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

The men's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place on 6 February, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.[1][2]

Men's 1500 metres speed skating
at the IX Olympic Winter Games
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Pictogram for speed skating
VenueEisschnelllaufbahn Innsbruck
Date6 February 1964
Competitors54 from 20 nations
Winning time2:10.3
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ants Antson  Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Kees Verkerk  Netherlands
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Villy Haugen  Norway
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Records

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Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:[3][4]

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

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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
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
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   United Team of Germany 2:15.3
18 Örjan Sandler   Sweden 2:15.4
19 Jouko Jokinen   Finland 2:15.6
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   United Team of Germany 2:16.8
Eddie Rudolph, Jr.   United States 2:16.8
28 Bo Ollander   Sweden 2:17.1
29 Gerd Zimmermann   United Team of 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   United Team of 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

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  1. ^ a b "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 29 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Speed Skating at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's 1,500 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  3. ^ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  4. ^ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - Olympic Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.