Speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

1500 metres at the III Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for Speed skating
Venue	James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink
Dates	February 5
Competitors	18 from 6 nations
Winning time	2:57.5
Medalists
Jack Shea   United States   Alexander Hurd   Canada   Willy Logan   Canada

Speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	(women)
1000 m		(women)
1500 m	men	(women)
5000 m	men
10000 m	men

The 1500 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Friday, February 5, 1932.

Eighteen speed skaters from six nations competed.

Like all other speed skating events at this Olympics the competition was held for the only time in packstyle format, having all competitors skate at the same time. This was the common style in North America and gave the runners from the United States and Canada a major advantage over the European rivals.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Jack Shea United States (USA)	Alexander Hurd Canada (CAN)	Willy Logan Canada (CAN)

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1932 Winter Olympics.

World Record	2:17.4(*)	Oscar Mathisen	Davos (SUI)	January 18, 1914
Olympic Record	2:20.8	Clas Thunberg	Chamonix (FRA)	January 27, 1924

(*) The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice.

Results

First round

Heat 1

Place	Name	Time	Qual.
1	Herbert Taylor (USA)	2:49.3	Q
2	Frank Stack (CAN)		Q
3	Bernt Evensen (NOR)
4	Hans Engnestangen (NOR)
5	Ossi Blomqvist (FIN)
6	Tomeju Uruma (JPN)

Heat 2

Place	Name	Time	Qual.
1	Jack Shea (USA)	2:58.0	Q
2	Willy Logan (CAN)		Q
3	Ivar Ballangrud (NOR)
4	Herbert Flack (CAN)
5	Shozo Ishihara (JPN)
6	Lloyd Guenther (USA)

Heat 3

Place	Name	Time	Qual.
1	Raymond Murray (USA)	2:29.9	Q
2	Alexander Hurd (CAN)		Q
3	Michael Staksrud (NOR)
4	Yasuo Kawamura (JPN)
5	Tokuo Kitani (JPN)
6	Ingvar Lindberg (SWE)

Final

Place	Name	Time
1	Jack Shea (USA)	2:57.5
2	Alexander Hurd (CAN)	5 m behind
3	Willy Logan (CAN)	6 m behind
4	Frank Stack (CAN)
5	Raymond Murray (USA)
6	Herbert Taylor (USA)

References

• Official Olympic Report
• "Results of the 1932 Olympic Games 1500 meters Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 27 August 2012.