Speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres
| Men's 1000 metres at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
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Gold medal winner Stefan Groothuis
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| Venue | Adler Arena Skating Center | ||||||||||||
| Date | 12 February 2014 | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 40 from 19 nations | ||||||||||||
| Winning time | 1:08.39 | ||||||||||||
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Stefan Groothuis |
 Netherlands
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Denny Morrison |
 Canada
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Michel Mulder |
Netherlands
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The men's 1000 metres speed skating competition of the 2014 Sochi Olympics was held at Adler Arena Skating Center on 12 February 2014.Stefan Groothuis won the gold medal.
A total of forty speed skaters could qualify for this distance, with a maximum of four skaters per country. The top 20 of the men's 1000 metres World Cup standings after World Cup 4 in Berlin secured a spot for their country. Then the additional 20 spots were awarded based on a time ranking of all times skated in the World Cup and the 2014 World Sprint Speed Skating Championships. A reserve list was also made.
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
At the 2013 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships the track record was set by Denis Kuzin at 1:09.14.
The following records were set during this competition.
TR = track record
The race was started at 18:00.
TR = track record
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