Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres

Men's 1000 metres; at the XIII Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink
Dates	February 19
Competitors	41 from 19 nations
Winning time	1:15.18
Medalists
	← 1976 1984 →

Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10000 m	men

The men's 1000 metres in speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics took place on 19 February, at the James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Eric Heiden (USA)	1:13.60	Davos, Switzerland	13 January 1980
Olympic record	Peter Mueller (USA)	1:19.32	Innsbruck, Austria	12 February 1976

The following new Olympic record was set.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
19 February	Pair 1	Eric Heiden	United States	1:15.18	OR

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Eric Heiden	United States	1:15.18	OR
	Gaétan Boucher	Canada	1:16.68
	Vladimir Lobanov	Soviet Union	1:16.91
	Frode Rønning	Norway	1:16.91
5	Peter Mueller	United States	1:17.11
6	Bert de Jong	Netherlands	1:17.29
7	Andreas Dietel	East Germany	1:17.71
8	Oloph Granath	Sweden	1:17.74
9	Sergey Khlebnikov	Soviet Union	1:17.96
10	Lieuwe de Boer	Netherlands	1:17.97
11	Craig Kressler	United States	1:18.37
12	Terje Andersen	Norway	1:18.52
13	Jan Józwik	Poland	1:18.83
14	Pertti Niittylä	Finland	1:18.85
15	Anatoly Medennikov	Soviet Union	1:18.92
16	Jan-Åke Carlberg	Sweden	1:19.13
17	Jan Egil Storholt	Norway	1:19.34
18	Emmanuel Michon	France	1:19.43
19	Kaoru Fukuda	Japan	1:19.66
20	Jacques Thibault	Canada	1:19.79
21	Hilbert van der Duim	Netherlands	1:19.89
22	Lee Yeong-Ha	23x15px South Korea	1:20.04
23	Masayuki Kawahara	Japan	1:20.88
24	Zhao Weichang	China	1:20.97
25	Kazuaki Ichimura	Japan	1:21.05
26	Steffen Doering	East Germany	1:21.19
27	Craig Webster	Canada	1:21.47
28	Giovanni Paganin	Italy	1:21.50
29	Colin Coates	Australia	1:21.68
30	Jukka Salmela	Finland	1:21.78
31	Vasile Coroş	Romania	1:21.89
32	Li Huchun	China	1:22.10
33	Dezideriu Jenei	Romania	1:22.66
34	Mike Richmond	Australia	1:23.30
35	Esa Puolakka	Finland	1:23.54
36	Wang Nianchun	China	1:24.20
37	Tömörbaataryn Nyamdavaa	23x15px Mongolia	1:24.84
38	Dorjiin Tsenddoo	23x15px Mongolia	1:27.00
39	Herbert Schwarz	West Germany	1:44.23
40	Archie Marshall	Great Britain	2:00.93
-	Johan Granath	Sweden	DNF