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Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres

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Men's 1000 metres
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Gold medal winner Stefan Groothuis
VenueAdler Arena Skating Center
Date12 February 2014
Competitors40 from 19 nations
Winning time1:08.39
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Stefan Groothuis  Netherlands
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Denny Morrison  Canada
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Michel Mulder  Netherlands
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The men's 1000 metres speed skating competition of the 2014 Sochi Olympics was held at Adler Arena Skating Center on 12 February 2014.[1] Stefan Groothuis won the gold medal.[2][3]

Qualification

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A total of forty speed skaters could qualify for this distance, with a maximum of four skaters per country. The top 20 of the men's 1000 metres World Cup standings after World Cup 4 in Berlin secured a spot for their country. Then the additional 20 spots were awarded based on a time ranking of all times skated in the World Cup and the 2014 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships. A reserve list was also made.[4]

Records

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

World record  Shani Davis (USA) 1:06.42 Salt Lake City, United States 7 March 2009
Olympic record  Gerard van Velde (NED) 1:07.18 Salt Lake City, United States 16 February 2002

At the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships the track record was set by Denis Kuzin at 1:09.14.[5]

The following records were set during this competition.

Date Round Athlete Country Time Record
12 February Pair 16 Stefan Groothuis  Netherlands 1:08.39 TR
12 February Pair 14 Samuel Schwarz  Germany 1:08.89 TR

TR = track record

Results

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The race started at 18:00.[6]

Stefan Groothuis
Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Time behind Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 16 O Stefan Groothuis  Netherlands 1:08.39 TR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 17 O Denny Morrison  Canada 1:08.43 +0.04
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 17 I Michel Mulder  Netherlands 1:08.74 +0.35
4 16 I Nico Ihle  Germany 1:08.86 +0.47
5 14 O Samuel Schwarz  Germany 1:08.89 +0.5 TR
6 18 I Koen Verweij  Netherlands 1:09.09 +0.7
7 20 I Denis Kuzin  Kazakhstan 1:09.10 +0.71
8 18 O Shani Davis  United States 1:09.12 +0.73
9 19 I Brian Hansen  United States 1:09.21 +0.82
10 4 I Mark Tuitert  Netherlands 1:09.29 +0.9
11 13 O Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen  Norway 1:09.33 +0.94
12 19 O Mo Tae-bum  South Korea 1:09.37 +0.98
13 8 O Roman Krech  Kazakhstan 1:09.63 +1.24
14 10 O Zbigniew Bródka  Poland 1:09.66 +1.27
15 15 O Joey Mantia  United States 1:09.72 +1.33
16 13 I Konrad Niedźwiedzki  Poland 1:09.76 +1.37
17 3 I Denis Yuskov  Russia 1:09.81 +1.42
18 15 I Aleksey Yesin  Russia 1:09.93 +1.54
19 1 I Håvard Bøkko  Norway 1:09.98 +1.59
20 3 O Vincent De Haître  Canada 1:10.04 +1.65
21 6 O Lee Kyou-hyuk  South Korea 1:10.04 +1.65
22 12 I Daniel Greig  Australia 1:10.13 +1.74
23 7 I Bart Swings  Belgium 1:10.14 +1.75
24 9 I Haralds Silovs  Latvia 1:10.29 +1.9
25 20 O Mirko Giacomo Nenzi  Italy 1:10.32 +1.93
26 8 I William Dutton  Canada 1:10.61 +2.22
27 14 I Dmitry Lobkov  Russia 1:10.65 +2.26
28 7 O Jonathan Garcia  United States 1:10.74 +2.35
29 9 O Benjamin Macé  France 1:10.80 +2.41
30 11 O Kim Tae-yun  South Korea 1:10.81 +2.42
31 5 I Espen Aarnes Hvammen  Norway 1:11.01 +2.62
32 4 O Muncef Ouardi  Canada 1:11.07 +2.68
33 11 I Fyodor Mezentsev  Kazakhstan 1:11.08 +2.69
34 5 O Tian Guojun  China 1:11.17 +2.78
35 1 O Taro Kondo  Japan 1:11.44 +3.05
36 12 O Daichi Yamanaka  Japan 1:11.93 +3.54
37 2 O Tommi Pulli  Finland 1:12.16 +3.77
38 2 I David Andersson  Sweden 1:12.40 +4.01
39 6 I Igor Bogolyubskiy  Russia 1:12.85 +4.46
40 10 I Sung Ching-yang  Chinese Taipei 1:13.79 +5.40

TR = track record

References

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  1. ^ "Speed Skating Schedule and Results – Men's 1000 m". SOOC. Archived from the original on 16 February 2014. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  2. ^ "Dutch win fourth speedskating gold". ESPN. 12 February 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  3. ^ "Stefan Groothuis wins 1,000m speed skating gold". BBC Sport. 12 February 2014. Retrieved 14 February 2014.
  4. ^ Qualification of NOC event quota places for the Olympic Winter Games 2014 based on Special Olympic Qualification Classification (SOQC) as of 9 December 2013 Archived 16 January 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ "Visitenkarte der Eisbahn: Adler Arene Sotschi". speedskatingnews. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  6. ^ Final Results