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Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics took place on 15 February, at the L'anneau de vitesse.[1][2]

Men's 500 metres
at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
VenueL'anneau de vitesse
Dates15 February
Competitors43 from 17 nations
Winning time37.14
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Uwe-Jens Mey
 Germany
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Toshiyuki Kuroiwa
 Japan
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Junichi Inoue
 Japan
← 1988
1994 →

Records edit

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:[3][4]

World record   Dan Jansen (USA) 36.41 Davos, Switzerland 25 January 1992
Olympic record   Uwe-Jens Mey (GDR) 36.45 Calgary, Canada 14 February 1988

Results edit

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Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Difference
  4 O Uwe-Jens Mey   Germany 37.14 -
  6 I Toshiyuki Kuroiwa   Japan 37.18 +0.04
  3 I Junichi Inoue   Japan 37.26 +0.12
4 2 O Dan Jansen   United States 37.46 +0.32
5 4 I Yasunori Miyabe   Japan 37.49 +0.35
5 11 O Gerard van Velde   Netherlands 37.49 +0.35
7 1 O Aleksandr Golubev   Unified Team 37.51 +0.37
8 5 I Igor Zhelezovski   Unified Team 37.57 +0.43
9 16 O Song Chen   China 37.58 +0.44
10 9 O Kim Yoon-man   South Korea 37.60 +0.46
11 15 I Liu Hongbo   China 37.66 +0.52
12 10 O Jaegal Sung-yeol   South Korea 37.71 +0.57
13 1 I Nick Thometz   United States 37.83 +0.69
14 11 I Robert Dubreuil   Canada 37.86 +0.72
14 6 I Vadim Shakshakbayev   Unified Team 37.86 +0.72
16 3 O Guy Thibault   Canada 37.89 +0.75
17 12 I Kevin Scott   Canada 38.02 +0.88
18 21 I Yukinori Miyabe   Japan 38.12 +0.98
19 8 I Marty Pierce   United States 38.15 +1.01
20 9 I Björn Forslund   Sweden 38.24 +1.10
21 2 I Sergey Klevchenya   Unified Team 38.26 +1.12
22 10 I Dave Cruikshank   United States 38.28 +1.14
23 5 O Peter Adeberg   Germany 38.33 +1.19
24 15 O Li Yong-chol   North Korea 38.38 +1.24
25 18 O Olaf Zinke   Germany 38.40 +1.26
26 14 I Harri Ilkka   Finland 38.48 +1.34
27 17 I Dai Jun   China 38.51 +1.37
27 13 O Rintje Ritsma   Netherlands 38.51 +1.37
29 20 O Arie Loef   Netherlands 38.61 +1.47
30 7 I Sean Ireland   Canada 38.70 +1.56
31 21 O Paweł Abratkiewicz   Poland 38.74 +1.60
31 12 O Lee In-hun   South Korea 38.74 +1.60
33 7 O Hans Markström   Sweden 38.89 +1.75
34 20 I Bo König   Sweden 39.06 +1.92
35 14 O Choi In-chol   North Korea 39.59 +2.45
36 19 I Zsolt Baló   Romania 39.70 +2.56
37 18 I Csaba Madarász   Hungary 40.41 +3.27
38 22 O Joakim Karlberg   Sweden 40.71 +3.57
39 16 I Jiří Kyncl   Czechoslovakia 40.92 +3.78
40 8 O Roland Brunner   Austria 42.18 +5.04
41 19 O Jiří Musil   Czechoslovakia 42.20 +5.06
42 13 I Bajro Čenanović   Yugoslavia 43.09 +5.95
43 17 O Slavenko Likić   Yugoslavia 43.81 +6.67

References edit

  1. ^ a b "Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. LA84 Foundation. 1992. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Speed Skating at the 1992 Albertville Winter Games: Men's 500 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
  3. ^ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  4. ^ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
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