The men's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics took place on 6 February, at the Makomanai Open Stadium.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new Olympic record was set.
Date Pair Athlete Country Time OR WR 6 February Pair 8 Ard Schenk 2:02.96 OR
Results
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Ard Schenk 2:02.96 Roar Grønvold 2:04.26 Göran Claeson 2:05.89 4 Bjørn Tveter 2:05.94 5 Jan Bols 2:06.58 6 Valery Lavrushkin 2:07.16 7 Dan Carroll 2:07.24 8 Kees Verkerk 2:07.43 9 Johnny Höglin 2:08.11 10 Kimmo Koskinen 2:08.18 11 Svein-Erik Stiansen 2:08.63 12 Gerd Zimmermann 2:08.95 13 Dag Fornæss 2:09.52 14 Gary Jonland 2:09.55 15 Göran Johansson 2:09.66 16 Johan Granath 2:10.21 17 Jouko Salakka 2:10.22 18 Bruno Toniolli 2:10.24 19 Eddy Verheijen 2:10.96 20 Mutsuhiko Maeda 2:11.09 21 Valery Muratov 2:11.83 22 Kiyomi Ito 2:11.96 23 Bob Hodges 2:12.13 24 Colin Coates 2:12.14 25 Bill Lanigan 2:12.31 26 Kevin Sirois 2:13.99 27 Giancarlo Gloder 2:14.07 28 Seppo Hänninen 2:14.52 29 David Hampton 2:14.60 30 Clark King 2:14.83 31 Otmar Braunecker 2:14.88 32 Herbert Schwarz 2:15.42 33 Richard Tourne 2:16.37 34 Leo Linkovesi 2:16.86 35 Jeong Chung-Gu 2:17.36 36 Andy Barron 2:17.71 37 John Blewitt 2:18.96 38 Luvsanlkhagvyn Dashnyam 2:20.42 39 Jim Lynch 2:26.69
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