Men's 500 metres at the XXII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Iceberg Skating Palace Sochi, Russia | ||||||||||||
Dates | 18 February 2014 (qualifying heats) 21 February 2014 (quarterfinal, semifinal, and final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 32 from 16 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 41.312 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Short-track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics | ||
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Qualification | ||
500 m | men | women |
1000 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | women |
3000 m relay | women | |
5000 m relay | men | |
The men's 500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held between 18–21 February 2014 at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, Russia. [1]
The qualifying heats was held on 18 February with the quarterfinal, the semifinal and the final on 21 February.
The defending Olympic Champion was Charles Hamelin of Canada, while the defending World Champion was Liang Wenhao of China. None of them won a medal.
Viktor Ahn of Russia won the race, getting the third individual medal in short track speed skating at the same Olympics (two golds and one bronze) and thus replicating his own performance at the 2006 Winter Olympics. No other male short track skater ever won three individual medals at the same Olympics. Wu Dajing of China finished second, and Charle Cournoyer of Canada won the bronze medal.
Countries were assigned quotas using a combination of the four special Olympic Qualification classifications that were held at two world cups in November 2013. A nation may enter a maximum of three athletes per event. [2] For this event a total of 32 athletes representing 16 nations qualified to compete. [3]
The event was started at 20:30. [4]
Rank | Quarterfinal | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
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1 | 1 | Sjinkie Knegt | ![]() | 41.683 | Q |
2 | 1 | Liang Wenhao | ![]() | 41.817 | Q |
3 | 1 | Viktor Knoch | ![]() | 42.043 | |
– | 1 | Semen Elistratov | ![]() | PEN | |
1 | 2 | Han Tianyu | ![]() | 41.390 | Q |
2 | 2 | J. R. Celski | ![]() | 53.178 | Q |
3 | 2 | Satoshi Sakashita | ![]() | 59.249 | ADV |
– | 2 | Park Se-yeong | ![]() | PEN | |
1 | 3 | Wu Dajing | ![]() | 41.056 | Q |
2 | 3 | Charle Cournoyer | ![]() | 41.060 | Q |
3 | 3 | Freek van der Wart | ![]() | 1:01.371 | |
– | 3 | Vladimir Grigorev | ![]() | PEN | |
1 | 4 | Viktor Ahn | ![]() | 41.257 | Q |
2 | 4 | Jon Eley | ![]() | 41.337 | Q |
3 | 4 | Lee Han-bin | ![]() | 41.471 | |
4 | 4 | Olivier Jean | ![]() | 41.760 |
Rank | Semifinal | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
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1 | 1 | Wu Dajing | ![]() | 40.846 | QA |
2 | 1 | Charle Cournoyer | ![]() | 40.945 | QA |
3 | 1 | Han Tianyu | ![]() | 41.151 | QB |
4 | 1 | J. R. Celski | ![]() | 41.152 | QB |
5 | 1 | Satoshi Sakashita | ![]() | 41.661 | |
1 | 2 | Viktor Ahn | ![]() | 41.063 | QA |
2 | 2 | Liang Wenhao | ![]() | 41.221 | QA |
3 | 2 | Sjinkie Knegt | ![]() | 41.290 | QB |
4 | 2 | Jon Eley | ![]() | 41.441 | QB |
Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
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5 | Han Tianyu | ![]() | 41.534 | |
6 | J. R. Celski | ![]() | 41.786 | |
7 | Jon Eley | ![]() | 41.870 | |
8 | Sjinkie Knegt | ![]() | 42.608 |
Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
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![]() | Viktor Ahn | ![]() | 41.312 | |
![]() | Wu Dajing | ![]() | 41.516 | |
![]() | Charle Cournoyer | ![]() | 41.617 | |
4 | Liang Wenhao | ![]() | 1:13.590 |
Russia hosted the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Krasnodar Krai from 7 to 23 February 2014 and was the top medal recipient at those Games. As hosts, Russia participated in all 15 sports, with a team consisting of 232 athletes. It is Russia's largest Winter Olympics team to date.
South Korea competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia from 7 to 23 February 2014. The team consisted of 71 athletes and 49 officials. This marks an increase of 25 athletes from four years prior. Originally 64 athletes were named to the team but reallocations brought the final team size to 71 athletes.
Canada competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, from February 7 to 23, 2014. Canadians competed in every discipline except Nordic combined.
The United States competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, from February 7 to 23, 2014. Team USA consisted of 222 athletes competing in all 15 sports.
Czech Republic competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, from 7 to 23 February 2014. A team of 83 athletes in 11 sports competed for the country.
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Italy competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, from 7 to 23 February 2014. One athlete, bobsledder William Frullani, had been tested positive for methylhexanamine and was sent home from Sochi. For the first time since 1980, Italy failed to win a gold medal in an Olympics. Closest was the alpine skier Christof Innerhofer who lost the gold in downhill against Matthias Mayer of Austria with only six hundredths of a second separating the two.
Australia competed at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, from 7 to 23 February 2014. Australia's team consisted of 60 athletes competing in 11 sports, which represented the largest Winter Olympics team the country had ever sent.
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