Speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres
Introduction The '''men's 500 metres speed skating''' competition of the Vancouver 2010 Olympics was held at Richmond Olympic Oval on 15 February 2010.
Track maintenance issues Competition was stopped for approximately ninety minutes during the first run, due to concerns over the naturally deteriorating quality of the ice after so many skaters had raced on it and the seeming inability of resurfacing equipment to do anything about it. The two ice resurfacing machines prepared to maintain the surface of the ice track both malfunctioned. A reserve machine was employed, but it left the ice surface too rough and pitted to permit safe racing by the athletes. Finally, one of the original two machines was repaired sufficiently to fix the track. Said Arie Koops, director of Dutch speed skating of the delay and who felt that the third machine wasn't properly prepared, "When skaters are not prepared for a race you don't send them out. It should be the same with the resurfacing machine. If one machine was broken, they should have prepared the third. It was standing there in the garage. I have never seen anything like this." A Zamboni brand resurfacer is being brought in from Calgary for the remainder of the games. American skater Shani Davis withdrew from the event, citing fatigue.
Records Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.500 meters (1 race)500 meters x 2 (2 races)No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition. The track records of 34.80 s and 69.73 s set by Lee Kang-seok on 15 March 2009 were also not broken.
Results  Rank   Name  Country Pair  Lane  Race 1  Rank  Pair   Lane Race 2  Rank  Total  Time behind    Mo Tae-bum    13  i  34.923  2  19  o  34.906  2  69.82     Keiichiro Nagashima    19  i  35.108  6  17  o  34.876  1  69.98  +0.16   Joji Kato    17  o  34.937  3  20  i  35.076  5  70.01  +0.19   Lee Kang-seok    17  i  35.053  4  18  o  34.988  3  70.041  +0.22   Mika Poutala    18  i  34.863  1  20  o  35.181  11  70.044  +0.22   Jan Smeekens    13  o  35.160  12  15  i  35.051  4  70.21  +0.39   Yu Fengtong    15  i  35.116  7  16  o  35.120  7  70.23  +0.41   Jamie Gregg    16  o  35.142  9  17  i  35.126  8  70.26  +0.44   Jeremy Wotherspoon    12  o  35.094  5  19  i  35.188  12  70.282  +0.46 10  Zhang Zhongqi    16  i  35.175  14  14  o  35.113  6  70.288  +0.46 11  Ronald Mulder    20  i  35.155  11  15  o  35.146  10  70.30  +0.48 12  Tucker Fredricks    20  o  35.218  15  13  i  35.138  9  70.35  +0.53 13  Yūya Oikawa    18  o  35.174  13  14  i  35.254  14  70.42  +0.60 14  Dmitry Lobkov    9  o  35.133  8  18  i  35.335  15  70.46  +0.64 15  Lee Kyou-hyuk    19  o  35.145  10  16  i  35.344  16  70.48  +0.66 16  Mike Ireland    9  i  35.386  17  13  o  35.253  13  70.63  +0.81 17  Akio Ohta    15  o  35.315  16  12  i  35.347  17  70.66  +0.84 18  Nico Ihle    2  o  35.532  19  11  i  35.539  18  71.07  +1.25 19  Mun Jun    14  i  35.552  20  12  o  35.640  19  71.19  +1.37 20  Simon Kuipers    11  i  35.662  23  11  o  35.669  20  71.33  +1.51 21  Kyle Parrott    11  o  35.577  21  10  i  35.767  23  71.344  +1.52 22  Maciej Ustynowicz    10  o  35.596  22  9  i  35.753  22  71.349  +1.52 23  Samuel Schwarz    3  o  35.795  24  8  i  35.715  21  71.51  +1.69 24  Ermanno Ioriatti    10  i  35.957  29  8  o  35.842  24  71.79  +1.97 25  Wang Nan    5  o  35.915  26  7  i  35.928  25  71.84  +2.02 26  Nick Pearson    2  i  35.834  25  10  o  36.094  28  71.92  +2.10 27  Tuomas Nieminen    7  o  35.940  27  6  i  36.047  26  71.98  +2.15 28  Liu Fangyi    6  o  36.193  34  5  i  36.047  27  72.24  +2.42 29  Jan Bos    1  i  36.149  31  6  o  36.111  29  72.26  +2.44 30  Markus Puolakka    5  i  36.152  32  5  o  36.204  31  72.35  +2.53 31  Konrad Niedźwiedzki    6  i  36.183  33  4  o  36.179  30  72.36  +2.54 32  Aleksandr Lebedev    3  i  36.144  30  7  o  36.276  33  72.42  +2.60 33  Pekka Koskela    12  i  35.943  28  9  o  36.535  36  72.47  +2.65 34  Roman Krech    8  i  36.261  35  3  o  36.270  32  72.53  +2.71 35  Timofey Skopin    8  o  36.482  37  4  i  36.465  35  72.94  +3.12 36  Yevgeny Lalenkov    7  i  36.420  36  2  o  36.614  37  73.03  +3.21 37  Mitchell Whitmore    4  i  36.734  39  1  o  36.314  34  73.04  +3.22 38  Maciej Biega    4  o  36.642  38  3  i  37.934  38  74.57  +4.75   Shani Davis    14 o  35.45  18
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