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 1936 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the 1936 Winter Olympics

At the 1936 Winter Olympics, four speed skating events were contested. The competitions were held on Tuesday, February 11, 1936, Wednesday, February 12, 1936, Thursday, February 13, 1936, and on Friday, February 14, 1936.-Medal summary:...

 programme. The competition was held on Thursday, February 13, 1936.

Thirty-seven speed skaters from 15 nations competed.

Medalists

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in minutes) prior to the 1936 Winter Olympics.

World Record	2:17.4(*)	Oscar Mathisen Oscar Mathisen Oscar Wilhelm Mathisen was a Norwegian speed skater and celebrity, almost rivalling Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen as symbols for a young nation...	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 18, 1914
Olympic Record	2:20.8	Clas Thunberg Clas Thunberg Arnold Clas Robert Thunberg was a Finnish speed skater who won five Olympic gold medals – three at the inaugural Winter Olympics held in Chamonix in 1924 and two at the 1928 Winter Olympics held in St. Moritz...	Chamonix Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics...  (FRA France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... )	January 27, 1924

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

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...

set a new Olympic record with 2:19.2 seconds.

Results

Place	Athlete	Time
1		2:19.2
2		2:20.2
3		2:20.9
4		2:21.3
5		2:21.6
6		2:22.2
7		2:22.4
8		2:23.0
9		2:23.2
		2:23.2
		2:23.2
12		2:24.3
		2:24.3
14		2:24.6
15		2:25.0
16		2:25.3
17		2:25.4
18		2:25.8
19		2:26.7
20		2:27.2
		2:27.2
22		2:27.8
23		2:28.9
		2:28.9
25		2:29.0
		2:29.0
27		2:29.3
28		2:29.6
29		2:29.9
30		2:30.0
31		2:30.5
32		2:31.2
33		2:31.8
34		2:34.2
35		2:57.8
36		3:00.5
37		3:21.9