Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres
| Men's 500 metres at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games | ||||||||||
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 Pictogram for speed skating | ||||||||||
| Venue | M-Wave | |||||||||
| Dates | 9–10 February | |||||||||
| Competitors | 42 from 16 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 1:11.35 OR | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics | ||
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| 500 m | men | women |
| 1000 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 3000 m | women | |
| 5000 m | men | women |
| 10,000 m | men | |
The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics took place on 9 and 10 February, at the M-Wave.[1][2]
Records
[edit]Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:[3][4]
| World record |  Hiroyasu Shimizu (JPN) |
35.39 | Calgary, Canada | 2 March 1996 |
| Olympic record |  Aleksandr Golubev (RUS) |
36.33 | Hamar, Norway | 14 February 1994 |
The following new Olympic records were set during this competition.
| Date | Athlete | Country | Time | OR | WR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 February | Ermanno Ioriatti |  Italy |
36.30 | OR | |
| 9 February | Casey FitzRandolph |  United States |
35.81 | OR | |
| 9 February | Kevin Overland |  Canada |
35.78 | OR | |
| 9 February | Hiroyasu Shimizu |  Japan |
35.76 | OR | |
| 10 February | Hiroyasu Shimizu | Japan |
35.59 | OR |
Results
[edit]| Rank | Name | Country | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Hiroyasu Shimizu | Japan |
35.76 | 35.59 | 1:11.35 | OR |
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Jeremy Wotherspoon | Canada |
36.04 | 35.80 | 1:11.84 | |
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Kevin Overland | Canada |
35.78 | 36.08 | 1:11.86 | |
| 4 | Sylvain Bouchard | Canada |
35.90 | 36.10 | 1:12.00 | |
| 5 | Pat Bouchard | Canada |
35.96 | 36.09 | 1:12.05 | |
| 6 | Casey FitzRandolph | United States |
35.81 | 36.39 | 1:12.20 | |
| 7 | Kim Yun-Man |  South Korea |
36.13 | 36.23 | 1:12.36 | |
| 8 | Lee Kyu-Hyuk | South Korea |
36.14 | 36.41 | 1:12.55 | |
| 9 | Ermanno Ioriatti | Italy |
36.30 | 36.36 | 1:12.66 | |
| 10 | Roger Strøm |  Norway |
36.53 | 36.15 | 1:12.68 | |
| 11 | Michael Künzel |  Germany |
36.56 | 36.19 | 1:12.75 | |
| 12 | Jan Bos |  Netherlands |
36.66 | 36.11 | 1:12.77 | |
| 13 | Manabu Horii | Japan |
36.37 | 36.41 | 1:12.78 | |
| 14 | Sergey Klevchenya | Russia |
36.56 | 36.30 | 1:12.86 | |
| 15 | Hiroaki Yamakage | Japan |
36.61 | 36.30 | 1:12.91 | |
| 16 | Toshiyuki Kuroiwa | Japan |
36.37 | 36.60 | 1:12.97 | |
| 16 | Jegal Seong-Ryeol | South Korea |
36.58 | 36.39 | 1:12.97 | |
| 18 | Janne Hänninen |  Finland |
36.58 | 36.46 | 1:13.04 | |
| 19 | Christian Breuer | Germany |
36.78 | 36.41 | 1:13.19 | |
| 20 | Aleksandr Golubev | Russia |
36.67 | 36.54 | 1:13.21 | |
| 21 | Jakko Jan Leeuwangh | Netherlands |
36.69 | 36.54 | 1:13.23 | |
| 22 | Paweł Abratkiewicz |  Poland |
36.76 | 36.51 | 1:13.27 | |
| 23 | Marc Pelchat | United States |
36.94 | 36.41 | 1:13.35 | |
| 24 | Vadim Shakshakbayev |  Kazakhstan |
36.87 | 36.57 | 1:13.44 | |
| 25 | Dave Cruikshank | United States |
36.67 | 36.86 | 1:13.53 | |
| 26 | Tomasz Świst | Poland |
36.86 | 36.68 | 1:13.54 | |
| 27 | Li Yu |  China |
36.79 | 36.79 | 1:13.58 | |
| 28 | Liu Hongbo | China |
36.77 | 36.95 | 1:13.72 | |
| 29 | Roland Brunner |  Austria |
36.90 | 36.86 | 1:13.76 | |
| 30 | Davide Carta | Italy |
37.11 | 36.80 | 1:13.91 | |
| 31 | Dai Dengwen | China |
37.03 | 36.95 | 1:13.98 | |
| 32 | Vladimir Klepinin | Kazakhstan |
37.22 | 36.92 | 1:14.14 | |
| 33 | Aleksandr Kibalko | Russia |
37.32 | 36.86 | 1:14.18 | |
| 34 | Kim Jin-su | South Korea |
37.19 | 37.13 | 1:14.32 | |
| 35 | Oleh Kostromitin |  Ukraine |
37.27 | 37.19 | 1:14.46 | |
| 36 | Cory Carpenter | United States |
37.35 | 37.76 | 1:15.11 | |
| 37 | Zsolt Baló |  Hungary |
38.48 | 38.08 | 1:16.56 | |
| 38 | Ids Postma | Netherlands |
78.68 | 37.81 | 1:56.49 | |
| - | Erben Wennemars | Netherlands |
35.96 | DNF | - | |
| - | Grunde Njøs | Norway |
36.32 | DNF | - | |
| - | Peter Adeberg | Germany |
36.92 | DNF | - | |
| - | Sergey Savelyev | Russia |
DQ | - | - |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 February 2008. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ^ "Speed Skating at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games: Men's 500 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
- ^ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
- ^ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
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