The men's 500 m competition in

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at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 12 February, at the National Speed Skating Oval ("Ice Ribbon") in

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. The event was won by three Asians,

Gao Tingyu Gao Tingyu (born 15 December 1997) is a Chinese speed skater who is the Olympic record holder and champion in the Men's 500m event. He had served as one of the flag bearers for Team China at both the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympic's opening cerem ...

of China (gold medal), the 2018 bronze medalist, who set a new Olympic record,

Cha Min-kyu Cha Min-kyu (Korean: 차민규, born 16 March 1993) is a South Korean speed skater who competes internationally. Cha participated at the 2018 Winter Olympics and won a silver medal in the 500 metres race. He set the Olympic record for the even ...

of South Korea (silver medal), replicating his 2018 success, and Wataru Morishige of Japan (bronze medal), his first Olympic medal. The defending champion and the Olympic record holder was

Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen (/2hoːʋɑr 2hɔlməˌfjuːr 1luːrəntsn̩/; born 2 October 1992) is a Norwegian speed skater specialising in the 500, 1000 and 1500 m distances. Career Lorentzen has a 9th place from the World Cup races in Heerenv ...

Laurent Dubreuil Laurent Dubreuil (born July 25, 1992) is a Canadian speed skater. He competes primarily in the short distances of 500 m and 1000 m. Dubreuil won his first World Cup medal during the 2014–15 season when he placed third in the World Cu ...

was the 2021 World Single Distances champion at the 500 m distance. The silver medalist and the world record holder was

Pavel Kulizhnikov Pavel Aleksandrovich Kulizhnikov (russian: Павел Александрович Кулижников; born 20 April 1994) is a Russian speed skater. He won the men's 500 metres event at the 2015 World Single Distance Championships as well as t ...

, who did not qualify for the event. Dubreuil was leading the

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at the 500 m distance with eight events completed before the Olympics, followed by Morishige and Tatsuya Shinhama. Dubreuil skated the season best time, 33.77 in Calgary on 10 December 2021. Jordan Stolz in pair 5 became the only skater with the time below 35 seconds. His time was improved in pair 7 by Gao, who set a new Olympic record at 34:32. In pair 10, Cha Min-kyu skated just 0.07 behind the time of Gao. In pair 14, Morishige skated provisionally third time, with one pair to go. In the last pair, Dubreuil was 0.02 seconds slower than Morishigem thus leaving the medal allocation unchanged.

Qualification

A total of 30 entry quotas were available for the event, with a maximum of three athletes per NOC. The first 20 athletes qualified through their performance at the

, while the last ten earned quotas by having the best times among athletes not already qualified. A country could only earn the maximum three spots through the World Cup rankings. The qualification time for the event (35.70) was released on July 1, 2021, and was unchanged from 2018. Skaters had the time period of July 1, 2021 – January 16, 2022 to achieve qualification times at valid

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(ISU) events.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world, Olympic and track records were as follows. A new Olympic record was set during the competition.

Results

The race was started at 16:53.Final results
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References

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