The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics took place on 10 February, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new Olympic record was set.
Date Athlete Time OR WR 10 February 39.17 OR
Results
Rank Pair Lane Athlete Country Time Difference Notes 3 o Yevgeny Kulikov 39.17 10 i Valery Muratov 39.25 10 o Dan Immerfall 39.54 4 8 i Mats Wallberg 39.56 5 2 i Peter Mueller 39.57 6 7 o Jan Bazen 39.78 4 o Arnulf Sunde 39.78 8 13 i Andrey Malikov 39.85 9 13 o Oloph Granath 39.93 10 14 i Jim Chapin 40.09 11 11 i Tom Overend 40.22 5 o Masaki Suzuki 40.22 13 5 i Johan Granath 40.25 14 4 i Gaétan Boucher 40.53 15 6 y Pertti Niittylä 40.65 16 11 o Norio Hirate 40.85 1 o Archie Marshall 40.85 18 15 o Mikio Oyama 40.90 19 8 o Hans van Helden 40.91 1 i Emmanuel Michon 40.91 21 12 o Kay Arne Stenshjemmet 40.94 22 6 i Lee Yeong-ha 41.08 23 2 o Bruno Toniolli 41.44 24 9 o Harald Oehme 41.54 25 12 o Colin Coates 41.77 26 7 i Berend Schabus 42.33 27 9 i Heinz Steinberger 43.28 28 14 o Jan Egil Storholt 1:18.00 - 3 o Horst Freese DNF
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