The men's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place on 20 February, at the Olympic Oval.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new World and Olympic records was set during the competition.
Date Pair Athlete Country Time OR WR 20 February Pair 1 Eric Flaim 1:52.12 OR WR 20 February Pair 3 André Hoffmann 1:52.06 OR WR
Results
Rank Pair Lane Athlete Country Time Time behind Notes 3 o André Hoffmann 1:52.06 - (WR) 1 o Eric Flaim 1:52.12 +0.06 4 o Michael Hadschieff 1:52.31 +0.25 4 6 i Igor Zhelezovski 1:52.63 +0.57 5 2 i Toru Aoyanagi 1:52.85 +0.79 6 3 i Aleksandr Klimov 1:52.97 +0.91 7 2 o Nikolay Gulyayev 1:53.04 +0.98 8 8 o Peter Adeberg 1:53.57 +1.51 9 15 i Gaétan Boucher 1:54.18 +2.12 10 5 i Jean Pichett 1:54.63 +2.57 11 14 o Mark Greenwald 1:54.64 +2.58 12 16 i Mike Richmond 1:54.95 +2.89 13 11 i Claes Bengtsson 1:55.16 +3.10 14 12 i Danny Kah 1:55.19 +3.13 15 10 i Dave Silk 1:55.26 +3.20 16 6 o Munehisa Kuroiwa 1:55.42 +3.36 17 11 i Im Ri-Bin 1:55.55 +3.49 18 16 o Ben Lamarche 1:55.59 +3.53 19 20 i Hans van Helden 1:55.61 +3.55 20 18 o John Baskfield 1:55.88 +3.82 21 5 o Rolf Falk-Larssen 1:55.94 +3.88 22 20 o Yoshiyuki Shimizu 1:55.98 +3.92 23 14 i Gregor Jelonek 1:56.37 +4.31 24 13 o Hans Magnusson 1:56.44 +4.38 25 8 i Pertti Niittylä 1:56.48 +4.42 26 4 i Hwang Ik-hwan 1:56.50 +4.44 27 1 i Hein Vergeer 1:56.63 +4.57 28 19 o Hozumi Moriyama 1:56.84 +4.78 29 17 i Kim Gwan-gyu 1:56.85 +4.79 30 9 i Hansjörg Baltes 1:57.08 +5.02 31 10 o Liu Yanfei 1:57.38 +5.32 32 18 i Phillip Tahmindjis 1:57.63 +5.57 33 9 o Frode Syvertsen 1:58.37 +6.31 34 19 i Jiří Kyncl 1:58.44 +6.38 35 7 i Andrey Bobrov 1:58.97 +6.91 36 17 o Jerzy Dominik 1:59.03 +6.97 37 13 i Julian Green 1:59.41 +7.35 38 11 i Craig McNicoll 2:01.89 +9.83 39 15 o Behudin Merdović 2:06.11 +14.05 - 7 o Joakim Karlberg DNF
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