Short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

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Men's 500 metres
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
VenueCapital Indoor Stadium, Beijing
Date11 and 13 February
Competitors32 from 17 nations
Winning time40.338
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Shaoang Liu  Hungary
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Konstantin Ivliev  ROC
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Steven Dubois  Canada
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The men's 500 metres competition in short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 11 February (heats) and 13 February (finals), at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing.[1] Shaoang Liu of Hungary won the event, his first individual Olympic gold. Konstantin Ivliev, representing the Russian Olympic committee, won silver, his first Olympic medal. Steven Dubois of Canada won the bronze medal.

The defending champion is Wu Dajing. The bronze medalist, Lim Hyo-jun, qualified for the Olympics as well but will be representing China rather than South Korea, which he represented in 2018. Shaoang Liu is the 2021 World Short Track Speed Skating champion at the 500 m distance. Semion Elistratov and Pietro Sighel are the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Many top athletes did not participate in the championship, however. Shaolin Sándor Liu was leading the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup at the 500 m distance with four races completed before the Olympics, followed by Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei. Wu Dajing is also the world and Olympic record holder.

Qualification

Countries were assigned quotas based on their performance during the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup, with the top 32 athletes (maximum of three per country qualifying quotas. If a NOC declined a quota spot, it was distributed to the next available athlete, only if the maximum quota of 56 athletes per gender was not surpassed.[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record  Wu Dajing (CHN) 39.505 Salt Lake City, United States 11 November 2018
Olympic record  Wu Dajing (CHN) 39.584 Gangneung, South Korea 22 February 2018

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Name Country Time[3] Notes
1 1 Shaolin Sándor Liu  Hungary 40.948 Q
2 1 Sébastien Lepape  France 42.081 Q
3 1 Kota Kikuchi  Japan 42.176
1 Lee June-seo  South Korea PEN
1 2 Ren Ziwei  China 40.669 Q
2 2 Adil Galiakhmetov  Kazakhstan 40.722 Q
3 2 Brendan Corey  Australia 41.097
4 2 Maxime Laoun  Canada No time
1 3 Steven Dubois  Canada 40.399 Q
2 3 Pavel Sitnikov  ROC 40.591 Q
3 3 Andrea Cassinelli  Italy 42.791
4 3 Oleh Handei  Ukraine 44.163
1 4 Denis Nikisha  Kazakhstan 40.482 Q
2 4 Jordan Pierre-Gilles  Canada 40.488 Q
3 4 Stijn Desmet  Belgium 40.585 q
4 4 Katsunori Koike  Japan 41.199
1 5 Konstantin Ivliev  ROC 40.272 Q
2 5 John-Henry Krueger  Hungary 40.407 Q
3 5 Roberts Krūzbergs  Latvia 40.430 q
4 5 Quentin Fercoq  France 40.548
1 6 Abzal Azhgaliyev  Kazakhstan 40.870 Q
2 6 Hwang Dae-heon  South Korea 40.971 Q
3 6 Ryan Pivirotto  United States 41.018 q
4 6 Itzhak de Laat  Netherlands No time
1 7 Shaoang Liu  Hungary 40.797 Q
2 7 Vladislav Bykanov  Israel 40.900 Q
3 7 Sun Long  China 42.871 ADV
7 Jens van 't Wout  Netherlands PEN
1 8 Wu Dajing  China 40.230 Q
2 8 Pietro Sighel  Italy 40.350 Q
3 8 Sidney Chu  Hong Kong 44.857
4 8 Dylan Hoogerwerf  Netherlands No time

Quarterfinals

Rank Heat Name Country Time[4] Notes
1 1 Denis Nikisha  Kazakhstan 40.355 Q
2 1 Pavel Sitnikov  ROC 40.643 Q
3 1 Ren Ziwei  China 40.714
4 1 Sun Long  China 40.779
5 1 Adil Galiakhmetov  Kazakhstan 40.925
1 2 Wu Dajing  China 40.528 Q
2 2 Pietro Sighel  Italy 40.644 Q
3 2 Roberts Krūzbergs  Latvia 40.694 q
4 2 Shaolin Sándor Liu  Hungary 40.700
5 2 Sébastien Lepape  France 46.814
1 3 Konstantin Ivliev  ROC 40.351 Q
2 3 Hwang Dae-heon  South Korea 40.636 Q
3 3 Abzal Azhgaliyev  Kazakhstan 40.643 q
4 3 Stijn Desmet  Belgium 40.718
5 3 John-Henry Krueger  Hungary 40.844
1 4 Shaoang Liu  Hungary 40.386 Q
2 4 Steven Dubois  Canada 40.494 Q
3 4 Vladislav Bykanov  Israel 41.157
4 4 Ryan Pivirotto  United States 41.841
5 4 Jordan Pierre-Gilles  Canada No time

Semifinals

Rank Heat Name Country Time[5] Notes
1 1 Konstantin Ivliev  ROC 40.655 QA
2 1 Pietro Sighel  Italy 40.847 QA
3 1 Pavel Sitnikov  ROC 40.848 QB
4 1 Denis Nikisha  Kazakhstan 41.005 QB
5 1 Roberts Krūzbergs  Latvia 41.870
1 2 Shaoang Liu  Hungary 40.157 QA
2 2 Abzal Azhgaliyev  Kazakhstan 40.462 QA
3 2 Wu Dajing  China 40.478 QB
4 2 Steven Dubois  Canada 40.825 ADVA
2 Hwang Dae-heon  South Korea PEN

Finals

Final B

Rank Name Country Time Notes
6 Wu Dajing  China 41.157
7 Pavel Sitnikov  ROC 41.217
8 Denis Nikisha  Kazakhstan 41.329
9 Roberts Krūzbergs  Latvia 41.465

Final A

Rank Name Country Time [6] Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Shaoang Liu  Hungary 40.338
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Konstantin Ivliev  ROC 40.431
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Steven Dubois  Canada 40.669
4 Abzal Azhgaliyev  Kazakhstan 40.869
5 Pietro Sighel  Italy No time

References

  1. ^ "Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 9" (PDF). New.inews.gtimg.com. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Qualification Systems for XXIV Olympic Winter Games, Beijing 2022 Short Track Speed Skating" (PDF). International Skating Union. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  3. ^ Heats results
  4. ^ Quarterfinals results
  5. ^ Semifinals results
  6. ^ Finals results