Speed Skating — 500 metres, Men

Times held 24
Total participants 612
Total countries 40

Participants

Year Event Status Participants NOCs
1924 500 metres, Men Olympic 27 10
1928 500 metres, Men Olympic 33 14
1932 500 metres, Men Olympic 16 4
1936 500 metres, Men Olympic 36 14
1948 500 metres, Men Olympic 42 15
1952 500 metres, Men Olympic 41 14
1956 500 metres, Men Olympic 47 17
1960 500 metres, Men Olympic 46 15
1964 500 metres, Men Olympic 44 19
1968 500 metres, Men Olympic 48 17
1972 500 metres, Men Olympic 38 16
1976 500 metres, Men Olympic 29 16
1980 500 metres, Men Olympic 37 18
1984 500 metres, Men Olympic 42 20
1988 500 metres, Men Olympic 37 15
1992 500 metres, Men Olympic 43 17
1994 500 metres, Men Olympic 40 16
1998 500 metres, Men Olympic 42 16
2002 500 metres, Men Olympic 38 15
2006 500 metres, Men Olympic 37 12
2010 500 metres, Men Olympic 39 12
2014 500 metres, Men Olympic 40 16
2018 500 metres, Men Olympic 36 17
2022 500 metres, Men Olympic 30 15

Medal winners

Year Gold Silver Bronze
1924 Charley JewtrawUSA Oskar OlsenNOR Clas Thunberg
Roald Larsen
FIN
NOR
1928 Clas Thunberg
Bernt Evensen
FIN
NOR
Jaakko Friman
Roald Larsen
John O'Neil Farrell
FIN
NOR
USA
1932 Jack SheaUSA Bernt EvensenNOR Alex HurdCAN
1936 Ivar BallangrudNOR Georg KrogNOR Leo FreisingerUSA
1948 Finn HelgesenNOR Thomas Byberg
Ken Bartholomew
Bobby Fitzgerald
NOR
USA
USA
1952 Ken HenryUSA Don McDermottUSA Gordon Audley
Arne Johansen
CAN
NOR
1956 Yevgeny GrishinURS Rafael GrachURS Alv GjestvangNOR
1960 Yevgeny GrishinURS Bill DisneyUSA Rafael GrachURS
1964 Terry McDermottUSA Alv Gjestvang
Yevgeny Grishin
Vladimir Orlov
NOR
URS
URS
1968 Erhard KellerFRG Magne Thomassen
Terry McDermott
NOR
USA
1972 Erhard KellerFRG Hasse BörjesSWE Valery MuratovURS
1976 Yevgeny KulikovURS Valery MuratovURS Dan ImmerfallUSA
1980 Eric HeidenUSA Yevgeny KulikovURS Lieuwe de BoerNED
1984 Sergey FokichevURS Yoshihiro KitazawaJPN Gaétan BoucherCAN
1988 Uwe-Jens MeyGDR Jan YkemaNED Akira KuroiwaJPN
1992 Uwe-Jens MeyGER Toshiyuki KuroiwaJPN Junichi InoueJPN
1994 Aleksandr GolubevRUS Sergey KlevchenyaRUS Manabu HoriiJPN
1998 Hiroyasu ShimizuJPN Jeremy WotherspoonCAN Kevin OverlandCAN
2002 Casey FitzRandolphUSA Hiroyasu ShimizuJPN Kip CarpenterUSA
2006 Joey CheekUSA Dmitry DorofeyevRUS Lee Gang-SeokKOR
2010 Mo Tae-BeomKOR Keiichiro NagashimaJPN Joji KatoJPN
2014 Michel MulderNED Jan SmeekensNED Ronald MulderNED
2018 Håvard LorentzenNOR Cha Min-GyuKOR Gao TingyuCHN
2022 Gao TingyuCHN Cha Min-GyuKOR Wataru MorishigeJPN

Medals by country

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
United States USA 7 5 4 16
Norway NOR 4 6 4 14
Soviet Union URS 4 5 2 11
West Germany FRG 2 0 0 2
Japan JPN 1 4 5 10
Netherlands NED 1 2 2 5
Republic of Korea KOR 1 2 1 4
Russian Federation RUS 1 2 0 3
Finland FIN 1 0 2 3
People's Republic of China CHN 1 0 1 2
East Germany GDR 1 0 0 1
Germany GER 1 0 0 1
Canada CAN 0 1 4 5
Sweden SWE 0 1 0 1

Top medallists

Athlete Nat Gold Silver Bronze Total
Yevgeny Grishin RUS
URS
2 1 0 3
Erhard Keller FRG 2 0 0 2
Uwe-Jens Mey GDR
GER
2 0 0 2
Bernt Evensen NOR 1 1 0 2
Yevgeny Kulikov RUS
URS
1 1 0 2
Terry McDermott USA 1 1 0 2
Hiroyasu Shimizu JPN 1 1 0 2

Best performance by country

Olympic and Intercalated results only.
Country Games Athlete/Team Placement
Australia AUS 1956 Winter Olympics Colin Hickey =7 See all
Austria AUT 1936 Winter Olympics Karl Leban =6 See all
Belarus BLR 1994 Winter Olympics Ihar Zhaliasouski 10 See all
Belgium BEL 1924 Winter Olympics Louis De Ridder 19 See all
British Virgin Islands IVB 1984 Winter Olympics Erroll Fraser 40 See all
Canada CAN 1998 Winter Olympics Jeremy Wotherspoon 2 Silver See all
Chinese Taipei TPE 2014 Winter Olympics Sung Ching-Yang 33 See all
Colombia COL 2018 Winter Olympics Pedro Causil 20 See all
Czechoslovakia TCH 1956 Winter Olympics Bohumil Jauris =17 See all
Democratic People's Republic of Korea PRK 1964 Winter Olympics Kim Zin-Hook =19 See all
Denmark DEN 1948 Winter Olympics Aage Justesen =29 See all
East Germany GDR 1988 Winter Olympics Uwe-Jens Mey 1 Gold See all
Estonia EST 1928 Winter Olympics Christfried Burmeister 15 See all
Finland FIN 1928 Winter Olympics Clas Thunberg =1 Gold See all
France FRA 1964 Winter Olympics Raymond Fonvieille =10 See all
Germany GER 1992 Winter Olympics Uwe-Jens Mey 1 Gold See all
Great Britain GBR 1976 Winter Olympics Archie Marshall =16 See all
Hungary HUN 1948 Winter Olympics János Kilián =14 See all
Italy ITA 1998 Winter Olympics Ermanno Ioriatti 9 See all
Japan JPN 1998 Winter Olympics Hiroyasu Shimizu 1 Gold See all
Kazakhstan KAZ 2014 Winter Olympics Roman Krech 7 See all
Latvia LAT 1936 Winter Olympics Alfons Bērziņš =14 See all
Lithuania LTU 1928 Winter Olympics Kęstutis Bulota =28 See all
Mongolia MGL 1972 Winter Olympics Luvsanlkhagvyn Dashnyam 28 See all
Netherlands NED 2014 Winter Olympics Michel Mulder 1 Gold See all
Norway NOR 1928 Winter Olympics Bernt Evensen =1 Gold See all
1936 Winter Olympics Ivar Ballangrud 1 Gold
1948 Winter Olympics Finn Helgesen 1 Gold
2018 Winter Olympics Håvard Lorentzen 1 Gold
People's Republic of China CHN 2022 Winter Olympics Gao Tingyu 1 Gold See all
Poland POL 2022 Winter Olympics Piotr Michalski 5 See all
ROC ROC 2022 Winter Olympics Artyom Arefyev 7 See all
Republic of Korea KOR 2010 Winter Olympics Mo Tae-Beom 1 Gold See all
Romania ROU 1984 Winter Olympics Dezideriu Jenei 25 See all
Russian Federation RUS 1994 Winter Olympics Aleksandr Golubev 1 Gold See all
Soviet Union URS 1956 Winter Olympics Yevgeny Grishin 1 Gold See all
1960 Winter Olympics Yevgeny Grishin 1 Gold
1976 Winter Olympics Yevgeny Kulikov 1 Gold
1984 Winter Olympics Sergey Fokichev 1 Gold
Sweden SWE 1972 Winter Olympics Hasse Börjes 2 Silver See all
Switzerland SUI 1948 Winter Olympics Rudolf Kleiner 39 See all
Ukraine UKR 1994 Winter Olympics Oleh Kostromitin 23 See all
Unified Team EUN 1992 Winter Olympics Aleksandr Golubev 7 See all
United States USA 1924 Winter Olympics Charley Jewtraw 1 Gold See all
1932 Winter Olympics Jack Shea 1 Gold
1952 Winter Olympics Ken Henry 1 Gold
1964 Winter Olympics Terry McDermott 1 Gold
1980 Winter Olympics Eric Heiden 1 Gold
2002 Winter Olympics Casey FitzRandolph 1 Gold
2006 Winter Olympics Joey Cheek 1 Gold
West Germany FRG 1968 Winter Olympics Erhard Keller 1 Gold See all
1972 Winter Olympics Erhard Keller 1 Gold
Yugoslavia YUG 1988 Winter Olympics Behudin Merdović 35 See all