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

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Men's 1500 metres
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueGangneung Oval
Date13 February 2018
Competitors35 from 19 nations
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Patrick Roest  Netherlands
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Kim Min-seok  South Korea
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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
1st place, gold medalist(s) 14 O Kjeld Nuis  Netherlands 1:44.01 — TR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 4 I Patrick Roest  Netherlands 1:44.86 +0.85
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Schedule". POCOG. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  3. ^ Start list
  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. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
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