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

Men's 500 metres
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Speed skating
VenueNational Speed Skating Oval ,
Beijing
Date12 February
Competitors30 from 15 nations
Winning time34.32 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Gao Tingyu  China
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Cha Min-kyu  South Korea
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Wataru Morishige  Japan
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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.[1] 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.[2]

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 article: 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.[3]

The qualification time for the event (35.70) was released on July 1, 2021, and was unchanged from 2018.[4] Skaters had the time period of July 1, 2021 – January 16, 2022 to achieve qualification times at valid International Skating Union (ISU) events.[4]

Records

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

World record  Pavel Kulizhnikov (RUS) 33.61 Salt Lake City, United States 9 March 2019
Olympic record  Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen (NOR) 34.41 Gangneung, South Korea 19 February 2018
Track record  Kim Jun-ho (KOR) 35.17 8 October 2021

A new Olympic record was set during the competition.

See also: World and Olympic records set at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Date Round Athlete Country Time Record
12 February Pair 7 Gao Tingyu  China 34.32 OR, TR

Results

The race was started at 16:53.[5]

Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Time behind Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) 7 I Gao Tingyu  China 34.32 — OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) 10 O Cha Min-kyu  South Korea 34.39 +0.07
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) 14 O Wataru Morishige  Japan 34.50 +0.17
4 15 I Laurent Dubreuil  Canada 34.522 +0.20
5 12 O Piotr Michalski  Poland 34.524 +0.20
6 11 I Kim Jun-ho  South Korea 34.54 +0.22
7 13 O Artem Arefyev  ROC 34.56 +0.24
8 13 I Yuma Murakami  Japan 34.57 +0.25
9 14 I Viktor Mushtakov  ROC 34.60 +0.28
10 9 I Ruslan Murashov  ROC 34.63 +0.31
11 7 O Damian Żurek  Poland 34.734 +0.41
12 8 O Merijn Scheperkamp  Netherlands 34.736 +0.41
13 5 O Jordan Stolz  United States 34.85 +0.53
14 9 O Kai Verbij  Netherlands 34.87 +0.55
15 11 O Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen  Norway 34.921 +0.60
16 10 I Marek Kania  Poland 34.928 +0.60
17 5 I Bjørn Magnussen  Norway 34.96 +0.64
18 3 I Thomas Krol  Netherlands 35.06 +0.74
19 3 O Jeffrey Rosanelli  Italy 35.08 +0.76
20 15 O Tatsuya Shinhama  Japan 35.12 +0.80
21 4 I Gilmore Junio  Canada 35.162 +0.84
21 8 I Yang Tao  China 35.162 +0.84
23 4 O David Bosa  Italy 35.168 +0.84
24 6 I Marten Liiv  Estonia 35.26 +0.94
25 2 O Cornelius Kersten  Great Britain 35.36 +1.04
26 6 O Joel Dufter  Germany 35.37 +1.05
27 1 O Austin Kleba  United States 35.41 +1.08
28 2 I Ivan Arzhanikov  Kazakhstan 35.82 +1.50
29 1 I Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu  Canada 35.84 +1.52
30 12 I Ignat Golovatsiuk  Belarus 37.05 +2.73

References

  1. ^ "Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 9" (PDF). New.inews.gtimg.com. Retrieved 31 January 2022.
  2. ^ "Season Bests2021-2022". Speedskatingresults.com.
  3. ^ "Qualification Systems for XXIV Olympic Winter Games, Beijing 2022 Speed Skating" (PDF). International Skating Union. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  4. ^ a b "Communication No. 2405 Qualifying competitions and qualifying times for Speed Skating events at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games". www.isu.org/. International Skating Union. 1 July 2021. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
  5. ^ Final results