The men's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics took place on 21 February, at the James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new Olympic record was set.
Date Pair Athlete Time OR WR 21 February Pair 1 1:57.95 OR 21 February Pair 4 1:55.44 OR
Results
Rank Pair Lane Athlete Country Time Time behind Notes 4 o Eric Heiden 1:55.44 4 i Kay Arne Stenshjemmet 1:56.81 5 o Terje Andersen 1:56.92 4 8 o Andreas Dietel 1:57.14 5 6 i Yury Kondakov 1:57.36 6 1 i Jan Egil Storholt 1:57.95 7 2 o Tomas Gustafson 1:58.18 8 3 o Vladimir Lobanov 1:59.30 9 10 o Andreas Ehrig 1:59.47 2 i Yevhen Solunskiy 1:59.47 11 9 i Hilbert van der Duim 1:59.49 12 9 o Herbert Schwarz 1:59.58 13 11 i Bert de Jong 1:59.83 14 7 o Pertti Niittylä 2:00.01 15 18 i Gaétan Boucher 2:00.15 16 11 o Ulf Ekstrand 2:00.23 17 5 i Tom Plant 2:00.57 18 6 o Craig Kressler 2:00.60 19 1 o Masahiko Yamamoto 2:01.25 20 3 i Masayuki Kawahara 2:01.28 21 10 i Jan Junell 2:02.11 22 7 i Lee Yeong-Ha 2:02.37 23 14 i Craig Webster 2:02.41 24 12 i Yasuhiro Shimizu 2:04.54 25 15 i Zhao Weichang 2:05.48 +10.04 26 16 i Na Yun-su 2:06.65 +11.21 27 17 o Jacques Thibault 2:06.79 +11.35 28 17 i Maurizio Marchetto 2:07.45 +12.01 29 14 o Guo Chengjiang 2:08.33 +12.89 30 12 o Li Huchun 2:10.00 +14.56 31 15 o Tömörbaataryn Nyamdavaa 2:11.51 +16.07 32 13 o Mike Richmond 2:13.40 +17.96 33 16 o Geoff Sandys 2:15.06 +19.62 34 13 i Alan Luke 2:17.79 +22.35 35 18 i Dorjiin Tsenddoo 2:19.30 +23.86 - 8 i Yep Kramer DNF
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