The 5000 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Sunday, February 1, 1948.
Forty speed skaters from 14 nations competed.
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1948 Winter Olympics.
(*) The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice.
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