Speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Men's 10000 metres

Men's 10000 metres; at the X Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	L'Anneau de Vitesse
Dates	February 17
Competitors	28 from 13 nations
Winning time	15:23.6
Medalists
	← 1964 1972 →

Speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m		women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10000 m	men

The men's 10000 metres in speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics took place on 17 February, at the L'Anneau de Vitesse.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2]^[3]

World record	Fred Anton Maier (NOR)	15:20.3	Oslo, Norway	28 January 1968
Olympic record	Knut Johannesen (NOR)	15:46.6	Squaw Valley, United States	27 February 1960

The following new Olympic record was set.

Date	Athlete	Time	OR	WR
17 February	Johnny Höglin (SWE)	15:23.6	OR

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Johnny Höglin	Sweden	15:23.6	OR
	Fred Anton Maier	Norway	15:23.9
	Örjan Sandler	Sweden	15:31.8
4	Per Willy Guttormsen	Norway	15:32.6
5	Kees Verkerk	Netherlands	15:33.9
6	Jonny Nilsson	Sweden	15:39.6
7	Magne Thomassen	Norway	15:44.9
8	Peter Nottet	Netherlands	15:54.7
9	Valery Lavrushkin	Soviet Union	15:54.8
10	Stanislav Selyanin	Soviet Union	15:56.4
11	Günter Traub	West Germany	16:01.3
12	Jouko Launonen	Finland	16:02.1
13	Jan Bols	Netherlands	16:09.5
14	Kimmo Koskinen	Finland	16:15.7
15	Paul Enock	Canada	16:21.2
16	Anatoly Mashkov	Soviet Union	16:22.1
17	Hermann Strutz	Austria	16:24.9
18	Jürgen Traub	West Germany	16:33.8
19	Renato De Riva	Italy	16:39.5
20	Raimo Hietala	Finland	16:45.9
21	Bill Lanigan	United States	16:50.1
22	Yoshiaki Demachi	Japan	16:54.6
23	Bob Hodges	Canada	17:01.9
24	Giancarlo Gloder	Italy	17:03.2
25	Bill Cox	United States	17:08.2
26	François Perrenoud	France	17:10.2
27	György Ivánkai	Hungary	17:36.2
28	Hirofumi Otsuka	Japan	17:38.8