# Short-track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres competition in short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 9 February, at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing. Hwang Dae-heon of South Korea became the Olympic champion, this was his first Olympic gold. Steven Dubois of Canada won silver, his first Olympic medal, and Semion Elistratov, representing the Russian Olympic Committee, bronze. Due to unusually high number of penalties and advancements in semi-finals, 10 athletes were competing in Final A.
The defending champion and the Olympic record holder Lim Hyo-jun, who now represents China after playing as a South Korean athlete at the 2018 Winter Olympics, did not enter the event. The silver medalist and world record holder, Sjinkie Knegt, and the bronze medalist, Semion Elistratov, qualified as well. Charles Hamelin was the 2021 World Short Track Speed Skating champion at the 1500 m distance. Itzhak de Laat and Elistratov were the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Many top athletes did not participate in the championship, however. Ren Ziwei was leading the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup at the 1500 m distance with four races completed before the Olympics, followed by Elistratov and Park Jang-hyuk.

## Qualification

Countries were assigned quotas based on their performance during the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup, with the top 36 athletes (maximum of three per country qualifying quotas. If a NOC declined a quota spot, it was distributed to the next available athlete, only if the maximum quota of 56 athletes per gender was not surpassed.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Sjinkie Knegt (NED) | 2:07.943 | Salt Lake City, United States | 13 November 2016 |
| Olympic record | Lim Hyo-jun (KOR) | 2:10.485 | Gangneung, South Korea | 10 February 2018 |
The following records were set during the competition.
| Date | Round | Athlete | Country | Time | Record | Ref |
| 9 February | Quarterfinal 1 | Shaolin Sándor Liu | Hungary | 2:09.213 | OR | |

## Results
### Quarterfinals

    Q – qualified for the semifinals
    ADV – advanced
    PEN – penalty
    OR - olympic record
| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Shaolin Sándor Liu | Hungary | 2:09.213 | Q, OR |
| 2 | 1 | Pascal Dion | Canada | 2:09.723 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Denis Ayrapetyan | ROC | 2:09.776 | Q |
| 4 | 1 | Vladislav Bykanov | Israel | 2:09.932 | q |
| 5 | 1 | Roberts Krūzbergs | Latvia | 2:10.999 | |
| 6 | 1 | Michał Niewiński | Poland | 2:12.852 | |
| 1 | 2 | Lee June-seo | South Korea | 2:18.630 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Sven Roes | Netherlands | 2:18.687 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Stijn Desmet | Belgium | 2:19.112 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Sun Long | China | 2:19.244 | |
| 5 | 2 | Andrew Heo | United States | 2:19.482 | |
| | 2 | Pietro Sighel | Italy | | PEN |
| 1 | 3 | Hwang Dae-heon | South Korea | 2:14.910 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Semion Elistratov | ROC | 2:15.094 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Steven Dubois | Canada | 2:15.123 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Kota Kikuchi | Japan | 2:15.243 | |
| 5 | 3 | Reinis Bērziņš | Latvia | 2:15.371 | ADV |
| | 3 | Ryan Pivirotto | United States | | PEN |
| 1 | 4 | Charles Hamelin | Canada | 2:11.239 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Adil Galiakhmetov | Kazakhstan | 2:11.823 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Park Jang-hyuk | South Korea | 2:12.116 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | Quentin Fercoq | France | 2:15.347 | |
| 5 | 4 | Itzhak de Laat | Netherlands | 3:08.907 | |
| | 4 | Denis Nikisha | Kazakhstan | | PEN |
| 1 | 5 | Sjinkie Knegt | Netherlands | 2:12.208 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Kazuki Yoshinaga | Japan | 2:12.450 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | John-Henry Krueger | Hungary | 2:12.525 | Q |
| 4 | 5 | Yuri Confortola | Italy | 2:12.853 | q |
| 5 | 5 | Shogo Miyata | Japan | 2:13.799 | |
| 6 | 5 | Zhang Tianyi | China | No time | |
| 1 | 6 | Ren Ziwei | China | 2:15.084 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Shaoang Liu | Hungary | 2:15.376 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Farrell Treacy | Great Britain | 2:16.880 | Q |
| 4 | 6 | Daniil Eibog | ROC | 2:16.975 | |
| 5 | 6 | Sébastien Lepape | France | 2:41.547 | |
| 6 | 6 | Luca Spechenhauser | Italy | 2:56.796 | |

### Semifinals

    QA – qualified for Final A
    QB – qualified for Final B
| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Lee June-seo | South Korea | 2:10.586 | QA |
| 2 | 1 | Shaolin Sándor Liu | Hungary | 2:10.685 | QA |
| 3 | 1 | Denis Ayrapetyan | ROC | 2:10.773 | QB |
| 4 | 1 | Sven Roes | Netherlands | 2:10.841 | QB |
| 5 | 1 | Stijn Desmet | Belgium | 2:11.169 | QB |
| 6 | 1 | Vladislav Bykanov | Israel | 2:13.491 | |
| 7 | 1 | Pascal Dion | Canada | 2:15.271 | |
| 1 | 2 | Hwang Dae-heon | South Korea | 2:13.188 | QA |
| 2 | 2 | Semion Elistratov | ROC | 2:13.229 | QA |
| 3 | 2 | Kazuki Yoshinaga | Japan | 2:14.014 | QB |
| 4 | 2 | Reinis Bērziņš | Latvia | 2:14.714 | QB |
| 5 | 2 | John-Henry Krueger | Hungary | 2:18.671 | ADVB |
| 6 | 2 | Steven Dubois | Canada | 2:38.000 | ADVA |
| | 2 | Sjinkie Knegt | Netherlands | | PEN |
| 1 | 3 | Shaoang Liu | Hungary | 2:12.519 | QA |
| 2 | 3 | Park Jang-hyuk | South Korea | 2:12.751 | QA |
| 3 | 3 | Farrell Treacy | Great Britain | 2:13.736 | ADVA |
| 4 | 3 | Adil Galiakhmetov | Kazakhstan | 2:18.291 | ADVA |
| 5 | 3 | Yuri Confortola | Italy | No time | ADVA |
| | 3 | Ren Ziwei | China | | PEN |
| | 3 | Charles Hamelin | Canada | | PEN |

### Finals
#### Final B

| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
| 11 | John-Henry Krueger | Hungary | 2:18.059 |
| 12 | Denis Ayrapetyan | ROC | 2:18.076 |
| 13 | Stijn Desmet | Belgium | 2:18.278 |
| 14 | Sven Roes | Netherlands | 2:18.299 |
| 15 | Reinis Bērziņš | Latvia | 2:18.499 |
| 16 | Kazuki Yoshinaga | Japan | 2:18.585 |

#### Final A

| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
| | Hwang Dae-heon | South Korea | 2:09.219 |
| | Steven Dubois | Canada | 2:09.254 |
| | Semion Elistratov | ROC | 2:09.267 |
| 4 | Shaoang Liu | Hungary | 2:09.409 |
| 5 | Lee June-seo | South Korea | 2:09.622 |
| 6 | Shaolin Sándor Liu | Hungary | 2:09.953 |
| 7 | Park Jang-hyuk | South Korea | 2:10.176 |
| 8 | Adil Galiakhmetov | Kazakhstan | 2:11.584 |
| 9 | Farrell Treacy | Great Britain | 2:11.988 |
| 10 | Yuri Confortola | Italy | 2:12.384 |