# Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres

The men's 1000 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Gerard van Velde, who had finished 4th in the Olympics twice already, delivered a surprise by skating a world record and winning the gold medal.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Jeremy Wotherspoon (CAN) | 1:07.72 | Salt Lake City, United States | December 1, 2001 |
| Olympic record | Ids Postma (NED) | 1:10.64 | Nagano, Japan | February 15, 1998 |
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
| Date | Round | Athlete | Country | Time | OR | WR |
| February 16 | Pair 1 | Kim Chul-soo | South Korea | 1:09.79 | OR | |
| February 16 | Pair 2 | Ids Postma | Netherlands | 1:09.15 | OR | |
| February 16 | Pair 14 | Choi Jae-bong | South Korea | 1:08.81 | OR | |
| February 16 | Pair 15 | Gerard van Velde | Netherlands | 1:07.18 | OR | WR |

## Results

| Rank | Pair | Name | Country | Time | Time behind | Notes |
| | 15 | Gerard van Velde | Netherlands | 1:07.18 | – | WR |
| | 19 | Jan Bos | Netherlands | 1:07.53 | +0.35 | |
| | 20 | Joey Cheek | United States | 1:07.61 | +0.43 | |
| 4 | 17 | Kip Carpenter | United States | 1:07.89 | +0.71 | |
| 5 | 22 | Erben Wennemars | Netherlands | 1:07.95 | +0.77 | |
| 6 | 18 | Nick Pearson | United States | 1:07.97 | +0.79 | |
| 7 | 19 | Casey FitzRandolph | United States | 1:08.15 | +0.97 | |
| 8 | 16 | Lee Kyou-hyuk | South Korea | 1:08.37 | +1.19 | |
| 9 | 15 | Sergey Klevchenya | Russia | 1:08.41 | +1.23 | |
| 10 | 16 | Janne Hänninen | Finland | 1:08.45 | +1.27 | |
| 11 | 21 | Ådne Søndrål | Norway | 1:08.64 | +1.46 | |
| 12 | 14 | Choi Jae-bong | South Korea | 1:08.81 | +1.63 | |
| 13 | 22 | Jeremy Wotherspoon | Canada | 1:08.82 | +1.64 | |
| 14 | 21 | Mike Ireland | Canada | 1:08.88 | +1.70 | |
| 15 | 18 | Yusuke Imai | Japan | 1:08.90 | +1.72 | |
| 16 | 20 | Toyoki Takeda | Japan | 1:08.95 | +1.77 | |
| 17 | 2 | Ids Postma | Netherlands | 1:09.15 | +1.97 | |
| 18 | 12 | Dmitry Lobkov | Russia | 1:09.20 | +2.02 | |
| 19 | 11 | Pat Bouchard | Canada | 1:09.21 | +2.03 | |
| 20 | 13 | Kevin Marshall | Canada | 1:09.26 | +2.08 | |
| 21 | 13 | Tomasz Swist | Poland | 1:09.48 | +2.30 | |
| 22 | 14 | Manabu Horii | Japan | 1:09.50 | +2.32 | |
| 23 | 4 | Yevgeny Lalenkov | Russia | 1:09.55 | +2.37 | |
| 24 | 17 | Michael Kuenzel | Germany | 1:09.64 | +2.46 | |
| 25 | 1 | Kim Chul-soo | South Korea | 1:09.79 | +2.61 | |
| 26 | 6 | Davide Carta | Italy | 1:09.81 | +2.63 | |
| 27 | 1 | Sergey Tsybenko | Kazakhstan | 1:10.13 | +2.95 | |
| 28 | 11 | Petter Andersen | Norway | 1:10.14 | +2.96 | |
| 29 | 10 | Pawel Abratkiewicz | Poland | 1:10.21 | +3.03 | |
| 30 | 5 | Christian Breuer | Germany | 1:10.38 | +3.20 | |
| 31 | 6 | Zsolt Balo | Hungary | 1:10.57 | +3.39 | |
| 32 | 4 | Park Jae-man | South Korea | 1:10.67 | +3.49 | |
| 33 | 7 | Risto Rosendahl | Finland | 1:10.70 | +3.52 | |
| 34 | 2 | Jan Friesinger | Germany | 1:10.71 | +3.53 | |
| 35 | 3 | Li Yu | China | 1:10.78 | +3.60 | |
| 36 | 5 | Dino Gillarduzzi | Italy | 1:10.96 | +3.78 | |
| 37 | 8 | Andrey Fomin | Ukraine | 1:11.04 | +3.86 | |
| 38 | 3 | Cedric Kuentz | France | 1:11.26 | +4.08 | |
| 39 | 10 | Grunde Njos | Norway | 1:11.31 | +4.13 | |
| 40 | 7 | Yu Fengtong | China | 1:12.07 | +4.89 | |
| 41 | 9 | Igor Makovetsky | Belarus | 1:12.33 | +5.15 | |
| 42 | 8 | Aleksey Khatylyov | Belarus | 1:13.73 | +6.55 | |
| 43 | 9 | David Kramar | Czech Republic | 1:14.05 | +6.87 | |
| 44 | 12 | Hiroyuki Noake | Japan | 1:49.18 | +42.00 | |