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


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. 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. 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.
The following records were set during this competition.
DateRoundAthleteCountryTimeRecord
13 FebruaryPair 14Kjeld Nuis1:44.01TR

Results

The races were held at 20:00.
RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeTime behindNotes
14OKjeld Nuis1:44.01TR
4IPatrick Roest1:44.86+0.85
15IKim Min-seok1:44.93+0.92
15OHaralds Silovs1:45.25+1.24
14ITakuro Oda1:45.44+1.43
10OBart Swings1:45.49+1.48
17ISindre Henriksen1:45.64+1.63
18OJoey Mantia1:45.86+1.85
18I1:46.12+2.11
108OShane Williamson1:46.21+2.20
1116OKoen Verweij1:46.26+2.25
1211OZbigniew Bródka1:46.31+2.30
1313ODenny Morrison1:46.36+2.35
149IPeter Michael1:46.39+2.38
1511IBrian Hansen1:46.44+2.43
1612IJan Szymański1:46.48+2.47
175OJoo Hyong-jun1:46.65+2.64
187OSergey Trofimov1:46.69+2.68
1910IShani Davis1:46.74+2.73
2013IKonrad Niedźwiedzki1:47.07+3.06
2117OVincent De Haître1:47.32+3.31
222OAlexis Contin1:47.33+3.32
235IMathias Vosté1:47.34+3.33
243OShota Nakamura1:47.38+3.37
259OLivio Wenger1:47.76+3.75
264OReyon Kay1:47.81+3.80
2712OAndrea Giovannini1:47.82+3.81
287IFyodor Mezentsev1:48.23+4.22
296IKonrád Nagy1:49.01+5.00
303IDenis Kuzin1:49.14+5.13
318IBen Donnelly1:49.68+5.67
326OXiakaini Aerchenghazi1:50.16+6.15
331IMarten Liiv1:50.23+6.22
342ITai William1:50.63+6.62
16IAllan Dahl Johansson