Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics - Men's 500 metres
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The Men's 500 m speed skating
competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics
was held in Turin
, Italy
. The competition consisted of two separate 500 metre races, with the competitors ranked by their cumulative time from the two races.
500 meters (1 race)
500 meters x 2 (2 races)
No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition.
Dmitry Lobkov, RUS – Sergey Kornilov, RUS
Maciej Ustynowicz, POL – Vincent Labrie, CAN
Choi Jae Bong, KOR – Alexandr Zhigin, KAZ
Janne Hänninen, FIN – Alexey Proshin, RUS
Artur Was, POL – Erik Zachrisson, SWE
Mika Poutala, FIN – Maurizio Carnino, ITA
Zhuo Lu, CHN – Jan Bos, NED
Dmitry Dorofeyev, RUS – Erben Wennemars, NED
Li Yu, CHN – Pekka Koskela, FIN
Ermanno Ioriatti, ITA – An Weijiang, CHN
Yuya Oikawa, JPN – Simon Kuipers, NED
Hiroyasu Shimizu, JPN – Lee Kyu Hyuk, KOR
Tucker Fredricks, USA – Keiichiro Nagashima, JPN
Beorn Nijenhuis, NED – Kwon Sun Chun, KOR
Joji Kato, JPN – Michael Ireland, CAN
Joey Cheek, USA – Jeremy Wotherspoon, CAN
Casey FitzRandolph, USA – Yu Fengtong, CHN
Kip Carpenter, USA – Lee Kang Seok, KOR
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 2006 Winter Olympics
2006 Winter Olympics
The 2006 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XX Olympic Winter Games, was a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Turin, Italy from February 10, 2006, through February 26, 2006. This marked the second time Italy hosted the Olympic Winter Games, the first being the VII Olympic Winter...
was held in Turin
Turin
Turin is a city and major business and cultural centre in northern Italy, capital of the Piedmont region, located mainly on the left bank of the Po River and surrounded by the Alpine arch. The population of the city proper is 909,193 while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat...
, Italy
Italy
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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.
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.500 meters (1 race)
500 meters x 2 (2 races)
No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition.
Results
Place | Athlete | Race 1 Time (Place) |
Race 2 Time (Place) |
Total Time |
Difference |
34.82 (1) | 34.94 (1) | 69.76 | -- | ||
35.24 (2) | 35.17 (3) | 70.41 | +0.65 | ||
35.34 (3) | 35.09 (2) | 70.43 | +0.67 | ||
4 | 35.35 (4) | 35.21 (5) | 70.56 | +0.80 | |
5 | 35.39 (6) | 35.29 (6=) | 70.68 | +0.92 | |
6 | 35.59 (11=) | 35.19 (4) | 70.78 | +1.02 | |
7 | 35.59 (11=) | 35.29 (6=) | 70.88 | +1.12 | |
8 | 35.61 (13) | 35.43 (9=) | 71.04 | +1.28 | |
9 | 35.37 (5) | 35.68 (17=) | 71.05 | +1.29 | |
10 | 35.58 (9=) | 35.51 (12) | 71.09 | +1.33 | |
