Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres explained

Event:	Men's 500 metres
Games:	2006 Winter
Venue:	Oval Lingotto
Dates:	13 February
Competitors:	37
Nations:	12
Win Value:	69.79
Gold:	Joey Cheek
Goldnoc:	USA
Silver:	Dmitry Dorofeyev
Silvernoc:	RUS
Bronze:	Lee Kang-seok
Bronzenoc:	KOR
Prev:	2002
Next:	2010

The men's 500 metres speed skating competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Turin, Italy. The competition consisted of two separate 500 metre races, with the competitors ranked by their cumulative time from the two races.^[1]

Records

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

500 meters (1 race)

500 meters x 2 (2 races)

No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition.

Results

Place	Athlete	Country	Race 1 Time (place)	Race2 Time (place)	Total Time	Difference
			34.82 (1)	34.94 (1)	69.76	--
			35.24 (2)	35.17 (3)	70.41	+0.65
			35.34 (3)	35.09 (2)	70.43	+0.67
4			35.35 (4)	35.21 (5)	70.56	+0.80
5			35.39 (6)	35.29 (6=)	70.68	+0.92
6			35.59 (11=)	35.19 (4)	70.78	+1.02
7			35.59 (11=)	35.29 (6=)	70.88	+1.12
8			35.61 (13)	35.43 (9=)	71.04	+1.28
9			35.37 (5)	35.68 (17=)	71.05	+1.29
10			35.58 (9=)	35.51 (12)	71.09	+1.33
11			35.68 (16)	35.43 (9=)	71.11	+1.35
12			35.78 (18)	35.34 (8)	71.12	+1.36
13			35.67 (15)	35.47 (11)	71.14	+1.38
14			35.55 (8)	35.62 (13=)	71.17	+1.41
15			35.58 (9=)	35.67 (15=)	71.25	+1.49
16			35.46 (7)	35.84 (25)	71.30	+1.54
17			35.76 (17)	35.62 (13=)	71.38	+1.62
18			35.66 (14)	35.78 (21)	71.44	+1.68
19			35.89 (21)	35.67 (15=)	71.56	+1.80
20			35.80 (19)	35.81 (23)	71.61	+1.85
21			35.88 (20)	35.80 (22)	71.68	+1.92
22			35.91 (22)	35.83 (24)	71.74	+1.98
23			36.10 (27)	35.74 (20)	71.84	+2.08
24			35.96 (23)	35.94 (26)	71.90	+2.14
25			36.02 (25)	35.99 (28)	72.01	+2.25
26			36.40 (31)	35.68 (17=)	72.08	+2.32
27			36.00 (24)	36.24 (32)	72.24	+2.48
28			36.39 (30)	35.96 (27)	72.35	+2.59
29			36.31 (29)	36.12 (29=)	72.43	+2.67
30			36.42 (32)	36.12 (29=)	72.54	+2.78
31			36.24 (28)	36.43 (33)	72.67	+2.91
32			36.43 (33)	36.61 (35)	73.04	+3.28
33			36.57 (34)	36.56 (34)	73.13	+3.37
34			36.88 (35)	36.92 (36)	73.80	+4.04
35			48.84 (36)	35.71 (19)	84.55	+14.79
36			36.09 (26)	51.92 (37)	88.01	+18.25
37			58.66 (37)	36.13 (31)	94.79	+25.03

Race 1

Pair order

Skater with first inner lane listed first

1. Brock Miron, CAN (alone, first inner)
2. Dmitry Lobkov, RUS – Sergey Kornilov, RUS
3. Maciej Ustynowicz, POL – Vincent Labrie, CAN
4. Choi Jae-bong, KOR – Aleksandr Zhigin, KAZ
5. Janne Hänninen, FIN – Aleksey Proshin, RUS
6. Artur Waś, POL – Erik Zachrisson, SWE
7. Mika Poutala, FIN – Maurizio Carnino, ITA
8. Zhuo Lu, CHN – Jan Bos, NED
9. Dmitry Dorofeyev, RUS – Erben Wennemars, NED
10. Li Yu, CHN – Pekka Koskela, FIN
11. Ermanno Ioriatti, ITA – An Weijiang, CHN
12. Yūya Oikawa, JPN – Simon Kuipers, NED
13. Hiroyasu Shimizu, JPN – Lee Kyou-hyuk, KOR
14. Tucker Fredricks, USA – Keiichiro Nagashima, JPN
15. Beorn Nijenhuis, NED – Kwon Sun Chun, KOR
16. Joji Kato, JPN – Michael Ireland, CAN
17. Joey Cheek, USA – Jeremy Wotherspoon, CAN
18. Casey FitzRandolph, USA – Yu Fengtong, CHN
19. Kip Carpenter, USA – Lee Kang-seok, KOR

Fastest 100 m

The ten fastest times are listed

Place	Athlete	Time	Difference
1		9.59	--
2		9.63	+0.04
3		9.65	+0.06
4		9.66	+0.07
5		9.67	+0.08
6		9.69	+0.10
7		9.72	+0.13
8		9.75	+0.16
9		9.76	+0.17
		9.76	+0.17

Race 2

Pair order

Skater with first inner lane listed first

1. Beorn Nijenhuis, NED (alone, last outer)
2. Kwon Sun Chun, KOR – Li Yu, CHN
3. Aleksandr Zhigin, KAZ – Artur Waś, POL
4. Brock Miron, CAN – Vincent Labrie, CAN
5. Maurizio Carnino, ITA – Kip Carpenter, USA
6. Simon Kuipers, NED – Zhuo Lu, CHN
7. Sergey Kornilov, RUS – Maciej Ustynowicz, POL
8. Aleksey Proshin, RUS – Tucker Fredricks, USA
9. An Weijiang, CHN – Mika Poutala, FIN
10. Erik Zachrisson, SWE – Ermanno Ioriatti, ITA
11. Lee Kyou-hyuk, KOR – Casey FitzRandolph, USA
12. Jan Bos, NED – Hiroyasu Shimizu, JPN
13. Choi Jae-bong, KOR – Keiichiro Nagashima, JPN
14. Michael Ireland, CAN – Joji Kato, JPN
15. Pekka Koskela, FIN – Janne Hänninen, FIN
16. Erben Wennemars, NED – Dmitry Lobkov, RUS
17. Yūya Oikawa, JPN – Yu Fengtong, CHN
18. Jeremy Wotherspoon, CAN – Dmitry Dorofeyev, RUS
19. Lee Kang-seok, KOR – Joey Cheek, USA

Fastest 100 m

Place	Athlete	Time	Difference
1		9.56	--
2		9.59	+0.03
3		9.63	+0.07
4		9.65	+0.09
5		9.66	+0.10
6		9.67	+0.11
7		9.73	+0.17
8		9.74	+0.18
		9.74	+0.18
		9.74	+0.18

External links

• Web site: Results of the 2006 Olympic Games 500 meters Men. SpeedSkatingStats.com. 27 August 2012.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Speed Skating at the 2006 Torino Winter Games: Men's 500 metres . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417213506/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/winter/2006/SSK/mens-500-metres.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . Sports Reference . 7 November 2019.