Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:[3][4]

World record	Ard Schenk (NED)	1:58.7	Davos, Switzerland	16 January 1971
Olympic record	Kees Verkerk (NED)	2:03.4	Grenoble, France	19 February 1968

The following new Olympic record was set.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
6 February	Pair 8	Ard Schenk	Netherlands	2:02.96	OR

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Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Ard Schenk	Netherlands	2:02.96	OR
	Roar Grønvold	Norway	2:04.26
	Göran Claeson	Sweden	2:05.89
4	Bjørn Tveter	Norway	2:05.94
5	Jan Bols	Netherlands	2:06.58
6	Valery Lavrushkin	Soviet Union	2:07.16
7	Dan Carroll	United States	2:07.24
8	Kees Verkerk	Netherlands	2:07.43
9	Johnny Höglin	Sweden	2:08.11
10	Kimmo Koskinen	Finland	2:08.18
11	Svein-Erik Stiansen	Norway	2:08.63
12	Gerd Zimmermann	West Germany	2:08.95
13	Dag Fornæss	Norway	2:09.52
14	Gary Jonland	United States	2:09.55
15	Göran Johansson	Sweden	2:09.66
16	Johan Granath	Sweden	2:10.21
17	Jouko Salakka	Finland	2:10.22
18	Bruno Toniolli	Italy	2:10.24
19	Eddy Verheijen	Netherlands	2:10.96
20	Mutsuhiko Maeda	Japan	2:11.09
21	Valery Muratov	Soviet Union	2:11.83
22	Kiyomi Ito	Japan	2:11.96
23	Bob Hodges	Canada	2:12.13
24	Colin Coates	Australia	2:12.14
25	Bill Lanigan	United States	2:12.31
26	Kevin Sirois	Canada	2:13.99
27	Giancarlo Gloder	Italy	2:14.07
28	Seppo Hänninen	Finland	2:14.52
29	David Hampton	Great Britain	2:14.60
30	Clark King	United States	2:14.83
31	Otmar Braunecker	Austria	2:14.88
32	Herbert Schwarz	West Germany	2:15.42
33	Richard Tourne	France	2:16.37
34	Leo Linkovesi	Finland	2:16.86
35	Jeong Chung-Gu	South Korea	2:17.36
36	Andy Barron	Canada	2:17.71
37	John Blewitt	Great Britain	2:18.96
38	Luvsanlkhagvyn Dashnyam	Mongolia	2:20.42
39	Jim Lynch	Australia	2:26.69