The men's 500 metres speed skating competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Turin, Italy. The competition consisted of two separate 500 metre races, with the competitors ranked by their cumulative time from the two races.

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.

Results PlaceAthlete CountryRace 1Time (place)Race2 Time (place) Total TimeDifference Joey Cheek 34.82 (1) 34.94 (1) 69.76 -- Dmitry Dorofeyev 35.24 (2) 35.17 (3) 70.41 +0.65 Lee Kang-seok 35.34 (3) 35.09 (2) 70.43 +0.67 4 Yūya Oikawa 35.35 (4) 35.21 (5) 70.56 +0.80 5 Yu Fengtong 35.39 (6) 35.29 (6=) 70.68 +0.92 6 Joji Kato 35.59 (11=) 35.19 (4) 70.78 +1.02 7 Michael Ireland 35.59 (11=) 35.29 (6=) 70.88 +1.12 8 Choi Jae-bong 35.61 (13) 35.43 (9=) 71.04 +1.28 9 Jeremy Wotherspoon 35.37 (5) 35.68 (17=) 71.05 +1.29 10 Pekka Koskela 35.58 (9=) 35.51 (12) 71.09 +1.33 11 Jan Bos 35.68 (16) 35.43 (9=) 71.11 +1.35 12 Casey FitzRandolph 35.78 (18) 35.34 (8) 71.12 +1.36 13 Keiichiro Nagashima 35.67 (15) 35.47 (11) 71.14 +1.38 14 Dmitry Lobkov 35.55 (8) 35.62 (13=) 71.17 +1.41 15 Janne Hänninen 35.58 (9=) 35.67 (15=) 71.25 +1.49 16 Erben Wennemars 35.46 (7) 35.84 (25) 71.30 +1.54 17 Lee Kyou-hyuk 35.76 (17) 35.62 (13=) 71.38 +1.62 18 Hiroyasu Shimizu 35.66 (14) 35.78 (21) 71.44 +1.68 19 An Weijiang 35.89 (21) 35.67 (15=) 71.56 +1.80 20 Erik Zachrisson 35.80 (19) 35.81 (23) 71.61 +1.85 21 Ermanno Ioriatti 35.88 (20) 35.80 (22) 71.68 +1.92 22 Mika Poutala 35.91 (22) 35.83 (24) 71.74 +1.98 23 Simon Kuipers 36.10 (27) 35.74 (20) 71.84 +2.08 24 Aleksey Proshin 35.96 (23) 35.94 (26) 71.90 +2.14 25 Tucker Fredricks 36.02 (25) 35.99 (28) 72.01 +2.25 26 Kip Carpenter 36.40 (31) 35.68 (17=) 72.08 +2.32 27 Sergey Kornilov 36.00 (24) 36.24 (32) 72.24 +2.48 28 Lu Zhuo 36.39 (30) 35.96 (27) 72.35 +2.59 29 Vincent Labrie 36.31 (29) 36.12 (29=) 72.43 +2.67 30 Brock Miron 36.42 (32) 36.12 (29=) 72.54 +2.78 31 Maurizio Carnino 36.24 (28) 36.43 (33) 72.67 +2.91 32 Artur Waś 36.43 (33) 36.61 (35) 73.04 +3.28 33 Li Yu 36.57 (34) 36.56 (34) 73.13 +3.37 34 Aleksandr Zhigin 36.88 (35) 36.92 (36) 73.80 +4.04 35 Beorn Nijenhuis 48.84 (36) 35.71 (19) 84.55 +14.79 36 Maciej Ustynowicz 36.09 (26) 51.92 (37) 88.01 +18.25 37 Gwon Sun-cheon 58.66 (37) 36.13 (31) 94.79 +25.03

Race 1

Pair order

Skater with first inner lane listed first

Brock Miron, CAN (alone, first inner) Dmitry Lobkov, RUS – Sergey Kornilov, RUS Maciej Ustynowicz, POL – Vincent Labrie, CAN Choi Jae-bong, KOR – Aleksandr Zhigin, KAZ Janne Hänninen, FIN – Aleksey Proshin, RUS Artur Waś, POL – Erik Zachrisson, SWE Mika Poutala, FIN – Maurizio Carnino, ITA Zhuo Lu, CHN – Jan Bos, NED Dmitry Dorofeyev, RUS – Erben Wennemars, NED Li Yu, CHN – Pekka Koskela, FIN Ermanno Ioriatti, ITA – An Weijiang, CHN Yūya Oikawa, JPN – Simon Kuipers, NED Hiroyasu Shimizu, JPN – Lee Kyou-hyuk, KOR Tucker Fredricks, USA – Keiichiro Nagashima, JPN Beorn Nijenhuis, NED – Kwon Sun Chun, KOR Joji Kato, JPN – Michael Ireland, CAN Joey Cheek, USA – Jeremy Wotherspoon, CAN Casey FitzRandolph, USA – Yu Fengtong, CHN Kip Carpenter, USA – Lee Kang-seok, KOR

Fastest 100 m

The ten fastest times are listed

Place Athlete Time Difference 1 9.59 -- 2 9.63 +0.04 3 9.65 +0.06 4 9.66 +0.07 5 9.67 +0.08 6 9.69 +0.10 7 9.72 +0.13 8 9.75 +0.16 9 9.76 +0.17 9.76 +0.17

Race 2

Pair order

Skater with first inner lane listed first

Beorn Nijenhuis, NED (alone, last outer) Kwon Sun Chun, KOR – Li Yu, CHN Aleksandr Zhigin, KAZ – Artur Waś, POL Brock Miron, CAN – Vincent Labrie, CAN Maurizio Carnino, ITA – Kip Carpenter, USA Simon Kuipers, NED – Zhuo Lu, CHN Sergey Kornilov, RUS – Maciej Ustynowicz, POL Aleksey Proshin, RUS – Tucker Fredricks, USA An Weijiang, CHN – Mika Poutala, FIN Erik Zachrisson, SWE – Ermanno Ioriatti, ITA Lee Kyou-hyuk, KOR – Casey FitzRandolph, USA Jan Bos, NED – Hiroyasu Shimizu, JPN Choi Jae-bong, KOR – Keiichiro Nagashima, JPN Michael Ireland, CAN – Joji Kato, JPN Pekka Koskela, FIN – Janne Hänninen, FIN Erben Wennemars, NED – Dmitry Lobkov, RUS Yūya Oikawa, JPN – Yu Fengtong, CHN Jeremy Wotherspoon, CAN – Dmitry Dorofeyev, RUS Lee Kang-seok, KOR – Joey Cheek, USA

Fastest 100 m Place Athlete Time Difference 1 9.56 -- 2 9.59 +0.03 3 9.63 +0.07 4 9.65 +0.09 5 9.66 +0.10 6 9.67 +0.11 7 9.73 +0.17 8 9.74 +0.18 9.74 +0.18 9.74 +0.18

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