Short track speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

Heats

The first round was held on 24 February. There were eight heats, with the top two finishers moving on to the quarterfinals.^[1]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Richard Nizielski	Australia	44.86	Q
2	Martin Johansson	Sweden	44.94	Q
3	John Coyle	United States	45.42
4	Li Lianli	China	63.44

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marc Gagnon	Canada	44.69	Q
2	Steven Bradbury	Australia	45.43	Q
3	Erik Duyvelshoff	Netherlands	45.83
4	Wilf O'Reilly	Great Britain	46.41

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Derrick Campbell	Canada	44.72	Q
2	Lee Joon-ho	South Korea	45.41	Q
3	Bruno Loscos	France	45.54

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Chae Ji-hoon	South Korea	44.36	Q
2	Jun Uematsu	Japan	44.50	Q
3	Batchuluuny Bat–Orgil	Mongolia	48.63
–	Orazio Fagone	Italy	DQ

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Li Jiajun	China	44.67	Q
2	Kim Ki-hoon	South Korea	45.32	Q
3	Igor Ozerov	Russia	45.48
4	Andrew Nicholson	New Zealand	54.21

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Mirko Vuillermin	Italy	44.29	Q
2	Frédéric Blackburn	Canada	44.38	Q
3	Sergey Kobyzev	Russia	44.54
4	Eric Flaim	United States	44.71

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Nicky Gooch	Great Britain	44.03	Q
2	Andy Gabel	United States	44.31	Q
3	Mike McMillen	New Zealand	44.98
4	Stephan Huygen	Belgium	45.04

Heat 8

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Bjørnar Elgetun	Norway	44.01	Q OR
2	Satoru Terao	Japan	44.88	Q
3	Kieran Hansen	Australia	46.30
4	Chris Nicholson	New Zealand	63.43

Quarterfinals

The top two finishers in each of the four quarterfinals advanced to the semifinals.^[1]

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marc Gagnon	Canada	43.84	Q OR
2	Mirko Vuillermin	Italy	43.85	Q
3	Kim Ki-hoon	South Korea	44.04
4	Jun Uematsu	Japan	44.20

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Steven Bradbury	Australia	44.18	Q
2	Nicky Gooch	Great Britain	44.25	Q
3	Satoru Terao	Japan	44.27
4	Derrick Campbell	Canada	80.27

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Chae Ji-hoon	South Korea	44.69	Q
2	Martin Johansson	Sweden	44.96	Q
3	Andy Gabel	United States	48.91
–	Li Jiajun	China	DQ

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Frédéric Blackburn	Canada	45.20	Q
2	Lee Joon-ho	South Korea	45.27	Q
3	Bjørnar Elgetun	Norway	45.35
4	Richard Nizielski	Australia	45.57

Semifinals

The top two finishers in each of the two semifinals qualified for the A final, while the third and fourth place skaters advanced to the B Final.^[1]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Mirko Vuillermin	Italy	43.58	QA
2	Chae Ji-hoon	South Korea	43.72	QA
3	Frédéric Blackburn	Canada	44.40	QB
4	Martin Johansson	Sweden	46.04	QB

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marc Gagnon	Canada	44.08	QA
2	Nicky Gooch	Great Britain	44.40	QA
3	Lee Joon-ho	South Korea	45.97	QB
4	Steven Bradbury	Australia	63.51	QB

Finals

The four qualifying skaters competed in Final A, while four others raced for 5th place in Final B.^[1]

Final A

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Chae Ji-hoon	South Korea	43.45	OR
	Mirko Vuillermin	Italy	43.47
	Nicky Gooch	Great Britain	43.68
4	Marc Gagnon	Canada	52.73

Final B

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
5	Frédéric Blackburn	Canada	44.97
6	Lee Joon-ho	South Korea	45.13
7	Martin Johansson	Sweden	45.24
8	Steven Bradbury	Australia	45.33