Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

Men's 500 metres
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
VenueGangneung Oval, Gangneung, South Korea
Date19 February
Competitors36 from 17 nations
Winning time34.41 OR
Medalists
Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen  Norway
Cha Min-kyu  South Korea
Gao Tingyu  China
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The men's 500 metres speed skating competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 19 February 2018 at Gangneung Oval in Gangneung

Competition schedule

All times are Korea Standard Time (UTC+9).

Date Time Event
19 February 20:53 Men's 500 m final

Records

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

World record  Pavel Kulizhnikov (RUS) 33.98 Salt Lake City, United States 20 November 2015
Olympic record  Casey FitzRandolph (USA) 34.42 Salt Lake City, United States 11 February 2002
Track record  Jan Smeekens (NED) 34.58 10 February 2017

The following records were set during this competition.

See also: World and Olympic records set at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Date Round Athlete Country Time Record
19 February Pair 14 Cha Min-kyu  South Korea 34.42 TR
Pair 16 Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen  Norway 34.41 OR, TR

OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

Results

The race was started at 20:53.

Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Time behind Notes
16 O Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen  Norway 34.41 — OR, TR
14 O Cha Min-kyu  South Korea 34.42 +0.01 TR
12 I Gao Tingyu  China 34.65 +0.24
4 18 O Mika Poutala  Finland 34.68 +0.27
5 17 I Daichi Yamanaka  Japan 34.78 +0.37
6 12 O Joji Kato  Japan 34.831 +0.42
7 16 I Ronald Mulder  Netherlands 34.839 +0.42
8 15 O Nico Ihle  Germany 34.89 +0.48
9 17 O Kai Verbij  Netherlands 34.90 +0.49
10 10 O Jan Smeekens  Netherlands 34.930 +0.52
11 18 I Alex Boisvert-Lacroix  Canada 34.934 +0.52
12 13 I Kim Jun-ho  South Korea 35.01 +0.60
13 15 I Artur Waś  Poland 35.02 +0.61
14 1 I Tsubasa Hasegawa  Japan 35.08 +0.67
15 10 I Mitchell Whitmore  United States 35.13 +0.72
16 11 O Mo Tae-bum  South Korea 35.154 +0.74
17 14 I Gilmore Junio  Canada 35.158 +0.74
18 13 O Laurent Dubreuil  Canada 35.16 +0.75
19 9 O Pekka Koskela  Finland 35.192 +0.78
20 6 O Pedro Causil  Colombia 35.196 +0.78
21 1 O Daniel Greig  Australia 35.22 +0.81
22 5 I Ignat Golovatsiuk  Belarus 35.23 +0.82
23 7 O Jonathan Garcia  United States 35.31 +0.90
24 6 I Stanislav Palkin  Kazakhstan 35.33 +0.92
25 2 O Artyom Krikunov  Kazakhstan 35.34 +0.93
26 2 I Kimani Griffin  United States 35.38 +0.97
27 5 O Yang Tao  China 35.41 +1.00
28 8 I Henrik Fagerli Rukke  Norway 35.500 +1.09
29 3 O Joel Dufter  Germany 35.506 +1.09
30 4 I Mirko Giacomo Nenzi  Italy 35.51 +1.10
31 4 O Xie Jiaxuan  China 35.545 +1.13
32 3 I Mathias Vosté  Belgium 35.546 +1.13
33 11 I Piotr Michalski  Poland 35.64 +1.23
34 7 I Sung Ching-yang  Chinese Taipei 35.86 +1.45
35 9 I Roman Krech  Kazakhstan 35.92 +1.51
36 8 O Artur Nogal  Poland 58.71 +24.30

References

  1. ^ "Venues". www.pyeongchang2018.com/. Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics. Archived from the original on 17 February 2018. Retrieved 26 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Schedule". POCOG. Archived from the original on 5 November 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
  3. ^ "Final results" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-02-19. Retrieved 2018-02-19.