1500 metres at the I Olympic Winter Games
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Pictogram for Speed skating
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Venue | Stade Olympique de Chamonix | ||||||||||||
Dates | January 27 | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 22 from 9 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 2:20.8 | ||||||||||||
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Clas Thunberg | Finland | ||
Roald Larsen | Norway | ||
Sigurd Moen | Norway |
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.
These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1924 Winter Olympics.
(*) The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice.