Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres


The men's 1500 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
In reverse order of the 5000 metres, Jochem Uytdehaage first broke the world record, only to see it bettered by Derek Parra, who won the third US skating gold of the Games. He was the first Mexican-American to medal in a winter sport.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
DateRoundAthleteCountryTimeORWR
19 FebruaryPair 1Dmitry Shepel1:45.98OR
19 FebruaryPair 5Nick Pearson1:45.51OR
19 FebruaryPair 9Jochem Uytdehaage1:44.57ORWR
19 FebruaryPair 21Derek Parra1:43.95ORWR

Results

RankPairNameCountryTimeTime behindNotes
21Derek Parra1:43.95–
9Jochem Uytdehaage1:44.57+0.62
23Ådne Søndrål1:45.26+1.31
423Joey Cheek1:45.34+1.39
516Ids Postma1:45.41+1.46
65Nick Pearson1:45.51+1.56
715Jan Bos1:45.63+1.68
818Lee Kyou-hyuk1:45.82+1.87
914Rintje Ritsma1:45.86+1.91
1014Yevgeny Lalenkov1:45.97+2.02
111Dmitry Shepel1:45.98+2.03
1222Dustin Molicki1:46.00+2.05
139Janne Hanninen1:46.04+2.09
1419J. P. Shilling1:46.29+2.34
1518Hiroyuki Noake1:46.38+2.43
168Sergey Tsybenko1:46.40+2.45
1724Kevin Marshall1:46.75+2.80
1821Steven Elm1:46.99+3.04
191Radik Bikchantayev1:47.04+3.09
2022Petter Andersen1:47.21+3.26
2120Choi Jae-bong1:47.26+3.31
2216Aleksandr Kibalko1:47.63+3.68
2313Takaharu Nakajima1:47.64+3.69
2417Stefano Donagrandi1:47.72+3.77
2519Keiji Shirahata1:47.78+3.83
265Enrico Fabris1:47.83+3.88
274Vesa Rosendahl1:48.02+4.07
2812Philippe Marois1:48.13+4.18
292Cedric Kuentz1:48.20+4.25
3015Zsolt Balo1:48.27+4.32
313Roberto Sighel1:48.40+4.45
3220Risto Rosendahl1:48.57+4.62
334Mun Jun1:48.58+4.63
3424Yusuke Imai1:48.76+4.81
352Eskil Ervik1:49.24+5.29
3611Nikolay Uliyanin1:49.42+5.47
3711Vadim Sayutin1:49.45+5.50
386Johan Röjler1:49.50+5.55
3912Vladimir Kostin1:49.57+5.62
4010Igor Makovetsky1:50.15+6.20
4117Jan Friesinger1:50.26+6.31
4210Yeo Sang-Yeop1:50.70+6.75
433Andrey Fomin1:51.02+7.07
438Frank Dittrich1:51.02+7.07
457Ma Yongbin1:51.81+7.86
466Liu Guangbin1:52.01+8.06
477Aleksey Khatylyov1:52.87+8.92
4813Christian BreuerDNF