Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

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
Medalists
 Ådne Søndrål  Norway
 Ids Postma  Netherlands
 Rintje Ritsma  Netherlands
Speed skating at the
1998 Winter Olympics
500 m   men   women
1000 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m women
5000 m men women
10,000 m men

The men's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics took place on 12 February, at the M-Wave arena.[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:[2][3]

World record  Rintje Ritsma (NED) 1:48.88 Heerenveen, Netherlands 20 December 1997
Olympic record  Johann Olav Koss (NOR) 1:51.29 Hamar, Norway 16 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.

Date Pair Athlete Country Time OR WR
12 February Pair 2 Christian Breuer  Germany 1:50.96 OR
12 February Pair 6 Hiroyuki Noake  Japan 1:50.49 OR
12 February Pair 18 K. C. Boutiette  United States 1:50.06 OR
12 February Pair 21 Jan Bos  Netherlands 1:49.75 OR
12 February Pair 22 Ådne Søndrål  Norway 1:47.87 OR WR

Results

[1]

Rank Pair Name Country Time Time behind Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) 22 Ådne Søndrål  Norway 1:47.87 - WR
2nd, silver medalist(s) 22 Ids Postma  Netherlands 1:48.13 +0.26
3rd, bronze medalist(s) 23 Rintje Ritsma  Netherlands 1:48.52 +0.65
4 21 Jan Bos  Netherlands 1:49.75 +1.88
5 18 K. C. Boutiette  United States 1:50.04 +2.17
6 20 Martin Hersman  Netherlands 1:50.31 +2.44
7 16 Hiroyuki Noake  Japan 1:50.49 +2.62
8 18 Toru Aoyanagi  Japan 1:50.68 +2.81
9 2 Christian Breuer  Germany 1:50.96 +3.09
10 14 Andrey Anufriyenko  Russia 1:50.99 +3.12
11 10 Vadim Sayutin  Russia 1:51.31 +3.44
12 12 Choi Jae-bong  South Korea 1:51.47 +3.60
13 16 Peter Adeberg  Germany 1:51.50 +3.63
14 13 Dmitry Shepel  Russia 1:51.64 +3.77
15 14 Cheon Ju-hyeon  South Korea 1:51.65 +3.78
16 16 Yusuke Imai  Japan 1:51.70 +3.83
17 9 Bart Veldkamp  Belgium 1:51.73 +3.86
18 5 Marnix ten Kortenaar  Austria 1:51.94 +4.07
19 7 Sergey Tsybenko  Kazakhstan 1:52.03 +4.16
20 23 Kevin Overland  Canada 1:52.07 +4.20
21 19 Keiji Shirahata  Japan 1:52.23 +4.36
22 4 Aleksandr Kibalko  Russia 1:52.27 +4.40
23 13 Davide Carta  Italy 1:52.44 +4.57
24 15 Ermanno Ioriatti  Italy 1:52.45 +4.58
25 21 Steven Elm  Canada 1:52.70 +4.83
26 20 Kevin Marshall  Canada 1:52.77 +4.90
27 10 Radik Bikchentayev  Kazakhstan 1:52.87 +5.00
28 5 Steinar Johansen  Norway 1:52.88 +5.01
29 11 Brigt Rykkje  Norway 1:52.91 +5.04
30 19 Neal Marshall  Canada 1:52.93 +5.06
31 3 Casey FitzRandolph  United States 1:53.26 +5.39
32 15 Cory Carpenter  United States 1:53.50 +5.63
33 8 Frank Dittrich  Germany 1:53.64 +5.77
34 3 Paweł Zygmunt  Poland 1:53.73 +5.86
35 17 Dave Tamburrino  United States 1:54.19 +6.32
36 11 Wan Chunbo  China 1:54.64 +6.77
37 12 Cédric Kuentz  France 1:54.78 +6.91
38 6 René Taubenrauch  Germany 1:54.91 +7.04
39 2 Jeong Jin-uk  South Korea 1:55.02 +7.15
40 9 Andrew Nicholson  New Zealand 1:55.06 +7.19
41 1 Sergey Kaznacheyev  Kazakhstan 1:55.22 +7.35
42 6 Zsolt Baló  Hungary 1:55.52 +7.65
43 8 Feng Qingbo  China 1:56.45 +8.58
44 4 Dezideriu Horvath  Romania 1:57.35 +9.48

References

  1. 1 2 "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  3. ↑ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.

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