Speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:[3][4]

World record	Magne Thomassen (NOR)	2:02.5	Davos, Switzerland	5 February 1968
Olympic record	Yevgeny Grishin (URS)  Yuri Mikhailov (URS)	2:08.6	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	30 January 1956

The following new Olympic record was set.

Date	Athlete	Time	OR	WR
16 February	Kees Verkerk (NED)	2:03.4	OR

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Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Kees Verkerk	Netherlands	2:03.4	OR
	Ivar Eriksen	Norway	2:05.0
	Ard Schenk	Netherlands	2:05.0
4	Magne Thomassen	Norway	2:05.1
5	Johnny Höglin	Sweden	2:05.2
	Bjørn Tveter	Norway	2:05.2
7	Svein-Erik Stiansen	Norway	2:05.5
8	Eduard Matusevich	Soviet Union	2:06.1
9	Peter Nottet	Netherlands	2:06.3
10	Örjan Sandler	Sweden	2:07.0
11	Aleksandr Kerchenko	Soviet Union	2:07.1
12	Ants Antson	Soviet Union	2:07.2
	Valery Kaplan	Soviet Union	2:07.2
14	Jouko Launonen	Finland	2:07.5
15	Günter Traub	West Germany	2:07.7
16	Jan Bols	Netherlands	2:07.8
	Manne Lavås	Sweden	2:07.8
18	Kimmo Koskinen	Finland	2:07.9
19	Richard Wurster	United States	2:08.4
20	Göran Claeson	Sweden	2:08.6
21	Olavi Hjellman	Finland	2:10.1
22	Jürgen Traub	West Germany	2:10.2
23	Wayne LeBombard	United States	2:11.2
24	Raimo Hietala	Finland	2:11.7
	Bill Lanigan	United States	2:11.7
26	Bob Hodges	Canada	2:12.0
27	György Martos	Hungary	2:12.2
28	John Tipper	Great Britain	2:12.4
29	György Ivánkai	Hungary	2:12.6
30	Tadao Ishihata	Japan	2:12.7
31	Keiichi Suzuki	Japan	2:13.1
32	Giancarlo Gloder	Italy	2:13.2
33	Elio Locatelli	Italy	2:13.3
34	Roger Capan	United States	2:13.6
	Renato De Riva	Italy	2:13.6
36	Michel Thépénier	France	2:13.7
37	François Perrenoud	France	2:14.0
38	Guido Gillarduzzi	Italy	2:14.1
39	Otmar Braunecker	Austria	2:14.4
40	Mutsuhiko Maeda	Japan	2:14.8
	Hermann Strutz	Austria	2:14.8
	Masaki Suzuki	Japan	2:14.8
43	Geoff Stockdale	Great Britain	2:15.6
44	Erich Korbel	Austria	2:15.7
45	Mihály Martos	Hungary	2:15.8
46	Pete Williamson	Canada	2:16.0
47	Hansruedi Widmer	Switzerland	2:16.1
48	Franz Krienbühl	Switzerland	2:16.3
49	Colin Coates	Australia	2:16.7
49	Luvsanlkhagvyn Dashnyam	Mongolia	2:16.7
51	Lee Ik-hwan	South Korea	2:17.5
52	Büjiin Jalbaa	Mongolia	2:18.0
53	David Bodington	Great Britain	2:19.1