Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games

Pictogram for short track
VenueSalt Lake Ice Center
DatesFebruary 20
Competitors31 from 19 nations
Winning time2:18.541
Medalists
 Apolo Anton Ohno  United States
 Li Jiajun  China
 Marc Gagnon  Canada
Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
500 m   men   women
1000 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m relay women
5000 m relay men

The men's 1500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics took place on 20 February at the Salt Lake Ice Center.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:[1]

World record  Apolo Anton Ohno (USA) 2:13.728 Kearns, United States 15 December 2001
Olympic record None None None None

The following new Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date Round Team Time OR WR
13 February Heat 5  Guo Wei (CHN) 2:18.846 OR
16 February Semifinal 1  Mathieu Turcotte (CAN) 2:15.942 OR

Results

Heats

The first round was held on 20 February. There were six heats of five skaters each, with the top three finishers moving on to the semifinals.[1]

Heat 1
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Ahn Hyun-soo South Korea 2:23.287 Q
2 Bruno Loscos France 2:23.517 Q
3 Satoru Terao Japan 2:23.680 Q
4 Pieter Gysel Belgium 2:24.161
5 Volodymyr Hryhor'iev Ukraine 2:25.316
Heat 2
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Fabio Carta Italy 2:26.644 Q
2 Apolo Anton Ohno United States 2:26.809 Q
3 Nicky Gooch Great Britain 2:27.084 Q
4 Kornél Szántó Hungary 2:27.467
5 Mark McNee Australia 2:27.840
Heat 3
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Rusty Smith United States 2:25.179 Q
2 Li Jiajun China 2:25.347 Q
3 Martin Johansson Sweden 2:25.824 Q
4 Leon Flack Great Britain 2:25.832
5 Kiril Pandov Bulgaria 2:27.730
Heat 4
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Kim Dong-sung South Korea 2:22.133 Q
2 André Hartwig Germany 2:22.541 Q
3 Steven Bradbury Australia 2:22.632 Q
4 Mark Jackson New Zealand 2:22.906
5 Krystian Zdrojkowski Poland 2:23.015
Heat 5
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Guo Wei China 2:18.846 Q
2 Nicola Rodigari Italy 2:19.067 Q
3 Miroslav Boyadzhiev Bulgaria 2:22.082 Q
4 Balázs Knoch Hungary 2:40.617
5 Naoya Tamura Japan 3:06.585
Heat 6
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Marc Gagnon Canada 2:20.126 Q
2 Cees Juffermans Netherlands 2:20.397 Q
3 Gregory Durand France 2:20.496 Q
4 Matúš Užák Slovakia 2:22.557
– Simon Van Vossel Belgium DQ

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 20 February. The top two finishers in each of the three semifinals qualified for the A final, while the third and fourth place skaters advanced to the B Final.[1]

Semifinal 1
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Kim Dong-sung South Korea 2:15.942 QA
2 Bruno Loscos France 2:15.981 QA
3 Rusty Smith United States 2:16.906 QB
4 Miroslav Boyadzhiev Bulgaria 2:23.468 QB
5 Nicola Rodigari Italy 2:53.907
– Satoru Terao Japan DQ
Semifinal 2
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Fabio Carta Italy 2:25.072 QA
2 Apolo Anton Ohno United States 2:25.152 QA
3 Guo Wei China 2:25.321 QB
4 Steven Bradbury Australia 2:25.457 QB
5 Nicky Gooch Great Britain 2:25.903
6 André Hartwig Germany 2:25.936
Semifinal 3
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Li Jiajun China 2:19.877 QA
2 Marc Gagnon Canada 2:20.050 QA
3 Cees Juffermans Netherlands 2:21.726 QB
4 Martin Johansson Sweden 2:24.032 QB
5 Gregory Durand France 2:49.994
– Ahn Hyun-soo South Korea DQ

Finals

The six qualifying skaters competed in Final A, while six others raced in Final B.[1]

Final A
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1st Apolo Anton Ohno United States 2:18.541
2nd Li Jiajun China 2:18.731
3rd Marc Gagnon Canada 2:18.806
4 Fabio Carta Italy 2:18.947
5 Bruno Loscos France 2:19.587
– Kim Dong-sung South Korea DQ
Final B
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
6 Rusty Smith United States 2:27.155
7 Guo Wei China 2:27.376
8 Cees Juffermans Netherlands 2:27.611
9 Martin Johansson Sweden 2:28.559
10 Steven Bradbury Australia 2:28.604
11 Miroslav Boyadzhiev Bulgaria 2:29.307

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Salt Lake Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 2002.

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, September 06, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.