The men's 500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held between 18–21 February 2014 at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, Russia.

The qualifying heats was held on 18 February with the quarterfinal, the semifinal, and final on 21 February.

The defending Olympic Champion was Charles Hamelin of Canada, while the defending World Champion was Liang Wenhao of China. None of them won a medal.

Viktor Ahn of Russia won the race, getting the third individual medal in short track speed skating at the same Olympics (two golds and one bronze) and thus replicating his own performance at the 2006 Winter Olympics. No other male short track skater ever won three individual medals at the same Olympics. Wu Dajing of China finished second, and Charle Cournoyer of Canada won the bronze medal.

Qualification Countries were assigned quotas using a combination of the four special Olympic Qualification classifications that were held at two world cups in November 2013. A nation may enter a maximum of three athletes per event. For this event a total of 32 athletes representing 16 nations qualified to compete.

Results The event was started at 20:30.

Preliminaries Heats Q – qualified for Quarterfinals ADV – advanced PEN – penalty

Rank Heat Name Country Time Notes 1 1 Park Se-yeong 41.566 Q 2 1 Satoshi Sakashita 41.629 Q 3 1 Vladislav Bykanov 41.769 4 1 Pierre Boda 42.702 1 2 Charle Cournoyer 41.180 Q 2 2 Freek van der Wart 41.190 Q 3 2 Sándor Liu Shaolin 41.683 4 2 Anthony Lobello 42.133 1 3 Liang Wenhao 41.647 Q 2 3 Lee Han-bin 41.982 Q 3 3 Yuri Confortola 42.042 4 3 Eduardo Alvarez 1:15.108 1 4 Han Tianyu 41.592 Q 2 4 Vladimir Grigorev 41.883 Q 3 4 Sébastien Lepape 42.167 4 4 Jack Whelbourne 42.513 1 5 Viktor Ahn 41.450 Q 2 5 Jon Eley 41.554 Q 3 5 Aidar Bekzhanov 41.800 4 5 Jordan Malone 42.533 1 6 Wu Dajing 41.712 Q 2 6 Viktor Knoch 42.261 Q 3 6 Niels Kerstholt 42.441 4 6 Nurbergen Zhumagaziyev 42.680 1 7 Olivier Jean 41.616 Q 2 7 J. R. Celski 41.717 Q 3 7 Mackenzie Blackburn 42.337 4 7 Thibaut Fauconnet 42.368 1 8 Sjinkie Knegt 41.235 Q 2 8 Semen Elistratov 41.355 Q 3 8 Robert Seifert 41.624 4 8 Charles Hamelin 1:18.871

Quarterfinal Q – qualified for Semifinals ADV – advanced PEN – penalty

Rank Quarterfinal Name Country Time Notes 1 1 Sjinkie Knegt 41.683 Q 2 1 Liang Wenhao 41.817 Q 3 1 Viktor Knoch 42.043 – 1 Semen Elistratov PEN 1 2 Han Tianyu 41.390 Q 2 2 J. R. Celski 53.178 Q 3 2 Satoshi Sakashita 59.249 ADV – 2 Park Se-yeong PEN 1 3 Wu Dajing 41.056 Q 2 3 Charle Cournoyer 41.060 Q 3 3 Freek van der Wart 1:01.371 – 3 Vladimir Grigorev PEN 1 4 Viktor Ahn 41.257 Q 2 4 Jon Eley 41.337 Q 3 4 Lee Han-bin 41.471 4 4 Olivier Jean 41.760

Semifinals QA – qualified for Final A QB – qualified for Final B ADV – advanced PEN – penalty YC – yellow card

Rank Semifinal Name Country Time Notes 1 1 Wu Dajing 40.846 QA 2 1 Charle Cournoyer 40.945 QA 3 1 Han Tianyu 41.151 QB 4 1 J. R. Celski 41.152 QB 5 1 Satoshi Sakashita 41.661 1 2 Viktor Ahn 41.063 QA 2 2 Liang Wenhao 41.221 QA 3 2 Sjinkie Knegt 41.290 QB 4 2 Jon Eley 41.441 QB

Finals Final B (Classification Round) Rank Name Country Time Notes 5 Han Tianyu 41.534 6 J. R. Celski 41.786 7 Jon Eley 41.870 8 Sjinkie Knegt 42.608

Final A (Medal Round)

Rank Name Country Time Notes Viktor Ahn 41.312 Wu Dajing 41.516 Charle Cournoyer 41.617 4 Liang Wenhao 1:13.590

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