11 | 35.68 (16) | 35.43 (9=) | 71.11 | +1.35 | |
12 | 35.78 (18) | 35.34 (8) | 71.12 | +1.36 | |
13 | 35.67 (15) | 35.47 (11) | 71.14 | +1.38 | |
14 | 35.55 (8) | 35.62 (13=) | 71.17 | +1.41 | |
15 | 35.58 (9=) | 35.67 (15=) | 71.25 | +1.49 | |
16 | 35.46 (7) | 35.84 (25) | 71.30 | +1.54 | |
17 | 35.76 (17) | 35.62 (13=) | 71.38 | +1.62 | |
18 | 35.66 (14) | 35.78 (21) | 71.44 | +1.68 | |
19 | 35.89 (21) | 35.67 (15=) | 71.56 | +1.80 | |
20 | 35.80 (19) | 35.81 (23) | 71.61 | +1.85 | |
21 | 35.88 (20) | 35.80 (22) | 71.68 | +1.92 | |
22 | 35.91 (22) | 35.83 (24) | 71.74 | +1.98 | |
23 | 36.10 (27) | 35.74 (20) | 71.84 | +2.08 | |
24 | 35.96 (23) | 35.94 (26) | 71.90 | +2.14 | |
25 | 36.02 (25) | 35.99 (28) | 72.01 | +2.25 | |
26 | 36.40 (31) | 35.68 (17=) | 72.08 | +2.32 | |
27 | 36.00 (24) | 36.24 (32) | 72.24 | +2.48 | |
28 | 36.39 (30) | 35.96 (27) | 72.35 | +2.59 | |
29 | 36.31 (29) | 36.12 (29=) | 72.43 | +2.67 | |
30 | 36.42 (32) | 36.12 (29=) | 72.54 | +2.78 | |
31 | 36.24 (28) | 36.43 (33) | 72.67 | +2.91 | |
32 | 36.43 (33) | 36.61 (35) | 73.04 | +3.28 | |
33 | 36.57 (34) | 36.56 (34) | 73.13 | +3.37 | |
34 | 36.88 (35) | 36.92 (36) | 73.80 | +4.04 | |
35 | 48.84 (36) | 35.71 (19) | 84.55 | +14.79 | |
36 | 36.09 (26) | 51.92 (37) | 88.01 | +18.25 | |
37 | 58.66 (37) | 36.13 (31) | 94.79 | +25.03 |
Pair order
Skater with first inner lane listed first- Brock Miron, CAN (
Fastest 100 m
The ten fastest times are listedPlace | Athlete | Time | Difference |
1 | 9.59 | -- | |
2 | 9.63 | +0.04 | |
3 | 9.65 | +0.06 | |
4 | 9.66 | +0.07 | |
5 | 9.67 | +0.08 | |
6 | 9.69 | +0.10 | |
7 | 9.72 | +0.13 | |
8 | 9.75 | +0.16 | |
9 | 9.76 | +0.17 | |
9.76 | +0.17 |
Pair order
Skater with first inner lane listed first- Beorn Nijenhuis, NED (alone, last outer)
- Kwon Sun Chun, KOR – Li Yu, CHN
- Alexandr Zhigin, KAZ – Artur Was, POL
- Brock Miron, CAN – Vincent Labrie, CAN
- Maurizio Carnino, ITA – Kip Carpenter, USA
- Simon Kuipers, NED – Zhuo Lu, CHN
- Sergey Kornilov, RUS – Maciej Ustynowicz, POL
- Alexey Proshin, RUS – Tucker Fredricks, USA
- An Weijiang, CHN – Mika Poutala, FIN
- Erik Zachrisson, SWE – Ermanno Ioriatti, ITA
- Lee Kyu Hyuk, KOR – Casey FitzRandolph, USA
- Jan Bos, NED – Hiroyasu Shimizu, JPN
- Choi Jae Bong, KOR – Keiichiro Nagashima, JPN
- Michael Ireland, CAN – Joji Kato, JPN
- Pekka Koskela, FIN – Janne Hänninen, FIN
- Erben Wennemars, NED – Dmitry Lobkov, RUS
- Yuya Oikawa, JPN – Yu Fengtong, CHN
- Jeremy Wotherspoon, CAN – Dmitry Dorofeyev, RUS
- Lee Kang Seok, KOR – Joey Cheek, USA
Fastest 100 m
Place | Athlete | Time | Difference |
1 | 9.56 | -- | |
2 | 9.59 | +0.03 | |
3 | 9.63 | +0.07 | |
4 | 9.65 | +0.09 | |
5 | 9.66 | +0.10 | |
6 | 9.67 | +0.11 | |
7 | 9.73 | +0.17 | |
8 | 9.74 | +0.18 | |
9.74 | +0.18 | ||
9.74 | +0.18 |