The men's 500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held 24–26 February 2010 at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The qualifying heats were held on 24 February with the quarterfinal, the semifinal and the final were held on 26 February.
Results
There were thirty-two competitors representing sixteen nations.
Heats Rank Heat Name Country Time Notes 1 1 Sung Si-bak 41.889 Q 2 1 Niels Kerstholt 42.180 Q 3 1 Nicolas Bean 42.344 4 1 Takahiro Fujimoto 42.366 1 2 Lee Ho-suk 41.632 Q 2 2 Simon Cho 41.726 Q 3 2 Semion Elistratov 42.982 4 2 Sjinkie Knegt 44.448 1 3 Kwak Yoon-gy 42.147 Q 2 3 Pieter Gysel 42.443 Q 3 3 Peter Darazs 42.800 4 3 Jordan Malone 1:03.884 1 4 Charles Hamelin 41.463 Q 2 4 Jon Eley 42.081 Q 3 4 Nicola Rodigari 42.190 4 4 Ruslan Zakharov 43.207 1 5 Thibaut Fauconnet 41.730 Q 2 5 Tyson Heung 41.835 Q 3 5 Blake Skjellerup 42.510 – 5 Liang Wenhao DSQ 1 6 François-Louis Tremblay 41.397 Q, OR 2 6 Haralds Silovs 41.673 Q 3 6 Ma Yunfeng 41.954 4 6 Yuri Confortola 1:17.401 1 7 Apolo Ohno 41.665 Q 2 7 Olivier Jean 41.737 Q 3 7 Paul Worth 42.936 – 7 Aidar Bekzhanov DSQ 1 8 Han Jialiang 41.869 Q 2 8 Jumpei Yoshizawa 42.158 Q 3 8 Robert Seifert 42.181 4 8 Viktor Knoch 42.197
Quarterfinal Rank Heat Name Country Time Notes 1 1 Charles Hamelin 40.770 Q, OR 2 1 Sung Si-bak 40.821 Q 3 1 Simon Cho 41.211 4 1 Niels Kerstholt 42.128 1 2 Jon Eley 41.875 Q 2 2 Apolo Ohno 42.004 Q 3 2 Tyson Heung 48.554 ADV 4 2 Thibaut Fauconnet 51.339 1 3 Lee Ho-suk 41.269 Q 2 3 Olivier Jean 41.275 Q 3 3 Han Jialiang 41.443 4 3 Jumpei Yoshizawa 41.906 1 4 François-Louis Tremblay 41.326 Q 2 4 Kwak Yoon-gy 41.761 Q 3 4 Haralds Silovs 41.837 4 4 Pieter Gysel 41.980
Semifinal Rank Heat Name Country Time Notes 1 1 Charles Hamelin 40.964 QA 2 1 Sung Si-bak 41.126 QA 3 1 Tyson Heung 41.455 QB 4 1 Jon Eley 41.504 QB – 1 Olivier Jean DSQ 1 2 Apolo Ohno 41.460 QA 2 2 François-Louis Tremblay 41.515 QA 3 2 Kwak Yoon-gy 41.620 QB 4 2 Lee Ho-suk 1:24.514 QB
Finals Final B (Classification Round) Rank Name Country Time Notes 4 Kwak Yoon-gy 42.123 5 Tyson Heung 42.307 6 Jon Eley 42.681 7 Lee Ho-suk 49.149
Final A (Medal Round) Rank Name Country Time Notes Charles Hamelin 40.981 Sung Si-bak 41.340 François-Louis Tremblay 46.366 – Apolo Ohno DSQ
References
External links 2010 Winter Olympics results: Men's 500 m (heats), from http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-25. 2010 Winter Olympics results: Men's 500 m (1/4 finals), from http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-25. 2010 Winter Olympics results: Men's 500 m (semifinals), from http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-25. 2010 Winter Olympics results: Men's 500 m (finals), from http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-25.