Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres
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Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics ![]() |
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The men's 500 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The competition consisted of two separate 500 metre races, with the competitors ranked by their cumulative time from the two races.
Favorite Jeremy Wotherspoon fell in the first heat, taking him out of contention, but posted the fastest time in the second heat. Casey FitzRandolph became the first American to win the event since Eric Heiden in 1980.[1]
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
500 meters (1 race)
World record | ![]() |
34.32 | Salt Lake City, United States | March 10, 2001 | [2] |
Olympic record | ![]() |
35.59 | Nagano, Japan | February 10, 1998 | [2] |
The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.
Date[2] | Round | Athlete | Country | Time | OR | WR |
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February 11 | Race 1 | Kuniomi Haneishi | ![]() |
35.15 | OR | |
February 11 | Race 1 | Kip Carpenter | ![]() |
34.68 | OR | |
February 11 | Race 1 | Hiroyasu Shimizu | ![]() |
34.61 | OR | |
February 11 | Race 1 | Casey FitzRandolph | ![]() |
34.42 | OR |
Results
Rank | Name | Country | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | Difference |
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Casey FitzRandolph | ![]() |
34.42 OR | 34.81 | 69.23 | – |
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Hiroyasu Shimizu | ![]() |
34.61 | 34.65 | 69.26 | +0.03 |
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Kip Carpenter | ![]() |
34.68 | 34.79 | 69.47 | +0.24 |
4 | Gerard van Velde | ![]() |
34.72 | 34.77 | 69.49 | +0.26 |
5 | Lee Kyou-hyuk | 23x15px South Korea | 34.74 | 34.85 | 69.59 | +0.36 |
6 | Joey Cheek | ![]() |
34.78 | 34.82 | 69.60 | +0.37 |
7 | Mike Ireland | ![]() |
34.77 | 34.83 | 69.60 | +0.37 |
8 | Toyoki Takeda | ![]() |
35.00 | 34.81 | 69.81 | +0.58 |
9 | Jan Bos | ![]() |
35.14 | 34.72 | 69.86 | +0.63 |
10 | Erben Wennemars | ![]() |
35.00 | 34.89 | 69.89 | +0.66 |
11 | Dmitry Lobkov | ![]() |
35.09 | 35.01 | 70.10 | +0.87 |
12 | Kuniomi Haneishi | ![]() |
35.15 | 34.96 | 70.11 | +0.88 |
13 | Sergey Klevchenya | ![]() |
35.10 | 35.18 | 70.28 | +1.05 |
14 | Manabu Horii | ![]() |
35.30 | 35.02 | 70.32 | +1.09 |
15 | Janne Hänninen | ![]() |
35.18 | 35.15 | 70.33 | +1.10 |
16 | Pawel Abratkiewicz | ![]() |
35.40 | 35.04 | 70.44 | +1.21 |
17 | Choi Jae-bong | 23x15px South Korea | 35.45 | 35.12 | 70.57 | +1.34 |
18 | Dmitry Dorofeyev | ![]() |
35.48 | 35.27 | 70.75 | +1.52 |
19 | Michael Kuenzel | ![]() |
35.47 | 35.37 | 70.84 | +1.61 |
20 | Patrick Bouchard | ![]() |
35.54 | 35.34 | 70.88 | +1.65 |
21 | Li Yu | ![]() |
35.62 | 35.35 | 70.97 | +1.74 |
22 | Tomasz Swist | ![]() |
35.72 | 35.55 | 71.27 | +2.04 |
23 | Davide Carta | ![]() |
35.70 | 35.69 | 71.39 | +2.16 |
24 | Eric Brisson | ![]() |
35.86 | 35.68 | 71.54 | +2.31 |
25 | Park Jae-man | 23x15px South Korea | 36.05 | 35.91 | 71.96 | +2.73 |
26 | Christian Breuer | ![]() |
36.50 | 35.57 | 72.07 | +2.84 |
27 | Ids Postma | ![]() |
36.41 | 36.08 | 72.49 | +3.26 |
28 | Marc Pelchat | ![]() |
37.59 | 34.99 | 72.58 | +3.35 |
29 | Andrey Fomin | ![]() |
36.26 | 36.38 | 72.64 | +3.41 |
30 | Dino Gillarduzzi | ![]() |
36.42 | 36.27 | 72.69 | +3.46 |
31 | Zsolt Balo | ![]() |
36.24 | 36.69 | 72.93 | +3.70 |
32 | Aleksey Khatylyov | ![]() |
37.40 | 37.41 | 74.81 | +5.58 |
33 | Kim Chul-soo | 23x15px South Korea | 73.11 | 35.35 | 108.46 | +39.23 |
34 | Yu Fengtong | ![]() |
82.11 | 35.30 | 117.41 | +48.18 |
35 | Grunde Njos | ![]() |
97.67 | 35.90 | 133.57 | +64.34 |
- | Jeremy Wotherspoon | ![]() |
DNF | 34.63 | - | - |
- | Ermanno Ioratti | ![]() |
36.30 | - | - | - |
- | Jan Friesinger | ![]() |
36.80 | - | - | - |
References
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