Speed Skating 2022/Men's 1500 metre

Men's 1500 metre
General information
Sport	Speed Skating 2022
Date	8 February 2022
Competitors	29 athletes
Venue	Beijing National Speed Skating Oval
Previous medalists
Gold	Kjeld Nuis
Silver	Patrick Roest
Bronze	Kim Min Seok
Conditions
Length	1500 metres
Medalists
	Kjeld Nuis
	Thomas Krol
	Kim Min-seok

The men's 1500 metre of Speed Skating 2022 during the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 8 February 2022 in the Beijing National Speed Skating Oval. With 29 athletes competing, the event was won by Kjeld Nuis from Netherlands, with Thomas Krol from Netherlands taking the silver medal and Kim Min-seok from South Korea taking bronze.

Format

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

Preview

Twenty-nine athletes qualified for the event with a quite open field. Joey Mantia was the leader of the World Cup standings after four events, but Ning Zhongyan was a fierce competitor and both won medals at all four events. Kim Min-seok also won a race ahead of the two, but Thomas Krol, Connor Howe, and Allan Dahl Johansson had also finished in the top 3 in any event throughout the season. Other potential medal contenders and outsiders also included Japan's Seitaro Ichinohe and Takuro Oda, defending champion Kjeld Nuis, and Peder Kongshaug.

Peder Kongshaug was also the youngest athlete to compete at the age of 20, just two months younger than Daniil Aldoshkin and a year younger than Casey Dawson and Connor Howe, with all four making their Olympic debuts. Joey Mantia was the oldest athlete and was due to start at his third edition of the Olympic Games, one time fewer than second-oldest Haralds Silovs, and the same number as Ruslan Zakharov, who was a year younger, Emery Lehman, and Bart Swings. Over half of the field made their Olympic debuts, with defending silver medalist Patrick Roest only competing in other events in Beijing.

Current Records

Record	Date	Nat.	Name	Time
WR	10 March 2019		Kjeld Nuis	1:40.17
OR	19 February 2002		Derek Parra	1:43.95
TR	10 April 2021		Ning Zhongyan	1:46.81

Results

Kjeld Nuis successfully defended his Olympic title in the 1500 metres, breaking the Olympic record set by Derek Parra in 2002. After winning the 1000 metres and the 1500 metres in 2018, he won his third Olympic title, and was followed by his team mate Thomas Krol, who won silver at his Olympic debut. Kim Min-seok won the bronze medal for the second time in a row, winning his third Olympic medal after winning silver in the team pursuit in 2018. Peder Kongshaug and Connor Howe made sure that three debutants finished in the top 5, while Joey Mantia recorded his best result ever in the 1500 metres after having finished 22nd in 2014 and 8th in 2018.

Result	Athlete	Nationality	Time
	Kjeld Nuis	Netherlands	1:43.21	OR
	Thomas Krol	Netherlands	1:43.55
	Kim Min-seok	South Korea	1:44.24
4	Peder Kongshaug	Norway	1:44.39
5	Connor Howe	Canada	1:44.86
6	Joey Mantia	United States	1:45.26
7	Ning Zhongyan	China	1:45.28
8	Sergei Trofimov	ROC	1:45.32
9	Marcel Bosker	Netherlands	1:45.42
10	Seitaro Ichinohe	Japan	1:45.53
11	Emery Lehman	United States	1:45.78
12	Allan Dahl Johansson	Norway	1:45.81
13	Bart Swings	Belgium	1:45.82
14	Daniil Aldoshkin	ROC	1:46.33
15	Ruslan Zakharov	ROC	1:46.46	PR
16	Kristian Ulekleiv	Norway	1:46.56
17	Takuro Oda	Japan	1:46.60
18	Dmitriy Morozov	Kazakhstan	1:47.01
19	Cornelius Kersten	Great Britain	1:47.11
20	Wang Haotian	China	1:47.13
21	Park Seong-hyeon	South Korea	1:47.59
22	Tyson Langelaar	Canada	1:47.81
23	Antoine Gelinas-Beaulieu	Canada	1:48.00
24	Haralds Silovs	Latvia	1:48.24
25	Alessio Trentini	Italy	1:48.33
26	Peter Michael	New Zealand	1:48.68
27	Lian Ziwen	China	1:49.15
28	Casey Dawson	United States	1:49.45
29	Mathias Voste	Belgium	1:49.93