Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Men's 10,000 metres

Men's 10,000 metres; at the XII Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Eisschnellaufbahn
Dates	14 February
Competitors	20 from 12 nations
Winning time	14:50.59 OR
Medalists
	← 1972 1980 →

The men's 10,000 metres in speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics took place on 14 February, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.^[1]^[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[3]^[4]

World record	Sten Stensen (NOR)	14:50.31	Oslo, Norway	25 January 1976
Olympic record	Ard Schenk (NED)	15:01.35	Sapporo, Japan	7 February 1972

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

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
14 February	Pair 3	Sten Stensen	Norway	14:53.30	OR
14 February	Pair 8	Piet Kleine	Netherlands	14:50.59	OR

Rank	Pair	Lane	Athlete	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	8	o	Piet Kleine	Netherlands	14:50.59	–	OR
	6	o	Sten Stensen	Norway	14:53.30	+2.72
	4	i	Hans van Helden	Netherlands	15:02.02	+11.43
4	5	o	Viktor Varlamov	Soviet Union	15:06.06	+15.47
5	3	i	Örjan Sandler	Sweden	15:16.21	+25.47
6	6	i	Colin Coates	Australia	15:16.80	+26.21
7	1	o	Dan Carroll	United States	15:19.29	+28.71
8	3	o	Franz Krienbühl	Switzerland	15:36.43	+45.84
9	4	o	Olavi Köppä	Finland	15:39.73	+49.14
10	10	i	Amund Sjøbrend	Norway	15:43.29	+52.70
11	11	o	Sergey Marchuk	Soviet Union	15:43.81	+53.22
12	9	i	Mike Woods	United States	15:53.42	+1:02.83
13	9	o	Lennart Carlsson	Sweden	15:53.89	+1:03.30
14	11	i	Jan Egil Storholt	Norway	16:06.37	+1:15.78
15	8	i	Vladimir Ivanov	Soviet Union	16:16.20	+1:25.61
16	2	i	Masahiko Yamamoto	Japan	16:20.83	+1:30.24
17	2	o	Maurizio Marchetto	Italy	16:22.55	+1:31.96
18	7	o	Geoff Sandys	Great Britain	16:26.27	+1:35.68
19	10	o	Charles Gilmore	United States	16:26.35	+1:35.76
20	5	i	Hubert Gundolf	Austria	17:52.43	+3:01.84