Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres

The men's 10,000 metres in speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics took place on 23 February, at the James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink.^[1][2]

Men's 10,000 metres at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink
Dates	February 23, 1980
Competitors	24 from 13 nations
Winning time	14:28.13 WR
Medalists
Eric Heiden  United States Piet Kleine  Netherlands Tom Erik Oxholm  Norway
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Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[3][4]

World record	Viktor Lyoskin (URS)	14:34.33	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	3 April 1977
Olympic record	Piet Kleine (NED)	14:50.59	Innsbruck, Austria	14 February 1976

The following new Olympic and World records was set during the competition.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
23 February	Pair 1	Tom Erik Oxholm	Norway	14:36.60	OR
23 February	Pair 2	Eric Heiden	United States	14:28.13	OR	WR

Results

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Rank	Pair	Lane	Athlete	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	2	i	Eric Heiden	United States	14:28.13	–	WR
	6	i	Piet Kleine	Netherlands	14:36.03	+7.90
	1	o	Tom Erik Oxholm	Norway	14:36.60	+8.46
4	1	i	Mike Woods	United States	14:39.53	+11.40
5	3	o	Øyvind Tveter	Norway	14:43.53	+15.40
6	3	i	Hilbert van der Duim	Netherlands	14:47.58	+19.45
7	2	o	Viktor Lyoskin	Soviet Union	14:51.72	+23.59
8	8	o	Andreas Ehrig	East Germany	14:51.94	+23.80
9	4	o	Yasuhiro Shimizu	Japan	14:57.48	+29.35
10	9	i	Sergey Berezin	Soviet Union	15:04.68	+36.55
11	5	o	Yep Kramer	Netherlands	15:04.79	+36.66
12	6	o	Tomas Gustafson	Sweden	15:05.18	+37.05
13	4	i	Alf Rekstad	Norway	15:05.70	+37.57
14	7	i	Örjan Sandler	Sweden	15:11.52	+43.39
15	10	i	Andreas Dietel	East Germany	15:15.03	+46.90
16	10	o	Dmitry Ogloblin	Soviet Union	15:20.14	+52.01
17	5	i	Masahiko Yamamoto	Japan	15:26.92	+58.79
18	7	o	Colin Coates	Australia	15:28.30	+1:00.17
19	11	i	Pertti Niittylä	Finland	15:29.98	+1:01.85
20	12	i	Andrei Erdely	Romania	15:31.73	+1:03.60
21	9	o	Ulf Ekstrand	Sweden	15:33.42	+1:05.29
22	12	o	Maurizio Marchetto	Italy	15:56.73	+1:28,60
23	13	o	Na Yun-Su	South Korea	16:00.41	+1:32,28
24	11	i	John French	Great Britain	16:17.56	1:49.43
-	6	i	Craig Kressler	United States	DNF