The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics took place on 5 February, at the Makomanai Open Stadium.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new Olympic and World records was set during the competition.
Date Pair Athlete Country Time OR WR 5 February Pair 1 Hasse Börjes 39.69 OR 5 February Pair 3 Erhard Keller 39.44 OR
Results
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Erhard Keller 39.44 Hasse Börjes 39.69 Valery Muratov 39.80 4 Per Bjørang 39.91 5 Seppo Hänninen 40.12 6 Leo Linkovesi 40.14 7 Ove König 40.25 8 Masaki Suzuki 40.35 9 Mats Wallberg 40.41 10 Hans Lichtenstern 40.55 11 Pete Eberling 40.58 12 Lasse Efskind 40.60 13 Takayuki Hida 40.62 14 Vladimir Komarov 40.65 15 Neil Blatchford 40.67 16 Johan Granath 40.79 17 Norio Hirate 41.08 18 Johan Lind 41.14 19 Keiichi Suzuki 41.28 20 Greg Lyman 41.30 21 Gerd Zimmermann 41.35 22 Jeong Chung-gu 41.42 23 Otmar Braunecker 42.14 24 David Hampton 42.5925 Bruno Toniolli 42.67 Eddy Verheijen 42.67 27 Jouko Salakka 42.81 28 Luvsanlkhagvyn Dashnyam 42.86 29 Gerry Cassan 42.87 30 John Cassidy 43.01 31 Herbert Schwarz 43.03 32 Jappie van Dijk 43.04 33 Richard Tourne 43.06 34 Ard Schenk 43.40 35 Jim Lynch 43.51 36 Colin Coates 44.74 - Ole Christian Iversen DNF - John Wurster DNF
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