Short track speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres
Introduction The '''men's 500 metres''' in '''short track speed skating''' at the '''2010 Winter Olympics''' was held 24–26 February 2010 at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.The qualifying heats were held on 24 February with the quarterfinal, the semifinal and the final were held on 26 February.
Results Hamelin kisses his girlfriend after winning the gold medal.There were thirty-two competitors representing sixteen nations.===Heats=== Rank  Heat  Name  Country  Time  Notes 1  1  Sung Si-bak    41.889  Q 2  1  Niels Kerstholt    42.180  Q 3  1  Nicolas Bean    42.344  4  1  Takahiro Fujimoto    42.366  1  2  Lee Ho-suk    41.632  Q 2  2  Simon Cho    41.726  Q 3  2  Semion Elistratov    42.982  4  2  Sjinkie Knegt    44.448  1  3  Kwak Yoon-gy    42.147  Q 2  3  Pieter Gysel    42.443  Q 3  3  Peter Darazs    42.800  4  3  Jordan Malone    1:03.884  1  4  Charles Hamelin    41.463  Q 2  4  Jon Eley    42.081  Q 3  4  Nicola Rodigari    42.190  4  4  Ruslan Zakharov    43.207  1  5  Thibaut Fauconnet    41.730  Q 2  5  Tyson Heung    41.835  Q 3  5  Blake Skjellerup    42.510  –  5  Liang Wenhao      DSQ 1  6  François-Louis Tremblay   41.397  Q, '''OR''' 2  6  Haralds Silovs    41.673  Q 3  6  Ma Yunfeng    41.954  4  6  Yuri Confortola    1:17.401  1  7  Apolo Ohno    41.665  Q 2  7  Olivier Jean    41.737  Q 3  7  Paul Worth    42.936  –  7  Aidar Bekzhanov      DSQ 1  8  Han Jialiang    41.869  Q 2  8  Jumpei Yoshizawa    42.158  Q 3  8  Robert Seifert    42.181  4  8  Viktor Knoch    42.197 ===Quarterfinal=== Rank  Heat  Name  Country  Time  Notes 1  1  Charles Hamelin    40.770  Q, '''OR''' 2  1  Sung Si-bak    40.821  Q 3  1  Simon Cho    41.211  4  1  Niels Kerstholt    42.128  1  2  Jon Eley    41.875  Q 2  2  Apolo Ohno    42.004  Q 3  2  Tyson Heung    48.554  ADV 4  2  Thibaut Fauconnet    51.339  1  3  Lee Ho-suk    41.269  Q 2  3  Olivier Jean    41.275  Q 3  3  Han Jialiang    41.443  4  3  Jumpei Yoshizawa    41.906  1  4  François-Louis Tremblay    41.326  Q 2  4  Kwak Yoon-gy    41.761  Q 3  4  Haralds Silovs    41.837  4  4  Pieter Gysel    41.980 ===Semifinal=== Rank  Heat  Name  Country  Time  Notes 1  1  Charles Hamelin    40.964  QA 2  1  Sung Si-bak    41.126  QA 3  1  Tyson Heung    41.455  QB 4  1  Jon Eley    41.504  QB –  1  Olivier Jean     DSQ 1  2  Apolo Ohno    41.460  QA 2  2  François-Louis Tremblay    41.515  QA 3  2  Kwak Yoon-gy    41.620  QB 4  2  Lee Ho-suk    1:24.514  QB===Finals=======Final B (Classification Round)==== Rank  Name  Country  Time  Notes 4  Kwak Yoon-gy    42.123  5  Tyson Heung    42.307  6  Jon Eley    42.681  7  Lee Ho-suk    49.149 ====Final A (Medal Round)==== Rank  Name  Country  Time  Notes   Charles Hamelin    40.981    Sung Si-bak    41.340    François-Louis Tremblay    46.366  –  Apolo Ohno     DSQ
References
External links *  2010 Winter Olympics results: Men's 500 m (heats), from http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-25. *  2010 Winter Olympics results: Men's 500 m (1/4 finals), from http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-25. *  2010 Winter Olympics results: Men's 500 m (semifinals), from http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-25. *  2010 Winter Olympics results: Men's 500 m (finals), from http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-25.