Speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

Men's 500 metres; at the XIV Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Zetra Ice Rink
Dates	February 10
Competitors	42 from 20 nations
Winning time	38.19
Medalists

The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1984 Winter Olympics took place on 10 February, at the Zetra Ice Rink.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2]^[3]

World record	Pavel Pegov (URS)	36.57	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	26 March 1983
Olympic record	Eric Heiden (USA)	38.03	Lake Placid, United States	15 February 1980

Rank	Pair	Lane	Athlete	Country	Time
	1	o	Sergey Fokichev	Soviet Union	38.19
	5	i	Yoshihiro Kitazawa	Japan	38.30
	7	i	Gaétan Boucher	Canada	38.39
4	6	i	Dan Jansen	United States	38.55
5	1	i	Nick Thometz	United States	38.56
6	4	o	Vladimir Kozlov	Soviet Union	38.57
7	6	o	Frode Rønning	Norway	38.58
8	2	o	Uwe-Jens Mey	East Germany	38.65
9	16	o	Aleksandr Danilin	Soviet Union	38.66
10	4	i	Akira Kuroiwa	Japan	38.70
11	7	o	André Hoffmann	East Germany	38.87
12	9	o	Yasushi Suzuki	Japan	38.92
13	10	i	Hein Vergeer	Netherlands	38.94
14	3	i	Jan Ykema	Netherlands	39.03
15	9	i	Jacques Thibault	Canada	39.12
16	2	i	Geert Kuiper	Netherlands	39.13
17	5	o	Jouko Vesterlund	Finland	39.15
18	10	o	Kai Arne Engelstad	Norway	39.28
19	14	o	Hans-Peter Oberhuber	West Germany	39.39
20	22	o	Andreas Dietel	East Germany	39.45
20	3	o	Erik Henriksen	United States	39.45
22	8	i	Mike Richmond	Australia	39.47
23	17	i	Rolf Falk-Larssen	Norway	39.57
24	14	i	Hans van Helden	France	39.71
25	19	i	Dezideriu Jenei	Romania	39.72
26	11	i	Uwe Streb	West Germany	39.78
27	20	i	Urpo Pikkupeura	Finland	39.88
28	11	i	Lee Yeong-Ha	South Korea	39.90
29	17	i	Chen Jianqiang	China	40.30
29	13	i	Daniel Turcotte	Canada	40.30
31	15	o	Na Yun-Su	South Korea	40.35
32	20	o	Michael Hadschieff	Austria	40.52
33	18	i	Giorgio Paganin	Italy	40.54
34	8	o	Jan-Åke Carlberg	Sweden	40.64
35	13	o	Wang Nianchun	China	40.75
36	16	i	Tomas Gustafson	Sweden	41.18
37	19	o	Kim Song-hui	North Korea	41.23
38	15	i	Gai Zhiwu	China	41.67
39	21	i	Nenad Žvanut	Yugoslavia	42.55
40	21	o	Erroll Fraser	British Virgin Islands	43.47
41	18	o	Behudin Merdović	Yugoslavia	46.34
42	12	i	Hans Magnusson	Sweden	63.08

1 2 "Sarajevo 1984 Official Report" (PDF). Organising Committee of the XlVth Winter Olympic Games 1984 at Sarajevo. LA84 Foundation. 1984. Retrieved January 16, 2014.
↑ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.
↑ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - Olympic Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved January 29, 2014.

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