# Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.
In reverse order of the 5000 metres, Jochem Uytdehaage first broke the world record, only to see it bettered by Derek Parra, who won the third US skating gold of the Games. He was the first Mexican-American to medal in a winter sport.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Lee Kyou-hyuk (KOR) | 1:45.20 | Calgary, Canada | 15 March 2001 |
| Olympic record | Ådne Søndrål (NOR) | 1:47.87 | Nagano, Japan | 12 February 1998 |
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
| Date | Round | Athlete | Country | Time | OR | WR |
| 19 February | Pair 1 | Dmitry Shepel | Russia | 1:45.98 | OR | |
| 19 February | Pair 5 | Nick Pearson | United States | 1:45.51 | OR | |
| 19 February | Pair 9 | Jochem Uytdehaage | Netherlands | 1:44.57 | OR | WR |
| 19 February | Pair 21 | Derek Parra | United States | 1:43.95 | OR | WR |

## Results

| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Time behind | Notes |
| | 21 | O | Derek Parra | United States | 1:43.95 | – | WR |
| | 9 | O | Jochem Uytdehaage | Netherlands | 1:44.57 | +0.62 | |
| | 23 | O | Ådne Søndrål | Norway | 1:45.26 | +1.31 | |
| 4 | 23 | I | Joey Cheek | United States | 1:45.34 | +1.39 | |
| 5 | 16 | O | Ids Postma | Netherlands | 1:45.41 | +1.46 | |
| 6 | 5 | O | Nick Pearson | United States | 1:45.51 | +1.56 | |
| 7 | 15 | O | Jan Bos | Netherlands | 1:45.63 | +1.68 | |
| 8 | 18 | I | Lee Kyou-hyuk | South Korea | 1:45.82 | +1.87 | |
| 9 | 14 | I | Rintje Ritsma | Netherlands | 1:45.86 | +1.91 | |
| 10 | 14 | O | Yevgeny Lalenkov | Russia | 1:45.97 | +2.02 | |
| 11 | 1 | O | Dmitry Shepel | Russia | 1:45.98 | +2.03 | |
| 12 | 22 | O | Dustin Molicki | Canada | 1:46.00 | +2.05 | |
| 13 | 9 | I | Janne Hanninen | Finland | 1:46.04 | +2.09 | |
| 14 | 19 | O | J. P. Shilling | United States | 1:46.29 | +2.34 | |
| 15 | 18 | I | Hiroyuki Noake | Japan | 1:46.38 | +2.43 | |
| 16 | 8 | O | Sergey Tsybenko | Kazakhstan | 1:46.40 | +2.45 | |
| 17 | 24 | O | Kevin Marshall | Canada | 1:46.75 | +2.80 | |
| 18 | 21 | I | Steven Elm | Canada | 1:46.99 | +3.04 | |
| 19 | 1 | I | Radik Bikchantayev | Kazakhstan | 1:47.04 | +3.09 | |
| 20 | 22 | I | Petter Andersen | Norway | 1:47.21 | +3.26 | |
| 21 | 20 | O | Choi Jae-bong | South Korea | 1:47.26 | +3.31 | |
| 22 | 16 | I | Aleksandr Kibalko | Russia | 1:47.63 | +3.68 | |
| 23 | 13 | I | Takaharu Nakajima | Japan | 1:47.64 | +3.69 | |
| 24 | 17 | I | Stefano Donagrandi | Italy | 1:47.72 | +3.77 | |
| 25 | 19 | I | Keiji Shirahata | Japan | 1:47.78 | +3.83 | |
| 26 | 5 | I | Enrico Fabris | Italy | 1:47.83 | +3.88 | |
| 27 | 4 | I | Vesa Rosendahl | Finland | 1:48.02 | +4.07 | |
| 28 | 12 | I | Philippe Marois | Canada | 1:48.13 | +4.18 | |
| 29 | 2 | I | Cedric Kuentz | France | 1:48.20 | +4.25 | |
| 30 | 15 | I | Zsolt Balo | Hungary | 1:48.27 | +4.32 | |
| 31 | 3 | O | Roberto Sighel | Italy | 1:48.40 | +4.45 | |
| 32 | 20 | I | Risto Rosendahl | Finland | 1:48.57 | +4.62 | |
| 33 | 4 | O | Mun Jun | South Korea | 1:48.58 | +4.63 | |
| 34 | 24 | I | Yusuke Imai | Japan | 1:48.76 | +4.81 | |
| 35 | 2 | I | Eskil Ervik | Norway | 1:49.24 | +5.29 | |
| 36 | 11 | I | Nikolay Uliyanin | Kazakhstan | 1:49.42 | +5.47 | |
| 37 | 11 | O | Vadim Sayutin | Russia | 1:49.45 | +5.50 | |
| 38 | 6 | I | Johan Röjler | Sweden | 1:49.50 | +5.55 | |
| 39 | 12 | O | Vladimir Kostin | Kazakhstan | 1:49.57 | +5.62 | |
| 40 | 10 | I | Igor Makovetsky | Belarus | 1:50.15 | +6.20 | |
| 41 | 17 | O | Jan Friesinger | Germany | 1:50.26 | +6.31 | |
| 42 | 10 | O | Yeo Sang-Yeop | South Korea | 1:50.70 | +6.75 | |
| 43 | 3 | I | Andrey Fomin | Ukraine | 1:51.02 | +7.07 | |
| 43 | 8 | I | Frank Dittrich | Germany | 1:51.02 | +7.07 | |
| 45 | 7 | O | Ma Yongbin | China | 1:51.81 | +7.86 | |
| 46 | 6 | O | Liu Guangbin | China | 1:52.01 | +8.06 | |
| 47 | 7 | O | Aleksey Khatylyov | Belarus | 1:52.87 | +8.92 | |
| 48 | 13 | O | Christian Breuer | Germany | DNF | | |