Speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

The men's 500 metres speed skating competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at Richmond Olympic Oval on 15 February 2010.[1]

Men's 500 metres
at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Keiichiro Nagashima, Mo Tae-bum, Joji Kato
VenueRichmond Olympic Oval
Date15 February 2010
Competitors39 from 12 nations
Winning time69.82
Medalists
Mo Tae-bum  South Korea
Keiichiro Nagashima  Japan
Joji Kato  Japan

Track maintenance issues

Competition was stopped for approximately ninety minutes during the first run, due to concerns over the naturally deteriorating quality of the ice after so many skaters had raced on it and the seeming inability of resurfacing equipment to do anything about it. The two ice resurfacing machines prepared to maintain the surface of the ice track both malfunctioned. A reserve machine was employed, but it left the ice surface too rough and pitted to permit safe racing by the athletes. Finally, one of the original two machines was repaired sufficiently to fix the track. Said Arie Koops, director of Dutch speed skating of the delay and who felt that the third machine wasn't properly prepared, "When skaters are not prepared for a race you don't send them out. It should be the same with the resurfacing machine. If one machine was broken, they should have prepared the third. It was standing there in the garage. I have never seen anything like this."[2] A Zamboni brand resurfacer is being brought in from Calgary for the remainder of the games.[3] American skater Shani Davis withdrew from the event, citing fatigue.[4]

Records

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

500 meters (1 race)

World record Jeremy Wotherspoon (CAN)34.03Salt Lake City, United States9 November 2007[5]
Olympic record Casey FitzRandolph (USA)34.42Salt Lake City, United States11 February 2002

500 meters x 2 (2 races)

World record Jeremy Wotherspoon (CAN)68.310Calgary, Canada15 March 2008[6]
Olympic record Casey FitzRandolph (USA)69.230Salt Lake City, United States11 February 2002

No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition. The track records of 34.80 s and 69.73 s set by Lee Kang-seok on 15 March 2009 were also not broken.

Results

RankNameCountryPairLaneRace 1RankPairLaneRace 2RankTotalTime behind
Mo Tae-bum South Korea13i34.923219o34.906269.820.00
Keiichiro Nagashima Japan19i35.108617o34.876169.98+0.16
Joji Kato Japan17o34.937320i35.076570.01+0.19
4Lee Kang-seok South Korea17i35.053418o34.988370.041+0.22
5Mika Poutala Finland18i34.863120o35.1811170.044+0.22
6Jan Smeekens Netherlands13o35.1601215i35.051470.21+0.39
7Yu Fengtong China15i35.116716o35.120770.23+0.41
8Jamie Gregg Canada16o35.142917i35.126870.26+0.44
9Jeremy Wotherspoon Canada12o35.094519i35.1881270.282+0.46
10Zhang Zhongqi China16i35.1751414o35.113670.288+0.46
11Ronald Mulder Netherlands20i35.1551115o35.1461070.30+0.48
12Tucker Fredricks United States20o35.2181513i35.138970.35+0.53
13Yūya Oikawa Japan18o35.1741314i35.2541470.42+0.60
14Dmitry Lobkov Russia9o35.133818i35.3351570.46+0.64
15Lee Kyou-hyuk South Korea19o35.1451016i35.3441670.48+0.66
16Mike Ireland Canada9i35.3861713o35.2531370.63+0.81
17Akio Ohta Japan15o35.3151612i35.3471770.66+0.84
18Nico Ihle Germany2o35.5321911i35.5391871.07+1.25
19Mun Jun South Korea14i35.5522012o35.6401971.19+1.37
20Simon Kuipers Netherlands11i35.6622311o35.6692071.33+1.51
21Kyle Parrott Canada11o35.5772110i35.7672371.344+1.52
22Maciej Ustynowicz Poland10o35.596229i35.7532271.349+1.52
23Samuel Schwarz Germany3o35.795248i35.7152171.51+1.69
24Ermanno Ioriatti Italy10i35.957298o35.8422471.79+1.97
25Wang Nan China5o35.915267i35.9282571.84+2.02
26Nick Pearson United States2i35.8342510o36.0942871.92+2.10
27Tuomas Nieminen Finland7o35.940276i36.0472671.98+2.15
28Liu Fangyi China6o36.193345i36.0472772.24+2.42
29Jan Bos Netherlands1i36.149316o36.1112972.26+2.44
30Markus Puolakka Finland5i36.152325o36.2043172.35+2.53
31Konrad Niedźwiedzki Poland6i36.183334o36.1793072.36+2.54
32Aleksandr Lebedev Russia3i36.144307o36.2763372.42+2.60
33Pekka Koskela Finland12i35.943289o36.5353672.47+2.65
34Roman Krech Kazakhstan8i36.261353o36.2703272.53+2.71
35Timofey Skopin Russia8o36.482374i36.4653572.94+3.12
36Yevgeny Lalenkov Russia7i36.420362o36.6143773.03+3.21
37Mitchell Whitmore United States4i36.734391o36.3143473.04+3.22
38Maciej Biega Poland4o36.642383i37.9343874.57+4.75
Shani Davis United States14o35.4518WD

References

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