The men's mass start competition in speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 19 February 2022, at the National Speed Skating Oval ("Ice Ribbon") in Beijing. Bart Swings of Belgium, the 2018 silver medalist, won the event. This was the first gold medal for Belgium at the Winter Olympics since 1948. Chung Jae-won of South Korea won the silver medal, his first individual Olympic medal, and Lee Seung-hoon, the defending champion, bronze.
The 2018 bronze medalist, Koen Verweij, did not qualify. Joey Mantia is the 2021 World Single Distances champion in mass start, with Arjan Stroetinga and Swings being the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Swings was leading the 2021–22 ISU Speed Skating World Cup at long distances with three events completed before the Olympics, followed by Ruslan Zakharov and Andrea Giovannini.
Qualification
A total of 24 entry quotas were available for the event, with a maximum of two athletes per NOC. All 24 athletes qualified through their performance at the 2021–22 ISU Speed Skating World Cup.
The qualification time for the event (1:57.50 (1500 m)) was released on July 1, 2021, and was unchanged from 2018. Skaters had the time period of July 1, 2021 – January 16, 2022 to achieve qualification times at valid International Skating Union (ISU) events.
Results Semifinals Semifinal 1 resultsSemifinal 2 results Rank Heat Name CountryLaps PointsTime NotesS1S2S3S4Total 1 1 Kristian Ulekleiv 16 60 60 7:56.67 Q 2 1 Bart Swings 16 2 2 40 44 7:56.74 Q 3 1 Ning Zhongyan 16 20 20 7:56.75 Q 4 1 Chung Jae-won 16 1 1 10 12 7:56.76 Q 5 1 Daniil Aldoshkin 16 6 6 7:56.83 Q 6 1 Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu 16 3 3 7:56.93 Q 7 1 Sven Kramer 16 3 3 7:58.22 Q 8 1 Seitaro Ichinohe 16 3 3 7:58.54 Q 9 1 Haralds Silovs 16 3 3 7:59.50 10 1 Dmitriy Morozov 16 2 2 8:08.73 11 1 Michele Malfatti 16 1 1 8:02.09 12 1 Stefan Due Schmidt 16 0 7:58.01 13 1 Ian Quinn 16 0 7:58.03 14 1 Zbigniew Bródka 16 0 8:17.49 1 Felix Rijhnen Disqualified 1 2 Andrea Giovannini 16 60 60 7:43.58 Q 2 2 Lee Seung-hoon 16 40 40 7:43.63 Q 3 2 Livio Wenger 16 20 20 7:44.08 Q 4 2 Gabriel Odor 16 10 10 7:44.28 Q 5 2 Jordan Belchos 16 2 3 3 8 7:46.05 Q 6 2 Ryosuke Tsuchiya 16 3 2 2 7 7:48.43 Q 7 2 Joey Mantia 16 6 6 7:44.37 Q 8 2 Jorrit Bergsma 16 3 3 7:44.42 Q 9 2 Peter Michael 16 1 1 2 7:58.04 10 2 Viktor Hald Thorup 16 1 1 8:21.94 11 2 Artur Janicki 16 0 7:44.48 12 2 Wang Haotian 16 0 7:46.30 13 2 Ignat Golovatsiuk 16 0 7:53.59 14 2 Peder Kongshaug 14 0 15 2 Ruslan Zakharov 5 0
Final Lee and Mantia were separated by a photo-finish, clocking an identical time.Final results Rank Name Country Laps PointsTimeDistance analysisS1S2S3S4Total Bart Swings 16 2 1 60 63 Chung Jae-won 16 40 40 Lee Seung-hoon 16 20 20 7:47.204 4 Joey Mantia 16 10 10 7:47.206 5 Daniil Aldoshkin 16 6 6 6 Ryosuke Tsuchiya 16 3 3 6 7:58.82 7 Livio Wenger 16 1 3 4 8 Seitaro Ichinohe 16 3 3 7:48.56 9 Jorrit Bergsma 16 1 2 3 7:50.25 10 Gabriel Odor 16 2 2 8:10.46 11 Andrea Giovannini 16 0 12 Ning Zhongyan 16 0 7:48.07 13 Jordan Belchos 16 0 7:48.14 14 Kristian Ulekleiv 16 0 7:48.52 15 Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu 16 0 8:13.35 16 Sven Kramer 14 0
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