Short-track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

Men's 500 metres
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Men's 500 metres; at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for short track
Venue	Salt Lake Ice Center
Dates	23 February 2002
Competitors	32 from 20 nations
Winning time	41.802
Medalists
	← 1998 2006 →

Last updated January 03, 2025

Records

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

World record	Jeffrey Scholten (CAN)	41.514	Calgary, Canada	13 October 2001
Olympic record	Takafumi Nishitani (JPN)	42.756	Nagano, Japan	21 February 1998

The following new Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date	Round	Team	Time	OR
23 February	Heat 7	Jonathan Guilmette (CAN)	42.326	OR
23 February	Quarterfinal 3	Kim Dong-sung (KOR)	41.806	OR
23 February	A Final	Marc Gagnon (CAN)	41.802	OR

Results

Heats

The first round was held on 23 February. There were eight heats of four skaters each, with the top two finishers moving on to the quarterfinals.^[2]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Li Jiajun	China	43.690	Q
2	Arian Nachbar	Germany	44.057	Q
3	Matúš Užák	Slovakia	44.499
4	Asen Pandov	Bulgaria	77.124

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Simon Van Vossel	Belgium	43.119	Q
2	Apolo Anton Ohno	United States	43.214	Q
3	Cees Juffermans	Netherlands	43.253
4	Andrew McNee	Australia	44.289

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Takafumi Nishitani	Japan	43.211	Q
2	Marc Gagnon	Canada	43.395	Q
3	Krisztián Szabó	Hungary	44.143
4	Volodymyr Hryhor'iev	Ukraine	70.431

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kim Dong-sung	South Korea	42.834	Q
2	Rusty Smith	United States	42.849	Q
3	Dave Allardice	Great Britain	42.980
4	Ganbatyn Jargalanchuluun	Mongolia	52.225

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Fabio Carta	Italy	43.787	Q
2	Bruno Loscos	France	43.864	Q
3	Leon Flack	Great Britain	43.965
4	Mark Jackson	New Zealand	44.064

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Feng Kai	China	43.084	Q
2	Wim De Deyne	Belgium	43.205	Q
3	Martin Johansson	Sweden	43.435
4	Krystian Zdrojkowski	Poland	44.117

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Jonathan Guilmette	Canada	42.326	Q OR
2	Satoru Terao	Japan	42.334	Q
3	Balázs Knoch	Hungary	42.533
4	Miroslav Boyadzhiev	Bulgaria	43.462

Heat 8

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Nicola Franceschina	Italy	42.876	Q
2	Steven Bradbury	Australia	43.226	Q
3	Ludovic Mathieu	France	43.790	ADV
–	Lee Seung-jae	South Korea	DQ

Quarterfinals

The top two finishers in each of the four quarterfinals advanced to the semifinals.^[2]

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Jonathan Guilmette	Canada	42.809	Q
2	Apolo Anton Ohno	United States	42.895	Q
3	Fabio Carta	Italy	43.113
4	Arian Nachbar	Germany	43.626

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Rusty Smith	United States	42.359	Q
2	Marc Gagnon	Canada	42.384	Q
3	Takafumi Nishitani	Japan	42.535
–	Nicola Franceschina	Italy	DQ

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kim Dong-sung	South Korea	41.806	Q OR
2	Wim De Deyne	Belgium	41.832	Q
3	Li Jiajun	China	64.514
4	Bruno Loscos	France	99.879

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Satoru Terao	Japan	42.692	Q
2	Feng Kai	China	42.820	Q
3	Steven Bradbury	Australia	44.982
4	Ludovic Mathieu	France	73.328
–	Simon Van Vossel	Belgium	DQ

Semifinals

The top two finishers in each of the two semifinals qualified for the A final, while the third and fourth place skaters advanced to the B Final.^[2] In the second semifinal, American Apolo Anton Ohno caused Japan's Satoru Terao to fall, resulting in Ohno's disqualification, while Terao was advanced to the A final.^[3]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Rusty Smith	United States	41.916	QA
2	Marc Gagnon	Canada	41.981	QA
3	Kim Dong-sung	South Korea	41.990	QB
4	Wim De Deyne	Belgium	42.823	QB

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Jonathan Guilmette	Canada	42.201	QA
2	Feng Kai	China	42.266	QA
3	Satoru Terao	Japan	65.790	ADV
–	Apolo Anton Ohno	United States	DQ

Finals

The five qualifying skaters competed in Final A, while two other raced for 6th place in Final B.^[2]

Final A

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time
	Marc Gagnon	Canada	41.802
	Jonathan Guilmette	Canada	41.994
	Rusty Smith	United States	42.027
4	Feng Kai	China	42.112
5	Satoru Terao	Japan	42.219

Final B

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
6	Kim Dong-sung	South Korea	42.076
7	Wim De Deyne	Belgium	42.961

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References

↑ "Short Track Speed Skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Men's 500 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2019.
1 2 3 4 5 "Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Salt Lake Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2012.
↑ "Ohno disqualified in 500, U.S. falls in 5,000 relay". ESPN. 23 February 2002. Archived from the original on 27 July 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2014.

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[SR-1] "Short Track Speed Skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Men's 500 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 12 November 2019.

[OfficialReport-2] 1 2 3 4 5 "Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Salt Lake Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 2002. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 February 2012.

[3] "Ohno disqualified in 500, U.S. falls in 5,000 relay". ESPN. 23 February 2002. Archived from the original on 27 July 2012. Retrieved 12 January 2014.

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v t e Olympic champions in men's 500 m short track speed skating
As exhibition sport	1988: Wilfred O'Reilly (GBR)
As official sport	1994: Chae Ji-hoon (KOR) 1998: Takafumi Nishitani (JPN) 2002: Marc Gagnon (CAN) 2006: Apolo Ohno (USA) 2010: Charles Hamelin (CAN) 2014: Viktor Ahn (RUS) 2018: Wu Dajing (CHN) 2022: Shaoang Liu (HUN)

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