Dates 13 February Winning time 69.79 Venue Oval Lingotto | Competitors 37 from 12 nations Start date 2006 | |
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Location Oval Lingotto, Turin, Italy | ||
The men's 500 metres speed skating competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Turin, Italy. The competition consisted of two separate 500 metre races, with the competitors ranked by their cumulative time from the two races.
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Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
500 meters (1 race)
500 meters x 2 (2 races)
No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition.
Pair order
Skater with first inner lane listed first
- Brock Miron, CAN (alone, first inner)
- Dmitry Lobkov, RUS – Sergey Kornilov, RUS
- Maciej Ustynowicz, POL – Vincent Labrie, CAN
- Choi Jae-bong, KOR – Aleksandr Zhigin, KAZ
- Janne Hänninen, FIN – Aleksey Proshin, RUS
- Artur Waś, POL – Erik Zachrisson, SWE
- Mika Poutala, FIN – Maurizio Carnino, ITA
- Zhuo Lu, CHN – Jan Bos, NED
- Dmitry Dorofeyev, RUS – Erben Wennemars, NED
- Li Yu, CHN – Pekka Koskela, FIN
- Ermanno Ioriatti, ITA – An Weijiang, CHN
- Yūya Oikawa, JPN – Simon Kuipers, NED
- Hiroyasu Shimizu, JPN – Lee Kyou-hyuk, KOR
- Tucker Fredricks, USA – Keiichiro Nagashima, JPN
- Beorn Nijenhuis, NED – Kwon Sun Chun, KOR
- Joji Kato, JPN – Michael Ireland, CAN
- Joey Cheek, USA – Jeremy Wotherspoon, CAN
- Casey FitzRandolph, USA – Yu Fengtong, CHN
- Kip Carpenter, USA – Lee Kang-seok, KOR
Fastest 100 m
The ten fastest times are listed
Pair order
Skater with first inner lane listed first
- Beorn Nijenhuis, NED (alone, last outer)
- Kwon Sun Chun, KOR – Li Yu, CHN
- Aleksandr Zhigin, KAZ – Artur Waś, POL
- Brock Miron, CAN – Vincent Labrie, CAN
- Maurizio Carnino, ITA – Kip Carpenter, USA
- Simon Kuipers, NED – Zhuo Lu, CHN
- Sergey Kornilov, RUS – Maciej Ustynowicz, POL
- Aleksey Proshin, RUS – Tucker Fredricks, USA
- An Weijiang, CHN – Mika Poutala, FIN
- Erik Zachrisson, SWE – Ermanno Ioriatti, ITA
- Lee Kyou-hyuk, KOR – Casey FitzRandolph, USA
- Jan Bos, NED – Hiroyasu Shimizu, JPN
- Choi Jae-bong, KOR – Keiichiro Nagashima, JPN
- Michael Ireland, CAN – Joji Kato, JPN
- Pekka Koskela, FIN – Janne Hänninen, FIN
- Erben Wennemars, NED – Dmitry Lobkov, RUS
- Yūya Oikawa, JPN – Yu Fengtong, CHN
- Jeremy Wotherspoon, CAN – Dmitry Dorofeyev, RUS
- Lee Kang-seok, KOR – Joey Cheek, USA
References
Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA