The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics took place on 10 February, at the Zetra Ice Rink.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
Results
Rank Pair Lane Athlete Country Time 1 o Sergey Fokichev 38.19 5 i Yoshihiro Kitazawa 38.30 7 i Gaétan Boucher 38.39 4 6 i Dan Jansen 38.55 5 1 i Nick Thometz 38.56 6 4 o Vladimir Kozlov 38.57 7 6 o Frode Rønning 38.58 8 2 o Uwe-Jens Mey 38.65 9 16 o Aleksandr Danilin 38.66 10 4 i Akira Kuroiwa 38.70 11 7 o André Hoffmann 38.87 12 9 o Yasushi Suzuki 38.92 13 10 i Hein Vergeer 38.94 14 3 i Jan Ykema 39.03 15 9 i Jacques Thibault 39.12 16 2 i Geert Kuiper 39.13 17 5 o Jouko Vesterlund 39.15 18 10 o Kai Arne Engelstad 39.28 19 14 o Hans-Peter Oberhuber 39.3920 22 o Andreas Dietel 39.45 3 o Erik Henriksen 39.4522 8 i Mike Richmond 39.47 23 17 i Rolf Falk-Larssen 39.57 24 14 i Hans van Helden 39.71 25 19 i Dezideriu Jenei 39.72 26 11 i Uwe Streb 39.78 27 20 i Urpo Pikkupeura 39.88 28 11 i Lee Yeong-Ha 39.9029 17 i Chen Jianqiang 40.30 13 i Daniel Turcotte 40.30 31 15 o Na Yun-Su 40.35 32 20 o Michael Hadschieff 40.52 33 18 i Giorgio Paganin 40.54 34 8 o Jan-Åke Carlberg 40.64 35 13 o Wang Nianchun 40.75 36 16 i Tomas Gustafson 41.18 37 19 o Kim Song-hui 41.23 38 15 i Gai Zhiwu 41.67 39 21 i Nenad Žvanut 42.55 40 21 o Erroll Fraser 43.47 41 18 o Behudin Merdović 46.34 42 12 i Hans Magnusson 63.08
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