The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics took place on 9 and 10 February, at the M-Wave.

Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

The following new Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date Athlete Country Time OR WR 9 February Ermanno Ioriatti 36.30 OR 9 February Casey FitzRandolph 35.81 OR 9 February Kevin Overland 35.78 OR 9 February Hiroyasu Shimizu 35.76 OR 10 February Hiroyasu Shimizu 35.59 OR

Results

Rank Name Country Race 1 Race 2 Total Notes Hiroyasu Shimizu 35.76 35.59 1:11.35 Jeremy Wotherspoon 36.04 35.80 1:11.84 Kevin Overland 35.78 36.08 1:11.86 4 Sylvain Bouchard 35.90 36.10 1:12.00 5 Pat Bouchard 35.96 36.09 1:12.05 6 Casey FitzRandolph 35.81 36.39 1:12.20 7 Kim Yun-Man 36.13 36.23 1:12.36 8 Lee Kyu-Hyuk 36.14 36.41 1:12.55 9 Ermanno Ioriatti 36.30 36.36 1:12.66 10 Roger Strøm 36.53 36.15 1:12.68 11 Michael Künzel 36.56 36.19 1:12.75 12 Jan Bos 36.66 36.11 1:12.77 13 Manabu Horii 36.37 36.41 1:12.78 14 Sergey Klevchenya 36.56 36.30 1:12.86 15 Hiroaki Yamakage 36.61 36.30 1:12.91 16 Toshiyuki Kuroiwa 36.37 36.60 1:12.97 16 Jegal Seong-Ryeol 36.58 36.39 1:12.97 18 Janne Hänninen 36.58 36.46 1:13.04 19 Christian Breuer 36.78 36.41 1:13.19 20 Aleksandr Golubev 36.67 36.54 1:13.21 21 Jakko Jan Leeuwangh 36.69 36.54 1:13.23 22 Paweł Abratkiewicz 36.76 36.51 1:13.27 23 Marc Pelchat 36.94 36.41 1:13.35 24 Vadim Shakshakbayev 36.87 36.57 1:13.44 25 Dave Cruikshank 36.67 36.86 1:13.53 26 Tomasz Świst 36.86 36.68 1:13.54 27 Li Yu 36.79 36.79 1:13.58 28 Liu Hongbo 36.77 36.95 1:13.72 29 Roland Brunner 36.90 36.86 1:13.76 30 Davide Carta 37.11 36.80 1:13.91 31 Dai Dengwen 37.03 36.95 1:13.98 32 Vladimir Klepinin 37.22 36.92 1:14.14 33 Aleksandr Kibalko 37.32 36.86 1:14.18 34 Kim Jin-su 37.19 37.13 1:14.32 35 Oleh Kostromitin 37.27 37.19 1:14.46 36 Cory Carpenter 37.35 37.76 1:15.11 37 Zsolt Baló 38.48 38.08 1:16.56 38 Ids Postma 78.68 37.81 1:56.49 - Erben Wennemars 35.96 DNF - - Grunde Njøs 36.32 DNF - - Peter Adeberg 36.92 DNF - - Sergey Savelyev DQ - -

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