Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres; at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for short track
Venue	Salt Lake Ice Center
Dates	February 20
Competitors	31 from 19 nations
Winning time	2:18.541
Medalists

The men's 1500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics took place on 20 February at the Salt Lake Ice Center.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[1]

World record	Apolo Anton Ohno (USA)	2:13.728	Kearns, United States	15 December 2001
Olympic record	None	None	None	None

The following new Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Round	Team	Time	OR	WR
13 February	Heat 5	Guo Wei (CHN)	2:18.846	OR
16 February	Semifinal 1	Mathieu Turcotte (CAN)	2:15.942	OR

Results

Heats

The first round was held on 20 February. There were six heats of five skaters each, with the top three finishers moving on to the semifinals.^[1]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Ahn Hyun-soo	South Korea	2:23.287	Q
2	Bruno Loscos	France	2:23.517	Q
3	Satoru Terao	Japan	2:23.680	Q
4	Pieter Gysel	Belgium	2:24.161
5	Volodymyr Hryhor'iev	Ukraine	2:25.316

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Fabio Carta	Italy	2:26.644	Q
2	Apolo Anton Ohno	United States	2:26.809	Q
3	Nicky Gooch	Great Britain	2:27.084	Q
4	Kornél Szántó	Hungary	2:27.467
5	Mark McNee	Australia	2:27.840

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Rusty Smith	United States	2:25.179	Q
2	Li Jiajun	China	2:25.347	Q
3	Martin Johansson	Sweden	2:25.824	Q
4	Leon Flack	Great Britain	2:25.832
5	Kiril Pandov	Bulgaria	2:27.730

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kim Dong-sung	South Korea	2:22.133	Q
2	André Hartwig	Germany	2:22.541	Q
3	Steven Bradbury	Australia	2:22.632	Q
4	Mark Jackson	New Zealand	2:22.906
5	Krystian Zdrojkowski	Poland	2:23.015

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Guo Wei	China	2:18.846	Q
2	Nicola Rodigari	Italy	2:19.067	Q
3	Miroslav Boyadzhiev	Bulgaria	2:22.082	Q
4	Balázs Knoch	Hungary	2:40.617
5	Naoya Tamura	Japan	3:06.585

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marc Gagnon	Canada	2:20.126	Q
2	Cees Juffermans	Netherlands	2:20.397	Q
3	Gregory Durand	France	2:20.496	Q
4	Matúš Užák	Slovakia	2:22.557
–	Simon Van Vossel	Belgium	DQ

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 20 February. The top two finishers in each of the three semifinals qualified for the A final, while the third and fourth place skaters advanced to the B Final.^[1]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kim Dong-sung	South Korea	2:15.942	QA
2	Bruno Loscos	France	2:15.981	QA
3	Rusty Smith	United States	2:16.906	QB
4	Miroslav Boyadzhiev	Bulgaria	2:23.468	QB
5	Nicola Rodigari	Italy	2:53.907
–	Satoru Terao	Japan	DQ

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Fabio Carta	Italy	2:25.072	QA
2	Apolo Anton Ohno	United States	2:25.152	QA
3	Guo Wei	China	2:25.321	QB
4	Steven Bradbury	Australia	2:25.457	QB
5	Nicky Gooch	Great Britain	2:25.903
6	André Hartwig	Germany	2:25.936

Semifinal 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Li Jiajun	China	2:19.877	QA
2	Marc Gagnon	Canada	2:20.050	QA
3	Cees Juffermans	Netherlands	2:21.726	QB
4	Martin Johansson	Sweden	2:24.032	QB
5	Gregory Durand	France	2:49.994
–	Ahn Hyun-soo	South Korea	DQ

Finals

The six qualifying skaters competed in Final A, while six others raced in Final B.^[1]

Final A

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Apolo Anton Ohno	United States	2:18.541
	Li Jiajun	China	2:18.731
	Marc Gagnon	Canada	2:18.806
4	Fabio Carta	Italy	2:18.947
5	Bruno Loscos	France	2:19.587
–	Kim Dong-sung	South Korea	DQ

Final B

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
6	Rusty Smith	United States	2:27.155
7	Guo Wei	China	2:27.376
8	Cees Juffermans	Netherlands	2:27.611
9	Martin Johansson	Sweden	2:28.559
10	Steven Bradbury	Australia	2:28.604
11	Miroslav Boyadzhiev	Bulgaria	2:29.307

References

1 2 3 4 "Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Salt Lake Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-20.

External links

Sports-Reference Salt Lake 2002 - Men's 1500 metres

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[OfficialReport-1] 1 2 3 4 "Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Salt Lake Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-02-20.

Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m relay		women
5000 m relay	men