Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres

The men's 1000 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Gerard van Velde, who had finished 4th in the Olympics twice already, delivered a surprise by skating a world record and winning the gold medal.[1]

Men's 1000 metres
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
VenueUtah Olympic Oval
DatesFebruary 16
Competitors44 from 18 nations
Winning time1:07.18 WR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gerard van Velde
 Netherlands
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jan Bos
 Netherlands
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Joey Cheek
 United States
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Records edit

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record   Jeremy Wotherspoon (CAN) 1:07.72 Salt Lake City, United States December 1, 2001 [2]
Olympic record   Ids Postma (NED) 1:10.64 Nagano, Japan February 15, 1998 [2]

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date[2] Round Athlete Country Time OR WR
February 16 Pair 1 Kim Chul-soo   South Korea 1:09.79 OR
February 16 Pair 2 Ids Postma   Netherlands 1:09.15 OR
February 16 Pair 14 Choi Jae-bong   South Korea 1:08.81 OR
February 16 Pair 15 Gerard van Velde   Netherlands 1:07.18 OR WR

Results edit

Rank Pair Name Country Time Time behind Notes
  15 Gerard van Velde   Netherlands 1:07.18 WR
  19 Jan Bos   Netherlands 1:07.53 +0.35
  20 Joey Cheek   United States 1:07.61 +0.43
4 17 Kip Carpenter   United States 1:07.89 +0.71
5 22 Erben Wennemars   Netherlands 1:07.95 +0.77
6 18 Nick Pearson   United States 1:07.97 +0.79
7 19 Casey FitzRandolph   United States 1:08.15 +0.97
8 16 Lee Kyou-hyuk   South Korea 1:08.37 +1.19
9 15 Sergey Klevchenya   Russia 1:08.41 +1.23
10 16 Janne Hänninen   Finland 1:08.45 +1.27
11 21 Ådne Søndrål   Norway 1:08.64 +1.46
12 14 Choi Jae-bong   South Korea 1:08.81 +1.63
13 22 Jeremy Wotherspoon   Canada 1:08.82 +1.64
14 21 Mike Ireland   Canada 1:08.88 +1.70
15 18 Yusuke Imai   Japan 1:08.90 +1.72
16 20 Toyoki Takeda   Japan 1:08.95 +1.77
17 2 Ids Postma   Netherlands 1:09.15 +1.97
18 12 Dmitry Lobkov   Russia 1:09.20 +2.02
19 11 Pat Bouchard   Canada 1:09.21 +2.03
20 13 Kevin Marshall   Canada 1:09.26 +2.08
21 13 Tomasz Swist   Poland 1:09.48 +2.30
22 14 Manabu Horii   Japan 1:09.50 +2.32
23 4 Yevgeny Lalenkov   Russia 1:09.55 +2.37
24 17 Michael Kuenzel   Germany 1:09.64 +2.46
25 1 Kim Chul-soo   South Korea 1:09.79 +2.61
26 6 Davide Carta   Italy 1:09.81 +2.63
27 1 Sergey Tsybenko   Kazakhstan 1:10.13 +2.95
28 11 Petter Andersen   Norway 1:10.14 +2.96
29 10 Pawel Abratkiewicz   Poland 1:10.21 +3.03
30 5 Christian Breuer   Germany 1:10.38 +3.20
31 6 Zsolt Balo   Hungary 1:10.57 +3.39
32 4 Park Jae-man   South Korea 1:10.67 +3.49
33 7 Risto Rosendahl   Finland 1:10.70 +3.52
34 2 Jan Friesinger   Germany 1:10.71 +3.53
35 3 Li Yu   China 1:10.78 +3.60
36 5 Dino Gillarduzzi   Italy 1:10.96 +3.78
37 8 Andrey Fomin   Ukraine 1:11.04 +3.86
38 3 Cedric Kuentz   France 1:11.26 +4.08
39 10 Grunde Njos   Norway 1:11.31 +4.13
40 7 Yu Fengtong   China 1:12.07 +4.89
41 9 Igor Makovetsky   Belarus 1:12.33 +5.15
42 8 Aleksey Khatylyov   Belarus 1:13.73 +6.55
43 9 David Kramar   Czech Republic 1:14.05 +6.87
44 12 Hiroyuki Noake   Japan 1:49.18 +42.00

References edit

  1. ^ "Speed Skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Men's 1,000 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 7 November 2019.
  2. ^ a b c "Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Speed Skating" (PDF). Salt Lake City Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. February 2002. Retrieved February 5, 2010.