Speed skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

Men's 500 metres speed skating at the II Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	St. Moritz Olympic Ice Rink
Date	13 February 1928
Competitors	37 from 14 nations
Winning time	43.4
Medalists
Bernt Evensen  Norway Clas Thunberg  Finland John Farrell  United States Jaakko Friman  Finland Roald Larsen  Norway

Speed skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics
500 m	men
1500 m	men
5000 m	men
10,000 m	men

The 500 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Monday, February 13, 1928.

Thirty-three speed skaters from 14 nations competed.

Medalists

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Bernt Evensen  Norway Clas Thunberg  Finland		John Farrell  United States Jaakko Friman  Finland Roald Larsen  Norway

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1928 Winter Olympics.

World Record	43.1(*)	Roald Larsen	Davos (SUI)	February 4, 1928
Olympic Record	44.0	Charles Jewtraw	Chamonix (FRA)	January 26, 1924

(*) The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice.

Seven speed skaters were faster than the standing Olympic record with the two Olympic champions as new Olympic record holders. Bernt Evensen and Clas Thunberg each set a time of 43.4 seconds.

Results

Place	Athlete	Time
1	Clas Thunberg (FIN)	43.4 OR
	Bernt Evensen (NOR)	43.4 OR
3	John Farrell (USA)	43.6
	Roald Larsen (NOR)	43.6
	Jaakko Friman (FIN)	43.6
6	Haakon Pedersen (NOR)	43.8
7	Charles Gorman (CAN)	43.9
8	Bertel Backman (FIN)	44.4
9	Oskar Olsen (NOR)	44.7
10	Eddie Murphy (USA)	44.9
11	Toivo Ovaska (FIN)	45.2
	Willy Logan (CAN)	45.2
	Irving Jaffee (USA)	45.2
14	Ross Robinson (CAN)	45.9
15	Christfried Burmeister (EST)	46.2
16	Alberts Rumba (LAT)	46.3
17	Valentine Bialas (USA)	46.5
18	Fritz Moser (AUT)	46.7
19	Zoltán Eötvös (HUN)	46.8
20	Fritz Jungblut (GER)	47.2
21	Otto Polacsek (AUT)	47.5
22	Aleksander Mitt (EST)	47.7
23	Gustaf Andersson (SWE)	47.9
24	Erhard Mayke (GER)	49.1
	Rudolf Riedl (AUT)	49.1
26	Léonhard Quaglia (FRA)	49.5
27	Siem Heiden (NED)	49.9
28	Charles Thaon (FRA)	50.1
	Kęstutis Bulota (LTU)	50.1
30	Frederick Dix (GBR)	53.4
31	Leonard Stewart (GBR)	54.8
32	Cyril Horn (GBR)	54.9
33	Wim Kos (NED)	56.2

References

• Official Olympic Report
• "Results of the 1928 Olympic Games 500 meters Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 27 August 2012.