The 500 metres speed skating

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

event was part of the speed skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics

Speed skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics

At the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, four speed skating events were scheduled, all for men, but medals were only awarded for three events, because the 10.000 m event was not completed. The Allround event, which was only organized in 1924, was removed from the program...

 programme. The competition was held on Monday, February 13, 1928.

Thirty-three speed skaters from 14 nations competed.

Medalists

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1928 Winter Olympics.

World Record	43.1(*)	Roald Larsen Roald Larsen Roald Morel Larsen was a World Champion speed skater from Norway. He was born in Kristiania ....	Davos Davos Davos is a municipality in the district of Prättigau/Davos in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a permanent population of 11,248 . Davos is located on the Landwasser River, in the Swiss Alps, between the Plessur and Albula Range...  (SUI Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition.... )	February 4, 1928
Olympic Record	44.0	Charles Jewtraw Charles Jewtraw Charles Jewtraw was an American speed skater, best known for being first recipient of a gold medal at the first Winter Olympics.-Biography:...	Chamonix Chamonix Chamonix-Mont-Blanc or, more commonly, Chamonix is a commune in the Haute-Savoie département in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. It was the site of the 1924 Winter Olympics, the first Winter Olympics...  (FRA France The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France... )	January 26, 1924

(*) The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice.

Seven speed skaters were faster than the standing Olympic record with the two Olympic champions as new Olympic record holders. Bernt Evensen

Bernt Evensen

Bernt Sverre Evensen was a Norwegian speed skater and racing cyclist.At the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Bernt Evensen became the first Norwegian skater to win an Olympic gold medal by winning gold on the 500 m Bernt Sverre Evensen (8 April 1905 in Kristiania (Oslo) – 24 August 1979)...

 and Clas Thunberg

Clas Thunberg

Arnold Clas Robert Thunberg was a Finnish speed skater who won five Olympic gold medals – three at the inaugural Winter Olympics held in Chamonix in 1924 and two at the 1928 Winter Olympics held in St. Moritz...

each set a time of 43.4 seconds.

Results

Place	Athlete	Time
1		43.4
		43.4
3		43.6
		43.6
		43.6
6		43.8
7		43.9
8		44.4
9		44.7
10		44.9
11		45.2
		45.2
		45.2
14		45.9
15		46.2
16		46.3
17		46.5
18		46.7
19		46.8
20		47.2
21		47.5
22		47.7
23		47.9
24		49.1
		49.1
26		49.5
27		49.9
28		50.1
		50.1
30		53.4
31		54.8
32		54.9
33		56.2