Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres

The men's 1000 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Gerard van Velde, who had finished 4th in the Olympics twice already, delivered a surprise by skating a world record and winning the gold medal.[1]

Men's 1000 metres at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Utah Olympic Oval
Dates	February 16
Competitors	44 from 18 nations
Winning time	1:07.18 WR
Medalists
Gerard van Velde  Netherlands Jan Bos  Netherlands Joey Cheek  United States

Records

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

World record	Jeremy Wotherspoon (CAN)	1:07.72	Salt Lake City, United States	December 1, 2001	[2]
Olympic record	Ids Postma (NED)	1:10.64	Nagano, Japan	February 15, 1998	[2]

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

Date[2]	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
February 16	Pair 1	Kim Chul-soo	South Korea	1:09.79	OR
February 16	Pair 2	Ids Postma	Netherlands	1:09.15	OR
February 16	Pair 14	Choi Jae-bong	South Korea	1:08.81	OR
February 16	Pair 15	Gerard van Velde	Netherlands	1:07.18	OR	WR

Results

Rank	Pair	Name	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	15	Gerard van Velde	Netherlands	1:07.18	–	WR
	19	Jan Bos	Netherlands	1:07.53	+0.35
	20	Joey Cheek	United States	1:07.61	+0.43
4	17	Kip Carpenter	United States	1:07.89	+0.71
5	22	Erben Wennemars	Netherlands	1:07.95	+0.77
6	18	Nick Pearson	United States	1:07.97	+0.79
7	19	Casey FitzRandolph	United States	1:08.15	+0.97
8	16	Lee Kyou-hyuk	South Korea	1:08.37	+1.19
9	15	Sergey Klevchenya	Russia	1:08.41	+1.23
10	16	Janne Hänninen	Finland	1:08.45	+1.27
11	21	Ådne Søndrål	Norway	1:08.64	+1.46
12	14	Choi Jae-bong	South Korea	1:08.81	+1.63
13	22	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Canada	1:08.82	+1.64
14	21	Mike Ireland	Canada	1:08.88	+1.70
15	18	Yusuke Imai	Japan	1:08.90	+1.72
16	20	Toyoki Takeda	Japan	1:08.95	+1.77
17	2	Ids Postma	Netherlands	1:09.15	+1.97
18	12	Dmitry Lobkov	Russia	1:09.20	+2.02
19	11	Pat Bouchard	Canada	1:09.21	+2.03
20	13	Kevin Marshall	Canada	1:09.26	+2.08
21	13	Tomasz Swist	Poland	1:09.48	+2.30
22	14	Manabu Horii	Japan	1:09.50	+2.32
23	4	Yevgeny Lalenkov	Russia	1:09.55	+2.37
24	17	Michael Kuenzel	Germany	1:09.64	+2.46
25	1	Kim Chul-soo	South Korea	1:09.79	+2.61
26	6	Davide Carta	Italy	1:09.81	+2.63
27	1	Sergey Tsybenko	Kazakhstan	1:10.13	+2.95
28	11	Petter Andersen	Norway	1:10.14	+2.96
29	10	Pawel Abratkiewicz	Poland	1:10.21	+3.03
30	5	Christian Breuer	Germany	1:10.38	+3.20
31	6	Zsolt Balo	Hungary	1:10.57	+3.39
32	4	Park Jae-man	South Korea	1:10.67	+3.49
33	7	Risto Rosendahl	Finland	1:10.70	+3.52
34	2	Jan Friesinger	Germany	1:10.71	+3.53
35	3	Li Yu	China	1:10.78	+3.60
36	5	Dino Gillarduzzi	Italy	1:10.96	+3.78
37	8	Andrey Fomin	Ukraine	1:11.04	+3.86
38	3	Cedric Kuentz	France	1:11.26	+4.08
39	10	Grunde Njos	Norway	1:11.31	+4.13
40	7	Yu Fengtong	China	1:12.07	+4.89
41	9	Igor Makovetsky	Belarus	1:12.33	+5.15
42	8	Aleksey Khatylyov	Belarus	1:13.73	+6.55
43	9	David Kramar	Czech Republic	1:14.05	+6.87
44	12	Hiroyuki Noake	Japan	1:49.18	+42.00

References

1. "Speed Skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Men's 1,000 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
2. "Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Speed Skating" (PDF). Salt Lake City Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. February 2002. Retrieved February 5, 2010.