The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics took place on 15 February, at the James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new Olympic record was set.
Date Pair Athlete Country Time OR WR 15 February Pair 1 Eric Heiden 38.03 OR
Results
Rank Pair Lane Athlete Country Time Difference Notes 1 o Eric Heiden 38.03 1 i Yevgeny Kulikov 38.37 5 o Lieuwe de Boer 38.48 4 2 o Frode Rønning 38.66 5 6 i Dan Immerfall 38.69 6 5 i Jarle Pedersen 38.83 7 2 i Anatoly Medennikov 38.88 8 3 o Gaétan Boucher 38.90 9 19 i Jan Józwik 39.01 10 7 i Jan-Åke Carlberg 39.03 11 8 o Steffen Doering 39.06 12 3 i Oloph Granath 39.15 13 16 i Andreas Dietel 39.21 14 6 o Kaoru Fukuda 39.24 15 17 o Sergey Khlebnikov 39.25 16 9 o Kai Arne Engelstad 39.30 4 i Bert de Jong 39.30 18 9 o Jukka Salmela 39.32 19 14 o Lee Yeong-Ha 39.33 20 10 o Kazuaki Ichimura 39.44 21 10 i Emmanuel Michon 39.47 22 15 i Pertti Niittylä 39.54 23 14 i Wang Nianchun 39.73 24 4 o Jim Chapin 39.74 25 13 o Esa Puolakka 39.76 26 5 i Jacques Thibault 40.11 27 15 o Vasile Coroş 40.30 28 7 o Hilbert van der Duim 40.42 11 i Giovanni Paganin 40.42 30 13 i Dezideriu Jenei 40.84 31 11 o Zhao Weichang 41.18 32 12 o Mike Richmond 41.22 33 16 o Su He 41.26 34 17 i Dorjiin Tsenddoo 41.68 35 18 o Tömörbaataryn Nyamdavaa 42.41 36 8 i Johan Granath 1:21.44 Fall - 12 i Archie Marshall DQ
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