The men's 500 metre at the 2012 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place on 10 March 2012, at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center.
Results
Preliminaries Top two athletes from each heat qualified for the heats.
Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Semen Elistratov 42.965 Q 2 Edoardo Reggiani 43.113 Q 3 Lucas Ng 48.911 4 Ievgen Gutenov 1:14.499
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Simon Cho 42.319 Q 2 Yuzo Takamido 42.956 Q 3 Bence Olah 43.496 4 Selim Tanrikulu 44.288
Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Liang Wenhao 42.207 Q 2 Guillaume Bastille 42.565 Q 3 Nurbergen Zhumagaziyev 43.157 4 Nihad Bašić 45.875
Heat 7 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Noh Jin-Kyu 42.510 Q 2 Vladislav Bykanov 43.401 Q 3 Lui Pan To Barton 43.470
Heat 9 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Kwak Yoon-Gy 42.611 Q 2 Jakub Jaworski 43.055 Q 3 Torsten Kröger 43.156
Heat 11 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Gong Qiuwen 42.543 Q 2 Niels Kerstholt 42.727 Q 3 Jose Cavalli 44.457 4 Kim Ryong-Chol 44.510
Heat 13 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Vladimir Grigorev 42.401 Q 2 Viktor Knoch 42.421 Q 3 Aliaksandr Antanenka 46.256 4 Shung Fan-Yang 47.330
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Olivier Jean 41.525 Q 2 Jordan Malone 42.848 Q 3 Kiril Pandov 1:07.795 4 Tommaso Dotti PEN
Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Chen Dequan 42.318 Q 2 Daisuke Uemura 43.680 Q 3 Jose Ignacio Fazio 45.505 4 Jonathan López 46.800
Heat 6 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Sin Da-Woon 42.469 Q 2 Richard Shoebridge 42.544 Q 3 Oleksiy Koshelenko 42.790
Heat 8 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Charles Hamelin 41.704 Q 2 Jack Whelbourne 42.727 Q 3 Fedor Andreyev 45.053 4 Alvaro Peña 46.412
Heat 10 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Travis Jayner 43.026 Q 2 Jekabs Saulitis 43.264 Q 3 Maksim Siarheyu 44.787 4 Om Chol 44.859
Heat 12 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Sjinkie Knegt 42.339 Q 2 Robert Seifert 42.340 Q 3 Pierre Boda 42.712 4 Maxime Chataignier 42.736
Heat 14 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Thibaut Fauconnet 42.893 Q 2 Lachlan Hay 43.767 Q 3 Myukerrem Top 45.185 4 Blake Skjellerup 1:13.655
Heats Top two athletes from each heat and the two fastest thirds qualified for the quarterfinals.Heats Results
Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Chen Dequan 41.727 Q 2 Vladimir Grigorev 41.998 Q 3 Richard Shoebridge 42.040 4 Jekabs Saulitis 42.804
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Charles Hamelin 41.035 Q 2 Gong Qiuwen 41.483 Q 3 Robert Seifert 41.728 q 4 Jakub Jaworski 42.467
Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Noh Jin-Kyu 42.581 Q 2 Guillaume Bastille 42.855 Q 3 Thibaut Fauconnet 1:26.160 ADV 4 Jack Whelbourne PEN
Heat 7 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Liang Wenhao 42.023 Q 2 Niels Kerstholt 42.096 Q 3 Vladislav Bykanov 42.717 4 Sin Da-Woon 1:10.553
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Kwak Yoon-Gy 42.105 Q 2 Yuzo Takamido 42.241 Q 3 Edoardo Reggiani 42.662 4 Travis Jayner 58.536
Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Olivier Jean 41.390 Q 2 Jordan Malone 41.532 Q 3 Semen Elistratov 41.600 q 4 Viktor Knoch 42.272
Heat 6 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Simon Cho 41.743 Q 2 Sjinkie Knegt 41.776 Q 3 Daisuke Uemura 42.621 4 Lachlan Hay 46.502
Quarterfinals Top two athletes from each heat qualified for the semifinals.Quarterfinals Results
Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Robert Seifert 41.894 Q 2 Simon Cho 42.329 Q 3 Noh Jin-Kyu 43.157 4 Gong Qiuwen 53.947 ADV 5 Thibaut Fauconnet PEN
Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Charles Hamelin 41.290 Q 2 Niels Kerstholt 41.548 Q 3 Liang Wenhao 57.322 ADV 4 Vladimir Grigorev PEN
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Olivier Jean 41.381 Q 2 Sjinkie Knegt 42.410 Q 3 Semen Elistratov 42.560 4 Yuzo Takamido 42.668
Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Guillaume Bastille 42.382 Q 2 Kwak Yoon-Gy 42.461 Q 3 Jordan Malone 43.392 ADV 4 Chen Dequan PEN
Semifinals Top two athletes from each heat qualified for the final.
Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Charles Hamelin 41.894 Q 2 Sjinkie Knegt 42.329 Q 3 Gong Qiuwen 43.157 4 Robert Seifert 53.947 ADV 5 Simon Cho PEN
Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Olivier Jean 41.351 Q 2 Kwak Yoon-Gy 41.583 Q 3 Guillaume Bastille 41.664 4 Jordan Malone 42.964 5 Liang Wenhao 1:03.588 6 Niels Kerstholt PEN
Final
Rank Athlete Country Time Notes Olivier Jean 41.077 Charles Hamelin 41.186 Kwak Yoon-Gy 41.479 4 Robert Seifert 41.574 5 Sjinkie Knegt 59.578
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