Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres (original) (raw)
Speed skating at the Olympics
| Men's 10,000 metresat the XI Olympic Winter Games | |
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 Pictogram for speed skating |
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| Venue | Makomanai Open Stadium |
| Dates | 7 February |
| Competitors | 24 from 14 nations |
| Winning time | 15:01.35 OR |
| Medalists | |
 Ard Schenk Netherlands Kees Verkerk Netherlands Sten Stensen Norway |
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| Speed skating at the1972 Winter Olympics | ||
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| 500 m | men | women |
| 1000 m | women | |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 3000 m | women | |
| 5000 m | men | |
| 10,000 m | men | |
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The men's 10,000 metres in speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics took place on 7 February, at the Makomanai Open Stadium.[1][2]
Records
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Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:[3][4]
| World record |  Ard Schenk (NED) |
14:55.9 | Inzell, West Germany | 14 March 1971 |
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| Olympic record |  Johnny Höglin (SWE) |
15:23.6 | Grenoble, France | 17 February 1968 |
The following new World and Olympic records was set during the competition.
| Date | Pair | Athlete | Country | Time | OR | WR |
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| 7 February | Pair 2 | Sten Stensen | Norway |
15:07.08 | OR | |
| 7 February | Pair 8 | Kees Verkerk | Netherlands |
15:04.70 | OR | |
| 7 February | Pair 12 | Ard Schenk | Netherlands |
15:01.35 | OR |
Results
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| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
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Ard Schenk | Netherlands |
15:01.35 | OR |
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Kees Verkerk | Netherlands |
15:04.70 | |
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Sten Stensen | Norway |
15:07.08 | |
| 4 | Jan Bols | Netherlands |
15:17.99 | |
| 5 | Valery Lavrushkin |  Soviet Union |
15:20.08 | |
| 6 | Göran Claeson | Sweden |
15:30.19 | |
| 7 | Kimmo Koskinen |  Finland |
15:38.87 | |
| 8 | Gerd Zimmermann |  West Germany |
15:43.92 | |
| 9 | Dan Carroll |  United States |
15:44.41 | |
| 10 | Kiyomi Ito |  Japan |
15:48.17 | |
| 11 | Per Willy Guttormsen | Norway |
15:48.71 | |
| 12 | Osamu Naito | Japan |
15:52.93 | |
| 13 | Dag Fornæss | Norway |
15:53.33 | |
| 14 | Kevin Sirois |  Canada |
15:58.61 | |
| 15 | Örjan Sandler | Sweden |
16:04.90 | |
| 16 | Bruno Toniolli |  Italy |
16:14.52 | |
| 17 | Giancarlo Gloder | Italy |
16:21.42 | |
| 18 | Colin Coates |  Australia |
16:29.94 | |
| 19 | Jouko Salakka | Finland |
16:35.64 | |
| 20 | David Hampton |  Great Britain |
16:39.01 | |
| 21 | Clark King | United States |
16:39.82 | |
| 22 | Richard Tourne |  France |
16:48.70 | |
| 23 | John Blewitt | Great Britain |
16:51.50 | |
| 24 | Luvsansharavyn Tsend |  Mongolia |
17:15.34 |
References
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- ^ a b "The XI Olympic Winter Games Sapporo 1972" (PDF). Organizing Committee for the XIth Olympic Winter Games. LA84 Foundation. 1972. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ^ "Speed Skating at the 1972 Sapporo Winter Games: Men's 10,000 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
- ^ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ^ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - Olympic Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
| vteOlympic champions in men's 10 000 m speed skating |
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1924: Julius Skutnabb (FIN) 1928: Event abandoned 1932:  Irving Jaffee (USA) 1936: Ivar Ballangrud (NOR) 1948: Åke Seyffarth (SWE) 1952: Hjalmar Andersen (NOR) 1956: Sigvard Ericsson (SWE) 1960: Knut Johannesen (NOR) 1964: Jonny Nilsson (SWE) 1968: Johnny Höglin (SWE) 1972: Ard Schenk (NED) 1976: Piet Kleine (NED) 1980: Eric Heiden (USA) 1984: Igor Malkov (URS) 1988: Tomas Gustafson (SWE) 1992: Bart Veldkamp (NED) 1994: Johann Olav Koss (NOR) 1998: Gianni Romme (NED) 2002: Jochem Uytdehaage (NED) 2006: Bob de Jong (NED) 2010:  Lee Seung-hoon (KOR) 2014: Jorrit Bergsma (NED) 2018: Ted-Jan Bloemen (CAN) 2022: Nils van der Poel (SWE) |