Short-track speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metre relay

Men's 5000 metre relay

at the XVI Olympic Winter Games

Pictogram for short track

Venue

La halle de glace Olympique

Dates

18–22 February

Competitors

37 from 9 nations

Winning time

7:14.02

Medalists

		South Korea Song Jae-kun Kim Ki-hoon Lee Joon-ho Mo Ji-soo
		Canada Frédéric Blackburn Michel Daignault Laurent Daignault Sylvain Gagnon Mark Lackie
		Japan Yuichi Akasaka Tatsuyoshi Ishihara Toshinobu Kawai Tsutomu Kawasaki

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Short track speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics

500 m		women
1000 m	men
3000 m relay		women
5000 m relay	men
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The men's 5000 metre relay in short track speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics took place on 18 and 22 February at La halle de glace Olympique.^[1]^[2]

Results

Heats

The round one heats were held on 18 February. The top two teams and two fastest third place teams advanced to the semifinals.^[1]

Heat 1

Rank	Country	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	South Korea	Song Jae-kun Kim Ki-hoon Lee Joon-ho Mo Ji-soo	7:14.07	Q WR
2	Australia	Kieran Hansen John Kah Andrew Murtha Richard Nizielski	7:15.10	Q
3	Canada	Frédéric Blackburn Michel Daignault Laurent Daignault Sylvain Gagnon	7:15.25

Heat 2

Rank	Country	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Great Britain	Nicky Gooch Stuart Horsepool Matthew Jasper Wilf O'Reilly	7:27.87	Q
2	Italy	Orazio Fagone Hugo Herrnhof Roberto Peretti Mirko Vuillermin	7:28.32	Q
3	France	Marc Bella Arnaud Drouet Rémi Ingres Claude Nicouleau	7:38.32

Heat 3

Rank	Country	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	New Zealand	Mike McMillen Andrew Nicholson Chris Nicholson Tony Smith	7:21.31	Q
2	Japan	Yuichi Akasaka Tatsuyoshi Ishihara Toshinobu Kawai Tsutomu Kawasaki	7:22.43	Q
3	Belgium	Geert Blanchart Alain De Ruyter Geert Dejonghe Franky Vanhooren	8:32.51

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 22 February. The top two teams in each semifinal qualified for the A final, while the third and fourth place teams advanced to the B Final.^[1]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Country	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	South Korea	Song Jae-kun Kim Ki-hoon Lee Joon-ho Mo Ji-soo	7:20.57	QA
2	New Zealand	Mike McMillen Andrew Nicholson Chris Nicholson Tony Smith	7:22.38	QA
3	France	Marc Bella Arnaud Drouet Rémi Ingres Claude Nicouleau	7:26.09	QB
4	Australia	Kieran Hansen John Kah Andrew Murtha Richard Nizielski	7:32.57	QB

Semifinal 2

Rank	Country	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Japan	Yuichi Akasaka Tatsuyoshi Ishihara Toshinobu Kawai Tsutomu Kawasaki	7:22.84	QA
2	Canada	Frédéric Blackburn Michel Daignault Laurent Daignault Sylvain Gagnon	7:24.69	QA
3	Great Britain	Nicky Gooch Stuart Horsepool Matthew Jasper Wilf O'Reilly	7:29.40	QB
4	Italy	Orazio Fagone Hugo Herrnhof Roberto Peretti Mirko Vuillermin	7:32.80	QB

Finals

The four qualifying teams competed in Final A, while four others raced in Final B.^[1]

Final A

Rank	Country	Athlete	Result
	South Korea	Song Jae-kun Kim Ki-hoon Lee Joon-ho Mo Ji-soo	7:14.02
	Canada	Frédéric Blackburn Michel Daignault Mark Lackie Sylvain Gagnon	7:14.06
	Japan	Yuichi Akasaka Tatsuyoshi Ishihara Toshinobu Kawai Tsutomu Kawasaki	7:18.18
4	New Zealand	Mike McMillen Andrew Nicholson Chris Nicholson Tony Smith	7:18.91

Final B

Rank	Country	Athlete	Result
5	France	Marc Bella Arnaud Drouet Rémi Ingres Claude Nicouleau	7:26.09
6	Great Britain	Nicky Gooch Stuart Horsepool Matthew Jasper Wilf O'Reilly	7:29.46
7	Australia	Kieran Hansen John Kah Andrew Murtha Richard Nizielski	7:32.57
8	Italy	Orazio Fagone Hugo Herrnhof Roberto Peretti Mirko Vuillermin	7:32.80

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d "Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. LA84 Foundation. 1992. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
^ "Short Track Speed Skating at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games: Men's 5,000 metres Relay". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 8 November 2019.