Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metres
| 5000 metres at the I Olympic Winter Games
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Pictogram for Speed skating
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| Venue | Stade Olympique de Chamonix | ||||||||||||
| Dates | January 26 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 22 from 10 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 8:39.0 | ||||||||||||
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Clas Thunberg |
 Finland
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Julius Skutnabb |
Finland
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Roald Larsen |
 Norway
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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.
Twenty-two speed skaters from ten nations competed.
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1924 Winter Olympics.
(*) The record was set on naturally frozen ice.
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