Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Men's 1500 metres; at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Utah Olympic Oval
Dates	February 19
Competitors	48 from 17 nations
Winning time	1:43.95 WR
Medalists
	← 1998 2006 →

The men's 1500 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.^[1]

In reverse order of the 5000 metres, Jochem Uytdehaage first broke the world record, only to see it bettered by Derek Parra, who won the third US skating gold of the Games. He was the first Mexican-American to medal in a winter sport.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Lee Kyou-hyuk (KOR)	1:45.20	Calgary, Canada	15 March 2001	^[2]
Olympic record	Ådne Søndrål (NOR)	1:47.87	Nagano, Japan	12 February 1998	^[2]

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date^[2]	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
19 February	Pair 1	Dmitry Shepel	Russia	1:45.98	OR
19 February	Pair 5	Nick Pearson	United States	1:45.51	OR
19 February	Pair 9	Jochem Uytdehaage	Netherlands	1:44.57	OR	WR
19 February	Pair 21	Derek Parra	United States	1:43.95	OR	WR

Results

Rank	Pair	Lane	Name	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	21	O	Derek Parra	United States	1:43.95	–	WR
	9	O	Jochem Uytdehaage	Netherlands	1:44.57	+0.62
	23	O	Ådne Søndrål	Norway	1:45.26	+1.31
4	23	I	Joey Cheek	United States	1:45.34	+1.39
5	16	O	Ids Postma	Netherlands	1:45.41	+1.46
6	5	O	Nick Pearson	United States	1:45.51	+1.56
7	15	O	Jan Bos	Netherlands	1:45.63	+1.68
8	18	I	Lee Kyou-hyuk	South Korea	1:45.82	+1.87
9	14	I	Rintje Ritsma	Netherlands	1:45.86	+1.91
10	14	O	Yevgeny Lalenkov	Russia	1:45.97	+2.02
11	1	O	Dmitry Shepel	Russia	1:45.98	+2.03
12	22	O	Dustin Molicki	Canada	1:46.00	+2.05
13	9	I	Janne Hanninen	Finland	1:46.04	+2.09
14	19	O	J. P. Shilling	United States	1:46.29	+2.34
15	18	I	Hiroyuki Noake	Japan	1:46.38	+2.43
16	8	O	Sergey Tsybenko	Kazakhstan	1:46.40	+2.45
17	24	O	Kevin Marshall	Canada	1:46.75	+2.80
18	21	I	Steven Elm	Canada	1:46.99	+3.04
19	1	I	Radik Bikchantayev	Kazakhstan	1:47.04	+3.09
20	22	I	Petter Andersen	Norway	1:47.21	+3.26
21	20	O	Choi Jae-bong	South Korea	1:47.26	+3.31
22	16	I	Aleksandr Kibalko	Russia	1:47.63	+3.68
23	13	I	Takaharu Nakajima	Japan	1:47.64	+3.69
24	17	I	Stefano Donagrandi	Italy	1:47.72	+3.77
25	19	I	Keiji Shirahata	Japan	1:47.78	+3.83
26	5	I	Enrico Fabris	Italy	1:47.83	+3.88
27	4	I	Vesa Rosendahl	Finland	1:48.02	+4.07
28	12	I	Philippe Marois	Canada	1:48.13	+4.18
29	2	I	Cedric Kuentz	France	1:48.20	+4.25
30	15	I	Zsolt Balo	Hungary	1:48.27	+4.32
31	3	O	Roberto Sighel	Italy	1:48.40	+4.45
32	20	I	Risto Rosendahl	Finland	1:48.57	+4.62
33	4	O	Mun Jun	South Korea	1:48.58	+4.63
34	24	I	Yusuke Imai	Japan	1:48.76	+4.81
35	2	I	Eskil Ervik	Norway	1:49.24	+5.29
36	11	I	Nikolay Uliyanin	Kazakhstan	1:49.42	+5.47
37	11	O	Vadim Sayutin	Russia	1:49.45	+5.50
38	6	I	Johan Röjler	Sweden	1:49.50	+5.55
39	12	O	Vladimir Kostin	Kazakhstan	1:49.57	+5.62
40	10	I	Igor Makovetsky	Belarus	1:50.15	+6.20
41	17	O	Jan Friesinger	Germany	1:50.26	+6.31
42	10	O	Yeo Sang-Yeop	South Korea	1:50.70	+6.75
43	3	I	Andrey Fomin	Ukraine	1:51.02	+7.07
43	8	I	Frank Dittrich	Germany	1:51.02	+7.07
45	7	O	Ma Yongbin	China	1:51.81	+7.86
46	6	O	Liu Guangbin	China	1:52.01	+8.06
47	7	O	Aleksey Khatylyov	Belarus	1:52.87	+8.92
48	13	O	Christian Breuer	Germany	DNF