Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

Men's 500 metres at the XVI Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	L'anneau de vitesse
Dates	February 15
Competitors	43 from 17 nations
Winning time	37.14
Medalists
Uwe-Jens Mey   Germany   Toshiyuki Kuroiwa   Japan   Junichi Inoue   Japan

Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10000 m		men

The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics took place on 15 February, at the L'anneau de vitesse.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2][3]

World record	Dan Jansen (USA)	36.41	Davos, Switzerland	25 January 1992
Olympic record	Uwe-Jens Mey (GDR)	36.45	Calgary, Canada	14 February 1988

Results

^[1]

Rank	Pair	Athlete	Country	Time	Time behind
	4	Uwe-Jens Mey	Germany	37.14	-
	6	Toshiyuki Kuroiwa	Japan	37.18	+0.04
	3	Junichi Inoue	Japan	37.26	+0.12
4	2	Dan Jansen	United States	37.46	+0.32
5	4	Yasunori Miyabe	Japan	37.49	+0.35
5	11	Gerard van Velde	Netherlands	37.49	+0.35
7	1	Aleksandr Golubev	Unified Team	37.51	+0.37
8	5	Igor Zhelezovski	Unified Team	37.57	+0.43
9	16	Song Chen	China	37.58	+0.44
10	9	Kim Yoon-man	South Korea	37.60	+0.46
11	15	Liu Hongbo	China	37.66	+0.52
12	10	Jaegal Sung-yeol	South Korea	37.71	+0.57
13	1	Nick Thometz	United States	37.83	+0.69
14	11	Robert Dubreuil	Canada	37.86	+0.72
14	6	Vadim Shakshakbayev	Unified Team	37.86	+0.72
16	3	Guy Thibault	Canada	37.89	+0.75
17	12	Kevin Scott	Canada	38.02	+0.88
18	21	Yukinori Miyabe	Japan	38.12	+0.98
19	8	Marty Pierce	United States	38.15	+1.01
20	9	Björn Forslund	Sweden	38.24	+1.10
21	2	Sergey Klevchenya	Unified Team	38.26	+1.12
22	10	Dave Cruikshank	United States	38.28	+1.14
23	5	Peter Adeberg	Germany	38.33	+1.19
24	15	Li Yong-Chol	North Korea	38.38	+1.24
25	18	Olaf Zinke	Germany	38.40	+1.26
26	14	Harri Ilkka	Finland	38.48	+1.34
27	17	Dai Jun	China	38.51	+1.37
27	13	Rintje Ritsma	Netherlands	38.51	+1.37
29	20	Arie Loef	Netherlands	38.61	+1.47
30	7	Sean Ireland	Canada	38.70	+1.56
31	21	Paweł Abratkiewicz	Poland	38.74	+1.60
31	12	Lee In-Hun	South Korea	38.74	+1.60
33	7	Hans Markström	Sweden	38.89	+1.75
34	20	Bo König	Sweden	39.06	+1.92
35	14	Choi In-Chol	North Korea	39.59	+2.45
36	19	Zsolt Baló	Romania	39.70	+2.56
37	18	Csaba Madarász	Hungary	40.41	+3.27
38	22	Joakim Karlberg	Sweden	40.71	+3.57
39	16	Jiří Kyncl	Czechoslovakia	40.92	+3.78
40	8	Roland Brunner	Austria	42.18	+5.04
41	19	Jiří Musil	Czechoslovakia	42.20	+5.06
42	13	Bajro Čenanović	Yugoslavia	43.09	+5.95
43	17	Slavenko Likić	Yugoslavia	43.81	+6.67

References

1. "Albertville 1992 Official Report" (PDF). Le Comite d'Organisation des Jeux Olympiques Albertville. LA84 Foundation. 1992. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
2. "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
3. "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.

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