Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres; at the IX Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Eisschnellaufbahn
Dates	February 6
Competitors	54 from 20 nations
Winning time	2:10.3
Medalists
	← 1960 1968 →

Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m		women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10000 m	men

The men's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place on 6 February, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2]^[3]

World record	Juhani Järvinen (FIN)	2:06.3	Squaw Valley, United States	1 March 1959
Olympic record	Yevgeny Grishin (URS) Yuri Mikhailov (URS)	2:08.6	Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy	30 January 1956

Results

^[1]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Ants Antson	Soviet Union	2:10.3
	Kees Verkerk	Netherlands	2:10.6
	Villy Haugen	Norway	2:11.2
4	Jouko Launonen	Finland	2:11.9
5	Lev Zaytsev	Soviet Union	2:12.1
6	Ivar Eriksen	Norway	2:12.2
6	Eduard Matusevich	Soviet Union	2:12.2
8	Juhani Järvinen	Finland	2:12.4
9	Magne Thomassen	Norway	2:12.5
10	Rudi Liebrechts	Netherlands	2:12.8
11	Yevgeny Grishin	Soviet Union	2:13.3
11	Terry Malkin	Great Britain	2:13.3
13	Ard Schenk	Netherlands	2:13.4
14	Ri Sung-Ryool	23x15px North Korea	2:13.9
15	Dick Hunt	United States	2:14.4
16	Nils Aaness	Norway	2:14.6
17	Günter Traub	United Team of Germany	2:15.3
18	Örjan Sandler	Sweden	2:15.4
19	Jouko Jokinen	Finland	2:15.6
19	Ivar Nilsson	Sweden	2:15.6
21	Renato De Riva	Italy	2:15.7
22	André Kouprianoff	France	2:15.8
23	Seppo Hänninen	Finland	2:16.0
24	Manne Lavås	Sweden	2:16.2
25	Buddy Campbell	United States	2:16.4
26	Herbert Höfl	United Team of Germany	2:16.8
26	Eddie Rudolph, Jr.	United States	2:16.8
28	Bo Ollander	Sweden	2:17.1
29	Gerd Zimmermann	United Team of Germany	2:17.3
30	Kurt Stille	Denmark	2:17.4
31	Keiichi Suzuki	Japan	2:17.5
32	Oldřich Teplý	Czechoslovakia	2:17.9
33	Hermann Strutz	Austria	2:18.0
34	Satoshi Shinpo	Japan	2:18.5
35	Elio Locatelli	Italy	2:19.0
36	Kim Zin-Hook	23x15px North Korea	2:19.4
37	Ralf Olin	23x15px Canada	2:19.7
38	György Ivánkai	Hungary	2:19.9
39	Jürgen Schmidt	United Team of Germany	2:20.0
40	Choi Yeong-Bae	23x15px South Korea	2:20.3
41	Toyofumi Aruga	Japan	2:20.7
42	Floyd Bedbury	United States	2:21.3
43	Raymond Fonvieille	France	2:22.6
44	Ruedi Uster	Switzerland	2:23.4
45	Tony Bullen	Great Britain	2:23.7
46	Luvsanlkhagvyn Dashnyam	23x15px Mongolia	2:23.9
47	Gerald Koning	23x15px Canada	2:24.0
48	Peter Toyfl	Austria	2:24.2
49	Thomas Dawson	Great Britain	2:26.4
50	Mihály Martos	Hungary	2:26.8
51	Josef Reisinger	Austria	2:27.8
52	Choi Nam-Yeon	23x15px South Korea	2:30.2
53	Jean-Pierre Guéron	Switzerland	2:32.3
-	Erich Korbel	Austria	DQ