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

The men's 500 metres speed skating competition of the 2018 Winter Olympics was held on 19 February 2018 at Gangneung Oval in Gangneung[1][2]

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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen  Norway
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Cha Min-kyu  South Korea
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Gao Tingyu  China
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Competition schedule edit

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

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

Records edit

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 edit

The race was started at 20:53.[3]

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 edit

  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.
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