The men's 1500 metres speed skating competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 13 February 2018 at the Gangneung Oval in Gangneung. Kjeld Nuis posted a time 0.06 seconds short of the Olympic record and won the gold medal. Patrick Roest won silver, and Kim Min-seok bronze, becoming the first Asian athlete to ever medal in this event. For all three of them, it was their first Olympic race and first Olympic medal. The defending champion Zbigniew Bródka, as well as the 2014 silver, Koen Verweij, and bronze, Denny Morrison, medalists participated in the event but finished outside of the top 10.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic and track records were as follows.
The following records were set during this competition. Date Round Athlete Country Time Record 13 February Pair 14 Kjeld Nuis 1:44.01 TR
Results The races were held at 20:00.
Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Time behind Notes 14 O Kjeld Nuis 1:44.01 TR 4 I Patrick Roest 1:44.86 +0.85 15 I Kim Min-seok 1:44.93 +0.92 15 O Haralds Silovs 1:45.25 +1.24 14 I Takuro Oda 1:45.44 +1.43 10 O Bart Swings 1:45.49 +1.48 17 I Sindre Henriksen 1:45.64 +1.63 18 O Joey Mantia 1:45.86 +1.85 18 I 1:46.12 +2.11 10 8 O Shane Williamson 1:46.21 +2.20 11 16 O Koen Verweij 1:46.26 +2.25 12 11 O Zbigniew Bródka 1:46.31 +2.30 13 13 O Denny Morrison 1:46.36 +2.35 14 9 I Peter Michael 1:46.39 +2.38 15 11 I Brian Hansen 1:46.44 +2.43 16 12 I Jan Szymański 1:46.48 +2.47 17 5 O Joo Hyong-jun 1:46.65 +2.64 18 7 O Sergey Trofimov 1:46.69 +2.68 19 10 I Shani Davis 1:46.74 +2.73 20 13 I Konrad Niedźwiedzki 1:47.07 +3.06 21 17 O Vincent De Haître 1:47.32 +3.31 22 2 O Alexis Contin 1:47.33 +3.32 23 5 I Mathias Vosté 1:47.34 +3.33 24 3 O Shota Nakamura 1:47.38 +3.37 25 9 O Livio Wenger 1:47.76 +3.75 26 4 O Reyon Kay 1:47.81 +3.80 27 12 O Andrea Giovannini 1:47.82 +3.81 28 7 I Fyodor Mezentsev 1:48.23 +4.22 29 6 I Konrád Nagy 1:49.01 +5.00 30 3 I Denis Kuzin 1:49.14 +5.13 31 8 I Ben Donnelly 1:49.68 +5.67 32 6 O Xiakaini Aerchenghazi 1:50.16 +6.15 33 1 I Marten Liiv 1:50.23 +6.22 34 2 I Tai William 1:50.63 +6.62 16 I Allan Dahl Johansson
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