Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres speed skating at the I Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Stade Olympique de Chamonix
Date	27 January 1924
Competitors	22 from 9 nations
Winning time	2:20.8 OR
Medalists
Clas Thunberg  Finland Roald Larsen  Norway Sigurd Moen  Norway

Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics
500 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
All-round	men

The 1500 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Sunday, January 27, 1924.

Twenty-two speed skaters from nine nations competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Clas Thunberg  Finland	Roald Larsen  Norway	Sigurd Moen  Norway

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1924 Winter Olympics.

World Record	2:17.4(*)	Oscar Mathisen	Davos (SUI)	January 18, 1914
Olympic Record		-

(*) The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice.

Results

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Clas Thunberg (FIN)	2:20.8
2	Roald Larsen (NOR)	2:22.0
3	Sigurd Moen (NOR)	2:25.6
4	Julius Skutnabb (FIN)	2:26.6
5	Harald Strøm (NOR)	2:29.0
6	Oskar Olsen (NOR)	2:29.2
7	Harry Kaskey (USA)	2:29.8
8	Charles Jewtraw (USA)	2:31.6
	Joe Moore (USA)	2:31.6
10	Alberts Rumba (LAT)	2:32.0
11	Charles Gorman (CAN)	2:35.4
12	Bill Steinmetz (USA)	2:36.0
13	Axel Blomqvist (SWE)	2:36.4
14	Léonhard Quaglia (FRA)	2:37.0
15	Leon Jucewicz (POL)	2:42.6
16	André Gegout (FRA)	2:54.4
17	Gaston Van Hazebroeck (BEL)	2:54.8
18	George de Wilde (FRA)	2:55.0
19	Louis De Ridder (BEL)	3:01.8
20	Philippe Van Volckxsom (BEL)	3:14.6
21	Marcel Moens (BEL)	3:16.8
–	Asser Wallenius (FIN)	DNF

References

• Official Olympic Report
• "Results of the 1924 Olympic Games 1500 meters Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 27 August 2012.