Speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres; at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
	Gold medal winner Mark Tuitert
Venue	Richmond Olympic Oval
Date	February 20, 2010
Competitors	37 from 14 nations
Winning time	1:45.57
Medalists
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Speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10000 m	men
Team pursuit	men	women

The men's 1500 metres speed skating competition of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver was held at the Richmond Olympic Oval on February 20, 2010.

Records

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

World record	Shani Davis (USA)	1:41.04	Salt Lake City, United States	11 December 2009	^[1]
Olympic record	Derek Parra (USA)	1:43.95	Salt Lake City, United States	19 February 2002

No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition. Mark Tuitert did break the track record of 1:46.17 set by Shani Davis on March 12, 2009.

Results

Rank	Pair	Lane	Name	Country	Time	Time behind
	17	o	Mark Tuitert	Netherlands	1:45.57	0.00
	19	i	Shani Davis	United States	1:46.10	+0.53
	17	i	Håvard Bøkko	Norway	1:46.13	+0.56
4	16	i	Ivan Skobrev	Russia	1:46.42	+0.85
5	14	o	Mo Tae-bum	23x15px South Korea	1:46.47	+0.90
6	18	o	Chad Hedrick	United States	1:46.69	+1.12
7	10	o	Simon Kuipers	Netherlands	1:46.76	+1.19
8	12	o	Mikael Flygind Larsen	Norway	1:46.77	+1.20
9	16	o	Denny Morrison	Canada	1:46.93	+1.36
10	15	i	Enrico Fabris	Italy	1:47.02	+1.45
11	13	i	Yevgeny Lalenkov	Russia	1:47.06	+1.49
12	13	o	Matteo Anesi	Italy	1:47.34	+1.77
13	8	o	Sven Kramer	Netherlands	1:47.40	+1.83
14	15	o	Mathieu Giroux	Canada	1:47.62	+2.05
15	14	i	Trevor Marsicano	United States	1:47.84	+2.27
16	18	i	Stefan Groothuis	Netherlands	1:48.03	+2.46
17	12	i	Konrad Niedźwiedzki	Poland	1:48.15	+2.58
18	9	i	Brian Hansen	United States	1:48.45	+2.88
19	19	o	Lucas Makowsky	Canada	1:48.61	+3.04
20	7	o	Christoffer Fagerli Rukke	Norway	1:48.62	+3.05
21	8	i	Aleksey Yesin	Russia	1:48.65	+3.08
22	4	o	Lee Jong-woo	23x15px South Korea	1:49.00	+3.43
23	11	o	Denis Kuzin	Kazakhstan	1:49.05	+3.48
24	9	o	Joel Eriksson	Sweden	1:49.08	+3.51
25	2	i	Daniel Friberg	Sweden	1:49.13	+3.56
26	10	i	Teruhiro Sugimori	Japan	1:49.19	+3.62
27	11	i	Zbigniew Bródka	Poland	1:49.45	+3.88
28	7	i	Johan Röjler	Sweden	1:49.50	+3.93
29	3	o	Fredrik van der Horst	Norway	1:49.58	+4.01
30	6	o	Shingo Doi	Japan	1:49.77	+4.20
31	2	o	Ha Hong-Sun	23x15px South Korea	1:49.93	+4.36
32	3	i	Samuel Schwarz	Germany	1:50.07	+4.50
33	4	i	Pascal Briand	France	1:50.71	+5.14
34	6	i	Gao Xuefeng	China	1:50.78	+5.21
35	5	o	Sun Longjiang	China	1:51.30	+5.73
36	1	i	Aleksandr Lebedev	Russia	1:52.09	+6.52
37	5	i	Kyle Parrott	Canada	1:52.67	+7.10