The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics took place on 14 February, at the Olympic Oval.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new world and olympic records was set.
Date Pair Athlete Country Time OR WR 14 February Pair 1 Jan Ykema 36.76 OR 14 February Pair 4 Uwe-Jens Mey 36.45 OR WR
Results
Rank Pair Athlete Country Time Difference Notes 4 Uwe-Jens Mey 36.45 1 Jan Ykema 36.76 4 Akira Kuroiwa 36.77 4 3 Sergey Fokichev 36.82 5 18 Bae Ki-tae 36.90 6 5 Igor Zhelezovski 36.94 7 1 Guy Thibault 36.96 8 3 Nick Thometz 37.16 9 5 Yasumitsu Kanehama 37.25 10 11 Frode Rønning 37.31 11 2 Yasushi Kuroiwa 37.34 12 17 Vitaliy Makovetskiy 37.35 13 10 Kimihiro Hamaya 37.38 14 14 Gaétan Boucher 37.47 15 6 Erik Henriksen 37.50 16 7 Menno Boelsma 37.52 17 17 Daniel Turcotte 37.60 18 11 Bjørn Hagen 37.69 18 10 Göran Johansson 37.69 20 7 Hans-Peter Oberhuber 37.73 21 8 André Hoffmann 37.75 22 6 Marty Pierce 37.76 23 9 Mike Richmond 37.77 24 8 Hein Vergeer 37.80 25 13 Jerzy Dominik 37.83 26 13 Michael Hadschieff 37.90 27 9 Uwe Streb 38.03 28 15 Peter Adeberg 38.11 29 19 Robert Tremblay 38.34 30 12 Hans Magnusson 38.60 31 12 Claude Nicouleau 38.63 32 15 Claes Bengtsson 38.66 33 16 Hans van Helden 39.05 34 14 Christian Eminger 39.70 35 16 Behudin Merdović 56.21 36 18 Nikolay Gulyayev 62.86 - 2 Dan Jansen DNF
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