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Mass Start, Men

Date19 February 2022
StatusOlympic
LocationNational Speed Skating Oval, Olympic Green, Beijing
Participants30 from 19 countries
FormatPoints for sprints, 5-3-1 for three intermediate sprints, and 60-40-20-10-6-3 for final sprint, with places determined by points.
RefereeHanjo HeidemanNED
StarterRoland SteenbeckGER

All of the favorites in this event had their claims of fame in other skating disciplines. Defending champion Lee Seung-Hoon had been a world champion in short track, as had the #2 in the World Cup ranking, Ruslan Zakharov. Three-time world champion Joey Mantia was a 28-time world champion in inline speed skating, while the Belgian leader in the World Cup was Bart Swings, who held 15 titles in that sport. Outsider Jorrit Bergsma, the 2020 world champion, was also a former Dutch champion in marathon skating.

The main surprise of the semi-finals was the elimination of Zakharov. The 2014 Olympic short track champion suffered a fall and was unable to qualify. The final was dominated by Swings. He personally quashed all run-away attempts. With two laps to go, Bergsma sped up for a long sprint, but most of the pack was able to follow. At the bell, Swings took the lead, only to be quickly overtaken by Lee. The Korean still headed the field as Swings passed him on the outside. Meanwhile, both Mantia and Lee’s compatriot Jeong Jae-Won tried to overtake from the inside.

Swings crossed the line for the first Belgian gold medal at the Olympic Winter Games since 1948, when Micheline Lannoy and Pierre Baugniet won the figure skating pairs event. Only 0.07 seconds behind him, Jeong emerged second based on the photo finish. The difference between third and fourth was even smaller, with just 0.002 separating Lee’s bronze from Mantia’s fourth place.

PosCompetitorNOCSFFinal
1Bart SwingsBEL44 (2 h1)63 (1)Gold
2Jeong Jae-WonKOR12 (4 h1)40 (2)Silver
3Lee Seung-HunKOR40 (2 h2)20 (3)Bronze
4Joey MantiaUSA6 (7 h2)10 (4)
5Daniil AldoshkinROC6 (5 h1)6 (5)
6Ryosuke TsuchiyaJPN7 (6 h2)6 (6)
7Livio WengerSUI20 (3 h2)4 (7)
8Seitaro IchinoheJPN3 (8 h1)3 (8)
9Jorrit BergsmaNED3 (8 h2)3 (9)
10Gabriel OdorAUT10 (4 h2)2 (10)
11Andrea GiovanniniITA60 (1 h2)– (11)
12Ning ZhongyanCHN20 (3 h1)– (12)
13Jordan BelchosCAN8 (5 h2)– (13)
14Kristian UlekleivNOR60 (1 h1)– (14)
15Antoine Gélinas-BeaulieuCAN3 (6 h1)– (15)
16Sven KramerNED3 (7 h1)– (16)
17Haralds SilovsLAT3 (9 h1)
18Peter MichaelNZL2 (9 h2)
19Dmitry MorozovKAZ2 (10 h1)
20Michele MalfattiITA1 (11 h1)
21Viktor Hald ThorupDEN1 (10 h2)
22Artur JanickiPOL– (11 h2)
23Wang HaotianCHN– (12 h2)
24Ihnat HalavatsiukBLR– (13 h2)
25Stefan Due SchmidtDEN– (12 h1)
26Ian QuinnUSA– (13 h1)
27Zbigniew BródkaPOL– (14 h1)
28Peder KongshaugNOR– (14 h2)
29Ruslan ZakharovROC– (15 h2)
DQFelix RijhnenGER– (DQ h1)

Semi-Finals

Date19 February 2022 — 15:00
FormatTop finishers in each heat advance to final round.

Heat #1

Time15:00
PosHelmet NrCompetitorNOCPointsLapsTime
15Kristian UlekleivNOR60167:56.67Q
21Bart SwingsBEL44167:56.74Q
310Ning ZhongyanCHN20167:56.75Q
42Jeong Jae-WonKOR12167:56.76Q
514Daniil AldoshkinROC6167:56.83Q
64Antoine Gélinas-BeaulieuCAN3167:56.93Q
713Sven KramerNED3167:58.22Q
812Seitaro IchinoheJPN3167:58.54Q
911Haralds SilovsLAT3167:59.50
109Dmitry MorozovKAZ2168:08.73
1115Michele MalfattiITA1168:02.09
126Stefan Due SchmidtDEN167:58.01
133Ian QuinnUSA167:58.03
148Zbigniew BródkaPOL167:58.33
DQ7Felix RijhnenGER[8:17.49]

Heat #2

PosHelmet NrCompetitorNOCPointsLapsTime
12Andrea GiovanniniITA60167:43.58Q
23Lee Seung-HunKOR40167:43.63Q
34Livio WengerSUI20167:44.08Q
410Gabriel OdorAUT10167:44.28Q
57Jordan BelchosCAN8167:46.05Q
612Ryosuke TsuchiyaJPN7167:48.43Q
75Joey MantiaUSA6167:44.37Q
86Jorrit BergsmaNED3167:44.42Q
911Peter MichaelNZL2167:58.04
108Viktor Hald ThorupDEN1168:21.94
119Artur JanickiPOL167:44.48
1215Wang HaotianCHN167:46.30
1313Ihnat HalavatsiukBLR167:53.59
1414Peder KongshaugNOR146:55.43
151Ruslan ZakharovROC52:49.52

Final Round

Date19 February 2022 — 16:30
PosHelmet NrCompetitorNOCPointsLapsTime
13Bart SwingsBEL63167:47.11
27Jeong Jae-WonKOR40167:47.18
34Lee Seung-HunKOR20167:47.204
414Joey MantiaUSA10167:47.206
59Daniil AldoshkinROC6167:47.59
612Ryosuke TsuchiyaJPN6167:58.82
76Livio WengerSUI4167:47.86
815Seitaro IchinoheJPN3167:48.56
916Jorrit BergsmaNED3167:50.25
108Gabriel OdorAUT2168:10.46
112Andrea GiovanniniITA167:47.93
125Ning ZhongyanCHN167:48.07
1310Jordan BelchosCAN167:48.14
141Kristian UlekleivNOR167:48.51
1511Antoine Gélinas-BeaulieuCAN168:13.35
1613Sven KramerNED147:13.37