Other sportsSpeed skating world record
1500 m, men (speed skating)
Record
1 min 40.17 s
- Holder
- Kjeld Nuis
- Date
- Place
- Salt Lake City
- Standing since
- 2019 (7 years)
What to remember
A middle-distance specialist, Dutch skater Kjeld Nuis covered the 1500 m in 1 min 40.17 s on 10 March 2019, in Salt Lake City, where the World Cup Final was held.
His average speed was 53.91 km/h. The 1500 m is one of his two favoured distances, alongside the 1000 m, and those two events shaped his Olympic record.
At the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, Nuis won gold in both the 1500 m and the 1000 m. At the 2022 Winter Olympics he successfully defended his 1500 m title, bringing his tally to three Olympic golds. The International Skating Union has ratified the time as a world record.
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Sources and licences
- Value, holder and date: Wikipedia article “List of world records in speed skating” (revision used 1377276343). Data from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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