The Men's 1500 Metres in speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics took place on 12 February, at the M-Wave arena.

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

Due to the use of clap skates in comparison to the previous Olympics, the Olympic record got broken considerably and the following new world and olympic records were set during the competition.

Date Pair Athlete Country Time OR WR 12 February Pair 2 Christian Breuer 1:50.96 OR 12 February Pair 6 Hiroyuki Noake 1:50.49 OR 12 February Pair 18 K. C. Boutiette 1:50.06 OR 12 February Pair 21 Jan Bos 1:49.75 OR 12 February Pair 22 Ådne Søndrål 1:47.87 OR WR

Results

Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Time behind Notes 22 I Ådne Søndrål 1:47.87 - WR 22 O Ids Postma 1:48.13 +0.26 23 O Rintje Ritsma 1:48.52 +0.65 4 21 I Jan Bos 1:49.75 +1.88 5 18 I K. C. Boutiette 1:50.04 +2.17 6 20 O Martin Hersman 1:50.31 +2.44 7 17 O Hiroyuki Noake 1:50.49 +2.62 8 18 O Toru Aoyanagi 1:50.68 +2.81 9 2 O Christian Breuer 1:50.96 +3.09 10 14 I Andrey Anufriyenko 1:50.99 +3.12 11 10 O Vadim Sayutin 1:51.31 +3.44 12 12 O Choi Jae-bong 1:51.47 +3.60 13 16 I Peter Adeberg 1:51.50 +3.63 14 13 O Dmitry Shepel 1:51.64 +3.77 15 14 O Cheon Ju-hyeon 1:51.65 +3.78 16 16 O Yusuke Imai 1:51.70 +3.83 17 9 I Bart Veldkamp 1:51.73 +3.86 18 5 O Marnix ten Kortenaar 1:51.94 +4.07 19 7 I Sergey Tsybenko 1:52.03 +4.16 20 23 I Kevin Overland 1:52.07 +4.20 21 19 I Keiji Shirahata 1:52.23 +4.36 22 4 O Alexander Kibalko 1:52.27 +4.40 23 13 I Davide Carta 1:52.44 +4.57 24 15 O Ermanno Ioriatti 1:52.45 +4.58 25 21 O Steven Elm 1:52.70 +4.83 26 20 I Kevin Marshall 1:52.77 +4.90 27 10 I Radik Bikchentayev 1:52.87 +5.00 28 5 I Steinar Johansen 1:52.88 +5.01 29 11 O Brigt Rykkje 1:52.91 +5.04 30 19 O Neal Marshall 1:52.93 +5.06 31 3 I Casey FitzRandolph 1:53.26 +5.39 32 15 I Cory Carpenter 1:53.50 +5.63 33 8 O Frank Dittrich 1:53.64 +5.77 34 3 O Paweł Zygmunt 1:53.73 +5.86 35 17 I Dave Tamburrino 1:54.19 +6.32 36 11 I Wan Chunbo 1:54.64 +6.77 37 12 I Cédric Kuentz 1:54.78 +6.91 38 6 I René Taubenrauch 1:54.91 +7.04 39 2 I Jeong Jin-uk 1:55.02 +7.15 40 9 O Andrew Nicholson 1:55.06 +7.19 41 1 I Sergey Kaznacheyev 1:55.22 +7.35 42 6 O Zsolt Baló 1:55.52 +7.65 43 8 I Feng Qingbo 1:56.45 +8.58 44 4 I Dezideriu Horvath 1:57.35 +9.48

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