2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships – Men's 500 metres

2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m		men		women
3000 m relay				women
5000 m relay		men

The men's 500 metre at the 2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place 12 March at the Sheffield Arena.^[1]

Results

Preliminaries

Top two athletes from each heat and the next two fastest thirds qualified for heats.^[2]

Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Song Weilong  China 43.449 Q 2 Maxime Chataignier  France 43.709 Q 3 Daisuke Uemura  Japan 44.043 4 Pierre Boda  Australia 44.252 Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Charles Hamelin  Canada 42.586 Q 2 Jack Whelbourne  United Kingdom 42.689 Q 3 Vladislav Bykanov  Israel 43.922 q 4 Edin Brankovic  Bosnia and Herzegovina 45.673 Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Noh Jin-Kyu  South Korea 43.405 Q 2 Dariusz Kulesza  Poland 44.042 Q 3 Bence Olah  Hungary 44.608 4 Edoardo Reggiani  Italy 1:02.458 Heat 7 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Olivier Jean  Canada 43.064 Q 2 Thibaut Fauconnet  France 43.424 Q 3 Liu Pan To Barton  Hong Kong 45.554 4 Jonathan Lopez  Spain 49.129 Heat 9 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 John Eley  United Kingdom 42.910 Q 2 Liang Wenhao  China 42.945 Q 3 Kiril Pandov  Bulgaria 44.140 4 Selim Tanrikulu  Turkey 44.835 Heat 11 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Simon Cho  United States 43.799 Q 2 Jeremy Masson  France 44.487 Q 3 Yang-Chun Wang  Chinese Taipei 46.572 4 Istvan Gal-Oravecz  Romania 46.614 Heat 13 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Nicola Rodigari  Italy 43.815 Q 2 Oleksiy Koshelenko  Ukraine 44.230 Q 3 Um Cheon-Ho  South Korea 46.261 4 Jose Ignacio Fazio  Argentina 47.546

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Francois Hamelin  Canada 43.449 Q 2 Travis Jayner  United States 43.709 Q 3 Siarhei Yakushkou  Belarus 44.043 4 Peter Jelen  Slovakia 44.252 Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Bartosz Konopko  Poland 42.967 Q 2 Liu Xianwei  China 43.131 Q 3 Assen Pandov  Bulgaria 43.627 q 4 Yauheni Ryzhou  Belarus 45.313 Heat 6 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Niels Kerstholt  Netherlands 43.854 Q 2 Yuzo Takamido  Japan 43.940 Q 3 Dmytro Poltavets  Ukraine 45.336 4 Andrej Valach  Slovakia 45.405 Heat 8 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Sjinkie Knegt  Netherlands 43.857 Q 2 Ruslan Zakharov  Russia 44.173 Q 3 Jekabs Saulitis  Latvia 45.207 4 Álvaro Peña  Spain 46.320 Heat 10 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Robert Seifert  Germany 43.070 Q 2 Jeff Simon  United States 43.117 Q 3 Sergey Prankevich  Russia 44.237 4 Csaba Burjan  Hungary 44.756 Heat 12 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Lee Ho-Suk  South Korea 44.157 Q 2 Paul Herrmann  Germany 44.159 Q 3 Blake Skjellerup  New Zealand 45.625 4 Jakov Domitrek  Croatia 47.608

Heats

Top 2 Athletes from each heat and the next 2 fastest thirds qualified for quarterfinals.^[3]

Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Thibaut Fauconnet  France 43.384 Q 2 Bartosz Konopko  Poland 43.561 Q 3 Oleksiy Koshelenko  Ukraine 43.714 4 Simon Cho  United States ADV Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Nicola Rodigari  Italy 43.759 Q 2 Liu Xianwei  China 43.893 Q 3 Maxime Chataignier  France 44.865 4 Jeff Simon  United States PEN Heat 5 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Jack Whelbourne  United Kingdom 42.806 Q 2 Olivier Jean  Canada 42.941 Q 3 Lee Ho-Suk  South Korea 43.068 q 4 Jeremy Masson  France 43.695 Heat 7 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Robert Seifert  Germany 43.099 Q 2 Niels Kerstholt  Netherlands 43.197 Q 3 Vladislav Bykanov  Israel 44.960 4 Noh Jin-Kyu  South Korea 1:16.644

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Liang Wenhao  China 42.580 Q 2 Charles Hamelin  Canada 42.678 Q 3 Dariusz Kulesza  Poland 44.227 4 Yuzo Takamido  Japan 44.264 Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Francois Hamelin  Canada 42.883 Q 2 John Eley  United Kingdom 42.949 Q 3 Paul Herrmann  Germany 43.063 q 4 Ruslan Zakharov  Russia 43.405 Heat 6 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Travis Jayner  United States 44.029 Q 2 Song Weilong  China 44.156 Q 3 Kiril Pandov  Bulgaria 44.755 ADV – Sjinkie Knegt  Netherlands PEN

Quarterfinals

Top 2 Athletes from each heat qualified for Semifinals.^[4]

Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Liang Wenhao  China 42.237 Q 2 Simon Cho  United States 42.364 Q 3 Jack Whelbourne  United Kingdom 42.451 4 Nicola Rodigari  Italy 42.748 Heat 3 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Francois Hamelin  Canada 42.638 Q 2 Thibaut Fauconnet  France 42.697 Q 3 Robert Seifert  Germany 42.795 4 Lee Ho-Suk  South Korea 42.917

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Charles Hamelin  Canada 42.736 Q 2 Niels Kerstholt  Netherlands 43.320 Q 3 Paul Herrmann  Germany 44.630 4 Liu Xianwei  China 1:01.288 ADV – Travis Jayner  United States PEN Heat 4 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Olivier Jean  Canada 42.757 Q 2 John Eley  United Kingdom 42.959 Q 3 Song Weilong  China 43.304 4 Bartosz Konopko  Poland 43.579 5 Kiril Pandov  Bulgaria 1:37.704

Semifinals

Top 2 Athletes from each heat qualified for the Final.^[5]

Heat 1 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Simon Cho  United States 42.625 Q 2 Liu Xianwei  China 42.737 Q 3 John Eley  United Kingdom 1:11.002 4 Francois Hamelin  Canada 1:13.490

Heat 2 Rank Athlete Country Time Notes 1 Niels Kerstholt  Netherlands 43.364 Q 2 Olivier Jean  Canada 43.896 Q 3 Liang Wenhao  China 44.303 4 Thibaut Fauconnet  France 44.516 ADV – Charles Hamelin  Canada PEN

Final

^[6]

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
01 !	Simon Cho	United States	42.307
02 !	Olivier Jean	Canada	42.429
03 !	Liang Wenhao	China	42.493
4	Liu Xianwei	China	42.523
5	Niels Kerstholt	Netherlands	58.500

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