Speed skating at the 1952 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1952 Winter Olympics.

More information World record, Olympic record ...

World record	2:12.9(*)	Valentin Chaikin	Medeo (URS)	20 January 1952
Olympic record	2:17.6(*)	Sverre Farstad	St. Moritz (SUI)	2 February 1948

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

The current world record holder Valentin Chaikin did not compete as the Soviet Union did not participate in Winter Games before 1956.

More information Place, Time ...

Place	Speed skater	Time
1	Hjalmar Andersen (NOR)	2:20.4
2	Wim van der Voort (NED)	2:20.6
3	Roald Aas (NOR)	2:21.6
4	Carl-Erik Asplund (SWE)	2:22.6
5	Kees Broekman (NED)	2:22.8
6	Lassi Parkkinen (FIN)	2:23.0
7	Kauko Salomaa (FIN)	2:23.3
8	Sigvard Ericsson (SWE)	2:23.4
	Ivar Martinsen (NOR)	2:23.4
10	Ferenc Lőrincz (HUN)	2:23.7
11	Tsuneo Sato (JPN)	2:23.9
12	Gerard Maarse (NED)	2:24.3
	Johnny Werket (USA)	2:24.3
14	Norman Holwell (GBR)	2:24.5
15	Nic Stene (NOR)	2:24.8
16	Craig MacKay (CAN)	2:25.0
	Ken Henry (USA)	2:25.0
18	Pat McNamara (USA)	2:25.5
19	Gunnar Ström (SWE)	2:25.8
20	Franz Offenberger (AUT)	2:25.9
21	József Merényi (HUN)	2:26.1
22	Arthur Mannsbarth (AUT)	2:26.6
23	Masanori Aoki (JPN)	2:26.9
24	Kalevi Laitinen (FIN)	2:27.1
25	Toivo Salonen (FIN)	2:27.4
26	Cockie van der Elst (NED)	2:27.6
	John Wickström (SWE)	2:27.6
28	Don McDermott (USA)	2:28.8
29	Ralf Olin (CAN)	2:29.3
30	Colin Hickey (AUS)	2:30.4
31	Enrico Musolino (ITA)	2:30.7
32	Guido Citterio (ITA)	2:30.8
33	Sukenobu Kudo (JPN)	2:31.6
34	Kiyotaka Takabayashi (JPN)	2:32.0
35	Bill Jones (GBR)	2:32.2
36	Konrad Pecher (AUT)	2:34.8
37	Robert Laboubée (BEL)	2:36.4
38	John Hearn (GBR)	2:40.1
39	Jean Massez (BEL)	2:43.8

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