Speed Skating 2018/Men's 1000 metre

Men's 1000 metre
General information
Sport	Speed Skating 2018
Date	14 February 2018
Competitors	36 athletes
Venue	Gangneung Oval
Previous medalists
Gold	Stefan Groothuis
Silver	Denny Morrison
Bronze	Michel Mulder
Conditions
Temperature	16.5°C / 61.7°F
Length	1000 metres
Medalists
	Kjeld Nuis
	Havard Lorentzen
	Kim Tae-yun

The men's 1000 metre of Speed Skating 2018 during the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 14 February 2018 in the Gangneung Oval. With 36 athletes competing, the event was won by Kjeld Nuis from Netherlands, with Havard Lorentzen from Norway taking the silver medal and Kim Tae-yun from South Korea taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of eighteen head-to-head races of 1000 metres. The competitor with the fastest time is the winner.

Preview

Thirty-six athletes qualified for the event, with Kjeld Nuis and Havard Lorentzen as the big favorites. The two had gathered exactly the same number of points in the World Cup events they both participated in, with Holmefjord leading the rankings after competing in an additional event. Nuis was still undefeated in 2018, having won the last two international races. Behind the two top seeds, Kai Verbij was the only other competitor to have won a World Cup event, with Vincent de Haitre and Mika Poutala showing consistent results. Other medal contenders were two-time Olympic medalist Koen Verweij, Nico Ihle, Alexandre St-Jean, and Joey Mantia.

Current Records

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	7 March 2009		Shani Davis	1:06.42
OR	16 February 2002		Gerard van Velde	1:07.18
TR	11 February 2017		Kjeld Nuis	1:08.26

Results

Result	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Kjeld Nuis	Netherlands	1:07.95
	Havard Lorentzen	Norway	1:07.99
	Kim Tae-yun	South Korea	1:08.22
4	Joey Mantia	United States	1:08.564
5	Takuro Oda	Japan	1:08.568
6	Kai Verbij	Netherlands	1:08.61
7	Shani Davis	United States	1:08.78
8	Nico Ihle	Germany	1:08.93
9	Koen Verweij	Netherlands	1:09.14
10	Mitchell Whitmore	United States	1:09.17
11	Alexandre St-Jean	Canada	1:09.24
12	Cha Min-kyu	South Korea	1:09.27
13	Chung Jae-woong	South Korea	1:09.43
14	Joel Dufter	Germany	1:09.46
15	Haralds Silovs	Latvia	1:09.50
16	Mika Poutala	Finland	1:09.58
17	Sebastian Klosinski	Poland	1:09.59
18	Marten Liiv	Estonia	1:09.75
19	Vincent de Haitre	Canada	1:09.79
20	Tsubasa Hasegawa	Japan	1:09.83
21	Konrad Nagy	Hungary	1:09.92
22	Daniel Greig	Australia	1:09.99
23	Konrad Niedzwiedzki	Poland	1:10.026
24	Daichi Yamanaka	Japan	1:10.027
25	Laurent Dubreuil	Canada	1:10.03
26	Yang Tao	China	1:10.10
27	Denis Kuzin	Kazakhstan	1:10.13
28	Ignat Golovatsiuk	Belarus	1:10.141
29	Stanislav Palkin	Kazakhstan	1:10.149
30	Mirko Giacomo Nenzi	Italy	1:10.16
31	Piotr Michalski	Poland	1:10.17
32	Henrik Fagerli Rukke	Norway	1:10.25
33	Fedor Mezentsev	Kazakhstan	1:10.62
34	Pedro Causil	Colombia	1:10.71
35	Mathias Voste	Belgium	1:11.24
36	Pekka Koskela	Finland	1:11.76