Evolution of the world record 1000 meters Men
| # | name | time | place | track type | date | |||
| 1 | Peder Østlund | NOR | 1:38.0 | Davos | SUI | outdoor - natural | 16 Jan 1899 | |
| 2 | Peder Østlund | NOR | 1:34.0 | Davos | SUI | outdoor - natural | 10 Feb 1900 | |
| 3 | Oscar Mathisen | NOR | 1:31.8 | Davos | SUI | outdoor - natural | 30 Jan 1909 | |
| 4 | Clas Thunberg | FIN | 1:28.4 | Davos | SUI | outdoor - natural | 11 Jan 1930 | |
| 5 | Yevgeny Grishin | URS | 1:22.8 | Medeo | URS | outdoor - natural | 12 Jan 1955 | |
| 6 | Ard Schenk | NED | 1:20.6 | Inzell | FRG | outdoor - artificial | 28 Feb 1967 | |
| 7 | Ard Schenk | NED | 1:20.6 | Davos | SUI | outdoor - natural | 5 Feb 1968 | |
| 8 | Ivar Eriksen | NOR | 1:20.5 | Inzell | FRG | outdoor - artificial | 9 Mar 1968 | |
| 9 | Ivar Eriksen | NOR | 1:20.3 | Inzell | FRG | outdoor - artificial | 8 Feb 1969 | |
| 10 | Ivar Eriksen | NOR | 1:19.5 | Inzell | FRG | outdoor - artificial | 1 Mar 1969 | |
| 11 | Valery Muratov | URS | 1:19.2 | Medeo | URS | outdoor - natural | 24 Jan 1970 | |
| 12 | Ivar Eriksen | NOR | 1:19.2 | Davos | SUI | outdoor - natural | 15 Jan 1971 | |
| 13 | Ard Schenk | NED | 1:18.8 | Inzell | FRG | outdoor - artificial | 20 Feb 1971 | |
| 14 | Erhard Keller | FRG | 1:18.5 | Inzell | FRG | outdoor - artificial | 4 Mar 1972 | |
| 15 | Lasse Efskind | NOR | 1:17.6 | Davos | SUI | outdoor - natural | 13 Jan 1973 | |
| 16 | Aleksandr Safronov | URS | 1:17.23 | Medeo | URS | outdoor - artificial | 11 Apr 1974 | |
| 17 | Valery Muratov | URS | 1:16.92 | Medeo | URS | outdoor - artificial | 17 Mar 1975 | |
| 18 | Yevgeny Kulikov | URS | 1:15.70 | Medeo | URS | outdoor - artificial | 20 Mar 1976 | |
| 19 | Yevgeny Kulikov | URS | 1:15.33 | Medeo | URS | outdoor - artificial | 19 Mar 1977 | |
| 20 | Eric Heiden | USA | 1:14.99 | Savalen | NOR | outdoor - natural | 12 Mar 1978 | |
| 21 | Eric Heiden | USA | 1:14.99 | Inzell | FRG | outdoor - artificial | 17 Feb 1979 | |
| 22 | Eric Heiden | USA | 1:13.60 | Davos | SUI | outdoor - natural | 13 Jan 1980 | |
| 23 | Gaétan Boucher | CAN | 1:13.39 | Davos | SUI | outdoor - natural | 31 Jan 1981 | |
| 24 | Pavel Pegov | URS | 1:12.58 | Medeo | URS | outdoor - artificial | 25 Mar 1983 | |
| 25 | Igor Zhelezovsky | URS | 1:12.58 | Heerenveen | NED | indoor - artificial | 25 Feb 1989 | |
| 26 | Kevin Scott | CAN | 1:12.54 | Calgary | CAN | indoor - artificial | 17 Dec 1993 | |
| 27 | Dan Jansen | USA | 1:12.43 | Hamar | NOR | indoor - artificial | 18 Feb 1994 | |
| 28 | Yasunori Miyabe | JPN | 1:12.37 | Calgary | CAN | indoor - artificial | 26 Mar 1994 | |
| 29 | Sylvain Bouchard | CAN | 1:12.27 | Calgary | CAN | indoor - artificial | 22 Dec 1995 | |
| 30 | Kevin Overland | CAN | 1:12.19 | Calgary | CAN | indoor - artificial | 23 Dec 1995 | |
| 31 | Manabu Horii | JPN | 1:11.67 | Calgary | CAN | indoor - artificial | 1 Mar 1996 | |
| 32 | Manabu Horii | JPN | 1:10.63 | * | Calgary | CAN | indoor - artificial | 22 Nov 1997 |
| 33 | Lee Kyou-hyuk | KOR | 1:10.42 | * | Calgary | CAN | indoor - artificial | 23 Nov 1997 |
| 34 | Jeremy Wotherspoon | CAN | 1:10.16 | * | Calgary | CAN | indoor - artificial | 29 Dec 1997 |
| 35 | Sylvain Bouchard | CAN | 1:09.60 | * | Calgary | CAN | indoor - artificial | 29 Mar 1998 |
| 36 | Jeremy Wotherspoon | CAN | 1:09.09 | * | Calgary | CAN | indoor - artificial | 15 Jan 1999 |
| 37 | Jeremy Wotherspoon | CAN | 1:08.66 | * | Calgary | CAN | indoor - artificial | 20 Feb 1999 |
| 38 | Jan Bos | NED | 1:08.55 | * | Calgary | CAN | indoor - artificial | 21 Feb 1999 |
| 39 | Jeremy Wotherspoon | CAN | 1:08.49 | * | Calgary | CAN | indoor - artificial | 12 Jan 2000 |
| 40 | Jeremy Wotherspoon | CAN | 1:08.35 | * | Calgary | CAN | indoor - artificial | 18 Mar 2000 |
| 41 | Mike Ireland | CAN | 1:08.34 | * | Calgary | CAN | indoor - artificial | 3 Mar 2001 |
| 42 | Jeremy Wotherspoon | CAN | 1:08.28 | * | Salt Lake City | USA | indoor - artificial | 11 Mar 2001 |
| 43 | Jeremy Wotherspoon | CAN | 1:07.72 | * | Salt Lake City | USA | indoor - artificial | 1 Dec 2001 |
| 44 | Gerard van Velde | NED | 1:07.18 | * | Salt Lake City | USA | indoor - artificial | 16 Feb 2002 |
| 45 | Shani Davis | USA | 1:07.03 | * | Salt Lake City | USA | indoor - artificial | 20 Nov 2005 |
| 46 | Pekka Koskela | FIN | 1:07.00 | * | Salt Lake City | USA | indoor - artificial | 10 Nov 2007 |
| 47 | Shani Davis | USA | 1:06.42 | * | Salt Lake City | USA | indoor - artificial | 7 Mar 2009 |
| 48 | Kjeld Nuis | NED | 1:06.18 | * | Salt Lake City | USA | indoor - artificial | 9 Mar 2019 |
| 49 | Pavel Kulizhnikov | RUS | 1:05.69 | * | Salt Lake City | USA | indoor - artificial | 15 Feb 2020 |
| * | = record skated on klap skates | |||||||
