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500 metres, Men

Date24 – 26 February 1994
StatusOlympic
LocationOL-Amfi, Hamar
Participants31 from 16 countries
FormatPlacements 1-8 based on final and B final. Deeper placements based on points earned in earlier rounds, and time in final round skated.

There were many potentials winners for this event. Mirko Vuillerminin of Italy had broken the World Record in the heats of the 1993 World Championships, but the 500 m at that competition was won by Sylvain Gagnon of Canada. But Gagnon had not qualified for Lillehammer, although his brother, World Champion Marc Gagnon, had. The Koreans also entered a strong team, with two-time Olympic Champion Kim Gi-Hun, fellow medallist Lee Jun-Ho, and the 19-year-old Chae Ji-Hun.

Vuillermin’s tactic of sprinting away at the start to see how far he could get paid off, reaching the final comfortably. There he was joined by Chae and Nicky Gooch, who had both been in the 1000 m final days earlier, and Gagnon, who had medalled in that event without skating the final. Again, Vuillermin took off like lightning, leaving the others chasing. But Chae, bronze medallist at the 1993 World Championships, caught on in the last lap, and pipped the Italian at the finish line, while European champion Gooch beat World Champion Gagnon for the bronze.

PosNrSkaterNOCPointsBest Time
132Chae Ji-HunKORGold
226Mirko VuillerminITASilver
320Nicky GoochGBRBronze
410Marc GagnonCAN
58Frédéric BlackburnCAN
634Lee Jun-HoKOR
750Martin JohanssonSWE
81Steven BradburyAUS
939Bjørnar ElgetunNOR745.35
105Richard NizielskiAUS645.57
119Derrick CampbellCAN61:20.27
1233Kim Gi-HunKOR544.04
1330Satoru TeraoJPN544.27
1454Andy GabelUSA548.91
1531Jun UematsuJPN444.20
1614Li JiajunCHN5DQ
1748Sergey KobyzevRUS244.54
1844Mike McMillenNZL244.98
1952John CoyleUSA245.42
2049Igor OzerovRUS245.48
2118Bruno LoscosFRA245.54
2237Erik DuyvelshoffNED245.83
232Kieran HansenAUS246.30
2436Batchuluuny Bat-OrgilMGL248.63
2553Eric FlaimUSA144.71
267Stephan HuygenBEL145.04
2721Wilf O'ReillyGBR146.41
2845Andrew NicholsonNZL154.21
2946Chris NicholsonNZL11:03.43
3015Li LianliCHN11:03.44
3124Orazio FagoneITA0DQ

Round One (24 February 1994 — 19:00)

Top two finishers in each heat advanced to quarter-finals.

Heat One

PosLaneSkaterNOCTimePoints
11Richard NizielskiAUS44.865QOR
22Martin JohanssonSWE44.943Q
34John CoyleUSA45.422
43Li LianliCHN1:03.441

Heat Two

PosLaneSkaterNOCTimePoints
13Marc GagnonCAN44.695QOR
24Steven BradburyAUS45.433Q
32Erik DuyvelshoffNED45.832
41Wilf O'ReillyGBR46.411

Heat Three

PosLaneSkaterNOCTimePoints
11Derrick CampbellCAN44.725Q
23Lee Jun-HoKOR45.413Q
32Bruno LoscosFRA45.542

Heat Four

PosLaneSkaterNOCTimePoints
11Chae Ji-HunKOR44.365QOR
23Jun UematsuJPN44.503Q
32Batchuluuny Bat-OrgilMGL48.632
DQ4Orazio FagoneITA

Heat Five

PosLaneSkaterNOCTimePoints
11Li JiajunCHN44.675Q
24Kim Gi-HunKOR45.323Q
32Igor OzerovRUS45.482
43Andrew NicholsonNZL54.211

Heat Six

PosLaneSkaterNOCTimePoints
12Mirko VuillerminITA44.295QOR
24Frédéric BlackburnCAN44.383Q
33Sergey KobyzevRUS44.542
41Eric FlaimUSA44.711

Heat Seven

PosLaneSkaterNOCTimePoints
14Nicky GoochGBR44.035QOR
23Andy GabelUSA44.313Q
31Mike McMillenNZL44.982
42Stephan HuygenBEL45.041

Heat Eight

PosLaneSkaterNOCTimePoints
12Bjørnar ElgetunNOR44.015QOR
21Satoru TeraoJPN44.883Q
33Kieran HansenAUS46.302
44Chris NicholsonNZL1:03.431

Quarter-Finals (24 February 1994 — ca. 20:30)

Top two finishers in each heat advanced to semi-finals.

Heat One

PosLaneSkaterNOCTimePoints
12Marc GagnonCAN43.845QOR
21Mirko VuillerminITA43.853Q
34Kim Gi-HunKOR44.042
43Jun UematsuJPN44.201

Heat Two

PosLaneSkaterNOCTimePoints
14Steven BradburyAUS44.185Q
21Nicky GoochGBR44.253Q
33Satoru TeraoJPN44.272
42Derrick CampbellCAN1:20.271

Heat Three

PosLaneSkaterNOCTimePoints
11Chae Ji-HunKOR44.695Q
24Martin JohanssonSWE44.963Q
33Andy GabelUSA48.912
DQ2Li JiajunCHN

Heat Four

PosLaneSkaterNOCTimePoints
13Frédéric BlackburnCAN45.205Q
24Lee Jun-HoKOR45.273Q
31Bjørnar ElgetunNOR45.352
42Richard NizielskiAUS45.571

Semi-Finals (26 February 1994 — ca. 21:00)

Top two finishers in each heat advanced to final.

Heat One

PosLaneSkaterNOCTimePoints
1Mirko VuillerminITA43.585QOR
2Chae Ji-HunKOR43.723Q
3Frédéric BlackburnCAN44.402QB
4Martin JohanssonSWE46.041QB

Heat Two

PosLaneSkaterNOCTimePoints
1Marc GagnonCAN44.085Q
2Nicky GoochGBR44.403Q
3Lee Jun-HoKOR45.972QB
4Steven BradburyAUS1:03.511QB

Final Round (26 February 1994 — ca. 22:00)

B Final (ca. 22:00)

PosLaneSkaterNOCTime
1Frédéric BlackburnCAN44.97
2Lee Jun-HoKOR45.13
3Martin JohanssonSWE45.24
4Steven BradburyAUS45.33

A Final (ca. 22:00)

PosLaneSkaterNOCTime
1Chae Ji-HunKOR43.45OR
2Mirko VuillerminITA43.47
3Nicky GoochGBR43.68
4Marc GagnonCAN52.74