BelgiumDNS
13 Cesare Locatelli  ItalyDNS
16 Albert Hassler  FranceDNS

Notes
  1. The record was set on naturally frozen ice.
  2. Originally in pair 11 with Van Volckxsom[2]
  3. Originally in pair 5 with Dix[2]
  4. Originally in pair 4 with Sutton[2]
  5. Originally in pair 2 with Burmeister[2]
  6. Originally in pair 7 with Horn[2]
  7. Originally in pair 10 with Spengler[2]
  8. Originally in pair 1 with De Ridder[2]
  9. Originally in pair 13 with Locatelli[2]

References
  1. "Speed Skating at the 1924 Chamonix Winter Games: Men's 5,000 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 22 October 2019.
  2. M. A. Avé, ed. (1924). Les Jeux de la VIIIe Olympiade Paris 1924 – Rapport Officiel [The Games of the VIII Olympiad Paris 1924 – Official Report] (pdf) (Report) (in French). Paris: French Olympic Committee. pp. 669–70.
  3. "Speed Skating. Complete history list of World Records" (PDF). International Skating Union. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 18 February 2009.
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