The men's 1000 metres in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place on 18 February, at the Olympic Oval.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new World and Olympic records was set during the competition.
Date Pair Athlete Country Time OR WR 18 February Pair 2 Yasumitsu Kanehama 1:14.36 OR 18 February Pair 3 Nikolay Gulyayev 1:13.03 OR
Results
Rank Pair Lane Athlete Country Time Time behind Notes 3 i Nikolay Gulyayev 1:13.03 - 5 o Uwe-Jens Mey 1:13.11 +0.08 5 i Igor Zhelezovski 1:13.19 +0.16 4 6 i Eric Flaim 1:13.53 +0.50 5 19 i Gaétan Boucher 1:13.77 +0.74 6 12 o Michael Hadschieff 1:13.84 +0.81 7 4 i Guy Thibault 1:14.16 +1.13 8 13 i Peter Adeberg 1:14.19 +1.16 9 20 i Bae Ki-tae 1:14.36 +1.33 2 o Yasumitsu Kanehama 1:14.36 +1.33 11 15 o Andrey Bakhvalov 1:14.39 +1.36 12 20 o Boris Repnin 1:14.41 +1.38 13 3 o Kimihiro Hamaya 1:14.43 +1.40 14 9 o Mike Richmond 1:14.61 +1.58 15 8 i André Hoffmann 1:14.62 +1.59 11 i Hein Vergeer 1:14.62 +1.59 17 2 i Tom Cushman 1:14.68 +1.65 18 1 i Nick Thometz 1:14.71 +1.68 19 17 o Jean Pichette 1:14.72 +1.69 20 1 o Akira Kuroiwa 1:15.05 +2.02 21 15 i Claes Bengtsson 1:15.07 +2.04 22 14 i Marcel Tremblay 1:15.13 +2.10 23 8 o Yukihiro Mitani 1:15.28 +2.25 24 10 i Menno Boelsma 1:15.34 +2.31 25 9 i Frode Rønning 1:15.39 +2.36 26 16 i Rolf Falk-Larssen 1:15.42 +2.39 27 14 o Hans Magnusson 1:15.79 +2.76 28 18 i Jerzy Dominik 1:16.16 +3.13 29 19 o Hans van Helden 1:16.32 +3.29 30 10 o Göran Johansson 1:16.33 +3.30 31 12 i Phillip Tahmindjis 1:16.38 +3.35 32 7 o Hans-Peter Oberhuber 1:16.62 +3.59 33 13 o Claude Nicouleau 1:17.91 +4.88 34 17 i Craig McNicoll 1:18.60 +5.57 35 15 o Behudin Merdović 1:23.88 +10.85 36 16 o Julian Green 1:57.30 +44.27 - 7 i Bjørn Hagen DNF - 4 o Dan Jansen DNF - 6 o Jan Ykema DNF - 11 o Uwe Streb DQ
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