Speed Skating 2022/Men's 1000 metre

Men's 1000 metre
General information
Sport	Speed Skating 2022
Date	18 February 2022
Competitors	30 athletes
Venue	Beijing National Speed Skating Oval
Previous medalists
Gold	Kjeld Nuis
Silver	Havard Lorentzen
Bronze	Kim Tae-yun
Conditions
Length	1000 metres
Medalists
	Thomas Krol
	Laurent Dubreuil
	Haavard Holmefjord Lorentzen

The men's 1000 metre of Speed Skating 2022 during the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 18 February 2022 in the Beijing National Speed Skating Oval. With 30 athletes competing, the event was won by Thomas Krol from Netherlands, with Laurent Dubreuil from Canada taking the silver medal and Haavard Holmefjord Lorentzen from Norway taking bronze.

Format

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

Preview

Thirty athletes qualified for the event with Thomas Krol as the man to beat. Despite only competing in three out four World Cup races, he was still leading the standings. Dutch skaters had dominated the event with all podium places in three out of four events, with Krol winning twice and Hein Otterspeer having won once, while Kai Verbij was the reigning world champion in the event. Haavard Holmefjord Lorentzen seemed to be the closest contender for the Dutch delegation, but Ning Zhongyan won the last World Cup event, ahead of Jordan Stolz and Viktor Mushtakov, while potential other outsiders included Laurent Dubreuil, Cha Min-kyu, and Cornelius Kersten.

Jordan Stolz was the youngest competitor in the field at the age of 17, and was almost four years younger than other debutants Wataru Morishige and Connor Howe, with four athletes being born in 1999. The oldest competitor Hein Otterspeer would also finally make his Olympic debut at the age of 33, after missing out on the selections of 2010, 2014, and 2018. Second-oldest competitor Denis Kuzin, who was only a month younger, was the veteran in the field and was due to start at his fourth Olympic appearance, followed by Haavard Holmefjord Lorentzen with three. Lorentzen was also the only medalist from 2018 to try to defend his place on the podium - defending champion Kjeld Nuis failed to qualify through the national trials after finishing fourth for the event, while 2018 bronze medalist Kim Tae-yun wasn't selected to compete in 2022. Out of thirty athletes, seventeen competitors made their Olympic debuts.

Current Records

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	15 February 2020		Pavel Kulizhnikov	1:05.69
OR	16 February 2002		Gerard van Velde	1:07.18
TR	8 April 2021		Xu Fu	1:11.40

Results

Thomas Krol won his second Olympic medal in ten days, after he also won silver in the 1500 metres. Laurent Dubreuil won his first Olympic medal, after the world champion over 500 metres finished just behind the podium at the shortest distance, while Haavard Holmefjord Lorentzen completed his set of Olympic medals, after he won gold and silver in 2018. Piotr Michalski finished in the top 5 for the second time in a week, after he finished fifth in the 500 metres, and Ning Zhongyan recorded the second-best result of a debutant with a fifth place. Ignat Golovatsiuk and Marten Liiv by far recorded their best Olympic results by far to complete the top 7.

Result	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Thomas Krol	Netherlands	1:07.92
	Laurent Dubreuil	Canada	1:08.32
	Haavard Holmefjord Lorentzen	Norway	1:08.48
4	Piotr Michalski	Poland	1:08.56
5	Ning Zhongyan	China	1:08.60
6	Ignat Golovatsiuk	Belarus	1:08.63
7	Marten Liiv	Estonia	1:08.65
8	Viktor Mushtakov	ROC	1:08.74
9	Cornelius Kersten	Great Britain	1:08.79
10	Hein Otterspeer	Netherlands	1:08.80
11	Pavel Kulizhnikov	ROC	1:08.87
12	Connor Howe	Canada	1:08.97
13	Damian Zurek	Poland	1:09.08
14	Jordan Stolz	United States	1:09.12
15	David Bosa	Italy	1:09.35
16	Wataru Morishige	Japan	1:09.47
17	Dmitriy Morozov	Kazakhstan	1:09.61
18	Cha Min-kyu	South Korea	1:09.69
19	Lian Ziwen	China	1:09.93
20	Ryota Kojima	Japan	1:09.97
21	Tatsuya Shinhama	Japan	1:10.00
22	Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu	Canada	1:10.075
23	Denis Kuzin	Kazakhstan	1:10.077
24	Kim Min-seok	South Korea	1:10.08
25	Bjoern Magnussen	Norway	1:10.14
26	Joel Dufter	Germany	1:10.16
27	Mathias Voste	Belgium	1:10.22
28	Allan Dahl Johansson	Norway	1:10.34
29	Austin Kleba	United States	1:10.57
30	Kai Verbij	Netherlands	1:14.17