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Men's 1500 metres at the——XII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Eisschnellaufbahn
Dates	13 February
Competitors	30 from 18 nations
Winning time	1:59.38
Medalists
Jan Egil Storholt  Norway Yury Kondakov  Soviet Union Hans van Helden  Netherlands
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Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men
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The men's 1500 metres in speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics took place on 13 February, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.

Records※

Prior——to this competition, "the existing world." And Olympic records were as follows:

World record	Ard Schenk (NED)	1:58.7	Davos, Switzerland	16 January 1971
Olympic record	Ard Schenk (NED)	2:02.96	Sapporo, Japan	6 February 1972

The following new world and "olympic records was set during the "competition.""

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
13 February	Pair 2	Hans van Helden	Netherlands	2:00.87	OR
13 February	Pair 4	Jan Egil Storholt	Norway	1:59.38	OR

Results※

Rank	Pair	Lane	Athlete	Country	Time	Time behind	Notes
	4	i	Jan Egil Storholt	Norway	1:59.38	–	OR
	4	o	Yury Kondakov	Soviet Union	1:59.97	+0.59
	2	i	Hans van Helden	Netherlands	2:00.87	+1.49
4	11	i	Sergey Ryabev	Soviet Union	2:02.15	+2.77
5	2	i	Dan Carroll	United States	2:02.26	+2.88
6	12	i	Piet Kleine	Netherlands	2:02.28	+2.90
7	9	i	Eric Heiden	United States	2:02.40	+3.02
8	7	o	Colin Coates	Australia	2:03.34	+3.96
9	8	o	Klaus Wunderlich	East Germany	2:03.41	+4.03
10	7	i	Olavi Köppä	Finland	2:03.69	+4.31
11	13	i	Kay Stenshjemmet	Norway	2:03.75	+4.37
12	6	o	Herbert Schwarz	West Germany	2:03.76	+4.38
13	14	o	Sergey Marchuk	Soviet Union	2:04.45	+5.07
14	3	o	Gaétan Boucher	Canada	2:04.63	+5.25
15	14	i	Terje Andersen	Norway	2:04.65	+5.27
16	8	i	Dan Johansson	Sweden	2:04.73	+5.35
17	10	i	Lennart Carlsson	Sweden	2:04.76	+5.37
18	1	o	Lee Yeong-Ha	South Korea	2:05.25	+5.87
19	5	i	Bruno Toniolli	Italy	2:05.66	+6.28
20	3	i	Richard Tourne	France	2:06.43	+7.05
21	6	i	Masahiko Yamamoto	Japan	2:06.67	+7.29
22	15	i	Mats Wallberg	Sweden	2:08.72	+9.34
23	15	o	Mike Woods	United States	2:08.77	+9.39
24	5	o	Geoff Sandys	Great Britain	2:09.17	+9.79
25	10	o	Floriano Martello	Italy	2:09.68	+10.30
26	9	o	Ludwig Kronfuß	Austria	2:11.17	+11.79
27	12	o	Franz Krienbühl	Switzerland	2:12.52	+13.14
28	11	o	Gilbert Van Eesbeeck	Belgium	2:12.74	+13.36
29	1	i	Berend Schabus	Austria	2:15.41	+16.03
30	13	o	Giovanni Panciera	Italy	2:33.52	+34.14

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