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

Men's 1000 metres at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Utah Olympic Oval
Dates	February 16
Competitors	44 from 18 nations
Winning time	1:07.18
Medalists
Gerard van Velde  Netherlands Jan Bos  Netherlands Joey Cheek  United States

Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10,000 m	men

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. He lost

Records

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
Olympic record	Ids Postma (NED)	1:10.64	Nagano, Japan	February 15, 1998

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

Date[1]	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

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	Patrick 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

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