The 1500 metres speed skating

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

event was part of the speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the 1948 Winter Olympics

-Medal summary:-Participating nations:Twelve speed skaters competed in all four events.A total of 68 speed skaters from 15 nations competed at the St. Moritz Games:-Medal table:-References:*...

 programme. The competition was held on Monday, February 2, 1948.

Forty-five speed skaters from 14 nations competed.

Medalists

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1948 Winter Olympics.

World Record	2:13.8(*)	Hans Engnestangen Hans Engnestangen Hans Engnestangen was a Norwegian speed skater and world champion. He held the world records on both the 500 and 1500 meter distance for more than ten years....	Davos Davos Davos is a municipality in the district of Prättigau/Davos in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a permanent population of 11,248 . Davos is located on the Landwasser River, in the Swiss Alps, between the Plessur and Albula Range...  (SUI Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition.... )	January 29, 1939
Olympic Record	2:19.2	Charles Mathiesen Charles Mathiesen Charles Mathiesen was a speed skater whose speed skating career lasted for 18 years , while being at the world top during most of those years.-Biography:Mathiesen was born in Drammen, Norway...	Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen Garmisch-Partenkirchen is a mountain resort town in Bavaria, southern Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Garmisch-Partenkirchen, in the Oberbayern region, and the district is on the border with Austria...  (GER Nazi Germany Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by... )	February 13, 1936

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

All three medalists were faster than the standing Olympic record. Sverre Farstad

Sverre Farstad

Sverre Farstad was a speed skater representing Sportsklubben Falken, Trondheim, as part of the Falken Trio also including Henry Wahl and Hjalmar Andersen. Farstad won one Olympic gold medal and one European Championship in his three-year international career.He was born in Lademoen, Trondheim.-Pre...

set the new Olympic record with a time of 2:17.6 seconds.

Results

Place	Athlete	Time
1		2:17.6
2		2:18.1
3		2:18.9
4		2:19.6
5		2:20.0
6		2:20.2
7		2:20.3
8		2:20.7
9		2:21.0
10		2:21.2
		2:21.2
12		2:21.4
13		2:21.9
14		2:22.2
15		2:22.5
16		2:22.6
17		2:22.8
18		2:23.0
19		2:23.3
20		2:23.4
21		2:23.9
22		2:24.6
23		2:24.7
24		2:25.0
25		2:25.3
26		2:25.6
27		2:25.7
28		2:27.0
29		2:28.5
30		2:29.2
31		2:29.8
32		2:30.0
		2:30.0
34		2:30.5
		2:30.5
36		2:30.9
		2:30.9
38		2:31.2
39		2:31.3
40		2:31.9
41		2:32.6
42		2:33.0
43		2:34.7
44		2:38.6
45		2:40.2