The women's 5000 metres race of the 2012 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships was held on March 24 at 12:00 local time.[1]
Results
edit| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Time Behind | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 | 7 | i | Martina Sáblíková |  Czech Republic | 6:50.46 | ||
 | 8 | i | Stephanie Beckert |  Germany | 6:56.64 | +6.18 | |
 | 8 | o | Claudia Pechstein | Germany | 7:04.01 | +13.55 | |
| 4 | 6 | i | Olga Graf |  Russia | 7:10.22 | +19.76 | |
| 5 | 2 | i | Diane Valkenburg |  Netherlands | 7:13.61 | +23.15 | |
| 6 | 4 | o | Park Do-yeong |  South Korea | 7:13.74 | +23.28 | |
| 7 | 5 | i | Cindy Klassen |  Canada | 7:14.19 | +23.73 | |
| 8 | 5 | o | Annouk van der Weijden | Netherlands | 7:15.84 | +25.38 | |
| 9 | 3 | o | Jorien Voorhuis | Netherlands | 7:16.21 | +25.75 | |
| 10 | 4 | i | Ayaka Kikuchi |  Japan | 7:17.18 | +26.72 | |
| 11 | 6 | o | Masako Hozumi | Japan | 7:17.75 | +27.29 | |
| 12 | 7 | o | Shiho Ishizawa | Japan | 7:20.15 | +29.69 | |
| 13 | 3 | i | Bente Kraus | Germany | 7:20.96 | +30.50 | |
| 14 | 2 | o | Yevgenia Dmitrieva | Russia | 7:23.02 | +32.56 | |
| 15 | 1 | o | Brittany Schussler | Canada | 7:24.79 | +34.33 | |
| 16 | 1 | i | Nicole Garrido | Canada | 7:31.26 | +40.80 |