Speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres speed skating at the I Olympic Winter Games
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Venue	Stade Olympique de Chamonix
Date	27 January 1924
Competitors	22 from 9 nations
Winning time	2:20.8 OR
Medalists
Clas Thunberg  Finland Roald Larsen  Norway Sigurd Moen  Norway
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The 1500 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1924 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Sunday, January 27, 1924. Twenty-two speed skaters from nine nations competed.^[1]

Medalists[]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Clas Thunberg  Finland	Roald Larsen  Norway	Sigurd Moen  Norway

Records[]

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1924 Winter Olympics.

World Record	2:17.4(*)	Oscar Mathisen	Davos (SUI)	January 18, 1914
Olympic Record		-

(*) The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice.

Results[]

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Clas Thunberg (FIN)	2:20.8
2	Roald Larsen (NOR)	2:22.0
3	Sigurd Moen (NOR)	2:25.6
4	Julius Skutnabb (FIN)	2:26.6
5	Harald Strøm (NOR)	2:29.0
6	Oskar Olsen (NOR)	2:29.2
7	Harry Kaskey (USA)	2:29.8
8	Charles Jewtraw (USA)	2:31.6
	Joe Moore (USA)	2:31.6
10	Alberts Rumba (LAT)	2:32.0
11	Charles Gorman (CAN)	2:35.4
12	Bill Steinmetz (USA)	2:36.0
13	Axel Blomqvist (SWE)	2:36.4
14	Léonhard Quaglia (FRA)	2:37.0
15	Leon Jucewicz (POL)	2:42.6
16	André Gegout (FRA)	2:54.4
17	Gaston Van Hazebroeck (BEL)	2:54.8
18	George de Wilde (FRA)	2:55.0
19	Louis De Ridder (BEL)	3:01.8
20	Philippe Van Volckxsom (BEL)	3:14.6
21	Marcel Moens (BEL)	3:16.8
–	Asser Wallenius (FIN)	DNF

References[]

External links[]

• Official Olympic Report
• "Results of the 1924 Olympic Games 1500 meters Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 27 August 2012.