Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Women's 5000 metres

Women's 5000 metres; at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	L'anneau de vitesse
Dates	February 17
Competitors	24 from 11 nations
Winning time	7:31.57
Medalists
	← 1988 1994 →

Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10000 m	men

The women's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics took place on 17 February, at the L'anneau de vitesse.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Yvonne van Gennip (NED)	7:14.13	Calgary, Canada	28 February 1988
Olympic record	Yvonne van Gennip (NED)	7:14.13	Calgary, Canada	28 February 1988

Rank	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	Behind
	4	Gunda Niemann-Kleemann	Germany	7:31.57	-
	3	Heike Warnicke	Germany	7:37.59	+6.02
	5	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	7:39.80	+8.23
4	3	Carla Zijlstra	Netherlands	7:41.10	+9.53
5	6	Lyudmila Prokasheva	Unified Team	7:41.65	+10.08
6	2	Svetlana Boyko	Unified Team	7:44.19	+12.62
7	7	Svetlana Bazhanova	Unified Team	7:45.55	+13.98
8	5	Lia van Schie	Netherlands	7:46.94	+15.37
9	9	Seiko Hashimoto	Japan	7:47.65	+16.08
10	6	Elena Belci-Dal Farra	Italy	7:50.42	+18.85
11	11	Jasmin Krohn	Sweden	7:50.64	+19.07
12	8	Yumi Kaeriyama	Japan	7:50.77	+19.20
13	4	Mihaela Dascălu	Romania	7:54.03	+22.46
14	10	Mie Uehara	Japan	7:54.15	+22.57
15	1	Emese Hunyady	Austria	7:56.48	+24.91
16	12	Liu Junhong	China	8:04.31	+32.74
17	8	Mary Docter	United States	8:04.42	+32.85
18	10	Zhang Qing	China	8:04.71	+33.14
19	13	Cerasela Hordobeţiu	Romania	8:07.16	+35.59
20	7	Elke Felicetti	Italy	8:08.44	+36.87
21	2	Anette Tønsberg	Norway	8:09.68	+38.11
22	12	Else Ragni Yttredal	Norway	8:09.69	+38.12
23	13	Tara Laszlo	United States	8:15.00	+43.43
24	9	Michelle Kline	United States	8:20.88	+49.31