Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres

Men's 1000 metres
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Men's 1000 metres; at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
	Gold medal winner Stefan Groothuis
Venue	Adler Arena Skating Center
Date	12 February 2014
Competitors	40 from 19 nations
Winning time	1:08.39
Medalists
	← 2010 2018 →

The men's 1000 metres speed skating competition of the 2014 Sochi Olympics was held at Adler Arena Skating Center on 12 February 2014.^[1] Stefan Groothuis won the gold medal.^[2]^[3]

Qualification

A total of forty speed skaters could qualify for this distance, with a maximum of four skaters per country. The top 20 of the men's 1000 metres World Cup standings after World Cup 4 in Berlin secured a spot for their country. Then the additional 20 spots were awarded based on a time ranking of all times skated in the World Cup and the 2014 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships. A reserve list was also made.^[4]

Records

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

World record	Shani Davis (USA)	1:06.42	Salt Lake City, United States	7 March 2009
Olympic record	Gerard van Velde (NED)	1:07.18	Salt Lake City, United States	16 February 2002

At the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships the track record was set by Denis Kuzin at 1:09.14.^[5]

The following records were set during this competition.

Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record
12 February	Pair 16	Stefan Groothuis	Netherlands	1:08.39	TR
12 February	Pair 14	Samuel Schwarz	Germany	1:08.89	TR

TR = track record

Results

The race started at 18:00.^[6]

Rank	Pair	Lane	Name	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	16	O	Stefan Groothuis	Netherlands	1:08.39	—	TR
	17	O	Denny Morrison	Canada	1:08.43	+0.04
	17	I	Michel Mulder	Netherlands	1:08.74	+0.35
4	16	I	Nico Ihle	Germany	1:08.86	+0.47
5	14	O	Samuel Schwarz	Germany	1:08.89	+0.5	TR
6	18	I	Koen Verweij	Netherlands	1:09.09	+0.7
7	20	I	Denis Kuzin	Kazakhstan	1:09.10	+0.71
8	18	O	Shani Davis	United States	1:09.12	+0.73
9	19	I	Brian Hansen	United States	1:09.21	+0.82
10	4	I	Mark Tuitert	Netherlands	1:09.29	+0.9
11	13	O	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen	Norway	1:09.33	+0.94
12	19	O	Mo Tae-bum	South Korea	1:09.37	+0.98
13	8	O	Roman Krech	Kazakhstan	1:09.63	+1.24
14	10	O	Zbigniew Bródka	Poland	1:09.66	+1.27
15	15	O	Joey Mantia	United States	1:09.72	+1.33
16	13	I	Konrad Niedźwiedzki	Poland	1:09.76	+1.37
17	3	I	Denis Yuskov	Russia	1:09.81	+1.42
18	15	I	Aleksey Yesin	Russia	1:09.93	+1.54
19	1	I	Håvard Bøkko	Norway	1:09.98	+1.59
20	3	O	Vincent De Haître	Canada	1:10.04	+1.65
21	6	O	Lee Kyou-hyuk	South Korea	1:10.04	+1.65
22	12	I	Daniel Greig	Australia	1:10.13	+1.74
23	7	I	Bart Swings	Belgium	1:10.14	+1.75
24	9	I	Haralds Silovs	Latvia	1:10.29	+1.9
25	20	O	Mirko Giacomo Nenzi	Italy	1:10.32	+1.93
26	8	I	William Dutton	Canada	1:10.61	+2.22
27	14	I	Dmitry Lobkov	Russia	1:10.65	+2.26
28	7	O	Jonathan Garcia	United States	1:10.74	+2.35
29	9	O	Benjamin Macé	France	1:10.80	+2.41
30	11	O	Kim Tae-yun	South Korea	1:10.81	+2.42
31	5	I	Espen Aarnes Hvammen	Norway	1:11.01	+2.62
32	4	O	Muncef Ouardi	Canada	1:11.07	+2.68
33	11	I	Fyodor Mezentsev	Kazakhstan	1:11.08	+2.69
34	5	O	Tian Guojun	China	1:11.17	+2.78
35	1	O	Taro Kondo	Japan	1:11.44	+3.05
36	12	O	Daichi Yamanaka	Japan	1:11.93	+3.54
37	2	O	Tommi Pulli	Finland	1:12.16	+3.77
38	2	I	David Andersson	Sweden	1:12.40	+4.01
39	6	I	Igor Bogolyubskiy	Russia	1:12.85	+4.46
40	10	I	Sung Ching-yang	Chinese Taipei	1:13.79	+5.40