Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres speed skating competition of the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at Adler Arena Skating Center on 15 February 2014.[1]

Men's 1500 metres
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Podium
VenueAdler Arena Skating Center
Date15 February 2014
Competitors40 from 18 nations
Winning time1:45.00
Medalists
Zbigniew Bródka  Poland
Koen Verweij  Netherlands
Denny Morrison  Canada

The 2010 Olympic champion, Mark Tuitert of the Netherlands, sought to defend his title; he bettered the track record, but eventually finished fifth. Poland's Zbigniew Bródka won the gold medal, the Netherlands' Koen Verweij took silver, and Canada's Denny Morrison took the bronze. After Verweij's race in the last pair of the event, it took about half a minute before it was announced that Bródka had beaten Verweij's time by 3 thousandths of a second, which is 4.1 cm, given the finishing speed of Verweij being 49.4 km/h. Measurements in thousandths were only introduced in speed skating after the 2010 Olympics, so this was the closest win in Olympic speed skating history.[2][3] Two comparably narrow victories had previously been recorded at the Olympics overall. At the 1998 Winter Olympics, Silke Kraushaar beat her teammate Barbara Niedernhuber by 0.002 seconds in the Women's luge event,[2] while at the 1972 Summer Olympics Karl Gunnar Larsson beat Tim McKee by 0.002 seconds in the 400 meters individual swimming medley. The latter narrow win in effect brought about a change so that no swimming competition henceforward would have to be decided by a margin less than a hundredth of a second.[4]

The gold medal awarded in this event featured a Chelyabinsk meteor fragment to commemorate the first anniversary of this meteor strike.[5]

Qualification

A total of forty speed skaters could qualify for this distance, with a maximum of four skaters per country. The top 20 of the men's 1500 metres World Cup standings after World Cup 4 in Berlin secured a spot for their country. Then the additional 20 spots were awarded based on a time ranking of all times skated in the World Cup. A reserve list was also made.[6]

Competition schedule

All times are (UTC+4).

DateTimeEvent
15 February17:30Men's 1500m

Records

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

World record Shani Davis (USA)1:41.04Salt Lake City, United States11 December 2009
Olympic record Derek Parra (USA)1:43.95Salt Lake City, United States19 February 2002

At the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships the track record was set by Denis Yuskov at 1:46,32. At the 2013–14 Russian Single Distance Championships Yuskov improved this track record skating 1:45.85.[7]

The following records were set during this competition.

DateRoundAthleteCountryTimeRecord
15 FebruaryPair 17Zbigniew Bródka Poland1:45.00TR
15 FebruaryPair 15Denny Morrison Canada1:45.22TR
15 FebruaryPair 13Mark Tuitert Netherlands1:45.42TR

TR = track record

Results

The races were started at 17:30.[8]

Silver medalist Koen Verweij
RankPairLaneNameCountryTimeTime BehindNotes
17OZbigniew Bródka Poland1:45.006TR
20IKoen Verweij Netherlands1:45.009+0.003
15ODenny Morrison Canada1:45.22+0.22TR
419IDenis Yuskov Russia1:45.37+0.37
513OMark Tuitert Netherlands1:45.42+0.42TR
615IHåvard Bøkko Norway1:45.48+0.48
716IBrian Hansen United States1:45.59+0.59
819OSverre Lunde Pedersen Norway1:45.66+0.66
918ODenis Kuzin Kazakhstan1:45.69+0.69
1014OBart Swings Belgium1:45.95+0.95
1117IShani Davis United States1:45.98+0.98
127OStefan Groothuis Netherlands1:46.08+1.08
132IJan Blokhuijsen Netherlands1:46.50+1.50
1413IHaralds Silovs Latvia1:46.79+1.79
1512IJan Szymański Poland1:46.86+1.86
1616OHåvard Holmefjord Lorentzen Norway1:47.27+2.27
172OMirko Giacomo Nenzi Italy1:47.48+2.48
1814IIvan Skobrev Russia1:47.62+2.62
1912OMathieu Giroux Canada1:47.65+2.65
2018IKonrad Niedźwiedzki Poland1:47.77+2.77
214OTian Guojun China1:47.95+2.95
2220OJoey Mantia United States1:48.01+3.01
2311IPatrick Beckert Germany1:48.08+3.08
2411OAleksey Yesin Russia1:48.10+3.10
259IAleksey Suvorov Russia1:48.11+3.11
268IKonrád Nagy Hungary1:48.12+3.12
278ORobert Lehmann Germany1:48.24+3.24
283OLucas Makowsky Canada1:48.51+3.51
294IJoo Hyong-jun South Korea1:48.59+3.59
3010ODmitry Babenko Kazakhstan1:48.67+3.67
313ITaro Kondo Japan1:49.31+4.31
3210IBenjamin Macé France1:49.34+4.34
331OVincent De Haître Canada1:49.42+4.42
347IAleksandr Zhigin Kazakhstan1:49.48+4.48
355OFyodor Mezentsev Kazakhstan1:49.70+4.70
365ISimen Spieler Nilsen Norway1:49.88+4.88
379OJonathan Kuck United States1:50.19+5.19
381IDavid Andersson Sweden1:50.30+5.29
396OMatteo Anesi Italy1:50.59+5.59
406IEwen Fernandez France1:52.70+7.70

TR = track record

References

  1. "Speed Skating Schedule and Results – Men's 1500 m". SOOC. Retrieved 15 February 2014.
  2. Frank Thomas, Dead heats or not - Olympic timing differs by sport, Europe Online Magazine, 16 Feb 2014
  3. At both the 1956 and 1960 Winter Olympics two skaters shared the gold medal at this same distance when they clocked a time within one tenth of a second of each other.
  4. "Munich 1972." Archived 2013-10-06 at the Wayback Machine Swedish Olympic Committee, 2008. Retrieved 2012-05-01.
  5. Augustine, Bernie (25 July 2013). "Select gold medals at Sochi Olympics will include meteorite fragments to commemorate Russian meteor strike". New York Daily News. NYDailyNews.com.
  6. Qualification of NOC event quota places for the Olympic Winter Games 2014 based on Special Olympic Qualification Classification (SOQC) as of December 9, 2013 Archived January 16, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  7. "Visitenkarte der Eisbahn: Adler Arene Sotschi". speedskatingnews. Retrieved 5 February 2014.
  8. Final Results
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