Men's 1500 metres speed skating at the I Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Stade Olympique de Chamonix | ||||||||||||
Date | 27 January 1924 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 22 from 9 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 2:20.8 OR | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics | |
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The 1500 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Sunday, January 27, 1924. Twenty-seven speed skaters from ten nations were due to compete, but five athletes withdrew, so in the end twenty-two speed skaters from nine nations competed.[1] The Finnish athlete Asser Wallenius fell and did not finish the race.[2]
Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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Clas Thunberg Finland | Roald Larsen Norway | Sigurd Moen Norway |
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1924 Winter Olympics.
World record | Oscar Mathisen (NOR) | 2:17.4 | Kristiania, Norway | 17 January 1914 | [3][a] |
Olympic record | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
The following records were set during this competition.
Date | Round | Athlete | Country | Time | Record |
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27 January 1924 | Pair 1 | André Gegout | France | 2:54.4 | OR |
27 January 1924 | Pair 4 | Clas Thunberg | Finland | 2:20.8 | OR |
27 January 1924 | Pair 10 | Léonhard Quaglia | France | 2:37.0 | NR |
The event was held Sunday at midday.[2]
Rank | Pair | Name | Country | Time | Time behind | Notes |
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4 | Clas Thunberg | Finland | 2:20.8 | — | OR | |
4 | Roald Larsen | Norway | 2:22.0 | +1.2 | ||
8 | Sigurd Moen | Norway | 2:25.6 | +3.8 | ||
4 | 12 | Julius Skutnabb | Finland | 2:26.6 | +4.8 | |
5 | 12 | Harald Strøm | Norway | 2:29.0 | +8.2 | |
6 | 11 | Oskar Olsen | Norway | 2:29.2 | +8.4 | |
7 | 16 | Harry Kaskey | United States | 2:29.8 | +9.0 | [b] |
=8 | 11 | Charles Jewtraw | United States | 2:31.6 | +10.8 | |
13 | Joe Moore | United States | ||||
10 | 10 | Alberts Rumba | Latvia | 2:32.0 | +11.2 | |
11 | 13 | Charles Gorman | Canada | 2:35.4 | +14.6 | |
12 | 8 | Bill Steinmetz | United States | 2:36.0 | +15.2 | |
13 | 9 | Axel Blomqvist | Sweden | 2:36.4 | +15.6 | |
14 | 10 | Léonhard Quaglia | France | 2:37.0 | +16.2 | NR |
15 | 15 | Leon Jucewicz | Poland | 2:42.6 | +21.8 | [c] |
16 | 1 | André Gegout | France | 2:54.4 | +33.6 | OR |
17 | 2 | Gaston Van Hazebroeck | Belgium | 2:54.8 | +34.0 | |
18 | 2 | George de Wilde | France | 2:55.0 | +34.2 | |
19 | 1 | Louis De Ridder | Belgium | 3:01.8 | +41.0 | |
20 | 15 | Philippe Van Volckxsom | Belgium | 3:14.6 | +53.8 | [d] |
21 | 16 | Marcel Moens | Belgium | 3:16.8 | +56.0 | [e] |
9 | Asser Wallenius | Finland | DNF | |||
3 | Cyril Horn | Great Britain | DNS | |||
5 | Frederick Dix | Great Britain | DNS | |||
6 | Bernard Sutton | Great Britain | DNS | |||
7 | Eric Blomgren | Sweden | DNS | |||
14 | Albert Hassler | France | DNS |
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