# Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres

The men's 1000 metres in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place on 18 February, at the Olympic Oval.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
| World record | Pavel Pegov (URS) | 1:12.58 | Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union | 25 March 1983 |
| Olympic record | Eric Heiden (USA) | 1:15.18 | Lake Placid, United States | 19 February 1980 |
The following new World and Olympic records was set during the competition.
| Date | Pair | Athlete | Country | Time | OR | WR |
| 18 February | Pair 2 | Yasumitsu Kanehama | Japan | 1:14.36 | OR | |
| 18 February | Pair 3 | Nikolay Gulyayev | Soviet Union | 1:13.03 | OR | |

## Results

| Rank | Pair | Lane | Athlete | Country | Time | Time behind | Notes |
| | 3 | i | Nikolay Gulyayev | Soviet Union | 1:13.03 | - | OR |
| | 5 | o | Uwe-Jens Mey | East Germany | 1:13.11 | +0.08 | |
| | 5 | i | Igor Zhelezovski | Soviet Union | 1:13.19 | +0.16 | |
| 4 | 6 | i | Eric Flaim | United States | 1:13.53 | +0.50 | |
| 5 | 19 | i | Gaétan Boucher | Canada | 1:13.77 | +0.74 | |
| 6 | 12 | o | Michael Hadschieff | Austria | 1:13.84 | +0.81 | |
| 7 | 4 | i | Guy Thibault | Canada | 1:14.16 | +1.13 | |
| 8 | 13 | i | Peter Adeberg | East Germany | 1:14.19 | +1.16 | |
| 9 | 20 | i | Bae Ki-tae | South Korea | 1:14.36 | +1.33 | |
| 9 | 2 | o | Yasumitsu Kanehama | Japan | 1:14.36 | +1.33 | |
| 11 | 15 | o | Andrey Bakhvalov | Soviet Union | 1:14.39 | +1.36 | |
| 12 | 20 | o | Boris Repnin | Soviet Union | 1:14.41 | +1.38 | |
| 13 | 3 | o | Kimihiro Hamaya | Japan | 1:14.43 | +1.40 | |
| 14 | 9 | o | Mike Richmond | Australia | 1:14.61 | +1.58 | |
| 15 | 8 | i | André Hoffmann | East Germany | 1:14.62 | +1.59 | |
| 15 | 11 | i | Hein Vergeer | Netherlands | 1:14.62 | +1.59 | |
| 17 | 2 | i | Tom Cushman | United States | 1:14.68 | +1.65 | |
| 18 | 1 | i | Nick Thometz | United States | 1:14.71 | +1.68 | |
| 19 | 17 | o | Jean Pichette | Canada | 1:14.72 | +1.69 | |
| 20 | 1 | o | Akira Kuroiwa | Japan | 1:15.05 | +2.02 | |
| 21 | 15 | i | Claes Bengtsson | Sweden | 1:15.07 | +2.04 | |
| 22 | 14 | i | Marcel Tremblay | Canada | 1:15.13 | +2.10 | |
| 23 | 8 | o | Yukihiro Mitani | Japan | 1:15.28 | +2.25 | |
| 24 | 10 | i | Menno Boelsma | Netherlands | 1:15.34 | +2.31 | |
| 25 | 9 | i | Frode Rønning | Norway | 1:15.39 | +2.36 | |
| 26 | 16 | i | Rolf Falk-Larssen | Norway | 1:15.42 | +2.39 | |
| 27 | 14 | o | Hans Magnusson | Sweden | 1:15.79 | +2.76 | |
| 28 | 18 | i | Jerzy Dominik | Poland | 1:16.16 | +3.13 | |
| 29 | 19 | o | Hans van Helden | France | 1:16.32 | +3.29 | |
| 30 | 10 | o | Göran Johansson | Sweden | 1:16.33 | +3.30 | |
| 31 | 12 | i | Phillip Tahmindjis | Australia | 1:16.38 | +3.35 | |
| 32 | 7 | o | Hans-Peter Oberhuber | West Germany | 1:16.62 | +3.59 | |
| 33 | 13 | o | Claude Nicouleau | France | 1:17.91 | +4.88 | |
| 34 | 17 | i | Craig McNicoll | Great Britain | 1:18.60 | +5.57 | |
| 35 | 15 | o | Behudin Merdović | Yugoslavia | 1:23.88 | +10.85 | |
| 36 | 16 | o | Julian Green | Great Britain | 1:57.30 | +44.27 | |
| - | 7 | i | Bjørn Hagen | Norway | DNF | | |
| - | 4 | o | Dan Jansen | United States | DNF | | |
| - | 6 | o | Jan Ykema | Netherlands | DNF | | |
| - | 11 | o | Uwe Streb | West Germany | DQ | | |