Speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

Men's 500 metres; at the XVII Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Hamar Olympic Hall
Dates	14 February
Competitors	40 from 16 nations
Winning time	36.33
Medalists

The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics took place on 14 February, at the Hamar Olympic Hall.[1][2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:[3][4]

World record	Dan Jansen (USA)	35.76	Calgary, Canada	30 January 1994
Olympic record	Uwe-Jens Mey (GDR)	36.45	Calgary, Canada	14 February 1988

The following new Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	OR	WR
14 February	Pair 6	Sergey Klevchenya	Russia	36.39	OR
14 February	Pair 9	Aleksandr Golubev	Russia	36.33	OR

Rank	Pair	Name	Country	Time	Difference	Notes
	9	Aleksandr Golubev	Russia	36.33	-	OR
	6	Sergey Klevchenya	Russia	36.39	+0.06
	4	Manabu Horii	Japan	36.53	+0.20
4	1	Liu Hongbo	China	36.54	+0.21
5	8	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Japan	36.60	+0.27
6	5	Junichi Inoue	Japan	36.63	+0.30
7	9	Grunde Njøs	Norway	36.66	+0.33
8	2	Dan Jansen	United States	36.68	+0.35
9	6	Yasunori Miyabe	Japan	36.72	+0.39
10	5	Igor Zhelezovski	Belarus	36.73	+0.40
11	1	Sylvain Bouchard	Canada	37.01	+0.68
12	4	Pat Kelly	Canada	37.07	+0.74
12	11	Vadim Shakshakbayev	Kazakhstan	37.07	+0.74
14	3	Kim Yoon-man	South Korea	37.10	+0.77
15	8	Mikhail Vostroknutov	Russia	37.15	+0.82
16	7	Andrey Bakhvalov	Russia	37.24	+0.91
17	2	Sean Ireland	Canada	37.30	+0.97
18	15	Peter Adeberg	Germany	37.35	+1.02
19	10	Dave Cruikshank	United States	37.37	+1.04
20	20	Nate Mills	United States	37.41	+1.08
21	8	Gerard van Velde	Netherlands	37.45	+1.12
22	12	Roland Brunner	Austria	37.47	+1.14
23	20	Oleh Kostromitin	Ukraine	37.50	+1.17
24	11	Arie Loef	Netherlands	37.52	+1.19
25	15	Hans Markström	Sweden	37.53	+1.20
26	13	Mike Ireland	Canada	37.67	+1.34
27	18	Dave Besteman	United States	37.68	+1.35
28	10	Lars Funke	Germany	37.80	+1.47
29	19	Alessandro De Taddei	Italy	37.87	+1.54
30	13	Jaegal Sung-yeol	South Korea	37.90	+1.57
31	19	Nico van der Vlies	Netherlands	37.94	+1.61
32	17	Davide Carta	Italy	37.98	+1.65
33	16	Vladimir Klepinin	Kazakhstan	38.09	+1.76
34	16	Magnus Enfeldt	Sweden	38.10	+1.77
34	18	Lee Jae-sik	South Korea	38.10	+1.77
36	12	Lee Kyou-hyuk	South Korea	38.13	+1.80
37	14	Arjan Schreuder	Netherlands	38.33	+2.00
38	15	Zsolt Baló	Romania	38.56	+2.23
39	17	Michael Spielmann	Germany	38.58	+2.25
-	3	Roger Strøm	Norway	DNF

"Lillehammer 1994 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1994. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
"Speed Skating at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Games: Men's 500 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 November 2019.
"500m Men World Record Progression". International Skating Union. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
"500m Men Olympic Record Progressin". International Skating Union. Retrieved 31 October 2016.

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