| Men's 1500 metres at the XXV Olympic Winter Games | |
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| Venue | Milano Speed Skating Stadium , Milan |
| Date | 19 February 2026 |
| Competitors | 30 from 17 nations |
| Speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics | ||
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| Qualification | ||
| 500 m | men | women |
| 1000 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 3000 m | women | |
| 5000 m | men | women |
| 10,000 m | men | |
| Mass start | men | women |
| Team pursuit | men | women |
The men's 1500 m competition in speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics will be held on 19 February, at the Milano Speed Skating Stadium in Milan. [1] [2]
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.
Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic and track records were as follows.
| World record | 1:40.17 | Salt Lake City, United States | 10 March 2019 | |
| Olympic record | 1:43.21 | Beijing, China | 16 February 2022 | |
| Track record | 1:47.40 | 30 November 2025 |
| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Time behind | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | I | Chung Jae-won | |||||
| 1 | O | Mathias Vosté | |||||
| 2 | I | Livio Wenger | |||||
| 2 | O | Marten Liiv | |||||
| 3 | I | Motonaga Arito | |||||
| 3 | O | Daniel Hall | |||||
| 4 | I | Moritz Klein | |||||
| 4 | O | Valentin Thiebault | |||||
| 5 | I | Emery Lehman | |||||
| 5 | O | David La Rue | |||||
| 6 | I | Casey Dawson | |||||
| 6 | O | Vladimir Semirunniy | |||||
| 7 | I | Metoděj Jílek | |||||
| 7 | O | Hendrik Dombek | |||||
| 8 | I | Didrik Eng Strand | |||||
| 8 | O | Alexander Farthofer | |||||
| 9 | I | Liu Hanbin | |||||
| 9 | O | Kim Min-seok | |||||
| 10 | I | Kazuya Yamada | |||||
| 10 | O | Gabriel Odor | |||||
| 11 | I | Daniele Di Stefano | |||||
| 11 | O | Joep Wennemars | |||||
| 12 | I | Tijmen Snel | |||||
| 12 | O | Taiyo Nonomura | |||||
| 13 | I | Ning Zhongyan | |||||
| 13 | O | Kjeld Nuis | |||||
| 14 | I | Finn Sonnekalb | |||||
| 14 | O | Sander Eitrem | |||||
| 15 | I | Jordan Stolz | |||||
| 15 | O | Peder Kongshaug |