Speed Skating — 1,500 metres, Men

Times held 24
Total participants 665
Total countries 39

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1924 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 22 9
1928 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 30 14
1932 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 18 6
1936 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 37 15
1948 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 45 14
1952 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 39 13
1956 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 54 18
1960 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 48 16
1964 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 54 20
1968 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 53 18
1972 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 39 16
1976 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 30 18
1980 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 36 16
1984 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 40 20
1988 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 40 20
1992 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 46 21
1994 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 44 17
1998 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 44 18
2002 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 48 17
2006 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 41 14
2010 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 37 14
2014 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 40 17
2018 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 35 19
2022 1,500 metres, Men Olympic 29 14

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1924 Clas ThunbergFIN Roald LarsenNOR Sigurd MoenNOR
1928 Clas ThunbergFIN Bernt EvensenNOR Ivar BallangrudNOR
1932 Jack SheaUSA Alex HurdCAN Willy LoganCAN
1936 Charles MathiesenNOR Ivar BallangrudNOR Birger WaseniusFIN
1948 Sverre FarstadNOR Åke SeyffarthSWE Odd LundbergNOR
1952 Hjalmar AndersenNOR Wim van der VoortNED Roald AasNOR
1956 Yevgeny Grishin
Yury Mikhaylov
URS
URS
Toivo SalonenFIN
1960 Roald Aas
Yevgeny Grishin
NOR
URS
Boris SteninURS
1964 Ants AntsonURS Kees VerkerkNED Villy HaugenNOR
1968 Kees VerkerkNED Ard Schenk
Ivar Eriksen
NED
NOR
1972 Ard SchenkNED Roar GrønvoldNOR Göran ClaesonSWE
1976 Jan Egil StorholtNOR Yury KondakovURS Hans van HeldenNED
1980 Eric HeidenUSA Kay Arne StenshjemmetNOR Terje AndersenNOR
1984 Gaétan BoucherCAN Sergey KhlebnikovURS Oleg BozhevURS
1988 André HoffmannGDR Eric FlaimUSA Michael HadschieffAUT
1992 Johann Olav KossNOR Ådne SøndrålNOR Leo VisserNED
1994 Johann Olav KossNOR Rintje RitsmaNED Falko ZandstraNED
1998 Ådne SøndrålNOR Ids PostmaNED Rintje RitsmaNED
2002 Derek ParraUSA Jochem UytdehaageNED Ådne SøndrålNOR
2006 Enrico FabrisITA Shani DavisUSA Chad HedrickUSA
2010 Mark TuitertNED Shani DavisUSA Håvard BøkkoNOR
2014 Zbigniew BródkaPOL Koen VerweijNED Denny MorrisonCAN
2018 Kjeld NuisNED Patrick RoestNED Kim Min-SeokKOR
2022 Kjeld NuisNED Thomas KrolNED Kim Min-SeokKOR

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
Norway NOR 8 7 8 23
Netherlands NED 5 9 4 18
Soviet Union URS 4 2 2 8
United States USA 3 3 1 7
Finland FIN 2 0 2 4
Canada CAN 1 1 2 4
East Germany GDR 1 0 0 1
Italy ITA 1 0 0 1
Poland POL 1 0 0 1
Sweden SWE 0 1 1 2
Republic of Korea KOR 0 0 2 2
Austria AUT 0 0 1 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Yevgeny Grishin RUS
URS
2 0 0 2
Johann Olav Koss NOR 2 0 0 2
Clas Thunberg FIN 2 0 0 2
Kjeld Nuis NED 2 0 0 2
Ådne Søndrål NOR 1 1 1 3

