Speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres
The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics took place on 14 February, at the Hamar Olympic Hall.Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new Olympic records were set during this competition.
Date | Pair | Athlete | Country | Time | OR | WR |
14 February | Pair 6 | Sergey Klevchenya | | 36.39 | OR | |
14 February | Pair 9 | Aleksandr Golubev | | 36.33 | OR | |
Results
Rank | Pair | Name | Country | Time | Difference | Notes |
| 9 | Aleksandr Golubev | | 36.33 | - | |
| 6 | Sergey Klevchenya | | 36.39 | +0.06 | |
| 4 | Manabu Horii | | 36.53 | +0.20 | |
4 | 1 | Liu Hongbo | | 36.54 | +0.21 | |
5 | 8 | Hiroyasu Shimizu | | 36.60 | +0.27 | |
6 | 5 | Junichi Inoue | | 36.63 | +0.30 | |
7 | 9 | Grunde Njøs | | 36.66 | +0.33 | |
8 | 2 | Dan Jansen | | 36.68 | +0.35 | |
9 | 6 | Yasunori Miyabe | | 36.72 | +0.39 | |
10 | 5 | Igor Zhelezovski | | 36.73 | +0.40 | |
11 | 1 | Sylvain Bouchard | | 37.01 | +0.68 | |
12 | 4 | Pat Kelly | | 37.07 | +0.74 | |
12 | 11 | Vadim Shakshakbayev | | 37.07 | +0.74 | |
14 | 3 | Kim Yoon-man | | 37.10 | +0.77 | |
15 | 8 | Mikhail Vostroknutov | | 37.15 | +0.82 | |
16 | 7 | Andrey Bakhvalov | | 37.24 | +0.91 | |
17 | 2 | Sean Ireland | | 37.30 | +0.97 | |
18 | 15 | Peter Adeberg | | 37.35 | +1.02 | |
19 | 10 | Dave Cruikshank | | 37.37 | +1.04 | |
20 | 20 | Nate Mills | | 37.41 | +1.08 | |
21 | 8 | Gerard van Velde | | 37.45 | +1.12 | |
22 | 12 | Roland Brunner | | 37.47 | +1.14 | |
23 | 20 | Oleh Kostromitin | | 37.50 | +1.17 | |
24 | 11 | Arie Loef | | 37.52 | +1.19 | |
25 | 15 | Hans Markström | | 37.53 | +1.20 | |
26 | 13 | Mike Ireland | | 37.67 | +1.34 | |
27 | 18 | Dave Besteman | | 37.68 | +1.35 | |
28 | 10 | Lars Funke | | 37.80 | +1.47 | |
29 | 19 | Alessandro De Taddei | | 37.87 | +1.54 | |
30 | 13 | Jaegal Sung-yeol | | 37.90 | +1.57 | |
31 | 19 | Nico van der Vlies | | 37.94 | +1.61 | |
32 | 17 | Davide Carta | | 37.98 | +1.65 | |
33 | 16 | Vladimir Klepinin | | 38.09 | +1.76 | |
34 | 16 | Magnus Enfeldt | | 38.10 | +1.77 | |
34 | 18 | Lee Jae-sik | | 38.10 | +1.77 | |
36 | 12 | Lee Kyou-hyuk | | 38.13 | +1.80 | |
37 | 14 | Arjan Schreuder | | 38.33 | +2.00 | |
38 | 15 | Zsolt Baló | | 38.56 | +2.23 | |
39 | 17 | Michael Spielmann | | 38.58 | +2.25 | |
- | 3 | Roger Strøm | | DNF | | |