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.

Records

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

500 meters (1 race)

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date Round Athlete Country Time OR WR 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 Casey FitzRandolph 34.42 34.81 69.23 – Hiroyasu Shimizu 34.61 34.65 69.26 +0.03 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 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 35.45 35.12 70.57 +1.34 18 Dmitry Dorofeyev 35.48 35.27 70.75 +1.52 19 Michael Künzel 35.47 35.37 70.84 +1.61 20 Pat Bouchard 35.54 35.34 70.88 +1.65 21 Li Yu 35.62 35.35 70.97 +1.74 22 Tomasz Świst 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 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 Andriy Fomin 36.26 36.38 72.64 +3.41 30 Dino Gillarduzzi 36.42 36.27 72.69 +3.46 31 Zsolt Baló 36.24 36.69 72.93 +3.70 32 Aleksey Khatylyov 37.40 37.41 74.81 +5.58 33 Kim Cheol-su 73.11 35.35 108.46 +39.23 34 Yu Fengtong 82.11 35.30 117.41 +48.18 35 Grunde Njøs 97.67 35.90 133.57 +64.34 Jeremy Wotherspoon DNF 34.63 - - Ermanno Ioratti 36.30 - - - Jan Friesinger 36.80 - - -

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