# Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics took place on 16 February, at the L'anneau de vitesse.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
| World record | André Hoffmann (GDR) | 1:52.06 | Calgary, Canada | 20 February 1988 |
| Olympic record | André Hoffmann (GDR) | 1:52.06 | Calgary, Canada | 20 February 1988 |

## Results

| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Time behind |
| | 8 | I | Johann Olav Koss | Norway | 1:54.81 | - |
| | 9 | O | Ådne Søndrål | Norway | 1:54.85 | +0.04 |
| | 5 | O | Leo Visser | Netherlands | 1:54.90 | +0.09 |
| 4 | 6 | O | Rintje Ritsma | Netherlands | 1:55.70 | +0.89 |
| 5 | 11 | O | Bart Veldkamp | Netherlands | 1:56.33 | +1.52 |
| 6 | 6 | I | Olaf Zinke | Germany | 1:56.74 | +1.93 |
| 7 | 3 | O | Falko Zandstra | Netherlands | 1:56.96 | +2.15 |
| 8 | 4 | O | Geir Karlstad | Norway | 1:56.98 | +2.17 |
| 9 | 11 | I | Yukinori Miyabe | Japan | 1:56.99 | +2.18 |
| 10 | 15 | I | Igor Zhelezovski | Unified Team | 1:57.24 | +2.43 |
| 11 | 5 | I | Roberto Sighel | Italy | 1:57.32 | +2.51 |
| 12 | 4 | I | Toru Aoyanagi | Japan | 1:57.36 | +2.55 |
| 13 | 7 | I | Markus Tröger | Germany | 1:57.42 | +2.61 |
| 14 | 8 | O | Michael Hadschieff | Austria | 1:57.43 | +2.62 |
| 15 | 1 | O | Peter Adeberg | Germany | 1:57.54 | +2.73 |
| 16 | 7 | O | Paweł Jaroszek | Poland | 1:57.80 | +2.99 |
| 16 | 14 | O | Yuriy Shulha | Unified Team | 1:57.80 | +2.99 |
| 18 | 20 | O | Liu Yanfei | China | 1:58.44 | +3.63 |
| 19 | 14 | I | Brian Wanek | United States | 1:58.50 | +3.69 |
| 20 | 16 | I | Guy Thibault | Canada | 1:58.87 | +4.06 |
| 21 | 2 | I | Bo König | Sweden | 1:58.94 | +4.13 |
| 22 | 2 | O | Konstantin Kalistratov | Unified Team | 1:59.02 | +4.21 |
| 23 | 1 | I | Danny Kah | Australia | 1:59.33 | +4.52 |
| 24 | 10 | O | Roland Brunner | Austria | 1:59.60 | +4.79 |
| 24 | 10 | I | Eric Flaim | United States | 1:59.60 | +4.79 |
| 26 | 23 | I | Joakim Karlberg | Sweden | 2:00.01 | +5.20 |
| 27 | 12 | O | Choi In-Chol | North Korea | 2:00.36 | +5.55 |
| 28 | 18 | I | Kazuhiro Sato | Japan | 2:00.51 | +5.70 |
| 29 | 3 | I | Steinar Johansen | Norway | 2:00.79 | +5.98 |
| 30 | 13 | I | Alessandro De Taddei | Italy | 2:00.86 | +6.05 |
| 31 | 22 | O | Aleksandr Klimov | Unified Team | 2:00.94 | +6.13 |
| 32 | 15 | O | Chris Shelley | United States | 2:01.11 | +6.30 |
| 33 | 13 | O | Zsolt Baló | Romania | 2:01.33 | +6.52 |
| 34 | 12 | I | Jonas Schön | Sweden | 2:01.53 | +6.72 |
| 35 | 22 | I | Nathaniel Mills | United States | 2:01.54 | +6.73 |
| 36 | 17 | I | Neal Marshall | Canada | 2:01.62 | +6.81 |
| 37 | 17 | O | Craig McNicoll | Great Britain | 2:02.06 | +7.25 |
| 38 | 20 | I | Phillip Tahmindjis | Australia | 2:02.08 | +7.27 |
| 39 | 9 | I | O Yong-seok | South Korea | 2:02.17 | +7.36 |
| 40 | 21 | O | Kevin Scott | Canada | 2:03.18 | +8.37 |
| 41 | 19 | O | Thierry Lamberton | France | 2:04.04 | +9.23 |
| 42 | 19 | I | Csaba Madarász | Hungary | 2:05.00 | +10.19 |
| 43 | 23 | O | Altangadasyn Sodnomdarjaa | Mongolia | 2:05.43 | +10.62 |
| 44 | 21 | I | Keiji Shirahata | Japan | 2:05.47 | +10.66 |
| 45 | 16 | O | Bajro Čenanović | Yugoslavia | 2:12.09 | +17.28 |
| - | 18 | O | Pat Kelly | Canada | DNF | |