Short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

Men's 500 metres
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Podium
VenueIceberg Skating Palace
Sochi, Russia
Dates18 February (qualifying heats)
21 February (quarterfinal, semifinal, and final)
Competitors32 from 16 nations
Winning time41.312
Medalists
 Victor Ahn  Russia
 Wu Dajing  China
 Charle Cournoyer  Canada
Short track speed skating at the
2014 Winter Olympics
500 m   men   women
1000 m men women
1500 m men women
3000 m relay women
5000 m relay men

The men's 500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held between 18–21 February 2014 at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, Russia.[1]

The qualifying heats was held on 18 February with the quarterfinal, the semifinal and the final on 21 February.

The defending Olympic Champion was Charles Hamelin of Canada, while the defending World Champion was Liang Wenhao of China. None of them won a medal.

Viktor Ahn of Russia won the race, getting the third individual medal in short track speed skating at the same Olympics (two golds and one bronze) and thus replicating his own performance at the 2006 Winter Olympics. No other male short track skater ever won three individual medals at the same Olympics. Wu Dajing of China finished second, and Charle Cournoyer of Canada won the bronze medal.

Qualification

Countries were assigned quotas using a combination of the four special Olympic Qualification classifications that were held at two world cups in November 2013. A nation may enter a maximum of three athletes per event.[2] For this event a total of 32 athletes representing 16 nations qualified to compete.[3]

Results

The event was started at 20:30.[4]

Preliminaries

Heats

Q – qualified for Quarterfinals
ADV – advanced
PEN – penalty
Heat 1
Heat 2
Heat 6
Heat 8
Rank Heat Name Country Time Notes
1 1 Park Se-yeong  South Korea 41.566 Q
2 1 Satoshi Sakashita  Japan 41.629 Q
3 1 Vladislav Bykanov  Israel 41.769
4 1 Pierre Boda  Australia 42.702
1 2 Charle Cournoyer  Canada 41.180 Q
2 2 Freek van der Wart  Netherlands 41.190 Q
3 2 Sándor Liu Shaolin  Hungary 41.683
4 2 Anthony Lobello  Italy 42.133
1 3 Liang Wenhao  China 41.647 Q
2 3 Lee Han-bin  South Korea 41.982 Q
3 3 Yuri Confortola  Italy 42.042
4 3 Eduardo Alvarez  United States 1:15.108
1 4 Han Tianyu  China 41.592 Q
2 4 Vladimir Grigorev  Russia 41.883 Q
3 4 Sébastien Lepape  France 42.167
4 4 Jack Whelbourne  Great Britain 42.513
1 5 Viktor Ahn  Russia 41.450 Q
2 5 Jon Eley  Great Britain 41.554 Q
3 5 Aidar Bekzhanov  Kazakhstan 41.800
4 5 Jordan Malone  United States 42.533
1 6 Wu Dajing  China 41.712 Q
2 6 Viktor Knoch  Hungary 42.261 Q
3 6 Niels Kerstholt  Netherlands 42.441
4 6 Nurbergen Zhumagaziyev  Kazakhstan 42.680
1 7 Olivier Jean  Canada 41.616 Q
2 7 J. R. Celski  United States 41.717 Q
3 7 Mackenzie Blackburn  Chinese Taipei 42.337
4 7 Thibaut Fauconnet  France 42.368
1 8 Sjinkie Knegt  Netherlands 41.235 Q
2 8 Semen Elistratov  Russia 41.355 Q
3 8 Robert Seifert  Germany 41.624
4 8 Charles Hamelin  Canada 1:18.871

Quarterfinal

Q – qualified for Semifinals
ADV – advanced
PEN – penalty
Rank Quarterfinal Name Country Time Notes
1 1 Sjinkie Knegt  Netherlands 41.683 Q
2 1 Liang Wenhao  China 41.817 Q
3 1 Viktor Knoch  Hungary 42.043
– 1 Semen Elistratov  Russia PEN
1 2 Han Tianyu  China 41.390 Q
2 2 J. R. Celski  United States 53.178 Q
3 2 Satoshi Sakashita  Japan 59.249 ADV
– 2 Park Se-yeong  South Korea PEN
1 3 Wu Dajing  China 41.056 Q
2 3 Charle Cournoyer  Canada 41.060 Q
3 3 Freek van der Wart  Netherlands 1:01.371
– 3 Vladimir Grigorev  Russia PEN
1 4 Viktor Ahn  Russia 41.257 Q
2 4 Jon Eley  Great Britain 41.337 Q
3 4 Lee Han-bin  South Korea 41.471
4 4 Olivier Jean  Canada 41.760

Semifinals

QA – qualified for Final A
QB – qualified for Final B
ADV – advanced
PEN – penalty
YC – yellow card
Rank Semifinal Name Country Time Notes
1 1 Wu Dajing  China 40.846 QA
2 1 Charle Cournoyer  Canada 40.945 QA
3 1 Han Tianyu  China 41.151 QB
4 1 J. R. Celski  United States 41.152 QB
5 1 Satoshi Sakashita  Japan 41.661
1 2 Viktor Ahn  Russia 41.063 QA
2 2 Liang Wenhao  China 41.221 QA
3 2 Sjinkie Knegt  Netherlands 41.290 QB
4 2 Jon Eley  Great Britain 41.441 QB

Finals

Final B (Classification Round)

Rank Name Country Time Notes
5 Han Tianyu  China 41.534
6 J. R. Celski  United States 41.786
7 Jon Eley  Great Britain 41.870
8 Sjinkie Knegt  Netherlands 42.608

Final A (Medal Round)

Viktor Ahn
Rank Name Country Time Notes
1st, gold medalist(s) Viktor Ahn  Russia 41.312
2nd, silver medalist(s) Wu Dajing  China 41.516
3rd, bronze medalist(s) Charle Cournoyer  Canada 41.617
4 Liang Wenhao  China 1:13.590

References

  1. ↑ "Short Track Speed Skating Schedule and Results". SOOC. Retrieved 12 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Qualification Systems for XXII Olympic Winter Games, Sochi 2014" (PDF). International Skating Union. September 2012. Retrieved 20 December 2012.
  3. ↑ "XXII Olympic Winter Games 2014 Sochi - Entries Short Track Speed Skating". International Skating Union. 22 November 2013. Retrieved 22 November 2013.
  4. ↑ Final Results
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