The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics took place on 14 February, at the L'Anneau de Vitesse.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
Results
Rank Athlete Country Time Erhard Keller 40.3 Terry McDermott 40.5 Magne Thomassen 40.5 4 Yevgeny Grishin 40.65 Neil Blatchford 40.7 Arne Herjuaune 40.7 John Wurster 40.78 Seppo Hänninen 40.8 Håkan Holmgren 40.8 Keiichi Suzuki 40.811 Herbert Höfl 41.0 Anatoly Lepyoshkin 41.013 Roar Grønvold 41.1 Ard Schenk 41.115 Hasse Börjes 41.2 Heike Hedlund 41.2 Masaki Suzuki 41.2 18 Valery Muratov 41.419 John Tipper 41.5 Gerd Zimmermann 41.521 Tom Gray 41.6 Valery Kaplan 41.6 23 Kimmo Koskinen 41.7 24 Manne Lavås 41.8 25 Bob Boucher 42.026 Otmar Braunecker 42.1 Elio Locatelli 42.1 Geoff Stockdale 42.1 29 Johan Lind 42.3 30 Peter Nottet 42.431 Mihály Martos 42.5 Günter Traub 42.533 Tamio Dejima 42.6 Jouko Launonen 42.6 Kees Verkerk 42.6 Pete Williamson 42.6 37 Takayuki Hida 42.938 Luvsanlkhagvyn Dashnyam 43.0 György Martos 43.0 40 Olavi Hjellman 43.141 Colin Coates 43.3 Bob Hodges 43.3 43 Ruedi Uster 43.6 44 Hansruedi Widmer 43.7 45 Michel Thépénier 43.8 46 François Perrenoud 44.1 - David Bodington DNF - Jan Bols DNF
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