# Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres

The men's 1000 metres in speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics took place on 15 February, at the M-Wave arena.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
| World record | Jeremy Wotherspoon (CAN) | 1:10.16 | Calgary, Canada | 29 December 1997 |
| Olympic record | Dan Jansen (USA) | 1:12.43 | Hamar, Norway | 18 February 1994 |
The following new Olympic and world records was set during this competition.
| Date | Pair | Athlete | Country | Time | OR |
| 15 February | Pair 2 | Peter Adeberg | Germany | 1:11.90 | OR |
| 15 February | Pair 16 | Hiroyasu Shimizu | Japan | 1:11.00 | OR |
| 15 February | Pair 17 | Ids Postma | Netherlands | 1:10.64 | OR |

## Results

| Rank | Pair | Name | Country | Time | Time behind | Notes |
| | 17 | Ids Postma | Netherlands | 1:10.64 | - | OR |
| | 21 | Jan Bos | Netherlands | 1:10.71 | +0.07 | |
| | 16 | Hiroyasu Shimizu | Japan | 1:11.00 | +0.36 | |
| 4 | 18 | Jakko Jan Leeuwangh | Netherlands | 1:11.26 | +0.62 | |
| 5 | 20 | Sylvain Bouchard | Canada | 1:11.29 | +0.65 | |
| 6 | 19 | Jeremy Wotherspoon | Canada | 1:11.39 | +0.75 | |
| 7 | 16 | Casey FitzRandolph | United States | 1:11.64 | +1.00 | |
| 8 | 17 | K. C. Boutiette | United States | 1:11.75 | +1.11 | |
| 9 | 2 | Peter Adeberg | Germany | 1:11.90 | +1.26 | |
| 9 | 22 | Kevin Overland | Canada | 1:11.90 | +1.26 | |
| 11 | 15 | Yusuke Imai | Japan | 1:11.96 | +1.32 | |
| 12 | 19 | Martin Hersman | Netherlands | 1:12.00 | +1.36 | |
| 13 | 22 | Lee Kyou-hyuk | South Korea | 1:12.05 | +1.41 | |
| 14 | 3 | Grunde Njøs | Norway | 1:12.27 | +1.63 | |
| 14 | 5 | Davide Carta | Italy | 1:12.27 | +1.63 | |
| 16 | 11 | Christian Breuer | Germany | 1:12.33 | +1,69 | |
| 17 | 9 | Sergey Tsybenko | Kazakhstan | 1:12.40 | +1.76 | |
| 17 | 20 | Manabu Horii | Japan | 1:12.40 | +1.76 | |
| 19 | 21 | Pat Bouchard | Canada | 1:12.49 | +1.85 | |
| 20 | 12 | Kim Yoon-man | South Korea | 1:12.50 | +1.86 | |
| 21 | 11 | Janne Hänninen | Finland | 1:12.55 | +1.91 | |
| 21 | 14 | Cheon Ju-hyeon | South Korea | 1:12.55 | +1.91 | |
| 23 | 8 | Andrey Anufriyenko | Russia | 1:12.61 | +1.97 | |
| 23 | 10 | Nathaniel Mills | United States | 1:12.61 | +1.97 | |
| 25 | 10 | Hiroyuki Noake | Japan | 1:12.68 | +2.04 | |
| 26 | 13 | Paweł Abratkiewicz | Poland | 1:12.80 | +2.16 | |
| 27 | 14 | Ermanno Ioriatti | Italy | 1:12.83 | +2.19 | |
| 28 | 12 | Aleksandr Kibalko | Russia | 1:12.94 | +2.30 | |
| 29 | 18 | Cory Carpenter | United States | 1:13.03 | +2.39 | |
| 30 | 5 | Jaegal Sung-yeol | South Korea | 1:13.09 | +2.45 | |
| 31 | 13 | Roland Brunner | Austria | 1:13.16 | +2.52 | |
| 32 | 8 | Dmitry Shepel | Russia | 1:13.31 | +2.67 | |
| 33 | 4 | Sergey Klevchenya | Russia | 1:13.51 | +2.87 | |
| 34 | 6 | Roger Strøm | Norway | 1:13.58 | +2.94 | |
| 35 | 1 | Andrew Nicholson | New Zealand | 1:13.86 | +3.22 | |
| 36 | 7 | Dai Dengwen | China | 1:14.20 | +3.56 | |
| 37 | 6 | Vladimir Klepinin | Kazakhstan | 1:14.38 | +3.74 | |
| 38 | 4 | Li Yu | China | 1:14.50 | +3.86 | |
| 39 | 7 | Oleh Kostromitin | Ukraine | 1:14.53 | +3.89 | |
| 40 | 1 | Liu Hongbo | China | 1:15.06 | +4.42 | |
| 41 | 15 | Tomasz Świst | Poland | 1:15.55 | +4.91 | |
| 42 | 2 | Zsolt Baló | Hungary | 1:15.87 | +5.23 | |
| - | 3 | Wu Fenglong | China | DNF | |