# Short-track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metre relay

The men's 5000 metre relay competition in short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 11 February (semifinals) and 16 February (finals), at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing. The Canadian team won gold, with South Korea winning silver and Italy the bronze.
The defending champion were Hungary, with China and Canada being second and third in 2018. The Netherlands were the 2021 World Short Track Speed Skating champion, Hungary and Italy were the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Many top athletes did not participate in the championship, however. Canada were leading the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup with four races completed before the Olympics, followed by South Korea and Hungary.

## Qualification

The top with the top 8 countries qualified a relay through the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup, including host nation China.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Hungary Csaba Burján Cole Krueger Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sándor Liu | 6:28.625 | Calgary, Canada | 4 November 2018 |
| Olympic record | Hungary Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sándor Liu Viktor Knoch Csaba Burján | 6:31.971 | Gangneung, South Korea | 22 February 2018 |

## Results
### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat | Country | Athletes | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Canada | Charles Hamelin Maxime Laoun Steven Dubois Pascal Dion | 6:38.752 | QA |
| 2 | 1 | Italy | Pietro Sighel Yuri Confortola Tommaso Dotti Andrea Cassinelli | 6:38.899 | QA |
| 3 | 1 | Japan | Kazuki Yoshinaga Shogo Miyata Kota Kikuchi Katsunori Koike | 6:40.446 | QB |
| 4 | 1 | China | Wu Dajing Ren Ziwei Sun Long Li Wenlong | 6:51.040 | ADVA |
| 1 | 2 | South Korea | Lee June-seo Kim Dong-wook Hwang Dae-heon Kwak Yoon-gy | 6:37.879 | QA |
| 2 | 2 | ROC | Semen Elistratov Konstantin Ivliev Pavel Sitnikov Denis Ayrapetyan | 6:37.925 | QA |
| 3 | 2 | Netherlands | Itzhak de Laat Sjinkie Knegt Sven Roes Jens van 't Wout | 6:37.927 | QB |
| 4 | 2 | Hungary | Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sándor Liu John-Henry Krueger Bence Nógrádi | 6:45.172 | QB |

### Finals
#### Final B

| Rank | Country | Athletes | Time |
| 6 | Hungary | Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sándor Liu John-Henry Krueger Bence Nógrádi | 6:39.713 |
| 7 | Netherlands | Itzhak de Laat Sjinkie Knegt Sven Roes Jens van 't Wout | 6:39.780 |
| 8 | Japan | Kazuki Yoshinaga Shogo Miyata Kota Kikuchi Katsunori Koike | 6:40.545 |

#### Final A

| Rank | Country | Athletes | Time |
| | Canada | Charles Hamelin Steven Dubois Jordan Pierre-Gilles Pascal Dion | 6:41.257 |
| | South Korea | Lee June-seo Hwang Dae-heon Kwak Yoon-gy Park Jang-hyuk | 6:41.679 |
| | Italy | Pietro Sighel Yuri Confortola Tommaso Dotti Andrea Cassinelli | 6:43.431 |
| 4 | ROC | Semen Elistratov Konstantin Ivliev Pavel Sitnikov Denis Ayrapetyan | 6:43.440 |
| 5 | China | Wu Dajing Ren Ziwei Sun Long Li Wenlong | 6:51.654 |

## Controversy

During the semifinals of the event, the Chinese team fell with 10 laps to go. There was no obvious obstruction on the Chinese skater, but they were advanced to the A final, with no team disqualified during the race. The Chinese team were advanced, even though they finished last in the race and there was no impeding action on the team.