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

Women's 5000 metres at the XVII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Hamar Olympic Hall
Dates	February 25
Competitors	16 from 9 nations
Winning time	7:14.37
Medalists
Claudia Pechstein   Germany   Gunda Niemann-Kleemann   Germany   Hiromi Yamamoto   Japan

Speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10,000 m		men

The women's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics took place on 25 February, at the Hamar Olympic Hall.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2][3]

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

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

References

1. "Nagano 1994 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1994. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
2. "5000m Ladies World Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved October 30, 2016.
3. "5000m Ladies Olympic Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved October 30, 2016.

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