The men's 10,000 metres in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place on 21 February, at the Olympic Oval. 32 competitors from 19 nations participated in the event.
Medalists
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new Olympic and World records were set during the competition:
Date Pair Athlete Country Time OR WR 21 February Pair 1 Yury Klyuyev 14:09.68 OR 21 February Pair 2 Gerard Kemkers 14:08.34 OR 21 February Pair 4 Leo Visser 14:00.55 OR 21 February Pair 5 Michael Hadschieff 13:56.11 OR 21 February Pair 9 Tomas Gustafson 13:48.20 OR WR
Results
Rank Pair Lane Athlete Country Time Time Behind Notes 9 o Tomas Gustafson 13:48.20 (WR) 5 i Michael Hadschieff 13:56.11 4 i Leo Visser 14:00.55 +12.35 4 10 o Eric Flaim 14:05.57 +17.37 5 2 o Gerard Kemkers +20.14 6 1 o Yury Klyuyev 14:09.68 +21.48 7 16 i Roberto Sighel 14:13.60 +25.40 8 9 i Roland Freier 14:19.16 +30.98 9 6 o Sergey Berezin 14:20.48 +32.28 10 3 o Ben Lamarche 14:21.39 +33.19 11 5 o Herbert Dijkstra 14:22.53 +34.33 12 11 i Joakim Karlberg 14:22.94 +34.74 13 14 o Bruno Milesi 14:23.84 +35.64 14 7 i Dave Silk 14:25.56 +37.36 15 7 o Pertti Niittylä 14:26.57 +38.37 16 15 i Jiří Kyncl 14:27.32 +39.12 17 12 i Timo Järvinen 14:27.69 +39.49 18 2 i Aleksandr Mozin 14:28.91 +40.71 19 3 i Christian Eminger 14:30.21 +42.01 20 14 i Gordon Goplen 14:31.18 +42.98 21 4 o Frode Syvertsen 14:32.08 +43.88 22 13 o Kim Gwan-gyu 14:34.65 +46.45 23 11 o Hans van Helden 14:34.84 +46.64 24 8 o Toru Aoyanagi 14:34.87 +46.67 25 10 i Jeff Klaiber 14:38.60 +50.40 26 16 o Colin Coates 14:41.88 +53.68 27 1 i Hansjörg Baltes 14:45.41 +57.21 28 8 i Yoshiyuki Shimizu 14:47.21 +59.01 29 13 i Lu Shuhai 14:49.52 +1:01.32 30 15 o Julian Green 14:59.53 +1:11.33 – 6 i Geir Karlstad – – 12 o Song Yong-hun –
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