The Men's 500 m 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...

 competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics

2002 Winter Olympics

The 2002 Winter Olympics, officially the XIX Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event that was celebrated in February 2002 in and around Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. Approximately 2,400 athletes from 77 nations participated in 78 events in fifteen disciplines, held throughout...

 was held in Salt Lake City, Utah

Salt Lake City, Utah

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, United States

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. The competition consisted of two separate 500 metre races, with the competitors ranked by their cumulative time from the two races.

Favorite Jeremy Wotherspoon

Jeremy Wotherspoon

Jeremy Lee Wotherspoon is a Canadian speed skater, widely recognized as one of the greatest speedskating sprinters of all time....

 fell in the first heat, taking him out of contention, but posted the fastest time in the second heat. Casey FitzRandolph

Casey FitzRandolph

Casey J. FitzRandolph is an American speedskater.In 1997, FitzRandolph won the bronze medal at the World Sprint Championships in Hamar. He won another bronze medal in 2001 at the World Single Distance Championships on the 500 m.His best year so far was 2002...

 became the first American to win the event since Eric Heiden

Eric Heiden

Eric Arthur Heiden, M.D. is an American former long track speed skater and road cyclist who won all the men's speed skating races, and thus an unprecedented five individual gold medals, and set four Olympic records and one world record at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Lake Placid, New York,...

 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
11 February	Race 1	Kuniomi Haneishi		35.15	OR
11 February	Race 1	Kip Carpenter Kip Carpenter Kip Carpenter is an American speedskater who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics, as well as the 2006 Winter Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the 500 meter race at the 2002 games, while also skating the fastest lap in Olympic history in the 500 meter race with a time of 24.87 for a 400 meter...		34.68	OR
11 February	Race 1	Hiroyasu Shimizu Hiroyasu Shimizu Hiroyasu Shimizu is a Japanese speed skater. He has an Olympic Gold medal from 1998 in the 500m and his win made him a hero in his home country. He currently holds the world record for the 100m speed skating event in 9.43 seconds...		34.61	OR
11 February	Race 1	Casey FitzRandolph Casey FitzRandolph Casey J. FitzRandolph is an American speedskater.In 1997, FitzRandolph won the bronze medal at the World Sprint Championships in Hamar. He won another bronze medal in 2001 at the World Single Distance Championships on the 500 m.His best year so far was 2002...		34.42	OR