Best performance by country

Olympic and Intercalated results only.
Country Games Athlete/Team Placement
Australia AUS 1956 Winter Olympics Colin Hickey 7 See all
Austria AUT 1988 Winter Olympics Michael Hadschieff 3 Bronze See all
Belarus BLR 1994 Winter Olympics Vitali Novichenka 35 See all
Belgium BEL 2018 Winter Olympics Bart Swings 6 See all
Canada CAN 1984 Winter Olympics Gaétan Boucher 1 Gold See all
Chinese Taipei TPE 2018 Winter Olympics William Tai 34 See all
Czechoslovakia TCH 1956 Winter Olympics Bohumil Jauris 15 See all
Democratic People's Republic of Korea PRK 1964 Winter Olympics Ri Sung-Ryool 14 See all
Denmark DEN 1960 Winter Olympics Kurt Stille 13 See all
East Germany GDR 1988 Winter Olympics André Hoffmann 1 Gold See all
Estonia EST 1928 Winter Olympics Christfried Burmeister 19 See all
Finland FIN 1924 Winter Olympics Clas Thunberg 1 Gold See all
1928 Winter Olympics Clas Thunberg 1 Gold
France FRA 1984 Winter Olympics Hans van Helden 4 See all
Germany GER 1992 Winter Olympics Olaf Zinke 6 See all
1994 Winter Olympics Peter Adeberg 6
Great Britain GBR 1964 Winter Olympics Terry Malkin =11 See all
Hungary HUN 1928 Winter Olympics Zoltán Eötvös 10 See all
1948 Winter Olympics Iván Ruttkay =10
1952 Winter Olympics Ferenc Lőrincz 10
Italy ITA 2006 Winter Olympics Enrico Fabris 1 Gold See all
Japan JPN 1988 Winter Olympics Toru Aoyanagi 5 See all
2018 Winter Olympics Takuro Oda 5
Kazakhstan KAZ 2014 Winter Olympics Denis Kuzin 9 See all
Latvia LAT 2018 Winter Olympics Haralds Silovs 4 See all
Lithuania LTU 1928 Winter Olympics Kęstutis Bulota 25 See all
Mongolia MGL 1980 Winter Olympics Tömörbaataryn Nyamdavaa 31 See all
Netherlands NED 1968 Winter Olympics Kees Verkerk 1 Gold See all
1972 Winter Olympics Ard Schenk 1 Gold
2010 Winter Olympics Mark Tuitert 1 Gold
2018 Winter Olympics Kjeld Nuis 1 Gold
2022 Winter Olympics Kjeld Nuis 1 Gold
New Zealand NZL 2018 Winter Olympics Peter Michael 14 See all
Norway NOR 1936 Winter Olympics Charles Mathiesen 1 Gold See all
1948 Winter Olympics Sverre Farstad 1 Gold
1952 Winter Olympics Hjalmar Andersen 1 Gold
1960 Winter Olympics Roald Aas =1 Gold
1976 Winter Olympics Jan Egil Storholt 1 Gold
1992 Winter Olympics Johann Olav Koss 1 Gold
1994 Winter Olympics Johann Olav Koss 1 Gold
1998 Winter Olympics Ådne Søndrål 1 Gold
People's Republic of China CHN 2022 Winter Olympics Ning Zhongyan 7 See all
Poland POL 2014 Winter Olympics Zbigniew Bródka 1 Gold See all
ROC ROC 2022 Winter Olympics Sergey Trofimov 8 See all
Republic of Korea KOR 2018 Winter Olympics Kim Min-Seok 3 Bronze See all
2022 Winter Olympics Kim Min-Seok 3 Bronze
Romania ROU 1984 Winter Olympics Tibor Kopacz 22 See all
Russian Federation RUS 2010 Winter Olympics Ivan Skobrev 4 See all
2014 Winter Olympics Denis Yuskov 4
Soviet Union URS 1956 Winter Olympics Yevgeny Grishin =1 Gold See all
1956 Winter Olympics Yury Mikhaylov =1 Gold
1960 Winter Olympics Yevgeny Grishin =1 Gold
1964 Winter Olympics Ants Antson 1 Gold
Sweden SWE 1948 Winter Olympics Åke Seyffarth 2 Silver See all
Switzerland SUI 2018 Winter Olympics Livio Wenger 25 See all
Ukraine UKR 1994 Winter Olympics Yuriy Shulha 10 See all
Unified Team EUN 1992 Winter Olympics Ihar Zhaliasouski 10 See all
United States USA 1932 Winter Olympics Jack Shea 1 Gold See all
1980 Winter Olympics Eric Heiden 1 Gold
2002 Winter Olympics Derek Parra 1 Gold
West Germany FRG 1972 Winter Olympics Gerd Zimmermann 12 See all
1976 Winter Olympics Herbert Schwarz 12
1980 Winter Olympics Herbert Schwarz 12
Yugoslavia YUG 1988 Winter Olympics Behudin Merdović 39 See all