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Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

{{short description|Speed skating event at the 2022 Winter Olympics}}

{{Infobox Olympic event

|event = Men's 500 metres

|games = 2022 Winter

|image = Speed skating pictogram.svg

|image_size = 100px

|caption = Speed skating

|venue = National Speed Skating Oval ,
Beijing

|date = 12 February 2022

|competitors = 30

|nations = 15

|win_value = 34.32 OR

|gold = Gao Tingyu

|goldNOC = CHN

|silver = Cha Min-kyu

|silverNOC = KOR

|bronze = Wataru Morishige

|bronzeNOC = JPN

|prev = 2018

|next = 2026

}}

{{Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics}}

The men's 500 m competition in speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 12 February, at the National Speed Skating Oval ("Ice Ribbon") in Beijing.{{cite web|url=https://new.inews.gtimg.com/tnews/f98bcfd4/9e07/f98bcfd4-9e07-4ca4-af18-80d0c86109c4.pdf|format=PDF|title=Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 9|website=New.inews.gtimg.com|access-date=31 January 2022}} The event was won by three Asians, Gao Tingyu of China (gold medal), the 2018 bronze medalist, who set a new Olympic record, Cha Min-kyu 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. Laurent Dubreuil was the 2021 World Single Distances champion at the 500 m distance. The silver medalist and the world record holder was Pavel Kulizhnikov, who did not qualify for the event. Dubreuil was leading the 2021–22 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 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.{{cite web |title=Season Bests2021-2022 |url=https://speedskatingresults.com/index.php?p=13 |website=Speedskatingresults.com}}

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

{{main| Speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – 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 2021–22 ISU Speed Skating World Cup, 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.{{cite web|url=https://nocnsf.nl/media/3514/beijing-2022-qualification-system-speed-skating.pdf|title=Qualification Systems for XXIV Olympic Winter Games, Beijing 2022 Speed Skating|publisher=International Skating Union|accessdate=10 February 2022}}

The qualification time for the event (35.70) was released on July 1, 2021, and was unchanged from 2018.{{cite web|url=https://www.isu.org/inside-isu/isu-communications/communications/25952-isu-communication-2405/file|title=Communication No. 2405 Qualifying competitions and qualifying times for Speed Skating events at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games|date=1 July 2021|website=www.isu.org/|publisher=International Skating Union|access-date=10 February 2022}} Skaters had the time period of July 1, 2021 – January 16, 2022 to achieve qualification times at valid International Skating Union (ISU) events.

Records

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

{{World Olympic Track Record

| world_athlete = {{flagathlete|Pavel Kulizhnikov|RUS}}

| world_mark = 33.61

| world_place = Salt Lake City, United States

| world_date = 9 March 2019

| world_ref =

| olympic_athlete = {{flagIOCathlete|Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen|NOR|2018 Winter}}

| olympic_mark = 34.41

| olympic_place = Gangneung, South Korea

| olympic_date = 19 February 2018

| olympic_ref =

| track_athlete = {{flagathlete|Kim Jun-ho|KOR}}

| track_mark = 35.17

| track_date = 8 October 2021

}}

A new Olympic record was set during the competition.

{{see also|World and Olympic records set at the 2022 Winter Olympics}}

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DateRoundAthleteCountryTimeRecord
12 FebruaryPair 7align=left|Gao Tingyualign=left|{{FlagIOC|CHN|2022 Winter}}34.32OR, TR

Results

The race was started at 16:53.[https://media.isuresults.eu/downloads/owg2022_ssk_c73a_sskm500m-fnl-000100-_20220212100959.pdf Final results]

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! Rank !! Pair !! Lane !! Name !! Country !! Time !! Time behind !! Notes

{{gold1}}7Ialign=left|Gao Tingyualign=left|{{FlagIOC|CHN|2022 Winter}}34.32{{sort|+0.00|—}}OR
{{silver2}}10Oalign=left|Cha Min-kyualign=left|{{FlagIOC|KOR|2022 Winter}}34.39+0.07
{{bronze3}}14Oalign=left|Wataru Morishigealign=left|{{FlagIOC|JPN|2022 Winter}}34.50+0.17
415Ialign=left|Laurent Dubreuilalign=left|{{FlagIOC|CAN|2022 Winter}}34.522+0.20
512Oalign=left|Piotr Michalskialign=left|{{FlagIOC|POL|2022 Winter}}34.524+0.20
611Ialign=left|Kim Jun-hoalign=left|{{FlagIOC|KOR|2022 Winter}}34.54+0.22
713Oalign=left|Artem Arefyevalign=left|{{FlagIOC|ROC|2022 Winter}}34.56+0.24
813Ialign=left|Yuma Murakamialign=left|{{FlagIOC|JPN|2022 Winter}}34.57+0.25
914Ialign=left|Viktor Mushtakovalign=left|{{FlagIOC|ROC|2022 Winter}}34.60+0.28
109Ialign=left|Ruslan Murashovalign=left|{{FlagIOC|ROC|2022 Winter}}34.63+0.31
117Oalign=left|Damian Żurekalign=left|{{FlagIOC|POL|2022 Winter}}34.734+0.41
128Oalign=left|Merijn Scheperkampalign=left|{{FlagIOC|NED|2022 Winter}}34.736+0.41
135Oalign=left|Jordan Stolzalign=left|{{FlagIOC|USA|2022 Winter}}34.85+0.53
149Oalign=left|Kai Verbijalign=left|{{FlagIOC|NED|2022 Winter}}34.87+0.55
1511Oalign=left|Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzenalign=left|{{FlagIOC|NOR|2022 Winter}}34.921+0.60
1610Ialign=left|Marek Kaniaalign=left|{{FlagIOC|POL|2022 Winter}}34.928+0.60
175Ialign=left|Bjørn Magnussenalign=left|{{FlagIOC|NOR|2022 Winter}}34.96+0.64
183Ialign=left|Thomas Krolalign=left|{{FlagIOC|NED|2022 Winter}}35.06+0.74
193Oalign=left|Jeffrey Rosanellialign=left|{{FlagIOC|ITA|2022 Winter}}35.08+0.76
2015Oalign=left|Tatsuya Shinhamaalign=left|{{FlagIOC|JPN|2022 Winter}}35.12+0.80
214Ialign=left|Gilmore Junioalign=left|{{FlagIOC|CAN|2022 Winter}}35.162+0.84
218Ialign=left|Yang Taoalign=left|{{FlagIOC|CHN|2022 Winter}}35.162+0.84
234Oalign=left|David Bosaalign=left|{{FlagIOC|ITA|2022 Winter}}35.168+0.84
246Ialign=left|Marten Liivalign=left|{{FlagIOC|EST|2022 Winter}}35.26+0.94
252Oalign=left|Cornelius Kerstenalign=left|{{FlagIOC|GBR|2022 Winter}}35.36+1.04
266Oalign=left|Joel Dufteralign=left|{{FlagIOC|GER|2022 Winter}}35.37+1.05
271Oalign=left|Austin Klebaalign=left|{{FlagIOC|USA|2022 Winter}}35.41+1.08
282Ialign=left|Ivan Arzhanikovalign=left|{{FlagIOC|KAZ|2022 Winter}}35.82+1.50
291Ialign=left|Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieualign=left|{{FlagIOC|CAN|2022 Winter}}35.84+1.52
3012Ialign=left|Ignat Golovatsiukalign=left|{{FlagIOC|BLR|2022 Winter}}37.05+2.73

References

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{{Footer Olympic Champions 500m Speed Skating Men}}

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