Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres; at the XX Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Oval Lingotto
Dates	February 21
Competitors	41 from 14 nations
Winning time	1:45.97
Medalists
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Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men	women
10000 m	men
Team pursuit	men	women

The men's 1500 m speed skating competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Turin, Italy.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Chad Hedrick (USA)	1:42.78	Salt Lake City, United States	18 November 2005	^[1]
Olympic record	Derek Parra (USA)	1:43.95	Salt Lake City, United States	19 February 2002	^[1]

No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition.

Results

Rank	Pair	Name	Country	Time	Time behind
	17	Enrico Fabris	23x15px Italy	1:45.97
	21	Shani Davis	United States	1:46.13	+0.16
	20	Chad Hedrick	United States	1:46.22	+0.25
4	17	Simon Kuipers	Netherlands	1:46.58	+0.61
5	18	Erben Wennemars	Netherlands	1:46.71	+0.74
6	14	Ivan Skobrev	Russia	1:46.91	+0.94
7	16	Petter Andersen	Norway	1:47.15	+1.18
8	15	Mikael Flygind Larsen	Norway	1:47.28	+1.31
9	15	Joey Cheek	United States	1:47.52	+1.55
10	14	Even Wetten	Norway	1:47.78	+1.81
11	18	Denny Morrison	Canada	1:48.04	+2.07
12	11	Konrad Niedźwiedzki	Poland	1:48.09	+2.12
12	19	Steven Elm	Canada	1:48.09	+2.12
14	8	Lee Jong-woo	23x15px South Korea	1:48.11	+2.14
15	7	Sven Kramer	Netherlands	1:48.36	+2.39
16	5	Mun Jun	23x15px South Korea	1:48.38	+2.41
17	4	Arne Dankers	Canada	1:48.42	+2.45
18	3	Ippolito Sanfratello	23x15px Italy	1:48.44	+2.47
19	19	Derek Parra	United States	1:48.54	+2.57
20	16	Jan Bos	Netherlands	1:48.61	+2.64
21	9	Dmitry Shepel	Russia	1:48.74	+2.77
22	6	Stefano Donagrandi	23x15px Italy	1:48.85	+2.88
23	20	Yevgeny Lalenkov	Russia	1:49.00	+3.03
24	13	Teruhiro Sugimori	Japan	1:49.51	+3.54
24	13	Risto Rosendahl	Finland	1:49.51	+3.54
26	2	Stefan Heythausen	Germany	1:49.58	+3.61
27	7	Justin Warsylewicz	Canada	1:49.77	+3.80
28	12	Lee Jin-woo	23x15px South Korea	1:49.85	+3.88
29	2	Matteo Anesi	23x15px Italy	1:49.88	+3.91
30	1	Gao Xuefeng	China	1:49.91	+3.94
31	6	Tobias Schneider	Germany	1:50.18	+4.21
32	21	Aleksandr Kibalko	Russia	1:50.29	+4.32
33	3	Johan Röjler	Sweden	1:50.50	+4.53
34	12	Yusuke Imai	Japan	1:50.56	+4.59
35	10	Takahiro Ushiyama	Japan	1:50.59	+4.62
36	8	Robert Lehmann	Germany	1:51.04	+5.07
37	5	Jörg Dallmann	Germany	1:51.32	+5.35
38	10	Takaharu Nakajima	Japan	1:51.61	+5.64
39	4	Aleksey Belyayev	Kazakhstan	1:52.20	+6.23
40	9	Li Changyu	China	1:53.32	+7.35
	9	Håvard Bøkko	Norway	DNF