Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres

Men's 1000 metres at the XV Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Olympic Oval
Dates	February 18
Competitors	40 from 16 nations
Winning time	1:13.03
Medalists
Nikolay Gulyayev   Soviet Union   Uwe-Jens Mey   East Germany   Igor Zhelezovski   Soviet Union

Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10000 m		men

The men's 1000 metres in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place on 18 February, at the Olympic Oval.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Pavel Pegov (URS)	1:12.58	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	25 March 1983
Olympic record	Eric Heiden (USA)	1:15.18	Lake Placid, United States	19 February 1980

The following new World and Olympic records was set during the competition.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
18 February	Pair 2	Yasumitsu Kanehama	Japan	1:14.36	OR
18 February	Pair 3	Nikolay Gulyayev	Soviet Union	1:13.03	OR

Results

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Rank	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	3	Nikolay Gulyayev	Soviet Union	1:13.03	-	OR
	5	Uwe-Jens Mey	East Germany	1:13.11	+0.08
	5	Igor Zhelezovski	Soviet Union	1:13.19	+0.16
4	6	Eric Flaim	United States	1:13.53	+0.50
5	19	Gaétan Boucher	Canada	1:13.77	+0.74
6	12	Michael Hadschieff	Austria	1:13.84	+0.81
7	4	Guy Thibault	Canada	1:14.16	+1.13
8	13	Peter Adeberg	East Germany	1:14.19	+1.16
9	20	Bae Ki-tae	South Korea	1:14.36	+1.33
9	2	Yasumitsu Kanehama	Japan	1:14.36	+1.33
11	15	Andrey Bakhvalov	Soviet Union	1:14.39	+1.36
12	20	Boris Repnin	Soviet Union	1:14.41	+1.38
13	3	Kimihiro Hamaya	Japan	1:14.43	+1.40
14	9	Mike Richmond	Australia	1:14.61	+1.58
15	8	André Hoffmann	East Germany	1:14.62	+1.59
15	11	Hein Vergeer	Netherlands	1:14.62	+1.59
17	2	Tom Cushman	United States	1:14.68	+1.65
18	4	Nick Thometz	United States	1:14.71	+1.68
19	17	Jean Pichette	Canada	1:14.72	+1.69
20	1	Akira Kuroiwa	Japan	1:15.05	+2.02
21	15	Claes Bengtsson	Sweden	1:15.07	+2.04
22	14	Marcel Tremblay	Canada	1:15.13	+2.10
23	8	Yukihiro Mitani	Japan	1:15.28	+2.25
24	10	Menno Boelsma	Netherlands	1:15.34	+2.31
25	9	Frode Rønning	Norway	1:15.39	+2.36
26	16	Rolf Falk-Larssen	Norway	1:15.42	+2.39
27	14	Hans Magnusson	Sweden	1:15.79	+2.76
28	18	Jerzy Dominik	Poland	1:16.16	+3.13
29	19	Hans van Helden	France	1:16.32	+3.29
30	10	Göran Johansson	Sweden	1:16.33	+3.30
31	12	Phillip Tahmindjis	Australia	1:16.38	+3.35
32	7	Hans-Peter Oberhuber	West Germany	1:16.62	+3.59
33	13	Claude Nicouleau	France	1:17.91	+4.88
34	17	Craig McNicoll	Great Britain	1:18.60	+5.57
35	15	Behudin Merdović	Yugoslavia	1:23.88	+10.85
36	16	Julian Green	Great Britain	1:57.30	+44.27
-	7	Bjørn Hagen	Norway	DNF
-	4	Dan Jansen	United States	DNF
-	6	Jan Ykema	Netherlands	DNF
-	11	Uwe Streb	West Germany	DQ

References

1. "Calgary 1988 Official Report" (PDF). XV Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1988. Retrieved January 16, 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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