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

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Men's 500 metres
at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
VenueM-Wave
Dates9–10 February
Competitors42 from 16 nations
Winning time1:11.35 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hiroyasu Shimizu
 Japan
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jeremy Wotherspoon
 Canada
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Kevin Overland
 Canada
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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]

Records

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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
1st place, gold medalist(s) Hiroyasu Shimizu  Japan 35.76 35.59 1:11.35 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Jeremy Wotherspoon  Canada 36.04 35.80 1:11.84
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 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

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  1. ^ a b "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.
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