Speed Skating 2018/Men's 1500 metre

Men's 1500 metre
General information
Sport	Speed Skating 2018
Date	13 February 2018
Competitors	35 athletes
Venue	Gangneung Oval
Previous medalists
Gold	Zbigniew Brodka
Silver	Koen Verweij
Bronze	Denny Morrison
Conditions
Temperature	16°C / 60.8°F
Length	1500 metres
Medalists
	Kjeld Nuis
	Patrick Roest
	Kim Min Seok

The men's 1500 metre of Speed Skating 2018 during the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 13 February 2018 in the Gangneung Oval. With 35 athletes competing, the event was won by Kjeld Nuis from Netherlands, with Patrick Roest from Netherlands taking the silver medal and Kim Min Seok from South Korea taking bronze.

Format

The competition exists out of eighteen head-to-head races of 1500 metres. The competitor with the fastest time is the winner.

Preview

Thirty-five athletes qualified for the event, with the world record holder and leader in the World Cup standings Denis Yuskov banned from competing. Sverre Lunde Pedersen was the only other skater to have won a World Cup event in the season, but the silver medalist of Sochi Koen Verweij had finished on the podium in four out of five events. Joey Mantia was also a very strong contender in this event, just like Patrick Roest, who finished second in the world allround championships. The third Dutch skater Kjeld Nuis was the current world champion, but had skipped most of the World Cup season. Other medal contenders and outsiders for this event included Vincent de Haitre, Sindre Henriksen, Allan Dahl Johansson, and Takuro Oda.

Current Records

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	9 December 2017		Denis Yuskov	1:41.02
OR	19 February 2002		Derek Parra	1:43.95
TR	12 February 2017		Kjeld Nuis	1:44.36

Results

Result	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Kjeld Nuis	Netherlands	1:44.01
	Patrick Roest	Netherlands	1:44.86	PR
	Kim Min Seok	South Korea	1:44.93
4	Haralds Silovs	Latvia	1:45.25
5	Takuro Oda	Japan	1:45.44
6	Bart Swings	Belgium	1:45.49
7	Sindre Henriksen	Norway	1:45.64
8	Joey Mantia	United States	1:45.86
9	Sverre Lunde Pedersen	Norway	1:46.12
10	Shane Williamson	Japan	1:46.21
11	Koen Verweij	Netherlands	1:46.26
12	Zbigniew Brodka	Poland	1:46.31
13	Denny Morrison	Canada	1:46.36
14	Peter Michael	New Zealand	1:46.39
15	Brian Hansen	United States	1:46.44
16	Jan Szymanski	Poland	1:46.48
17	Joo Hyong-jun	South Korea	1:46.65
18	Sergey Trofimov	Olympic Athletes from Russia	1:46.69
19	Shani Davis	United States	1:46.74
20	Konrad Niedzwiedzki	Poland	1:47.07
21	Vincent de Haitre	Canada	1:47.32
22	Alexis Contin	France	1:47.33
23	Mathias Voste	Belgium	1:47.34
24	Shota Nakamura	Japan	1:47.38
25	Livio Wenger	Switzerland	1:47.76
26	Reyon Kay	New Zealand	1:47.81
27	Andrea Giovannini	Italy	1:47.82
28	Fedor Mezentsev	Kazakhstan	1:48.23
29	Konrad Nagy	Hungary	1:49.01
30	Denis Kuzin	Kazakhstan	1:49.14
31	Benjamin Donnelly	Canada	1:49.68
32	Xiakaini Aerchenghazi	China	1:50.16
33	Marten Liiv	Estonia	1:50.23
34	Tai William	Chinese Taipei	1:50.63
35	Allan Dahl Johansson	Norway	DNF