The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place on 4 February, at the Eisschnelllaufbahn Innsbruck.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new Olympic record was set.
Date Athlete Time OR WR 4 February 40.1 OR
Results
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Terry McDermott 40.1 OR Alv Gjestvang 40.6 Yevgeny Grishin 40.6 Vladimir Orlov 40.6 5 Keiichi Suzuki 40.7 6 Eddie Rudolph, Jr. 40.9 7 Heike Hedlund 41.0 8 Bill Disney 41.1 Villy Haugen 41.1 10 Hroar Elvenes 41.4 Raymond Fonvieille 41.4 Rafael Grach 41.4 Simo Rinne 41.4 14 Tom Gray 41.5 15 Boris Gulyayev 41.7 16 Helmut Kuhnert 41.8 Pekka Lattunen 41.8 Fumio Nagakubo 41.8 19 Juhani Järvinen 41.9 Kim Zin-hook 41.9 21 Magne Thomassen 42.0 22 Björn Lekman 42.1 23 Toivo Salonen 42.2 24 Herbert Höfl 42.3 Günther Tilch 42.3 26 André Kouprianoff 42.5 27 Terry Malkin 42.6 Bo Ollander 42.6 29 Manne Lavås 42.7 30 Ri Sung-ryool 43.0 31 Elio Locatelli 43.1 32 Oldřich Teplý 43.2 33 François Brueren 43.4 Günter Traub 43.4 Ŕ 35 Manfred Zojer 43.5 36 Peter Toyfl 43.7 37 Mihály Martos 44.0 38 Luvsanlkhagvyn Dashnyam 44.1 39 Ralf Olin 44.2 40 György Ivánkai 44.3 41 Satoshi Shinpo 44.4 42 Choi Yeong-Bae 44.8 43 Jean-Pierre Guéron 44.9 44 Thomas Dawson 45.2
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