Olympic Winter Games 2002 / Speed ​​Skating - 5000 m (women)

sport	Speed ​​skating
discipline	5000 m
gender	Women
Attendees	16 athletes from 7 countries
Competition location	Utah Olympic Oval
Competition phase	February 23, 2002
Winning time	6: 49.91 min
Medalists  Claudia Pechstein ( GER )  Gretha Smit ( NED )  Clara Hughes ( CAN )
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Speed ​​skating competitions at the 2002 Winter Olympics
500 m	Women	Men
1000 m	Women	Men
1500 m	Women	Men
3000 m	Women
5000 m	Women	Men
10,000 m		Men

The 5,000m in women's speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held on February 23, 2002 in the Utah Olympic Oval .

The Olympic champion was Claudia Pechstein from Germany for the third time in a row , who set a new world record in her run. Silver won Gretha Smit from the Netherlands and bronze went to Clara Hughes from Canada .

Records

Existing records

World record	Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann ( Germany )	6: 52.44 min	Salt Lake City	March 10, 2001
Olympic record	Claudia Pechstein ( Germany )	6: 59.61 min	Nagano	February 20, 2002

New records

World records	Claudia Pechstein ( Germany )	6: 46.91 min	February 23, 2002
	Gretha Smit ( Netherlands )	6: 49.22 min	February 23, 2002

Results

rank	Pair	Athlete	nation	Time (min)	Deficit (s)	annotation
1	7th	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	6: 46.91		WR
2	1	Gretha Smit	Netherlands	6: 49.22	+2.31
3	6th	Clara Hughes	Canada	6: 53.53	+6.62
4th	5	Cindy classes	Canada	6: 55.89	+8.98
5	2	Varvara Barysheva	Russia	6: 56.97	+10.06
6th	8th	Anni Friesinger	Germany	6: 58.39	+11.48
7th	8th	Tonny de Jong	Netherlands	7: 01.17	+14.26
8th	7th	Maki Tabata	Japan	7: 06.32	+19.41
9	3	Catherine Raney	United States	7: 06.89	+19.98
10	3	Kristina Groves	Canada	7: 07.16	+20.25
11	5	Valentina Jakschina	Russia	7: 08.42	+21.51
12	6th	Daniela Anschütz	Germany	7: 10.17	+23.26
13	4th	Marja Vis	Netherlands	7: 19.08	+32.17
14th	2	Annie Driscoll	United States	7: 35.23	+48.32
15th	1	Lyudmila Prokaschowa	Kazakhstan	DNF
16	4th	Nami Nemoto	Japan	DNF

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