Speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres; at the X Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	L'Anneau de Vitesse
Dates	February 16
Competitors	53 from 18 nations
Winning time	2:03.4
Medalists
	← 1964 1972 →

Speed skating at the 1968 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 1968 Winter Olympics took place on 16 February, at the L'Anneau de Vitesse.^[1]

Records

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

World record	Magne Thomassen (NOR)	2:02.5	Davos, Switzerland	5 February 1968
Olympic record	Yevgeny Grishin (URS) Yuri Mikhailov (URS)	2:08.6	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	30 January 1956

The following new Olympic record was set.

Date	Athlete	Time	OR	WR
16 February	Kees Verkerk (NED)	2:03.4	OR

Results

^[1]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Kees Verkerk	Netherlands	2:03.4	OR
	Ivar Eriksen	Norway	2:05.0
	Ard Schenk	Netherlands	2:05.0
4	Magne Thomassen	Norway	2:05.1
5	Johnny Höglin	Sweden	2:05.2
5	Bjørn Tveter	Norway	2:05.2
7	Svein-Erik Stiansen	Norway	2:05.5
8	Eduard Matusevich	Soviet Union	2:06.1
9	Peter Nottet	Netherlands	2:06.3
10	Örjan Sandler	Sweden	2:07.0
11	Aleksandr Kerchenko	Soviet Union	2:07.1
12	Ants Antson	Soviet Union	2:07.2
12	Valery Kaplan	Soviet Union	2:07.2
14	Jouko Launonen	Finland	2:07.5
15	Günter Traub	West Germany	2:07.7
16	Jan Bols	Netherlands	2:07.8
16	Manne Lavås	Sweden	2:07.8
18	Kimmo Koskinen	Finland	2:07.9
19	Richard Wurster	United States	2:08.4
20	Göran Claeson	Sweden	2:08.6
21	Olavi Hjellman	Finland	2:10.1
22	Jürgen Traub	West Germany	2:10.2
23	Wayne LeBombard	United States	2:11.2
24	Raimo Hietala	Finland	2:11.7
24	Bill Lanigan	United States	2:11.7
26	Bob Hodges	Canada	2:12.0
27	György Martos	Hungary	2:12.2
28	John Tipper	Great Britain	2:12.4
29	György Ivánkai	Hungary	2:12.6
30	Tadao Ishihata	Japan	2:12.7
31	Keiichi Suzuki	Japan	2:13.1
32	Giancarlo Gloder	Italy	2:13.2
33	Elio Locatelli	Italy	2:13.3
34	Roger Capan	United States	2:13.6
34	Renato De Riva	Italy	2:13.6
36	Michel Thépénier	France	2:13.7
37	François Perrenoud	France	2:14.0
38	Guido Gillarduzzi	Italy	2:14.1
39	Otmar Braunecker	Austria	2:14.4
40	Mutsuhiko Maeda	Japan	2:14.8
40	Hermann Strutz	Austria	2:14.8
40	Masaki Suzuki	Japan	2:14.8
43	Geoff Stockdale	Great Britain	2:15.6
44	Erich Korbel	Austria	2:15.7
45	Mihály Martos	Hungary	2:15.8
46	Pete Williamson	Canada	2:16.0
47	Hansruedi Widmer	Switzerland	2:16.1
48	Franz Krienbühl	Switzerland	2:16.3
49	Colin Coates	Australia	2:16.7
49	Luvsanlkhagvyn Dashnyam	23x15px Mongolia	2:16.7
51	Lee Ik-Hwan	23x15px South Korea	2:17.5
52	Büjiin Jalbaa	23x15px Mongolia	2:18.0
53	David Bodington	Great Britain	2:19.1