Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

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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 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place on 20 February, at the Olympic Oval.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Igor Zhelezovsky (URS)	1:52.50	Calgary, Canada	5 December 1987
Olympic record	Eric Heiden (USA)	1:55.44	Lake Placid, United States	21 February 1980

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

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
20 February	Pair 1	Eric Flaim	United States	1:52.12	OR	WR
20 February	Pair 3	André Hoffmann	East Germany	1:52.06	OR	WR

Results

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Rank	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	3	André Hoffmann	East Germany	1:52.06	-	(WR)
	1	Eric Flaim	United States	1:52.12	+0.06
	4	Michael Hadschieff	Austria	1:52.31	+0.25
4	6	Igor Zhelezovski	Soviet Union	1:52.63	+0.57
5	2	Toru Aoyanagi	Japan	1:52.85	+0.79
6	3	Aleksandr Klimov	Soviet Union	1:52.97	+0.91
7	2	Nikolay Gulyayev	Soviet Union	1:53.04	+0.98
8	8	Peter Adeberg	East Germany	1:53.57	+1.51
9	15	Gaétan Boucher	Canada	1:54.18	+2.12
10	5	Jean Pichett	Canada	1:54.63	+2.57
11	14	Mark Greenwald	United States	1:54.64	+2.58
12	16	Mike Richmond	Australia	1:54.95	+2.89
13	11	Claes Bengtsson	Sweden	1:55.16	+3.10
14	12	Danny Kah	Australia	1:55.19	+3.13
15	10	Dave Silk	United States	1:55.26	+3.20
16	6	Munehisa Kuroiwa	Japan	1:55.42	+3.36
17	12	Im Ri-Bin	23x15px North Korea	1:55.55	+3.49
18	16	Ben Lamarche	Canada	1:55.59	+3.53
19	20	Hans van Helden	France	1:55.61	+3.55
20	18	John Baskfield	United States	1:55.88	+3.82
21	6	Rolf Falk-Larssen	Norway	1:55.94	+3.88
22	20	Yoshiyuki Shimizu	Japan	1:55.98	+3.92
23	14	Gregor Jelonek	Canada	1:56.37	+4.31
24	13	Hans Magnusson	Sweden	1:56.44	+4.38
25	8	Pertti Niittylä	Finland	1:56.48	+4.42
26	4	Hwang Ik-Hwan	South Korea	1:56.50	+4.44
27	1	Hein Vergeer	Netherlands	1:56.63	+4.57
28	19	Hozumi Moriyama	Japan	1:56.84	+4.78
29	17	Kim Gwan-Gyu	South Korea	1:56.85	+4.79
30	9	Hansjörg Baltes	West Germany	1:57.08	+5.02
31	10	Liu Yanfei	China	1:57.38	+5.32
32	18	Phillip Tahmindjis	Australia	1:57.63	+5.57
33	9	Frode Syvertsen	Norway	1:58.37	+6.31
34	19	Jiří Kyncl	Czechoslovakia	1:58.44	+6.38
35	7	Andrey Bobrov	Soviet Union	1:58.97	+6.91
36	17	Jerzy Dominik	Poland	1:59.03	+6.97
37	1	Julian Green	Great Britain	1:59.41	+7.35
38	11	Craig McNicoll	Great Britain	2:01.89	+9.83
39	15	Behudin Merdović	Yugoslavia	2:06.11	+14.05
-	7	Joakim Karlberg	Sweden	DNF