Speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres

The men's 1000 metres in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place on 18 February, at the Olympic Oval.

Men's 1000 metres at the XV Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Olympic Oval
Dates	18 February
Competitors	40 from 16 nations
Winning time	1:13.03 OR
Medalists
Nikolay Gulyayev  Soviet Union Uwe-Jens Mey  East Germany Igor Zhelezovski  Soviet Union

Records

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

World record	Pavel Pegov (URS)	1:12.58	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	25 March 1983
Olympic record	Eric Heiden (USA)	1:15.18	Lake Placid, United States	19 February 1980

The following new World and Olympic records was set during the competition.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
18 February	Pair 2	Yasumitsu Kanehama	Japan	1:14.36	OR
18 February	Pair 3	Nikolay Gulyayev	Soviet Union	1:13.03	OR

Results

Rank	Pair	Lane	Athlete	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	3	i	Nikolay Gulyayev	Soviet Union	1:13.03	-	OR
	5	o	Uwe-Jens Mey	East Germany	1:13.11	+0.08
	5	i	Igor Zhelezovski	Soviet Union	1:13.19	+0.16
4	6	i	Eric Flaim	United States	1:13.53	+0.50
5	19	i	Gaétan Boucher	Canada	1:13.77	+0.74
6	12	o	Michael Hadschieff	Austria	1:13.84	+0.81
7	4	i	Guy Thibault	Canada	1:14.16	+1.13
8	13	i	Peter Adeberg	East Germany	1:14.19	+1.16
9	20	i	Bae Ki-tae	South Korea	1:14.36	+1.33
	2	o	Yasumitsu Kanehama	Japan	1:14.36	+1.33
11	15	o	Andrey Bakhvalov	Soviet Union	1:14.39	+1.36
12	20	o	Boris Repnin	Soviet Union	1:14.41	+1.38
13	3	o	Kimihiro Hamaya	Japan	1:14.43	+1.40
14	9	o	Mike Richmond	Australia	1:14.61	+1.58
15	8	i	André Hoffmann	East Germany	1:14.62	+1.59
	11	i	Hein Vergeer	Netherlands	1:14.62	+1.59
17	2	i	Tom Cushman	United States	1:14.68	+1.65
18	1	i	Nick Thometz	United States	1:14.71	+1.68
19	17	o	Jean Pichette	Canada	1:14.72	+1.69
20	1	o	Akira Kuroiwa	Japan	1:15.05	+2.02
21	15	i	Claes Bengtsson	Sweden	1:15.07	+2.04
22	14	i	Marcel Tremblay	Canada	1:15.13	+2.10
23	8	o	Yukihiro Mitani	Japan	1:15.28	+2.25
24	10	i	Menno Boelsma	Netherlands	1:15.34	+2.31
25	9	i	Frode Rønning	Norway	1:15.39	+2.36
26	16	i	Rolf Falk-Larssen	Norway	1:15.42	+2.39
27	14	o	Hans Magnusson	Sweden	1:15.79	+2.76
28	18	i	Jerzy Dominik	Poland	1:16.16	+3.13
29	19	o	Hans van Helden	France	1:16.32	+3.29
30	10	o	Göran Johansson	Sweden	1:16.33	+3.30
31	12	i	Phillip Tahmindjis	Australia	1:16.38	+3.35
32	7	o	Hans-Peter Oberhuber	West Germany	1:16.62	+3.59
33	13	o	Claude Nicouleau	France	1:17.91	+4.88
34	17	i	Craig McNicoll	Great Britain	1:18.60	+5.57
35	15	o	Behudin Merdović	Yugoslavia	1:23.88	+10.85
36	16	o	Julian Green	Great Britain	1:57.30	+44.27
-	7	i	Bjørn Hagen	Norway	DNF
-	4	o	Dan Jansen	United States	DNF
-	6	o	Jan Ykema	Netherlands	DNF
-	11	o	Uwe Streb	West Germany	DQ