The men's 1000 metres speed skating competition of the 2014 Sochi Olympics was held at Adler Arena Skating Center on 12 February 2014. Stefan Groothuis won the gold medal.
Qualification A total of forty speed skaters could qualify for this distance, with a maximum of four skaters per country. The top 20 of the men's 1000 metres World Cup standings after World Cup 4 in Berlin secured a spot for their country. Then the additional 20 spots were awarded based on a time ranking of all times skated in the World Cup and the 2014 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships. A reserve list was also made.Qualification of NOC event quota places for the Olympic Winter Games 2014 based on Special Olympic Qualification Classification (SOQC) as of 9 December 2013
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
At the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships the track record was set by Denis Kuzin at 1:09.14.
The following records were set during this competition.
Date Round Athlete Country Time Record 12 February Pair 16 Stefan Groothuis 1:08.39 TR 12 February Pair 14 Samuel Schwarz 1:08.89 TR TR = track record
Results The race started at 18:00.Final Results
Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Time behind Notes 16 O Stefan Groothuis 1:08.39 — TR 17 O Denny Morrison 1:08.43 +0.04 17 I Michel Mulder 1:08.74 +0.35 16 I Nico Ihle 1:08.86 +0.47 14 O Samuel Schwarz 1:08.89 +0.5 TR 18 I Koen Verweij 1:09.09 +0.7 20 I Denis Kuzin 1:09.10 +0.71 18 O Shani Davis 1:09.12 +0.73 19 I Brian Hansen 1:09.21 +0.82 10 4 I Mark Tuitert 1:09.29 +0.9 11 13 O Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen 1:09.33 +0.94 12 19 O Mo Tae-bum 1:09.37 +0.98 13 8 O Roman Krech 1:09.63 +1.24 14 10 O Zbigniew Bródka 1:09.66 +1.27 15 15 O Joey Mantia 1:09.72 +1.33 16 13 I Konrad Niedźwiedzki 1:09.76 +1.37 17 3 I Denis Yuskov 1:09.81 +1.42 18 15 I Aleksey Yesin 1:09.93 +1.54 19 1 I Håvard Bøkko 1:09.98 +1.59 20 3 O Vincent De Haître 1:10.04 +1.65 21 6 O Lee Kyou-hyuk 1:10.04 +1.65 22 12 I Daniel Greig 1:10.13 +1.74 23 7 I Bart Swings 1:10.14 +1.75 24 9 I Haralds Silovs 1:10.29 +1.9 25 20 O Mirko Giacomo Nenzi 1:10.32 +1.93 26 8 I William Dutton 1:10.61 +2.22 27 14 I Dmitry Lobkov 1:10.65 +2.26 28 7 O Jonathan Garcia 1:10.74 +2.35 29 9 O Benjamin Macé 1:10.80 +2.41 30 11 O Kim Tae-yun 1:10.81 +2.42 31 5 I Espen Aarnes Hvammen 1:11.01 +2.62 32 4 O Muncef Ouardi 1:11.07 +2.68 33 11 I Fyodor Mezentsev 1:11.08 +2.69 34 5 O Tian Guojun 1:11.17 +2.78 35 1 O Taro Kondo 1:11.44 +3.05 36 12 O Daichi Yamanaka 1:11.93 +3.54 37 2 O Tommi Pulli 1:12.16 +3.77 38 2 I David Andersson 1:12.40 +4.01 39 6 I Igor Bogolyubskiy 1:12.85 +4.46 40 10 I Sung Ching-yang 1:13.79 +5.40 TR = track record
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