Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres


The men's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics took place on 12 February, at the M-Wave arena.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
Due to the use of clap skates in comparison to the previous Olympics the Olympic record got broken considerably and the following new world and olympic records were set during the competition.
DatePairAthleteCountryTimeORWR
12 FebruaryPair 2Christian Breuer1:50.96OR
12 FebruaryPair 6Hiroyuki Noake1:50.49OR
12 FebruaryPair 18K. C. Boutiette1:50.06OR
12 FebruaryPair 21Jan Bos1:49.75OR
12 FebruaryPair 22Ådne Søndrål1:47.87ORWR

Results

RankPairNameCountryTimeTime behindNotes
22Ådne Søndrål1:47.87-WR
22Ids Postma1:48.13+0.26
23Rintje Ritsma1:48.52+0.65
421Jan Bos1:49.75+1.88
518K. C. Boutiette1:50.04+2.17
620Martin Hersman1:50.31+2.44
716Hiroyuki Noake1:50.49+2.62
818Toru Aoyanagi1:50.68+2.81
92Christian Breuer1:50.96+3.09
1014Andrey Anufriyenko1:50.99+3.12
1110Vadim Sayutin1:51.31+3.44
1212Choi Jae-bong1:51.47+3.60
1316Peter Adeberg1:51.50+3.63
1413Dmitry Shepel1:51.64+3.77
1514Cheon Ju-hyeon1:51.65+3.78
1616Yusuke Imai1:51.70+3.83
179Bart Veldkamp1:51.73+3.86
185Marnix ten Kortenaar1:51.94+4.07
197Sergey Tsybenko1:52.03+4.16
2023Kevin Overland1:52.07+4.20
2119Keiji Shirahata1:52.23+4.36
224Alexander Kibalko1:52.27+4.40
2313Davide Carta1:52.44+4.57
2415Ermanno Ioriatti1:52.45+4.58
2521Steven Elm1:52.70+4.83
2620Kevin Marshall1:52.77+4.90
2710Radik Bikchentayev1:52.87+5.00
285Steinar Johansen1:52.88+5.01
2911Brigt Rykkje1:52.91+5.04
3019Neal Marshall1:52.93+5.06
313Casey FitzRandolph1:53.26+5.39
3215Cory Carpenter1:53.50+5.63
338Frank Dittrich1:53.64+5.77
343Paweł Zygmunt1:53.73+5.86
3517Dave Tamburrino1:54.19+6.32
3611Wan Chunbo1:54.64+6.77
3712Cédric Kuentz1:54.78+6.91
386René Taubenrauch1:54.91+7.04
392Jeong Jin-uk1:55.02+7.15
409Andrew Nicholson1:55.06+7.19
411Sergey Kaznacheyev1:55.22+7.35
426Zsolt Baló1:55.52+7.65
438Feng Qingbo1:56.45+8.58
444Dezideriu Horvath1:57.35+9.48