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Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres

Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres

Speed skating event at the 2022 Winter Olympics

Quick Facts Men's 1000 metres at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games, Venue ...

The men's 1000 m competition in speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics will be held on 18 February, at the National Speed Skating Oval ("Ice Ribbon") in Beijing.[1] Thomas Krol of the Netherlands won the event, it was his first Olympic gold medal. Laurent Dubreuil of Canada won the silver medal, his first Olympic medal. Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen of Norway won bronze.

The reigning champion, Kjeld Nuis, qualified for the Olympics, but will not be able to defend his title as he did not qualify for this distance. The 2018 silver medalist, Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen, qualified, as did the bronze medalist, Kim Tae-yun. Kai Verbij is the 2021 World Single Distances champion at the 1000m distance. The silver medalist and the world record holder is Pavel Kulizhnikov. Thomas Krol was leading the 2021–22 ISU Speed Skating World Cup at the 1000m distance with four races completed before the Olympics, followed by Nuis and Holmefjord Lorentzen. Krol skated the season best time, 1:06.44 in Salt Lake City on 5 December 2021.[2]

Piotr Michalski in pair 4 was the first skater out of 1:09 and took an early lead. Only in pair 13 Krol and Holmefjord Lorentzen both improved his time. Krol became the first skater to go below 1:08, with two pairs to go. The winner of pair 14, Ning Zhongyan, had the time just 0.04 worse than Michalski's. In the last pair, Laurent Dubreuil had the second overall time, shifting Michalski off the podium.

Qualification

Main article: Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification

A total of 30 entry quotas were available for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per NOC. The first 20 athletes qualified through their performance at the 2021–22 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, while the last ten earned quotas by having the best times among athletes not already qualified. A country could only earn the maximum three spots through the World Cup rankings.[3]

The qualification time for the event (1:10.50) was released on July 1, 2021, and was unchanged from 2018.[4] Skaters had the time period of July 1, 2021 – January 16, 2022 to achieve qualification times at valid International Skating Union (ISU) events.[4]

Records

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

World record Pavel Kulizhnikov (RUS)1:05.69Salt Lake City, United States15 February 2020
Olympic record Gerard van Velde (NED)1:07.18Salt Lake City, United States16 February 2002
Track record Xu Fu (CHN)1:11.408 April 2021

Results

The races were started at 16:30.[5]

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References

  1. [1]
    "Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 9" (PDF). New.inews.gtimg.com. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  2. [2]
    "Season Bests2021-2022". Speedskatingresults.com.
  3. [3]
    "Qualification Systems for XXIV Olympic Winter Games, Beijing 2022 Speed Skating" (PDF). International Skating Union. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  4. [4]
    "Communication No. 2405 Qualifying competitions and qualifying times for Speed Skating events at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games". www.isu.org/. International Skating Union. 1 July 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
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    Final results
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