Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

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]

Men's 500 metres at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	M-Wave
Dates	9–10 February
Competitors	42 from 16 nations
Winning time	1:11.35
Medalists
Hiroyasu Shimizu  Japan Jeremy Wotherspoon  Canada Kevin Overland  Canada

Records

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

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Rank	Name	Country	Race 1	Race 2	Total	Notes
	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Japan	35.76	35.59	1:11.35	OR
	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Canada	36.04	35.80	1:11.84
	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

1. "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.
2. "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.
3. "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
4. "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.