The men's 1500 m competition in

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at the

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will be held on 8 February, at the National Speed Skating Oval ("Ice Ribbon") in

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Kjeld Nuis Kjeld Nuis (; born in Leiden 10 November 1989) is a Dutch speed skater. Nuis specializes over the middle distances of 1000 and 1500 meters. At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, he won the gold medal at the 1500 m and 1000 m events. At th ...

of the Netherlands defended his 2018 title and became again the Olympic champion.

Thomas Krol Thomas Krol (born 16 August 1992) is a Dutch speed skater who is specialized in the 1000m and 1500m. Career Krol finished third at the ISU World Cup 1500m event in Berlin in December 2014. Krol is a member of Team Jumbo-Visma. Personal records ...

, also of the Netherlands, won the silver medal. Kim Min-seok of South Korea won bronze. The 2018 silver medalist,

Patrick Roest Patrick Roest (; born 7 December 1995) is a Dutch professional long track speed skater who has won the World Allround Speed Skating Championships three times. He is a member of the commercial team of Team Reggeborgh. Career In Bjugn, Norway, in ...

, qualified for the Olympics as well, but did not skate this distance. The bronze medalist, Kim Min-seok, qualified as well. Nuis was also the world record holder at the start of the Olympics.

is the 2021 World Single Distances champion at the 1500 m distance, with Nuis and Roest being the silver and bronze medalist, respectively.

Joey Mantia Joey Mantia (born February 7, 1986) is an American speed skater and inline speed skater, an Olympic bronze medalist, 28-time world champion, and a world record holder. He also won two gold medals at the 2003 Pan American Games and a gold medal a ...

was leading the

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at the 1500 m distance with four races completed before the Olympics, followed by

Ning Zhongyan Ning Zhongyan (born 3 November 1999) is a Chinese speed skater. He won a medal at the 2020 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships The 2020 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships were held between February 13 and 16, 202 ...

and

Connor Howe Connor Howe (born June 10, 2000) is a Canadian professional speed skater. He won the silver medal in the team pursuit event at the 2021 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships The 2021 World Single Distances Speed Skating Champions ...

. Mantia also skated the season best time, 1:41.15 in Salt Lake City on 4 December 2021. The early leader was

Ruslan Zakharov Ruslan Albertovich Zakharov (russian: Руслан Альбертович Захаров; born 24 March 1987) is a Russian athlete in short track and speed skater. Career Zakharov competed at the 2010 Winter Olympics for Russia. In the 500 metr ...

in pair 3, overtaken by

Marcel Bosker Marcel Bosker (born 19 January 1997) is a Dutch long track speed skater. He won the allround bronze medal at the 2018 World Allround Speed Skating Championships in Amsterdam Amsterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Amstel'') is the ...

in pair 4. Bosker was the first skater in the event with the time faster than the track record.

Sergey Trofimov Sergey Sergeyevich Trofimov (russian: Сергей Сергеевич Трофимов; born 27 July 1995) is a Russian speed skater. He competed in the 2018 Winter Olympics , nations = 93 , athletes = 2,922 (1,680 men and 1,242 women) ...

briefly took the lead in pair 9, before in pair 10 both

and Peter Kongshaug skated better than he. Krol skated faster than the Olympic record, but Nuis improved his time in pair 11. Kim, who skated in pair with Nuis, finished provisionally third. In the four pairs afterwards, Howe showed the best time and finished fifth.

Qualification

A total of 30 entry quotas were available for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per NOC. The first 20 athletes qualified through their performance at the

, while the last ten earned quotas by having the best times among athletes not already qualified. A country could only earn the maximum three spots through the World Cup rankings. The qualification time for the event (1:48.00) was released on July 1, 2021, and was unchanged from 2018. Skaters had the time period of July 1, 2021 – January 16, 2022 to achieve qualification times at valid

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(ISU) events.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic and track records were as follows. A new Olympic record was set during the competition.

Results

The races were held at 18:30.Final results
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References

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