Speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres


The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1972 Winter Olympics took place on 5 February, at the Makomanai Open Stadium.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
The following new Olympic and World records was set during the competition.
DatePairAthleteCountryTimeORWR
5 FebruaryPair 1Hasse Börjes39.69OR
5 FebruaryPair 3Erhard Keller39.44OR

Results

RankAthleteCountryTimeNotes
Erhard Keller39.44
Hasse Börjes39.69
Valery Muratov39.80
4Per Bjørang39.91
5Seppo Hänninen40.12
6Leo Linkovesi40.14
7Ove König40.25
8Masaki Suzuki40.35
9Mats Wallberg40.41
10Hans Lichtenstern40.55
11Pete Eberling40.58
12Lasse Efskind40.60
13Takayuki Hida40.62
14Vladimir Komarov40.65
15Neil Blatchford40.67
16Johan Granath40.79
17Norio Hirate41.08
18Johan Lind41.14
19Keiichi Suzuki41.28
20Greg Lyman41.30-
21Gerd Zimmermann41.35-
22Jeong Chung-gu41.42
23Otmar Braunecker42.14
24David Hampton42.59-
25Bruno Toniolli42.67
25Eddy Verheijen42.67
27Jouko Salakka42.81
28Luvsanlkhagvyn Dashnyam42.86
29Gerry Cassan42.87
30John Cassidy43.01-
31Herbert Schwarz43.03
32Jappie van Dijk43.04
33Richard Tourne43.06
34Ard Schenk43.40
35Jim Lynch43.51
36Colin Coates44.74
-Ole Christian IversenDNF
-John WursterDNF