Speed_skating_at_the_2002_Winter_Olympics_–_Men's_500_metres

Men's 500 metres
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Men's 500 metres; at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Utah Olympic Oval
Dates	11–12 February
Competitors	38 from 15 nations
Winning time	69.23 OR
Medalists
	← 1998 2006 →

Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

Speed skating at the Olympics

Quick Facts Men's 500 metres at the XIX Olympic Winter Games, Venue ...

The men's 500 m speed skating competition for the 2002 Winter Olympics was held in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The competition consisted of two separate 500 metre races, with the competitors ranked by their cumulative time from the two races.^[1]

Favorite Jeremy Wotherspoon fell in the first heat, taking him out of contention, but posted the fastest time in the second heat. Casey FitzRandolph became the first American to win the event since Eric Heiden in 1980.^[2]

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"Speed Skating at the 2002 Salt Lake City Winter Games: Men's 500 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 November 2019.

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Liz Robbins (February 12, 2002). "American Speedskater Wins Gold". New York Times. Archived from the original on February 13, 2002. Retrieved February 5, 2010.

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"Salt Lake City 2002 Official Report - Speed Skating" (PDF). Salt Lake City Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. February 2002. Retrieved February 5, 2010.

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World record	Hiroyasu Shimizu (JPN)	34.32	Salt Lake City, United States	March 10, 2001	^[3]
Olympic record	Hiroyasu Shimizu (JPN)	35.59	Nagano, Japan	February 10, 1998	^[3]

Date^[3]	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	OR
February 11	Race 1	Kuniomi Haneishi	Japan	35.15	OR
February 11	Race 1	Kip Carpenter	United States	34.68	OR
February 11	Race 1	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Japan	34.61	OR
February 11	Race 1	Casey FitzRandolph	United States	34.42	OR

Rank	Name	Country	Race 1	Race 2	Total	Difference
	Casey FitzRandolph	United States	34.42 OR	34.81	69.23	–
	Hiroyasu Shimizu	Japan	34.61	34.65	69.26	+0.03
	Kip Carpenter	United States	34.68	34.79	69.47	+0.24
4	Gerard van Velde	Netherlands	34.72	34.77	69.49	+0.26
5	Lee Kyou-hyuk	South Korea	34.74	34.85	69.59	+0.36
6	Joey Cheek	United States	34.78	34.82	69.60	+0.37
7	Mike Ireland	Canada	34.77	34.83	69.60	+0.37
8	Toyoki Takeda	Japan	35.00	34.81	69.81	+0.58
9	Jan Bos	Netherlands	35.14	34.72	69.86	+0.63
10	Erben Wennemars	Netherlands	35.00	34.89	69.89	+0.66
11	Dmitry Lobkov	Russia	35.09	35.01	70.10	+0.87
12	Kuniomi Haneishi	Japan	35.15	34.96	70.11	+0.88
13	Sergey Klevchenya	Russia	35.10	35.18	70.28	+1.05
14	Manabu Horii	Japan	35.30	35.02	70.32	+1.09
15	Janne Hänninen	Finland	35.18	35.15	70.33	+1.10
16	Pawel Abratkiewicz	Poland	35.40	35.04	70.44	+1.21
17	Choi Jae-bong	South Korea	35.45	35.12	70.57	+1.34
18	Dmitry Dorofeyev	Russia	35.48	35.27	70.75	+1.52
19	Michael Künzel	Germany	35.47	35.37	70.84	+1.61
20	Pat Bouchard	Canada	35.54	35.34	70.88	+1.65
21	Li Yu	China	35.62	35.35	70.97	+1.74
22	Tomasz Świst	Poland	35.72	35.55	71.27	+2.04
23	Davide Carta	Italy	35.70	35.69	71.39	+2.16
24	Eric Brisson	Canada	35.86	35.68	71.54	+2.31
25	Park Jae-man	South Korea	36.05	35.91	71.96	+2.73
26	Christian Breuer	Germany	36.50	35.57	72.07	+2.84
27	Ids Postma	Netherlands	36.41	36.08	72.49	+3.26
28	Marc Pelchat	United States	37.59	34.99	72.58	+3.35
29	Andriy Fomin	Ukraine	36.26	36.38	72.64	+3.41
30	Dino Gillarduzzi	Italy	36.42	36.27	72.69	+3.46
31	Zsolt Baló	Hungary	36.24	36.69	72.93	+3.70
32	Aleksey Khatylyov	Belarus	37.40	37.41	74.81	+5.58
33	Kim Cheol-su	South Korea	73.11	35.35	108.46	+39.23
34	Yu Fengtong	China	82.11	35.30	117.41	+48.18
35	Grunde Njøs	Norway	97.67	35.90	133.57	+64.34
-	Jeremy Wotherspoon	Canada	DNF	34.63	-	-
-	Ermanno Ioratti	Italy	36.30	-	-	-
-	Jan Friesinger	Germany	36.80	-	-	-

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