Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres
at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Men's 1500 metres; at the XX Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Oval Lingotto
Dates	21 February
Competitors	41 from 14 nations
Winning time	1:45.97
Medalists
	← 2002 2010 →

The men's 1500 m speed skating competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Turin, Italy.^[1]

Records[edit]

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

World record	Chad Hedrick (USA)	1:42.78	Salt Lake City, United States	18 November 2005	^[2]
Olympic record	Derek Parra (USA)	1:43.95	Salt Lake City, United States	19 February 2002	^[2]

No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition.

Results[edit]

Rank	Pair	Lane	Name	Country	Time	Time behind
	17	I	Enrico Fabris	Italy	1:45.97
	21	O	Shani Davis	United States	1:46.13	+0.16
	20	I	Chad Hedrick	United States	1:46.22	+0.25
4	17	O	Simon Kuipers	Netherlands	1:46.58	+0.61
5	18	O	Erben Wennemars	Netherlands	1:46.71	+0.74
6	14	O	Ivan Skobrev	Russia	1:46.91	+0.94
7	16	O	Petter Andersen	Norway	1:47.15	+1.18
8	15	I	Mikael Flygind Larsen	Norway	1:47.28	+1.31
9	15	O	Joey Cheek	United States	1:47.52	+1.55
10	14	I	Even Wetten	Norway	1:47.78	+1.81
11	18	I	Denny Morrison	Canada	1:48.04	+2.07
12	11	O	Konrad Niedźwiedzki	Poland	1:48.09	+2.12
12	19	O	Steven Elm	Canada	1:48.09	+2.12
14	8	I	Lee Jong-woo	South Korea	1:48.11	+2.14
15	7	I	Sven Kramer	Netherlands	1:48.36	+2.39
16	5	O	Mun Jun	South Korea	1:48.38	+2.41
17	4	I	Arne Dankers	Canada	1:48.42	+2.45
18	3	I	Ippolito Sanfratello	Italy	1:48.44	+2.47
19	19	I	Derek Parra	United States	1:48.54	+2.57
20	16	I	Jan Bos	Netherlands	1:48.61	+2.64
21	9	I	Dmitry Shepel	Russia	1:48.74	+2.77
22	6	O	Stefano Donagrandi	Italy	1:48.85	+2.88
23	20	I	Yevgeny Lalenkov	Russia	1:49.00	+3.03
24	13	I	Teruhiro Sugimori	Japan	1:49.51	+3.54
24	13	O	Risto Rosendahl	Finland	1:49.51	+3.54
26	2	O	Stefan Heythausen	Germany	1:49.58	+3.61
27	7	O	Justin Warsylewicz	Canada	1:49.77	+3.80
28	12	O	Lee Jin-woo	South Korea	1:49.85	+3.88
29	2	I	Matteo Anesi	Italy	1:49.88	+3.91
30	1	I	Gao Xuefeng	China	1:49.91	+3.94
31	6	I	Tobias Schneider	Germany	1:50.18	+4.21
32	21	I	Aleksandr Kibalko	Russia	1:50.29	+4.32
33	3	O	Johan Röjler	Sweden	1:50.50	+4.53
34	12	I	Yusuke Imai	Japan	1:50.56	+4.59
35	10	O	Takahiro Ushiyama	Japan	1:50.59	+4.62
36	8	O	Robert Lehmann	Germany	1:51.04	+5.07
37	5	I	Jörg Dallmann	Germany	1:51.32	+5.35
38	10	I	Takaharu Nakajima	Japan	1:51.61	+5.64
39	4	O	Aleksey Belyayev	Kazakhstan	1:52.20	+6.23
40	9	O	Li Changyu	China	1:53.32	+7.35
	9	I	Håvard Bøkko	Norway	DNF