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.[1][2]

Men's 1500 metres
at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
VenueM-Wave
Dates12 February
Competitors45 from 18 nations
Winning time1:47.87 WR
Medalists
Ådne Søndrål
 Norway
Ids Postma
 Netherlands
Rintje Ritsma
 Netherlands
Speed skating at the
1998 Winter Olympics
500 mmenwomen
1000 mmenwomen
1500 mmenwomen
3000 mwomen
5000 mmenwomen
10,000 mmen

Records

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

World record Rintje Ritsma (NED)1:48.88Heerenveen, Netherlands20 December 1997
Olympic record Johann Olav Koss (NOR)1:51.29Hamar, Norway16 February 1994

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 Breuer Germany1:50.96OR
12 FebruaryPair 6Hiroyuki Noake Japan1:50.49OR
12 FebruaryPair 18K. C. Boutiette United States1:50.06OR
12 FebruaryPair 21Jan Bos Netherlands1:49.75OR
12 FebruaryPair 22Ådne Søndrål Norway1:47.87ORWR

Results

[1]

RankPairNameCountryTimeTime behindNotes
22Ådne Søndrål Norway1:47.87-WR
22Ids Postma Netherlands1:48.13+0.26
23Rintje Ritsma Netherlands1:48.52+0.65
421Jan Bos Netherlands1:49.75+1.88
518K. C. Boutiette United States1:50.04+2.17
620Martin Hersman Netherlands1:50.31+2.44
716Hiroyuki Noake Japan1:50.49+2.62
818Toru Aoyanagi Japan1:50.68+2.81
92Christian Breuer Germany1:50.96+3.09
1014Andrey Anufriyenko Russia1:50.99+3.12
1110Vadim Sayutin Russia1:51.31+3.44
1212Choi Jae-bong South Korea1:51.47+3.60
1316Peter Adeberg Germany1:51.50+3.63
1413Dmitry Shepel Russia1:51.64+3.77
1514Cheon Ju-hyeon South Korea1:51.65+3.78
1616Yusuke Imai Japan1:51.70+3.83
179Bart Veldkamp Belgium1:51.73+3.86
185Marnix ten Kortenaar Austria1:51.94+4.07
197Sergey Tsybenko Kazakhstan1:52.03+4.16
2023Kevin Overland Canada1:52.07+4.20
2119Keiji Shirahata Japan1:52.23+4.36
224Alexander Kibalko Russia1:52.27+4.40
2313Davide Carta Italy1:52.44+4.57
2415Ermanno Ioriatti Italy1:52.45+4.58
2521Steven Elm Canada1:52.70+4.83
2620Kevin Marshall Canada1:52.77+4.90
2710Radik Bikchentayev Kazakhstan1:52.87+5.00
285Steinar Johansen Norway1:52.88+5.01
2911Brigt Rykkje Norway1:52.91+5.04
3019Neal Marshall Canada1:52.93+5.06
313Casey FitzRandolph United States1:53.26+5.39
3215Cory Carpenter United States1:53.50+5.63
338Frank Dittrich Germany1:53.64+5.77
343Paweł Zygmunt Poland1:53.73+5.86
3517Dave Tamburrino United States1:54.19+6.32
3611Wan Chunbo China1:54.64+6.77
3712Cédric Kuentz France1:54.78+6.91
386René Taubenrauch Germany1:54.91+7.04
392Jeong Jin-uk South Korea1:55.02+7.15
409Andrew Nicholson New Zealand1:55.06+7.19
411Sergey Kaznacheyev Kazakhstan1:55.22+7.35
426Zsolt Baló Hungary1:55.52+7.65
438Feng Qingbo China1:56.45+8.58
444Dezideriu Horvath Romania1:57.35+9.48

References
  1. "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  2. "Speed Skating at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games: Men's 1,500 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
  3. "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  4. "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
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