Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 1500 metres

Men's 1500 metres at the XX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Torino Palavela
Dates	February 12
Competitors	28 from 16 nations
Medalists
Ahn Hyun-soo   South Korea   Lee Ho-suk   South Korea   Li Jiajun   China

Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m relay				women
5000 m relay		men

The men's 1500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics took place on 12 February at the Torino Palavela.

Records

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

World record	Ahn Hyun-soo (KOR)	2:10.639	Marquette, United States	24 October 2003
Olympic record	Kim Dong-sung (KOR)	2:15.942	Salt Lake City, United States	20 February 2002

No new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Results

Heats

The first round was held on 12 February. There were six heats of four or five skaters each, with the top three finishers in each advancing to the semifinals.^[1]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Mathieu Turcotte (CAN)	2:23.402	Q
2	Pieter Gysel (BEL)	2:23.411	Q
3	Jon Eley (GBR)	2:23.887	Q
4	Maxime Chataignier (FRA)	2:23.966
5	Dariusz Kulesza (POL)	2:24.118

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Lee Ho-suk (KOR)	2:31.511	Q
2	Satoru Terao (JPN)	2:31.903	Q
3	Vyacheslav Kurginyan (RUS)	2:33.802	Q
–	Wim de Deyne (BEL)	DQ

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Li Ye (CHN)	2:27.622	Q
2	Cees Juffermans (NED)	12:27.696	Q
3	Fabio Carta (ITA)	2:27.799	Q
4	Mark McNee (AUS)	2:29.356
5	Mikhail Rajine (RUS)	2:33.809

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Ahn Hyun-soo (KOR)	2:29.808	Q
2	Nicola Rodigari (ITA)	2:29.885	Q
3	Peter Darazs (HUN)	2:30.281	Q
4	Sebastian Praus (GER)	2:30.292

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Charles Hamelin (CAN)	2:19.469	Q
2	Li Jiajun (CHN)	2:19.631	Q
3	Alex Izykowski (USA)	2:19.731	Q
4	Tyson Heung (GER)	2:20.075

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Apolo Anton Ohno (USA)	2:23.668	Q
2	Niels Kerstholt (NED)	2:23.854	Q
3	Viktor Knoch (HUN)	2:23.876	Q
4	Hayato Sueyoshi (JPN)	2:25.280
–	Matus Uzak (SVK)	DQ

Semifinals

The top two finishers in each of the three, six-man semifinals advanced to the A final, while the third and fourth place skaters advanced to the B Final.^[1]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Charles Hamelin (CAN)	2:20.854	QA
2	Lee Ho-suk (KOR)	2:20.901	QA
3	Niels Kerstholt (NED)	2:21.748	QB
4	Satoru Terao (JPN)	2:21.774	QB
5	Jon Eley (GBR)	2:21.862
6	Vyacheslav Kurginyan (RUS)	2:24.604

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Ahn Hyun-soo (KOR)}	2:17.718	QA
2	Li Jiajun (CHN)	2:17.836	QA
3	Mathieu Turcotte (CAN)	2:18.280	QB
4	Peter Darazs (HUN)	2:18.348	QB
5	Alex Izykowski (USA)	2:18.610
6	Nicola Rodigari (ITA)	2:18.615

Semifinal 3

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
1	Li Ye (CHN)	2:19.386	QA
2	Viktor Knoch (HUN)	2:19.600	QA
3	Fabio Carta (ITA)	2:19.724	QB
4	Apolo Anton Ohno (USA)	2:20.346	QB
–	Cees Juffermans (NED)	DNF
–	Pieter Gysel (BEL)	DQ

Finals

The six qualifying skaters contested the medal positions in final A, while the six skaters in final B ended up in 6th-11th places.^[1]

Final A

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
01 !	Ahn Hyun-soo (KOR)	2:25.341
02 !	Lee Ho-suk (KOR)	2:25.600
03 !	Li Jiajun (CHN)	2:26.005
4	Charles Hamelin (CAN)	2:26.375
5	Viktor Knoch (HUN)	2:26.806
–	Li Ye (CHN)	DQ

Final B

Rank	Athlete	Result	Notes
6	Mathieu Turcotte (CAN)	2:25.341
7	Fabio Carta (ITA)	2:24.658
8	Apolo Anton Ohno (USA)	2:24.789
9	Satoru Terao (JPN)	2:24.875
10	Niels Kerstholt (NED)	2:24.962
11	Peter Darazs (HUN)	2:24.969

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