Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Gangneung Oval
Date	13 February 2018
Competitors	35 from 19 nations
Medalists
Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands Patrick Roest  Netherlands Kim Min-seok  South Korea

The men's 1500 metres speed skating competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 13 February 2018 at the Gangneung Oval in Gangneung.[1][2][3] Kjeld Nuis posted a time 0.06 seconds short of the Olympic record and won the gold medal. Patrick Roest won silver, and Kim Min-seok bronze, becoming the first Asian athlete to ever medal in this event.[4] For all three of them, it was their first Olympic race and first Olympic medal. The defending champion Zbigniew Bródka, as well as the 2014 silver, Koen Verweij, and bronze, Denny Morrison, medalists participated in the event but finished outside of the top 10.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic and track records were as follows.

World record	Denis Yuskov (RUS)	1:41.02	Salt Lake City, United States	9 December 2017
Olympic record	Derek Parra (USA)	1:43.95	Salt Lake City, United States	19 February 2002
Track record	Kjeld Nuis (NED)	1:44.36		12 February 2017

The following records were set during this competition.

Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record
13 February	Pair 14	Kjeld Nuis	Netherlands	1:44.01	TR

Results

The races were held at 20:00.[5]

Rank	Pair	Lane	Name	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	14	O	Kjeld Nuis	Netherlands	1:44.01	—	TR
	4	I	Patrick Roest	Netherlands	1:44.86	+0.85
	15	I	Kim Min-seok	South Korea	1:44.93	+0.92
4	15	O	Haralds Silovs	Latvia	1:45.25	+1.24
5	14	I	Takuro Oda	Japan	1:45.44	+1.43
6	10	O	Bart Swings	Belgium	1:45.49	+1.48
7	17	I	Sindre Henriksen	Norway	1:45.64	+1.63
8	18	O	Joey Mantia	United States	1:45.86	+1.85
9	18	I	Sverre Lunde Pedersen	Norway	1:46.12	+2.11
10	8	O	Shane Williamson	Japan	1:46.21	+2.20
11	16	O	Koen Verweij	Netherlands	1:46.26	+2.25
12	11	O	Zbigniew Bródka	Poland	1:46.31	+2.30
13	13	O	Denny Morrison	Canada	1:46.36	+2.35
14	9	I	Peter Michael	New Zealand	1:46.39	+2.38
15	11	I	Brian Hansen	United States	1:46.44	+2.43
16	12	I	Jan Szymański	Poland	1:46.48	+2.47
17	5	O	Joo Hyong-jun	South Korea	1:46.65	+2.64
18	7	O	Sergey Trofimov	Olympic Athletes from Russia	1:46.69	+2.68
19	10	I	Shani Davis	United States	1:46.74	+2.73
20	13	I	Konrad Niedźwiedzki	Poland	1:47.07	+3.06
21	17	O	Vincent De Haître	Canada	1:47.32	+3.31
22	2	O	Alexis Contin	France	1:47.33	+3.32
23	5	I	Mathias Vosté	Belgium	1:47.34	+3.33
24	3	O	Shota Nakamura	Japan	1:47.38	+3.37
25	9	O	Livio Wenger	Switzerland	1:47.76	+3.75
26	4	O	Reyon Kay	New Zealand	1:47.81	+3.80
27	12	O	Andrea Giovannini	Italy	1:47.82	+3.81
28	7	I	Fyodor Mezentsev	Kazakhstan	1:48.23	+4.22
29	6	I	Konrád Nagy	Hungary	1:49.01	+5.00
30	3	I	Denis Kuzin	Kazakhstan	1:49.14	+5.13
31	8	I	Ben Donnelly	Canada	1:49.68	+5.67
32	6	O	Xiakaini Aerchenghazi	China	1:50.16	+6.15
33	1	I	Marten Liiv	Estonia	1:50.23	+6.22
34	2	I	Tai William	Chinese Taipei	1:50.63	+6.62
	16	I	Allan Dahl Johansson	Norway	DNF

References

1. "Venues". www.pyeongchang2018.com/. Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Archived from the original on 17 February 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
2. "Schedule". POCOG. Archived from the original on 5 November 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
3. "Start list" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
4. Yonhap (13 February 2018). "S. Korea's Kim Min-seok captures bronze in men's 1,500m speed skating". The Korea Herald. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
5. "Final results" (PDF). POCOG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 February 2018. Retrieved 12 February 2018.