Short-track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metre relay explained

Event:	Men's 5000 metre relay
Games:	2014 Winter
Venue:	Iceberg Skating Palace Sochi, Russia
Dates:	13 February (semifinal) 21 February (final)
Competitors:	32
Nations:	8
Gold:	Viktor Ahn Semion Elistratov Vladimir Grigorev Ruslan Zakharov
Goldnoc:	RUS
Win Value:	6:42.100
Silver:	Eddy Alvarez J. R. Celski Chris Creveling Jordan Malone
Silvernoc:	USA
Bronze:	Chen Dequan Han Tianyu Shi Jingnan Wu Dajing
Bronzenoc:	CHN
Prev:	2010
Next:	2018

The men's 5000 metre relay in short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held between 13 - 21 February 2014 at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, Russia.^[1]

The semifinal was held on 13 February with the final on 21 February.

The defending Olympic Champion and World Champion was Canada.

Qualification

Countries were assigned quotas using a combination of the two special Olympic Qualification classifications that were held at two world cups in November 2013.^[2] For this event a total of 8 nations qualified to compete.^[3]

Results

The final was held at 22:18.^[4]

Semifinals

QA – qualified for Final A

QB – qualified for Final B

ADV – advanced

PEN – penalty

Rank	Semifinal	Country	Time
1	1	align=left	align=left	6:45.385	QA
2	1	align=left	align=left	6:47.152	QA
3	1	align=left	align=left	6:48.206	QB
4	1	align=left	align=left	6:50.292	ADV
1	2	align=left	align=left	6:44.331	QA
2	2	align=left	align=left	6:44.521	QA
3	2	align=left	align=left	6:45.253	QB
4	2	align=left	align=left	6:48.186	QB

Finals

Final B (Classification Round)

Rank	Country	Time
6	align=left	align=left	6:43.747
7	align=left	align=left	6:43.921
8	align=left	align=left	6:44.904

Final A (Medal Round)

Rank	Country	Time
	align=left	align=left	6:42.100	OR
	align=left	align=left	6:42.371
	align=left	align=left	6:48.341
4	align=left	align=left	6:49.149
5	align=left	align=left	6:54.630

Notes and References

Web site: Short Track Speed Skating Schedule and Results. SOOC. 12 January 2014. 20 March 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140320055452/http://www.sochi2014.com/en/short-track-schedule-and-results. dead.
Web site: Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014 . September 2012 . . 20 December 2012.
Web site: XXII Olympic Winter Games 2014 Sochi - Entries Short Track Speed Skating . . 22 November 2013 . 22 November 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131202235443/http://www2.isu.org/vsite/vnavsite/page/directory/0,10853,4844-205151-222374-nav-list,00.html?id=1469 . 2 December 2013 .
Web site: Final Results . 2014-02-21 . 2014-02-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140228010544/http://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt=11213100000010&gen=m&ref=15462&view=dcl . dead .