Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres at the IX Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Eisschnellaufbahn
Dates	February 6
Competitors	54 from 20 nations
Winning time	2:10.3
Medalists
Ants Antson   Soviet Union   Kees Verkerk   Netherlands   Villy Haugen   Norway

Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m				women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men
10000 m		men

The men's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place on 6 February, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2][3]

World record	Juhani Järvinen (FIN)	2:06.3	Squaw Valley, United States	1 March 1959
Olympic record	Yevgeny Grishin (URS)  Yuri Mikhailov (URS)	2:08.6	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	30 January 1956

Results

^[1]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Ants Antson	Soviet Union	2:10.3
	Kees Verkerk	Netherlands	2:10.6
	Villy Haugen	Norway	2:11.2
4	Jouko Launonen	Finland	2:11.9
5	Lev Zaytsev	Soviet Union	2:12.1
6	Ivar Eriksen	Norway	2:12.2
6	Eduard Matusevich	Soviet Union	2:12.2
8	Juhani Järvinen	Finland	2:12.4
9	Magne Thomassen	Norway	2:12.5
10	Rudi Liebrechts	Netherlands	2:12.8
11	Yevgeny Grishin	Soviet Union	2:13.3
11	Terry Malkin	Great Britain	2:13.3
13	Ard Schenk	Netherlands	2:13.4
14	Ri Sung-Ryool	North Korea	2:13.9
15	Dick Hunt	United States	2:14.4
16	Nils Aaness	Norway	2:14.6
17	Günter Traub	Germany	2:15.3
18	Örjan Sandler	Sweden	2:15.4
19	Jouko Jokinen	Finland	2:15.6
19	Ivar Nilsson	Sweden	2:15.6
21	Renato De Riva	Italy	2:15.7
22	André Kouprianoff	France	2:15.8
23	Seppo Hänninen	Finland	2:16.0
24	Manne Lavås	Sweden	2:16.2
25	Buddy Campbell	United States	2:16.4
26	Herbert Höfl	Germany	2:16.8
26	Eddie Rudolph, Jr.	United States	2:16.8
28	Bo Ollander	Sweden	2:17.1
29	Gerd Zimmermann	Germany	2:17.3
30	Kurt Stille	Denmark	2:17.4
31	Keiichi Suzuki	Japan	2:17.5
32	Oldřich Teplý	Czechoslovakia	2:17.9
33	Hermann Strutz	Austria	2:18.0
34	Satoshi Shinpo	Japan	2:18.5
35	Elio Locatelli	Italy	2:19.0
36	Kim Zin-Hook	North Korea	2:19.4
37	Ralf Olin	Canada	2:19.7
38	György Ivánkai	Hungary	2:19.9
39	Jürgen Schmidt	Germany	2:20.0
40	Choi Yeong-Bae	South Korea	2:20.3
41	Toyofumi Aruga	Japan	2:20.7
42	Floyd Bedbury	United States	2:21.3
43	Raymond Fonvieille	France	2:22.6
44	Ruedi Uster	Switzerland	2:23.4
45	Tony Bullen	Great Britain	2:23.7
46	Luvsanlkhagvyn Dashnyam	Mongolia	2:23.9
47	Gerald Koning	Canada	2:24.0
48	Peter Toyfl	Austria	2:24.2
49	Thomas Dawson	Great Britain	2:26.4
50	Mihály Martos	Hungary	2:26.8
51	Josef Reisinger	Austria	2:27.8
52	Choi Nam-Yeon	South Korea	2:30.2
53	Jean-Pierre Guéron	Switzerland	2:32.3
-	Erich Korbel	Austria	DQ

References

1. "Offizieller Bericht der IX. Olympischen Winterspiele Innsbruck 1964" (PDF). Austrian Federal Publishing House for Instruction, Science and Art, Vienna and Munich. LA84 Foundation. 1964. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
2. "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
3. "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - Olympic Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.

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