Speed Skating 2022/Men's 10000 metre

Men's 10000 metre
General information
Sport	Speed Skating 2022
Date	11 February 2022
Competitors	12 athletes
Venue	Beijing National Speed Skating Oval
Previous medalists
Gold	Ted-Jan Bloemen
Silver	Jorrit Bergsma
Bronze	Nicola Tumolero
Conditions
Length	10000 metres
Medalists
	Nils van der Poel
	Patrick Roest
	Davide Ghiotto

The men's 10000 metre of Speed Skating 2022 during the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 11 February 2022 in the Beijing National Speed Skating Oval. With 12 athletes competing, the event was won by Nils van der Poel from Sweden, with Patrick Roest from Netherlands taking the silver medal and Davide Ghiotto from Italy taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of six head-to-head races of 10000 metres. The competitor with the fastest time is the winner.

Preview

Twelve athletes qualified for the event with Nils van der Poel as outstanding favorite for the title. The Swede was the reigning world champion and world record holder and dominated the long distances throughout the season. Patrick Roest seemed to be his closest challenger, but hadn't won the distance in a while, recently having been defeated by veteran Jorrit Bergsma, who won the Olympic event in 2014. Ted-Jan Bloemen was the defending Olympic champion but was not really in form, Graeme Fish was the former world record holder before Van der Poel set his record time, with potential outsiders including Patrick Beckert and Bart Swings.

The two most recent world record holders in the event Nils van der Poel and Graeme Fish were the youngest competitors in the field at the ages of 25 and 24, respectively. Whereas it was the very first Olympic appearance for Fish as the only event he would compete in in Beijing, Van der Poel had already competed in the 5000 metres in 2018 and 2022, the latter of which resulted in gold. The Swede was only four months younger than Patrick Roest, who had also already won 3 Olympic medals. The team mate of Roest, Jorrit Bergsma, was the oldest competitor in the field at the age of 36, but was followed by defending Olympic champion Ted-Jan Bloemen and Alexander Rumyantsev by only a few months. Patrick Beckert was the only one in the field who would compete at his fourth edition of the Olympic Games, having competed in every edition since 2010. Rumyantsev also competed back in 2010, but was one of the Russian athletes banned for the 2018 edition. Fish and Michele Malfatti made their Olympic debuts.

Current Records

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	14 February 2021		Nils van der Poel	12:32.95
OR	15 February 2018		Ted-Jan Bloemen	12:39.77

Results

Nils van der Poel won his second Olympic gold medal after the 5000 metres and became the first athlete since Jochem Uytdehaage in 2002 to win both long distances. He also broke his own world record by over 2 seconds, and was almost 14 seconds faster than Patrick Roest, who he also defeated for gold in the 5000 metres. Roest won his fourth Olympic medal in four different events, after winning silver in the 1500 metres in 2018, bronze in the team pursuit in 2018, and silver in the 5000 metres a few days prior. Davide Ghiotto won his first-ever Olympic medal after winning bronze in a new national record, taking up the sport of fellow Italian Nicola Tumolero who had won bronze in 2018. Defending silver medalist and 2014 Olympic champion Jorrit Bergsma completed his collection of top 5 placements after having won gold, silver, and bronze in previous events, as well as having finished fifth in the 5000 metres, while Alexander Rumyantsev recorded his best result ever at the Olympic Games by finishing fifth, and Graeme Fish finished sixth in his Olympic debut.

Result	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Nils van der Poel	Sweden	12:30.74	WR
	Patrick Roest	Netherlands	12:44.59
	Davide Ghiotto	Italy	12:45.98	NR
4	Jorrit Bergsma	Netherlands	12:48.95
5	Alexander Rumyantsev	ROC	12:51.33	NR
6	Graeme Fish	Canada	12:58.80
7	Patrick Beckert	Germany	13:01.23
8	Ted-Jan Bloemen	Canada	13:01.39
9	Michele Malfatti	Italy	13:01.42	PR
10	Bart Swings	Belgium	13:02.43
11	Ryosuke Tsuchiya	Japan	13:02.49
12	Peter Michael	New Zealand	13:33.53