The men's 500 m competition in speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics was held on 14 February, at the Milano Speed Skating Stadium in Milan. Jordan Stolz of the United States won the event, Jenning de Boo of the Netherlands won the silver medal, and Laurent Dubreuil of Canada bronze.

The medals for the competition were presented by Nawal El Moutawakel, IOC Vice-President, One Gold, Morocco; and the medalists' bouquets were presented by Colin Smith, ISU Director General; Great Britain.

Background The 2022 champion, Gao Tingyu, and the bronze medalist, Wataru Morishige, qualified for the event. The silver medalist, Cha Min-kyu, did not participate in these Games. Before the Olympics, Jordan Stolz was leading the 500m standings of the 2025–26 ISU Speed Skating World Cup. Jenning de Boo was the 500m 2025 world champion.

Qualification

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

A new Olympic record was set twice during the competition; the previous record was set four years earlier and was broken by 0.55 seconds; the top three finishers were under the previous record.

Date Round Athlete Country Time Record14 FebruaryPair 10Laurent Dubreuil34.26OR Pair 13 Jordan Stolz 33.77 OR, TR

Results Rank Pair Lane Name Country Time Time behind Notes 13 I Jordan Stolz 33.77 OR, TR 13 O Jenning de Boo 33.88 +0.11 10 I Laurent Dubreuil 34.26 +0.49 4 14 I Damian Żurek 34.35+0.58 5 14 O Sebas Diniz 34.461 +0.69 6 9 I Tatsuya Shinhama 34.466 +0.69 7 12 O Gao Tingyu 34.47 +0.70 8 9 O Marek Kania 34.48 +0.71 9 11 O Yevgeniy Koshkin 34.56 +0.79 10 15 I Wataru Morishige 34.62 +0.85 11 8 O Xue Zhiwen 34.66 +0.89 12 12 I Kim Jun-ho 34.68 +0.91 13 15 O Bjørn Magnussen 34.72 +0.95 14 7 I Lian Ziwen 34.76 +0.99 15 5 I Koo Kyung-min 34.80 +1.03 16 5 O Anders Johnson 34.81 +1.04 17 3 O Jeffrey Rosanelli 34.82 +1.05 18 11 I Marten Liiv 34.83 +1.06 19 8 I Katsuhiro Kuratsubo 34.85 +1.08 20 4 O Nil Llop 34.86 +1.09 21 6 O Joep Wennemars 34.89 +1.12 22 10 O Cooper McLeod 34.90 +1.13 23 7 O Cédrick Brunet 34.95 +1.18 24 6 I Piotr Michalski 35.10 +1.33 25 2 I Moritz Klein 35.21 +1.44 26 2 O Henrik Fagerli Rukke 35.36 +1.59 27 4 I Zach Stoppelmoor 35.42 +1.65 28 3 I Hendrik Dombek 35.46+1.69 29 1 I Ignaz Gschwentner 36.07+2.30

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