The men's 500 metres speed skating competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at Richmond Olympic Oval on 15 February 2010.
Track maintenance issues Competition was stopped for approximately ninety minutes during the first run, due to concerns over the naturally deteriorating quality of the ice after so many skaters had raced on it and the seeming inability of resurfacing equipment to do anything about it. The two ice resurfacing machines prepared to maintain the surface of the ice track both malfunctioned. A reserve machine was employed, but it left the ice surface too rough and pitted to permit safe racing by the athletes. Finally, one of the original two machines was repaired sufficiently to fix the track. Said Arie Koops, director of Dutch speed skating of the delay and who felt that the third machine wasn't properly prepared, "When skaters are not prepared for a race you don't send them out. It should be the same with the resurfacing machine. If one machine was broken, they should have prepared the third. It was standing there in the garage. I have never seen anything like this."Harris, Beth (Associated Press), "Speedskating resumes after ice resurfacing delay", Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 15 February 2010. A Zamboni brand resurfacer is being brought in from Calgary for the remainder of the games. American skater Shani Davis withdrew from the event, citing fatigue.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
500 meters (1 race)
500 meters x 2 (2 races)
No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition. The track records of 34.80 s and 69.73 s set by Lee Kang-seok on 15 March 2009 were also not broken.
Results Rank Name Country Pair Lane Race 1 Rank Pair Lane Race 2 Rank Total Time behind Mo Tae-bum 13 i 34.923 2 19 o 34.906 2 69.82 Keiichiro Nagashima 19 i 35.108 6 17 o 34.876 1 69.98 +0.16 Joji Kato 17 o 34.937 3 20 i 35.076 5 70.01 +0.19 Lee Kang-seok 17 i 35.053 4 18 o 34.988 3 70.041 +0.22 Mika Poutala 18 i 34.863 1 20 o 35.181 11 70.044 +0.22 Jan Smeekens 13 o 35.160 12 15 i 35.051 4 70.21 +0.39 Yu Fengtong 15 i 35.116 7 16 o 35.120 7 70.23 +0.41 Jamie Gregg 16 o 35.142 9 17 i 35.126 8 70.26 +0.44 Jeremy Wotherspoon 12 o 35.094 5 19 i 35.188 12 70.282 +0.46 10 Zhang Zhongqi 16 i 35.175 14 14 o 35.113 6 70.288 +0.46 11 Ronald Mulder 20 i 35.155 11 15 o 35.146 10 70.30 +0.48 12 Tucker Fredricks 20 o 35.218 15 13 i 35.138 9 70.35 +0.53 13 Yūya Oikawa 18 o 35.174 13 14 i 35.254 14 70.42 +0.60 14 Dmitry Lobkov 9 o 35.133 8 18 i 35.335 15 70.46 +0.64 15 Lee Kyou-hyuk 19 o 35.145 10 16 i 35.344 16 70.48 +0.66 16 Mike Ireland 9 i 35.386 17 13 o 35.253 13 70.63 +0.81 17 Akio Ohta 15 o 35.315 16 12 i 35.347 17 70.66 +0.84 18 Nico Ihle 2 o 35.532 19 11 i 35.539 18 71.07 +1.25 19 Mun Jun 14 i 35.552 20 12 o 35.640 19 71.19 +1.37 20 Simon Kuipers 11 i 35.662 23 11 o 35.669 20 71.33 +1.51 21 Kyle Parrott 11 o 35.577 21 10 i 35.767 23 71.344 +1.52 22 Maciej Ustynowicz 10 o 35.596 22 9 i 35.753 22 71.349 +1.52 23 Samuel Schwarz 3 o 35.795 24 8 i 35.715 21 71.51 +1.69 24 Ermanno Ioriatti 10 i 35.957 29 8 o 35.842 24 71.79 +1.97 25 Wang Nan 5 o 35.915 26 7 i 35.928 25 71.84 +2.02 26 Nick Pearson 2 i 35.834 25 10 o 36.094 28 71.92 +2.10 27 Tuomas Nieminen 7 o 35.940 27 6 i 36.047 26 71.98 +2.15 28 Liu Fangyi 6 o 36.193 34 5 i 36.047 27 72.24 +2.42 29 Jan Bos 1 i 36.149 31 6 o 36.111 29 72.26 +2.44 30 Markus Puolakka 5 i 36.152 32 5 o 36.204 31 72.35 +2.53 31 Konrad Niedźwiedzki 6 i 36.183 33 4 o 36.179 30 72.36 +2.54 32 Aleksandr Lebedev 3 i 36.144 30 7 o 36.276 33 72.42 +2.60 33 Pekka Koskela 12 i 35.943 28 9 o 36.535 36 72.47 +2.65 34 Roman Krech 8 i 36.261 35 3 o 36.270 32 72.53 +2.71 35 Timofey Skopin 8 o 36.482 37 4 i 36.465 35 72.94 +3.12 36 Yevgeny Lalenkov 7 i 36.420 36 2 o 36.614 37 73.03 +3.21 37 Mitchell Whitmore 4 i 36.734 39 1 o 36.314 34 73.04 +3.22 38 Maciej Biega 4 o 36.642 38 3 i 37.934 38 74.57 +4.75 Shani Davis 14 o 35.45 18
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