# Short-track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics took place on 12 February at the Torino Palavela.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
| World record | Ahn Hyun-soo (KOR) | 2:10.639 | Marquette, United States | 24 October 2003 |
| Olympic record | Kim Dong-sung (KOR) | 2:15.942 | Salt Lake City, United States | 20 February 2002 |
No new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

## Results
### Heats

The first round was held on 12 February. There were six heats of four or five skaters each, with the top three finishers in each advancing to the semifinals.

#### Heat 1

| Heat | Rank | Athlete | Country | Result | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Mathieu Turcotte | Canada | 2:23.402 | Q |
| 1 | 2 | Pieter Gysel | Belgium | 2:23.411 | Q |
| 1 | 3 | Jon Eley | Great Britain | 2:23.887 | Q |
| 1 | 4 | Maxime Chataignier | France | 2:23.966 | |
| 1 | 5 | Dariusz Kulesza | Poland | 2:24.118 | |
| 2 | 1 | Lee Ho-suk | South Korea | 2:31.511 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Satoru Terao | Japan | 2:31.903 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Vyacheslav Kurginyan | Russia | 2:33.802 | Q |
| 2 | – | Wim de Deyne | Belgium | DQ | |
| 3 | 1 | Li Ye | China | 2:27.622 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Cees Juffermans | Netherlands | 12:27.696 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Fabio Carta | Italy | 2:27.799 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Mark McNee | Australia | 2:29.356 | |
| 3 | 5 | Mikhail Rajine | Russia | 2:33.809 | |
| 4 | 1 | Ahn Hyun-soo | South Korea | 2:29.808 | Q |
| 4 | 2 | Nicola Rodigari | Italy | 2:29.885 | Q |
| 4 | 3 | Peter Darazs | Hungary | 2:30.281 | Q |
| 4 | 4 | Sebastian Praus | Germany | 2:30.292 | |
| 5 | 1 | Charles Hamelin | Canada | 2:19.469 | Q |
| 5 | 2 | Li Jiajun | China | 2:19.631 | Q |
| 5 | 3 | Alex Izykowski | United States | 2:19.731 | Q |
| 5 | 4 | Tyson Heung | Germany | 2:20.075 | |
| 6 | 1 | Apolo Anton Ohno | United States | 2:23.668 | Q |
| 6 | 2 | Niels Kerstholt | Netherlands | 2:23.854 | Q |
| 6 | 3 | Viktor Knoch | Hungary | 2:23.876 | Q |
| 6 | 4 | Hayato Sueyoshi | Japan | 2:25.280 | |
| 6 | – | Matus Uzak | Slovakia | DQ | |

### Semifinals

The top two finishers in each of the three, six-man semifinals advanced to the A final, while the third and fourth place skaters advanced to the B Final.

#### Semifinal 1

| Rank | Athlete | Result | Notes |
| 1 | Charles Hamelin | Canada | 2:20.854 | QA |
| 2 | Lee Ho-suk | South Korea | 2:20.901 | QA |
| 3 | Niels Kerstholt | Netherlands | 2:21.748 | QB |
| 4 | Satoru Terao | Japan | 2:21.774 | QB |
| 5 | Jon Eley | Great Britain | 2:21.862 | |
| 6 | Vyacheslav Kurginyan | Russia | 2:24.604 | |

#### Semifinal 2

| Rank | Athlete | Result | Notes |
| 1 | Ahn Hyun-soo | South Korea} | 2:17.718 | QA |
| 2 | Li Jiajun | China | 2:17.836 | QA |
| 3 | Mathieu Turcotte | Canada | 2:18.280 | QB |
| 4 | Peter Darazs | Hungary | 2:18.348 | QB |
| 5 | Alex Izykowski | United States | 2:18.610 | |
| 6 | Nicola Rodigari | Italy | 2:18.615 | |

#### Semifinal 3

| Rank | Athlete | Result | Notes |
| 1 | Li Ye | China | 2:19.386 | QA |
| 2 | Viktor Knoch | Hungary | 2:19.600 | QA |
| 3 | Fabio Carta | Italy | 2:19.724 | QB |
| 4 | Apolo Anton Ohno | United States | 2:20.346 | QB |
| – | Cees Juffermans | Netherlands | DNF | |
| – | Pieter Gysel | Belgium | DQ | |

### Finals

The six qualifying skaters contested the medal positions in final A, while the six skaters in final B ended up in 6th-11th places.

#### Final A

| Rank | Athlete | Result | Notes |
| | Ahn Hyun-soo | South Korea | 2:25.341 |
| | Lee Ho-suk | South Korea | 2:25.600 |
| | Li Jiajun | China | 2:26.005 |
| 4 | Charles Hamelin | Canada | 2:26.375 |
| 5 | Viktor Knoch | Hungary | 2:26.806 |
| – | Li Ye | China | DQ |

#### Final B

| Rank | Athlete | Result | Notes |
| 6 | Mathieu Turcotte | Canada | 2:25.341 |
| 7 | Fabio Carta | Italy | 2:24.658 |
| 8 | Apolo Anton Ohno | United States | 2:24.789 |
| 9 | Satoru Terao | Japan | 2:24.875 |
| 10 | Niels Kerstholt | Netherlands | 2:24.962 |
| 11 | Peter Darazs | Hungary | 2:24.969 |