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

Event:	Men's 500 metres
Games:	2018 Winter
Venue:	Gangneung Oval, Gangneung, South Korea
Date:	19 February
Competitors:	36
Nations:	17
Win Value:	34.41 OR
Gold:	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen
Goldnoc:	NOR
Silver:	Cha Min-kyu
Silvernoc:	KOR
Bronze:	Gao Tingyu
Bronzenoc:	CHN
Prev:	2014
Next:	2022

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]

Competition schedule

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

The following records were set during this competition.

Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record
19 February	Pair 14			34.42	TR
19 February	Pair 16			34.41	OR, TR

OR = Olympic record, TR = track record

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

Rank	Pair	Lane	Time	Time behind	Notes
	16	O	34.41		OR, TR
	14	O	34.42	+0.01	TR
	12	I	34.65	+0.24
	18	O	34.68	+0.27
	17	I	34.78	+0.37
	12	O	34.831	+0.42
	16	I	34.839	+0.42
	15	O	34.89	+0.48
	17	O	34.90	+0.49
10	10	O	34.930	+0.52
11	18	I	34.934	+0.52
12	13	I	35.01	+0.60
13	15	I	35.02	+0.61
14	1	I	35.08	+0.67
15	10	I	35.13	+0.72
16	11	O	35.154	+0.74
17	14	I	35.158	+0.74
18	13	O	35.16	+0.75
19	9	O	35.192	+0.78
20	6	O	35.196	+0.78
21	1	O	35.22	+0.81
22	5	I	35.23	+0.82
23	7	O	35.31	+0.90
24	6	I	35.33	+0.92
25	2	O	35.34	+0.93
26	2	I	35.38	+0.97
27	5	O	35.41	+1.00
28	8	I	35.500	+1.09
29	3	O	35.506	+1.09
30	4	I	35.51	+1.10
31	4	O	35.545	+1.13
32	3	I	35.546	+1.13
33	11	I	35.64	+1.23
34	7	I	35.86	+1.45
35	9	I	35.92	+1.51
36	8	O	58.71	+24.30

Web site: Venues. www.pyeongchang2018.com/. Pyeongchang 2018 Olympic Organizing Committee for the 2018 Winter Olympics. 26 December 2017. 17 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180217011059/https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/venues. dead.
Web site: Schedule . . 15 September 2017 . 5 November 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20171105010048/https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/schedule . dead .
Web site: Final results . 2018-02-19 . 2018-02-19 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180219133412/https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/resOWG2018/pdf/OWG2018/SSK/OWG2018_SSK_C73A_SSKM500M--------------FNL-000100--.pdf . dead .