Speed skating at the 1996 Asian Winter Games – Men's 1500 metres
# Speed skating at the 1996 Asian Winter Games – Men's 1500 metres

The men's 1500 metres at the 1996 Asian Winter Games was held on 7 February 1996 in Harbin, China.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Games records were as follows.

| World Record | Johann Olav Koss (NOR) | 1:51.29 | Hamar, Norway | 16 February 1994 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Games Record | Bae Ki-tae (KOR) | 2:00.48 | Sapporo, Japan | 11 March 1990 |

## Results

| Rank | Athlete | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Yusuke Imai (JPN) | 1:56.18 | GR |
| | Shinya Tanaka (JPN) | 1:57.45 | |
| | Sergey Tsybenko (KAZ) | 1:57.55 | |
| 4 | Radik Bikchentayev (KAZ) | 1:58.07 | |
| 5 | Choi Jae-bong (KOR) | 1:58.20 | |
| 6 | Liu Hongbo (CHN) | 1:58.82 | |
| 7 | Liu Yanfei (CHN) | 1:59.51 | |
| 8 | Lee Kyou-hyuk (KOR) | 2:00.07 | |
| 9 | Hideyoshi Maruko (JPN) | 2:00.16 | |
| 10 | Minetaka Sasabuchi (JPN) | 2:00.61 | |
| 11 | Wu Guanglu (CHN) | 2:01.19 | |
| 12 | Feng Qingbo (CHN) | 2:02.16 | |
| 13 | Daniil Kokovin (KAZ) | 2:02.22 | |
| 14 | Vladimir Kostin (KAZ) | 2:02.33 | |
