Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres at the XIV Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Zetra Ice Rink
Dates	February 16
Competitors	40 from 20 nations
Winning time	1:58.36
Medalists
Gaétan Boucher   Canada   Sergey Khlebnikov   Soviet Union   Oleg Bozhev   Soviet Union

Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10,000 m		men

The men's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics took place on 16 February, at the Zetra Ice Rink.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2][3]

World record	Igor Zhelezovsky (URS)	1:54.26	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	26 March 1983
Olympic record	Eric Heiden (USA)	1:55.44	Lake Placid, United States	21 February 1980

Results

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Rank	Pair	Lane	Athlete	Country	Time	Time behind
	8	o	Gaétan Boucher	Canada	1:58.36	-
	2	o	Sergey Khlebnikov	Soviet Union	1:58.83	+0.47
	5	i	Oleg Bozhev	Soviet Union	1:58.89	+0.53
4	5	o	Hans van Helden	France	1:59.39	+1.03
5	8	i	Andreas Ehrig	East Germany	1:59.41	+1.05
6	14	i	Andreas Dietel	East Germany	1:59.73	+1.37
7	4	i	Hilbert van der Duim	Netherlands	1:59.77	+1.41
8	4	o	Viktor Shasherin	Soviet Union	1:59.81	+1.45
9	11	o	Pertti Niittylä	Finland	2:00.01	+1.65
10	6	o	Frits Schalij	Netherlands	2:00.14	+1.78
11	3	o	André Hoffmann	East Germany	2:00.23	+1.87
12	1	i	Kai Arne Engelstad	Norway	2:00.59	+2.23
	3	i	Hein Vergeer	Netherlands	2:00.59	+2.23
14	7	o	Nick Thometz	United States	2:00.77	+2.41
15	9	o	Werner Jäger	Austria	2:01.03	+2.67
16	2	i	Hans Magnusson	Sweden	2:01.26	+2.90
17	6	i	Rolf Falk-Larssen	Norway	2:01.65	+3.29
18	10	i	Claes Bengtsson	Sweden	2:02.04	+3.68
19	9	i	Bjørn Nyland	Norway	2:02.05	+3.69
20	10	o	Michael Hadschieff	Austria	2:02.06	+3.70
21	12	o	Erik Henriksen	United States	2:02.20	+3.84
22	19	i	Tibor Kopacz	Romania	2:02.38	+4.02
23	18	i	Lee Yeong-Ha	South Korea	2:02.45	+4.09
24	11	i	Jan Junell	Sweden	2:02.55	+4.19
25	1	o	Wolfgang Scharf	West Germany	2:02.64	+4.28
26	18	o	Hansjörg Baltes	West Germany	2:02.68	+4.32
27	19	o	Andreas Lemcke	West Germany	2:03.13	+4.77
28	17	o	Christian Eminger	Austria	2:03.18	+4.82
29	7	i	Kimihiro Hamaya	Japan	2:03.72	+5.36
30	15	i	Na Yun-Su	South Korea	2:03.90	+5.54
31	17	i	Im Ri-Bin	North Korea	2:03.93	+5.57
32	16	i	Bae Ki-Tae	South Korea	2:04.18	+5.82
33	20	o	Mark Mitchell	United States	2:04.26	+5.90
34	13	i	Mike Richmond	Australia	2:04.62	+6.26
35	13	o	Giorgio Paganin	Italy	2:04.97	+6.61
36	16	o	Kim Hwang-Hyun	North Korea	2:06.80	+8.44
37	12	i	Colin Coates	Australia	2:08.13	+9.77
38	20	i	Li Wei	China	2:08.38	+10.02
39	14	o	Bryan Carbis	Great Britain	2:13.25	+14.89
40	15	o	Behudin Merdović	Yugoslavia	2:19.25	+20.89

References

1. "Sarajevo 1984 Official Report" (PDF). Organising Committee of the XlVth Winter Olympic Games 1984 at Sarajevo. LA84 Foundation. 1984. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
2. "1500m Men World Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved November 2, 2016.
3. "1500m Men Olympic Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved November 2, 2016.

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