Background

The 2022 champion, Kjeld Nuis, qualified for the event. The bronze medalist, Kim Min-seok, qualified as well, though he switched from representing South Korea to representing Hungary. The silver medalist, Thomas Krol, retired from competitions. Before the Olympics, Jordan Stolz was leading the 1500m standings of the 2025–26 ISU Speed Skating World Cup. Peder Kongshaug was the 1500m 2025 world champion.

Qualification

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic and track records were as follows.

World record	Kjeld Nuis  (NED)	1:40.17	Salt Lake City, United States	10 March 2019
Olympic record	Kjeld Nuis  (NED)	1:43.21	Beijing, China	16 February 2022
Track record	Taiga Sasaki  (JPN)	1:47.40		30 November 2025

Results

Rank	Pair	Lane	Name	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	1	I	Chung Jae-won	South Korea
	1	O	Mathias Vosté	Belgium
	2	I	Livio Wenger	Switzerland
	2	O	Marten Liiv	Estonia
	3	I	Motonaga Arito	Japan
	3	O	Daniel Hall	Canada
	4	I	Moritz Klein	Germany
	4	O	Valentin Thiebault	France
	5	I	Emery Lehman	United States
	5	O	David La Rue	Canada
	6	I	Casey Dawson	United States
	6	O	Vladimir Semirunniy	Poland
	7	I	Metoděj Jílek	Czech Republic
	7	O	Hendrik Dombek	Germany
	8	I	Didrik Eng Strand	Norway
	8	O	Alexander Farthofer	Austria
	9	I	Liu Hanbin	China
	9	O	Kim Min-seok	Hungary
	10	I	Kazuya Yamada	Japan
	10	O	Gabriel Odor	Austria
	11	I	Daniele Di Stefano	Italy
	11	O	Joep Wennemars	Netherlands
	12	I	Tijmen Snel	Netherlands
	12	O	Taiyo Nonomura	Japan
	13	I	Ning Zhongyan	China
	13	O	Kjeld Nuis	Netherlands
	14	I	Finn Sonnekalb	Germany
	14	O	Sander Eitrem	Norway
	15	I	Jordan Stolz	United States
	15	O	Peder Kongshaug	Norway

References