Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Women's 5000 metres

Women's 5000 metres
at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Women's 5000 metres; at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Oval Lingotto
Dates	25 February 2006
Competitors	16 from 10 nations
Winning time	6:59.07
Medalists

The women's 5000 m speed skating competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, was held on 25 February.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Claudia Pechstein (GER)	6:46.91	Salt Lake City, United States	23 February 2002	^[2]
Olympic record	Claudia Pechstein (GER)	6:46.91	Salt Lake City, United States	23 February 2002	^[2]

No new world or Olympic records were set during the competition.

Rank	Pair	Lane	Name	Country	Time	Time behind
	8	O	Clara Hughes	Canada	6:59.07
	8	I	Claudia Pechstein	Germany	7:00.08	+1.01
	7	O	Cindy Klassen	Canada	7:00.57	+1.50
4	7	I	Martina Sáblíková	Czech Republic	7:01.38	+2.31
5	6	O	Daniela Anschütz	Germany	7:02.82	+3.75
6	4	O	Kristina Groves	Canada	7:03.95	+4.88
7	5	I	Catherine Raney	United States	7:04.91	+5.84
8	5	O	Maren Haugli	Norway	7:06.08	+7.01
9	4	I	Renate Groenewold	Netherlands	7:11.32	+12.25
10	6	I	Carien Kleibeuker	Netherlands	7:12.18	+13.11
11	3	O	Eriko Ishino	Japan	7:12.48	+13.41
12	2	I	Anna Natalia Rokita	Austria	7:16.75	+17.68
13	1	I	Maki Tabata	Japan	7:18.05	+18.98
14	2	I	Lucille Opitz	Germany	7:18.06	+18.99
15	3	I	Wang Fei	China	7:22.90	+23.83
16	1	O	Katarzyna Wojcicka	Poland	7:28.09	+29.02

^ "Speed Skating at the 2006 Torino Winter Games: Women's 5,000 metres". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 February 2018.
^ ^a ^b "Torino 2006 Official Report - Speed Skating" (PDF). Torino Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. March 2009. Retrieved 20 May 2009.

Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
Team pursuit	men	women