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

The Women's 5000 m speed skating
Speed skating
Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

competition at the 2006 Winter Olympics
2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter...

in Turin

Turin

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, Italy

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was held on 25 February

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition.

Results

Rank	Pair	Name	Time	Time Behind
	8	Clara Hughes Clara Hughes Clara Hughes, OC, OM is a Canadian cyclist and speed skater, and has won multiple Olympic medals in both sports. Hughes won two bronze in the Summer Olympics in 1996 and four medals over the course of three Winter Olympics...	6:59.07
	8	Claudia Pechstein Claudia Pechstein Claudia Pechstein is a German speed skater. With a total of five Olympic gold medals, two silver, and two bronze medals, she is the most successful German Winter Olympian of all time...	7:00.08	+1.01
	7	Cindy Klassen Cindy Klassen Cindy Klassen, OM is a Canadian long track speed skater. Klassen is a six-time medalist at the Winter Olympics. She is tied with Clara Hughes for Canada's all-time most decorated Olympian with 6 medals each...	7:00.57	+1.50
4	7	Martina Sáblíková Martina Sáblíková Martina Sáblíková is a Czech speedskater, specializing in long distance races. She is an Olympic gold medal winner and a multiple World champion. She is the elder sister of fellow speedskater Milan Sáblík.-Career:As a junior, Sáblíková already achieved some notable results during international...	7:01.38	+2.31
5	6	Daniela Anschütz	7:02.82	+3.75
6	4	Kristina Groves Kristina Groves Kristina Groves is a Canadian speedskater. She is Canada’s most decorated skater in the World Single Distances Championships with 13 career medals in this event. She won four Olympic medals: She won two silver medals at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin, in the 1,500 meters and team pursuit....	7:03.95	+4.88
7	5	Catherine Raney Catherine Raney Catherine Raney-Norman is an Olympic speed skater from Elm Grove, Wisconsin who competed in the 1998 Winter Olympics, 2002 Winter Olympics and 2006 Winter Olympics. She has won the U.S. Allround Championship three times in 1999, 2002 and 2003. Raney also made the US team for the 2010 Winter...	7:04.91	+5.84
8	5	Maren Haugli Maren Haugli Maren Haugli is a Norwegian long track speed skater who participates in international competitions.She represents the sports club Jevnaker IF and is the granddaughter of Sverre Ingolf Haugli and sister of Sverre Haugli.-Personal records:...	7:06.08	+7.01
9	4	Renate Groenewold Renate Groenewold Renate Groenewold is a Dutch long track speed skater and road bicycle racer.Groenewold has won several Dutch Championships....	7:11.32	+12.25
10	6	Carien Kleibeuker Carien Kleibeuker Carien Kleibeuker is a Dutch speed skater who is specialised in the long distances, over 3000 and mainly over 5000 metres....	7:12.18	+13.11
11	3	Eriko Ishino	7:12.48	+13.41
12	2	Anna Natalia Rokita	7:16.75	+17.68
13	1	Maki Tabata Maki Tabata Maki Tabata is a speed skater.Maki Tabata won bronze at the World Allround Championships in 2000 and one month later, she won another bronze, this time on the 3,000 m at the World Single Distance Championships. The next year , she won silver on the 1,500 m and bronze on the 5,000 m...	7:18.05	+18.98
14	2	Lucille Opitz Lucille Opitz Lucille Opitz is a German speed skater who won a gold medal in the Women's team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics.-External links:*...	7:18.06	+18.99
15	3	Wang Fei Wang Fei (speed skater) Wang Fei is a Chinese female speed skater.She competed for China at the 2010 Winter Olympics in the 1500m and 3000m events.-References:...	7:22.90	+23.83
16	1	Katarzyna Wojcicka	7:28.09	+29.02

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