| Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
| 2018w Men 5000m | ||||||
| 2014w Men 5000m | Sven Kramer |  NED | Jan Blokhuijsen | NED | Jorrit Bergsma | NED |
| 2010w Men 5000m | Sven Kramer | NED | Seung-Hoon Lee | KOR | Ivan Skobrev |  RUS |
| 2006w Men 5000m | Chad Hedrick |  USA | Sven Kramer | NED | Enrico Fabris |  ITA |
| 2002w Men 5000m | Jochem Uytdehaage | NED | Derek Parra | USA | Jens Boden |  GER |
| 1998w Men 5000m | Gianni Romme | NED | Rintje Ritsma | NED | Bart Veldkamp |  BEL |
| 1994w Men 5000m | Johann Olav Koss |  NOR | Kjell Storelid | NOR | Rintje Ritsma | NED |
| 1992w Men 5000m | Geir Karlstad | NOR | Falco Zandstra | NED | Leo Visser | NED |
| 1988w Men 5000m | Tomas Gustafson |  SWE | Leo Visser | NED | Gerard Kemkers | NED |
| 1984w Men 5000m | Tomas Gustafson | SWE | Igor Malkov |  URS | Rene Schoefisch |  GDR |
| 1980w Men 5000m | Eric Heiden | USA | Kai Arne Stenshjemmet | NOR | Tom Erik Oxholm | NOR |
| 1976w Men 5000m | Sten Stensen | NOR | Piet Kleine | NED | Hans van Helden | NED |
| 1972w Men 5000m | Ard Schenk | NED | Roar Gronvold | NOR | Sten Stensen | NOR |
| 1968w Men 5000m | F.Anton Maier | NOR | Cornelis Verkerk | NED | Petrus Nottet | NED |
| 1964w Men 5000m | Knut Johannesen | NOR | Per-Ivar Moe | NOR | Fred-Anton Maier | NOR |
| 1960w Men 5000m | Viktor Kosichkin | URS | Knut Johannesen | NOR | Jan S. Pesman | NED |
| 1956w Men 5000m | Boris Schilkov | URS | Sigvard Ericsson | SWE | Oleg Gontcharenko | URS |
| 1952w Men 5000m | Hjalmar Andersen | NOR | Kees Broekman | NED | Sverre Haugli | NOR |
| 1948w Men 5000m | Reidar Llaklev | NOR | Odd Lundberg | NOR | Gothe Hadlund | SWE |
| 1936w Men 5000m | Ivar Ballangrud | NOR | Birger Vasenius |  FIN | Antero Ojaia | FIN |
| 1932w Men 5000m | Irving Jaffee | USA | Edward Murphy | USA | William Logan |  CAN |
| 1928w Men 5000m | Ivar Ballangrud | NOR | Julius Skutnabb | FIN | Bernt Evensen | NOR |
| 1924w Men 5000m | Clas Thunberg | FIN | Julius Skutnabb | FIN | Roald Larsen | NOR |
