Speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

1500 metres
at the III Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for Speed skating
VenueJames B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink
DatesFebruary 5
Competitors18 from 6 nations
Winning time2:57.5
Medalists
   United States
   Canada
   Canada
Speed skating
at the
1932 Winter Olympics
500 m men (women)
1000 m (women)
1500 m men (women)
5000 m men
10,000 m men

The 1500 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Friday, February 5, 1932.

Eighteen speed skaters from six nations competed.

Like all other speed skating events at this Olympics the competition was held for the only time in packstyle format, having all competitors skate at the same time. This was the common style in North America and gave the runners from the United States and Canada a major advantage over the European rivals.

Medalists

Gold Silver Bronze
Jack Shea
 United States
Alexander Hurd
 Canada
Willy Logan
 Canada

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1932 Winter Olympics.

World Record 2:17.4(*) Norway Oscar Mathisen Davos (SUI) January 18, 1914
Olympic Record 2:20.8 Finland Clas Thunberg Chamonix (FRA) January 27, 1924

(*) The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice.

Results

First round

Heat 1

Place Name Time Qual.
1  Herbert Taylor (USA) 2:49.3 Q
2  Frank Stack (CAN) Q
3  Bernt Evensen (NOR)
4  Hans Engnestangen (NOR)
5  Ossi Blomqvist (FIN)
6  Tomeju Uruma (JPN)

Heat 2

Place Name Time Qual.
1  Jack Shea (USA) 2:58.0 Q
2  Willy Logan (CAN) Q
3  Ivar Ballangrud (NOR)
4  Herbert Flack (CAN)
5  Shozo Ishihara (JPN)
6  Lloyd Guenther (USA)

Heat 3

Place Name Time Qual.
1  Raymond Murray (USA) 2:29.9 Q
2  Alexander Hurd (CAN) Q
3  Michael Staksrud (NOR)
4  Yasuo Kawamura (JPN)
5  Tokuo Kitani (JPN)
6  Ingvar Lindberg (SWE)

Final

Place Name Time
1  Jack Shea (USA) 2:57.5
2  Alexander Hurd (CAN) 5 m behind
3  Willy Logan (CAN) 6 m behind
4  Frank Stack (CAN)
5  Raymond Murray (USA)
6  Herbert Taylor (USA)

References

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