Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place on 20 February, at the Olympic Oval.[1][2]

Men's 1500 metres at the XV Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Olympic Oval
Dates	20 February
Competitors	40 from 20 nations
Winning time	1:52.06 WR
Medalists
André Hoffmann  East Germany Eric Flaim  United States Michael Hadschieff  Austria

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:[3][4]

World record	Igor Zhelezovsky (URS)	1:52.50	Calgary, Canada	5 December 1987
Olympic record	Eric Heiden (USA)	1:55.44	Lake Placid, United States	21 February 1980

The following new World and Olympic records was set during the competition.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
20 February	Pair 1	Eric Flaim	United States	1:52.12	OR	WR
20 February	Pair 3	André Hoffmann	East Germany	1:52.06	OR	WR

Results

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Rank	Pair	Lane	Athlete	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	3	o	André Hoffmann	East Germany	1:52.06	-	(WR)
	1	o	Eric Flaim	United States	1:52.12	+0.06
	4	o	Michael Hadschieff	Austria	1:52.31	+0.25
4	6	i	Igor Zhelezovski	Soviet Union	1:52.63	+0.57
5	2	i	Toru Aoyanagi	Japan	1:52.85	+0.79
6	3	i	Aleksandr Klimov	Soviet Union	1:52.97	+0.91
7	2	o	Nikolay Gulyayev	Soviet Union	1:53.04	+0.98
8	8	o	Peter Adeberg	East Germany	1:53.57	+1.51
9	15	i	Gaétan Boucher	Canada	1:54.18	+2.12
10	5	i	Jean Pichett	Canada	1:54.63	+2.57
11	14	o	Mark Greenwald	United States	1:54.64	+2.58
12	16	i	Mike Richmond	Australia	1:54.95	+2.89
13	11	i	Claes Bengtsson	Sweden	1:55.16	+3.10
14	12	i	Danny Kah	Australia	1:55.19	+3.13
15	10	i	Dave Silk	United States	1:55.26	+3.20
16	6	o	Munehisa Kuroiwa	Japan	1:55.42	+3.36
17	11	i	Im Ri-Bin	North Korea	1:55.55	+3.49
18	16	o	Ben Lamarche	Canada	1:55.59	+3.53
19	20	i	Hans van Helden	France	1:55.61	+3.55
20	18	o	John Baskfield	United States	1:55.88	+3.82
21	5	o	Rolf Falk-Larssen	Norway	1:55.94	+3.88
22	20	o	Yoshiyuki Shimizu	Japan	1:55.98	+3.92
23	14	i	Gregor Jelonek	Canada	1:56.37	+4.31
24	13	o	Hans Magnusson	Sweden	1:56.44	+4.38
25	8	i	Pertti Niittylä	Finland	1:56.48	+4.42
26	4	i	Hwang Ik-hwan	South Korea	1:56.50	+4.44
27	1	i	Hein Vergeer	Netherlands	1:56.63	+4.57
28	19	o	Hozumi Moriyama	Japan	1:56.84	+4.78
29	17	i	Kim Gwan-gyu	South Korea	1:56.85	+4.79
30	9	i	Hansjörg Baltes	West Germany	1:57.08	+5.02
31	10	o	Liu Yanfei	China	1:57.38	+5.32
32	18	i	Phillip Tahmindjis	Australia	1:57.63	+5.57
33	9	o	Frode Syvertsen	Norway	1:58.37	+6.31
34	19	i	Jiří Kyncl	Czechoslovakia	1:58.44	+6.38
35	7	i	Andrey Bobrov	Soviet Union	1:58.97	+6.91
36	17	o	Jerzy Dominik	Poland	1:59.03	+6.97
37	13	i	Julian Green	Great Britain	1:59.41	+7.35
38	11	i	Craig McNicoll	Great Britain	2:01.89	+9.83
39	15	o	Behudin Merdović	Yugoslavia	2:06.11	+14.05
-	7	o	Joakim Karlberg	Sweden	DNF

References

1. "Calgary 1988 Official Report" (PDF). XV Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1988. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
2. "Speed Skating at the 1988 Calgary Winter Games: Men's 1,500 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
3. "1500m Men World Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved 2 November 2016.
4. "1500m Men Olympic Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved 2 November 2016.