Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres

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Men's 10,000 metres
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue Gangneung Oval
Date 15 February 2018
Competitors 12 from 8 nations
Winning time 12:39.77
Medalists
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1st Ted-Jan Bloemen  Canada
2nd Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands
3rd Nicola Tumolero  Italy
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Speed skating at the
2018 Winter Olympics
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Qualification
500 m men women
1000 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men women
10,000 m men
Mass start men women
Team pursuit men women

The men's 10,000 metres speed skating competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 15 February 2018 at Gangneung Oval in Gangneung, South Korea.[1][2][3]

Summary

The event was won by Ted-Jan Bloemen, the world record holder at this distance. Defending champion Jorrit Bergsma was second, and Nicola Tumolero won the bronze medal. During the competition, first Bergsma and then Bloemen set Olympic records.[4] This was the first skating event at the 2018 Olympics not won by a Dutch skater.[5] For Tumolero, this was his first Olympic medal; for Bloemen the gold followed his silver medal at the 5000 m distance a few days earlier.

In the victory ceremony, the medals were presented by Ivan Dibos, member of the International Olympic Committee, accompanied by Nick Thometz, ISU Speed Skating Technical Committee member.


Records

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

World record  Ted-Jan Bloemen (CAN) 12:36.30 Salt Lake City, United States 21 November 2015
Olympic record  Jorrit Bergsma (NED) 12:44.45 Sochi, Russia 18 February 2014
Track record  Sven Kramer (NED) 12:38.89 11 February 2017

The following record was set during this competition.[4]

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See also: World and Olympic records set at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Date Round Athlete Country Time Record
15 February Pair 5 Ted-Jan Bloemen  Canada 12:39.77 OR

OR = Olympic record

Results

The race was held at 20:00, local time (UTC+9).[4]

Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Time behind Notes
1st 5 O Ted-Jan Bloemen  Canada 12:39.77 — OR
2nd 4 I Jorrit Bergsma  Netherlands 12:41.98 +2.21
3rd 5 I Nicola Tumolero  Italy 12:54.32 +14.55
4 3 O Lee Seung-hoon  South Korea 12:55.54 +15.77
5 2 O Jordan Belchos  Canada 12:59.51 +19.74
6 6 O Sven Kramer  Netherlands 13:01.02 +21.25
7 6 I Patrick Beckert  Germany 13:01.94 +22.17
8 1 O Bart Swings  Belgium 13:03.53 +23.76
9 3 I Moritz Geisreiter  Germany 13:06.35 +26.58
10 1 I Ryousuke Tsuchiya  Japan 13:10.31 +30.54
11 2 I Håvard Bøkko  Norway 13:17.47 +37.70
12 4 O Davide Ghiotto  Italy 13:27.09 +47.32

References

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