Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics – Women's 5000 metres

Women's 5000 metres; at the XV Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Olympic Oval
Dates	February 28
Competitors	25 from 15 nations
Winning time	7:14.13
Medalists
	1992 →

Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10000 m	men

The women's 5000 metres in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place on 28 February, at the Olympic Oval.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2]^[3]

World record	Yvonne van Gennip (NED)	7:20.36	Heerenveen, Netherlands	20 March 1987
Olympic record	None	None	None	None

The following new world and olympic records was set during the competition.

Date	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
28 February	Andrea Ehrig	East Germany	7:17.12	OR	WR
28 February	Yvonne van Gennip	Netherlands	7:14.13	OR	WR

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Yvonne van Gennip	Netherlands	7:14.13	(WR)
	Andrea Ehrig	East Germany	7:17.12
	Gabi Zange	East Germany	7:21.61
4	Svetlana Boyko	Soviet Union	7:28.39
5	Yelena Lapuga	Soviet Union	7:28.65
6	Seiko Hashimoto	Japan	7:34.43
7	Gunda Kleeman	East Germany	7:34.59
8	Jasmin Krohn	Sweden	7:36.56
9	Han Chun-Ok	23x15px North Korea	7:36.81
10	Jane Goldman	United States	7:36.98
11	Mary Docter	United States	7:37.00
12	Elena Belci	Italy	7:37.23
13	Marieke Stam	Netherlands	7:38.02
14	Ingrid Paul	Netherlands	7:40.67
15	Yelena Tumanova	Soviet Union	7:40.82
16	Wang Xiaoyan	China	7:46.30
17	Kim Young-Ok	South Korea	7:46.51
18	Natalie Grenier	Canada	7:46.96
19	Natsue Seki	Japan	7:47.43
20	Ariane Loignon	Canada	7:49.55
21	Erwina Ryś-Ferens	Poland	7:50.43
22	Nancy Swider-Peltz	United States	7:52.12
23	Kathy Gordon	Canada	7:53.30
24	Minna Nystedt	Norway	7:54.11
25	Stéphanie Dumont	France	8:00.40