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Event Time Name Nation Games Date Ref 500 metres 42.379 Suzanne Schulting Netherlands (NED) 2022 Beijing: 5 February 2022 [5]1000 metres 1:26.514 Suzanne Schulting
The world record of 38.9 seconds was set by Hasse Börjes on 18 January 1970 had been manually timed and thus with a precision of only one tenth of a second. In those days, it was not yet required that a performance be automatically timed (with a precision of one hundredth of a second) in order for it to be recognised as a world record.
Event Time Name Nation Games Date Ref 500 metres 34.32 Gao Tingyu China 2022 Beijing: 12 February 2022 [1]500 metres × 2 [A]: 69.23 Casey FitzRandolph United States 2002 Salt Lake City
For comparison, the fastest known 400m lap was skated by Zhang Hong during a 500m race in Salt Lake City on 20 November 2015, with a lap time of 25.93 seconds and an average speed of 55.51 km/h (34.49 mph). [15] *** unofficial world best (not recognized as a world record by ISU)
Event Record Athlete Date Meet Place Ref 500 meters 33.77 Laurent Dubreuil: 10 December 2021 World Cup: Calgary, Canada [1]500 meters × 2 68.31 WR: Jeremy Wotherspoon
The 500 metres speed skating event at the 1924 Winter Olympics was held on 26 January 1924 at the Stade Olympique de Chamonix in Chamonix, France.One of five speed skating races to be contested at these Games, this was the first event ever contested at the Winter Olympics.
The men's 500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics took place on 20 and 22 February 2018 at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, South Korea. [1] Wu Dajing of China set an Olympic record (heat) and 2 world records (quarterfinal and final) while leading wire-to-wire in all 3 contests en route to capturing the gold.
The top two finishers in each of the two semifinals qualified for the A final, while the third and fourth place skaters advanced to the B Final. [2] In the first semifinal, China's Li Jiajun impeded Britain's Jon Eley, resulting in Li's disqualification, while Eley, who finished third in the race, was advanced to the final.