Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 5000 metres
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The women's 5000 metres speed skating competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at Gangneung Oval in Gangneung on 16 February 2018.[1][2][3] The event was won by Esmee Visser, skating her first Olympic race. The defending champion Martina Sáblíková finished second. Natalya Voronina was third, also earning her first Olympic medal.
| Women's 5000 metres at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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| Venue | Gangneung Oval | ||||||||||||
| Date | 16 February 2018 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 12 from 9 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 6:50.23 | ||||||||||||
| Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Summary
Skating in the first pair, Annouk van der Weijden raced to a time of 6:54.17, shaving two seconds off her personal best and taking the lead. She retained it until the fourth pair, where Esmee Visser, in a consistent race lapping in the low 32 seconds, posted a time of 6:50.23. This, too, was a personal best - over 6 seconds faster than her second-place time at the 2018 Dutch Olympic qualifying tournament,[4] and a marked improvement over her season-start PB of 7:14.xx. In the last pair, Martina Sáblíková, recently recovered from a protracted back injury that hamstrung her preparations for the Olympics, skated to a silver medal time of 6:51.85; direct competitor Natalya Voronina took the bronze medal position, surpassing van der Weijden's time by 0.19s and nudging her off the podium into fourth place. Five-time Olympic gold medalist and the Olympic record holder at this distance Claudia Pechstein — now 45 years of age — came home in eighth place.
In the victory ceremony, the medals were presented by Sam Ramsamy, member of the International Olympic Committee, accompanied by Choi Jae-seok, ISU Speed Skating Technical Committee member.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic and track records were as follows.
| World record |  Martina Sáblíková (CZE) | 6:42.66 | Salt Lake City, United States | 18 February 2011 |
| Olympic record |  Claudia Pechstein (GER) | 6:46.91 | Salt Lake City, United States | 23 February 2002 |
| Track record | Martina Sáblíková (CZE) | 6:52.38 | 11 February 2017 |
The following record was set during this competition.
| Date | Round | Athlete | Country | Time | Record |
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| 16 February | Pair 4 | Esmee Visser |  Netherlands | 6:50.23 | TR |
TR = track record
Results
The races were started at 20:00.[5]
| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Time behind | Notes |
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 | 4 | O | Esmee Visser | Netherlands | 6:50.23 | – | TR |
 | 6 | O | Martina Sáblíková | Czech Republic | 6:51.85 | +1.62 | |
 | 6 | I | Natalya Voronina |  Olympic Athletes from Russia | 6:53.98 | +3.75 | |
| 4 | 1 | I | Annouk van der Weijden | Netherlands | 6:54.17 | +3.94 | |
| 5 | 5 | I | Ivanie Blondin |  Canada | 6:59.38 | +9.15 | |
| 6 | 3 | O | Isabelle Weidemann | Canada | 6:59.88 | +9.65 | |
| 7 | 1 | O | Maryna Zuyeva |  Belarus | 7:04.41 | +14.18 | |
| 8 | 5 | O | Claudia Pechstein | Germany | 7:05.43 | +15.20 | |
| 9 | 4 | I | Misaki Oshigiri |  Japan | 7:07.71 | +17.48 | |
| 10 | 2 | I | Jelena Peeters |  Belgium | 7:10.26 | +20.03 | |
| 11 | 2 | O | Carlijn Schoutens |  United States | 7:13.28 | +23.05 | |
| 12 | 3 | I | Nana Takagi | Japan | 7:17.45 | +27.22 |