The men's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place on 6 February, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
Results
Rank Athlete Country Time Ants Antson 2:10.3 Kees Verkerk 2:10.6 Villy Haugen 2:11.2 4 Jouko Launonen 2:11.9 5 Lev Zaytsev 2:12.16 Ivar Eriksen 2:12.2 Eduard Matusevich 2:12.2 8 Juhani Järvinen 2:12.4 9 Magne Thomassen 2:12.5 10 Rudi Liebrechts 2:12.811 Yevgeny Grishin 2:13.3 Terry Malkin 2:13.3 13 Ard Schenk 2:13.4 14 Ri Sung-Ryool 2:13.9 15 Dick Hunt 2:14.4 16 Nils Aaness 2:14.6 17 Günter Traub 2:15.3 18 Örjan Sandler 2:15.419 Jouko Jokinen 2:15.6 Ivar Nilsson 2:15.6 21 Renato De Riva 2:15.7 22 André Kouprianoff 2:15.8 23 Seppo Hänninen 2:16.0 24 Manne Lavås 2:16.2 25 Buddy Campbell 2:16.426 Herbert Höfl 2:16.8 Eddie Rudolph, Jr. 2:16.8 28 Bo Ollander 2:17.1 29 Gerd Zimmermann 2:17.3 30 Kurt Stille 2:17.4 31 Keiichi Suzuki 2:17.5 32 Oldřich Teplý 2:17.9 33 Hermann Strutz 2:18.0 34 Satoshi Shinpo 2:18.5 35 Elio Locatelli 2:19.0 36 Kim Zin-Hook 2:19.4 37 Ralf Olin 2:19.7 38 György Ivánkai 2:19.9 39 Jürgen Schmidt 2:20.0 40 Choi Yeong-Bae 2:20.3 41 Toyofumi Aruga 2:20.7 42 Floyd Bedbury 2:21.3 43 Raymond Fonvieille 2:22.6 44 Ruedi Uster 2:23.4 45 Tony Bullen 2:23.7 46 Luvsanlkhagvyn Dashnyam 2:23.9 47 Gerald Koning 2:24.0 48 Peter Toyfl 2:24.2 49 Thomas Dawson 2:26.4 50 Mihály Martos 2:26.8 51 Josef Reisinger 2:27.8 52 Choi Nam-yeon 2:30.2 53 Jean-Pierre Guéron 2:32.3 - Erich Korbel DQ
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