The men's 1500 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

In reverse order of the 5000 metres, Jochem Uytdehaage first broke the world record, only to see it bettered by Derek Parra, who won the third US skating gold of the Games. He was the first Mexican-American to medal in a winter sport.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date Round Athlete Country Time OR WR 19 February Pair 1 Dmitry Shepel 1:45.98 OR 19 February Pair 5 Nick Pearson 1:45.51 OR 19 February Pair 9 Jochem Uytdehaage 1:44.57 OR WR 19 February Pair 21 Derek Parra 1:43.95 OR WR

Results

Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Time behind Notes 21 O Derek Parra 1:43.95 – 9 O Jochem Uytdehaage 1:44.57 +0.62 23 O Ådne Søndrål 1:45.26 +1.31 4 23 I Joey Cheek 1:45.34 +1.39 5 16 O Ids Postma 1:45.41 +1.46 6 5 O Nick Pearson 1:45.51 +1.56 7 15 O Jan Bos 1:45.63 +1.68 8 18 I Lee Kyou-hyuk 1:45.82 +1.87 9 14 I Rintje Ritsma 1:45.86 +1.91 10 14 O Yevgeny Lalenkov 1:45.97 +2.02 11 1 O Dmitry Shepel 1:45.98 +2.03 12 22 O Dustin Molicki 1:46.00 +2.05 13 9 I Janne Hanninen 1:46.04 +2.09 14 19 O J. P. Shilling 1:46.29 +2.34 15 18 I Hiroyuki Noake 1:46.38 +2.43 16 8 O Sergey Tsybenko 1:46.40 +2.45 17 24 O Kevin Marshall 1:46.75 +2.80 18 21 I Steven Elm 1:46.99 +3.04 19 1 I Radik Bikchantayev 1:47.04 +3.09 20 22 I Petter Andersen 1:47.21 +3.26 21 20 O Choi Jae-bong 1:47.26 +3.31 22 16 I Aleksandr Kibalko 1:47.63 +3.68 23 13 I Takaharu Nakajima 1:47.64 +3.69 24 17 I Stefano Donagrandi 1:47.72 +3.77 25 19 I Keiji Shirahata 1:47.78 +3.83 26 5 I Enrico Fabris 1:47.83 +3.88 27 4 I Vesa Rosendahl 1:48.02 +4.07 28 12 I Philippe Marois 1:48.13 +4.18 29 2 I Cedric Kuentz 1:48.20 +4.25 30 15 I Zsolt Balo 1:48.27 +4.32 31 3 O Roberto Sighel 1:48.40 +4.45 32 20 I Risto Rosendahl 1:48.57 +4.62 33 4 O Mun Jun 1:48.58 +4.63 34 24 I Yusuke Imai 1:48.76 +4.81 35 2 I Eskil Ervik 1:49.24 +5.29 36 11 I Nikolay Uliyanin 1:49.42 +5.47 37 11 O Vadim Sayutin 1:49.45 +5.50 38 6 I Johan Röjler 1:49.50 +5.55 39 12 O Vladimir Kostin 1:49.57 +5.62 40 10 I Igor Makovetsky 1:50.15 +6.20 41 17 O Jan Friesinger 1:50.26 +6.31 42 10 O Yeo Sang-Yeop 1:50.70 +6.75 43 3 I Andrey Fomin 1:51.02 +7.07 43 8 I Frank Dittrich 1:51.02 +7.07 45 7 O Ma Yongbin 1:51.81 +7.86 46 6 O Liu Guangbin 1:52.01 +8.06 47 7 O Aleksey Khatylyov 1:52.87 +8.92 48 13 O Christian Breuer DNF

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