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 1998
Competitors	42 from 16 nations
Winning time	1:11.35 OR
Medalists
Hiroyasu Shimizu  Japan Jeremy Wotherspoon  Canada Kevin Overland  Canada
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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	-	-