Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for short track
VenueSalt Lake Ice Center
DatesFebruary 20
Competitors31 from 19 nations
Winning time2:18.541
Medalists
 Apolo Anton Ohno  United States
 Li Jiajun  China
 Marc Gagnon  Canada
Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics
500 m   men   women
1000 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m relay women
5000 m relay men

The men's 1500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics took place on 20 February at the Salt Lake Ice Center.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:[1]

World record  Apolo Anton Ohno (USA) 2:13.728 Kearns, United States 15 December 2001
Olympic record None None None None

The following new Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date Round Team Time OR WR
13 February Heat 5  Guo Wei (CHN) 2:18.846 OR
16 February Semifinal 1  Mathieu Turcotte (CAN) 2:15.942 OR

Results

Heats

The first round was held on 20 February. There were six heats of five skaters each, with the top three finishers moving on to the semifinals.[1]

Heat 1
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Ahn Hyun-soo  South Korea 2:23.287 Q
2 Bruno Loscos  France 2:23.517 Q
3 Satoru Terao  Japan 2:23.680 Q
4 Pieter Gysel  Belgium 2:24.161
5 Volodymyr Hryhor'iev  Ukraine 2:25.316
Heat 2
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Fabio Carta  Italy 2:26.644 Q
2 Apolo Anton Ohno  United States 2:26.809 Q
3 Nicky Gooch  Great Britain 2:27.084 Q
4 Kornél Szántó  Hungary 2:27.467
5 Mark McNee  Australia 2:27.840
Heat 3
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Rusty Smith  United States 2:25.179 Q
2 Li Jiajun  China 2:25.347 Q
3 Martin Johansson  Sweden 2:25.824 Q
4 Leon Flack  Great Britain 2:25.832
5 Kiril Pandov  Bulgaria 2:27.730
Heat 4
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Kim Dong-sung  South Korea 2:22.133 Q
2 André Hartwig  Germany 2:22.541 Q
3 Steven Bradbury  Australia 2:22.632 Q
4 Mark Jackson  New Zealand 2:22.906
5 Krystian Zdrojkowski  Poland 2:23.015
Heat 5
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Guo Wei  China 2:18.846 Q
2 Nicola Rodigari  Italy 2:19.067 Q
3 Miroslav Boyadzhiev  Bulgaria 2:22.082 Q
4 Balázs Knoch  Hungary 2:40.617
5 Naoya Tamura  Japan 3:06.585
Heat 6
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Marc Gagnon  Canada 2:20.126 Q
2 Cees Juffermans  Netherlands 2:20.397 Q
3 Gregory Durand  France 2:20.496 Q
4 Matúš Užák  Slovakia 2:22.557
– Simon Van Vossel  Belgium DQ

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 20 February. The top two finishers in each of the three semifinals qualified for the A final, while the third and fourth place skaters advanced to the B Final.[1]

Semifinal 1
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Kim Dong-sung  South Korea 2:15.942 QA
2 Bruno Loscos  France 2:15.981 QA
3 Rusty Smith  United States 2:16.906 QB
4 Miroslav Boyadzhiev  Bulgaria 2:23.468 QB
5 Nicola Rodigari  Italy 2:53.907
– Satoru Terao  Japan DQ
Semifinal 2
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Fabio Carta  Italy 2:25.072 QA
2 Apolo Anton Ohno  United States 2:25.152 QA
3 Guo Wei  China 2:25.321 QB
4 Steven Bradbury  Australia 2:25.457 QB
5 Nicky Gooch  Great Britain 2:25.903
6 André Hartwig  Germany 2:25.936
Semifinal 3
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1 Li Jiajun  China 2:19.877 QA
2 Marc Gagnon  Canada 2:20.050 QA
3 Cees Juffermans  Netherlands 2:21.726 QB
4 Martin Johansson  Sweden 2:24.032 QB
5 Gregory Durand  France 2:49.994
– Ahn Hyun-soo  South Korea DQ

Finals

The six qualifying skaters competed in Final A, while six others raced in Final B.[1]

Final A
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Apolo Anton Ohno  United States 2:18.541
2nd, silver medalist(s) Li Jiajun  China 2:18.731
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Marc Gagnon  Canada 2:18.806
4 Fabio Carta  Italy 2:18.947
5 Bruno Loscos  France 2:19.587
– Kim Dong-sung  South Korea DQ
Final B
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
6 Rusty Smith  United States 2:27.155
7 Guo Wei  China 2:27.376
8 Cees Juffermans  Netherlands 2:27.611
9 Martin Johansson  Sweden 2:28.559
10 Steven Bradbury  Australia 2:28.604
11 Miroslav Boyadzhiev  Bulgaria 2:29.307

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Salt Lake Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 2002.
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