Results

Rank	Name	Country	Race 1	Race 2	Total	Difference
	Casey FitzRandolph Casey FitzRandolph Casey J. FitzRandolph is an American speedskater.In 1997, FitzRandolph won the bronze medal at the World Sprint Championships in Hamar. He won another bronze medal in 2001 at the World Single Distance Championships on the 500 m.His best year so far was 2002...		34.42	34.81	69.23	-
	Hiroyasu Shimizu Hiroyasu Shimizu Hiroyasu Shimizu is a Japanese speed skater. He has an Olympic Gold medal from 1998 in the 500m and his win made him a hero in his home country. He currently holds the world record for the 100m speed skating event in 9.43 seconds...		34.61	34.65	69.26	+0.03
	Kip Carpenter Kip Carpenter Kip Carpenter is an American speedskater who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics, as well as the 2006 Winter Olympics, winning a bronze medal in the 500 meter race at the 2002 games, while also skating the fastest lap in Olympic history in the 500 meter race with a time of 24.87 for a 400 meter...		34.68	34.79	69.47	+0.24
4	Gerard van Velde Gerard van Velde Gerard Pieter Hendrik van Velde is a retired Dutch speedskater, and was specialised in sprinting....		34.72	34.77	69.49	+0.26
5	Lee Kyu-Hyuk Lee Kyu-Hyuk Lee Kyou-Hyuk is a South Korean long track speed skater who specializes in the 500 and 1,000 meters...		34.74	34.85	69.59	+0.36
6	Joey Cheek Joey Cheek +William Joseph Cheek is an American speed skater and former inline speed skater...		34.78	34.82	69.60	+0.37
7	Mike Ireland Mike Ireland Michael Ireland is a long track speed skater.Mike Ireland specialises in the sprint distances...		34.77	34.83	69.60	+0.37
8	Toyoki Takeda		35.00	34.81	69.81	+0.58
9	Jan Bos Jan Bos Jan Bos is a Dutch speedskater and sprint cyclist.In 1998 he became world champion sprint and he won the silver medal that year on the 1000 meter sprint during the Winter Olympics in Nagano....		35.14	34.72	69.86	+0.63
10	Erben Wennemars Erben Wennemars Egbert Rolf Wennemars is a Dutch former speed skater. He specialized in the sprint and middle distances of 500, 1000 and 1500 meters.-Speed skating career:...		35.00	34.89	69.89	+0.66
11	Dmitry Lobkov Dmitry Lobkov Dmitry Lobkov is a Russian speedskater who specialises in the shortest distances, with the 500 metres being his favourite. At the 2004 World Single Distance Championships in Seoul he achieved the silver medal at this distance, only allowing Jeremy Wotherspoon to be faster...		35.09	35.01	70.10	+0.87
12	Kuniomi Haneishi		35.15	34.96	70.11	+0.88
13	Sergey Klevchenya Sergey Klevchenya 200pxSergey Konstantinovich Klevchenya is a Russian speed skater who competed for the Unified Team in the 1992 Winter Olympics and for Russia in the 1994 Winter Olympics, in the 1998 Winter Olympics, and in the 2002 Winter Olympics....		35.10	35.18	70.28	+1.05
14	Manabu Horii Manabu Horii is a speed skater. He won an Olympic bronze medal in 1994, and also competed in the 1998 and 2002 Olympics.-References:...		35.30	35.02	70.32	+1.09
15	Janne Hanninen Janne Hänninen Janne Hänninen is a former Finnish speedskater who specialised on the shorter distances 500 m, 1000 m, and 1500 m.His personal bests on these distances are 35.00 , 1:08.45 , and 1:46.04...		35.18	35.15	70.33	+1.10
16	Pawel Abratkiewicz		35.40	35.04	70.44	+1.21
17	Choi Jae-Bong Choi Jae-Bong Choi Jae-bong is a South Korean speed skater. He represented his country at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. At that time he was the holder of the junior World record at 1500m, set in early December 1997 in Thialf, Heerenveen where he clocked 1:52.25 to break the record...		35.45	35.12	70.57	+1.34
18	Dmitry Dorofeyev Dmitry Dorofeyev Dmitry Anatolyevich Dorofeyev is a speed skater. Dmitry Dorofeyev won a silver medal in the 500 m at the 2006 Winter Olympics. His second place finish was Russia's first Olympic speed skating medal since 1994. He placed tenth in the 1,000 m event...		35.48	35.27	70.75	+1.52
19	Michael Kuenzel		35.47	35.37	70.84	+1.61
20	Patrick Bouchard		35.54	35.34	70.88	+1.65
21	Li Yu		35.62	35.35	70.97	+1.74
22	Tomasz Swist		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 Ids Postma Ids Hylke Postma is a Dutch former speed skater. He is an Olympic gold medalist and former world champion.To some it would seem that Ids Postma made his debut in 1994, but the season before he already finished 2nd at the World Championships Speedskating for Juniors...		36.41	36.08	72.49	+3.26
28	Marc Pelchat		37.59	34.99	72.58	+3.35
29	Andrey Fomin		36.26	36.38	72.64	+3.41
30	Dino Gillarduzzi		36.42	36.27	72.69	+3.46
31	Zsolt Balo		36.24	36.69	72.93	+3.70
32	Aleksey Khatylyov		37.40	37.41	74.81	+5.58
33	Kim Chul-Soo		73.11	35.35	108.46	+39.23
34	Yu Fengtong Yu Fengtong Yu Fengtong is a speed skater who has participated in the Olympics for the nation of China.He is the national recordholder of China on the 500 and 1,000 meters.-Achievements:...		82.11	35.30	117.41	+48.18
35	Grunde Njos		97.67	35.90	133.57	+64.34
	Jeremy Wotherspoon Jeremy Wotherspoon Jeremy Lee Wotherspoon is a Canadian speed skater, widely recognized as one of the greatest speedskating sprinters of all time....		DNF	34.63	-	-
	Ermanno Ioratti		36.30	-	-	-
	Jan Friesinger		36.80	-	-	-