Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres
# Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics took place on 15 February, at the L'anneau de vitesse.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:

| World record | Dan Jansen (USA) | 36.41 | Davos, Switzerland | 25 January 1992 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Olympic record | Uwe-Jens Mey (GDR) | 36.45 | Calgary, Canada | 14 February 1988 |

## Results

| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Difference |
| - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| | 4 | O | Uwe-Jens Mey | Germany | 37.14 | - |
| | 6 | I | Toshiyuki Kuroiwa | Japan | 37.18 | +0.04 |
| | 3 | I | Junichi Inoue | Japan | 37.26 | +0.12 |
| 4 | 2 | O | Dan Jansen | United States | 37.46 | +0.32 |
| 5 | 4 | I | Yasunori Miyabe | Japan | 37.49 | +0.35 |
| 5 | 11 | O | Gerard van Velde | Netherlands | 37.49 | +0.35 |
| 7 | 1 | O | Aleksandr Golubev | Unified Team | 37.51 | +0.37 |
| 8 | 5 | I | Igor Zhelezovski | Unified Team | 37.57 | +0.43 |
| 9 | 16 | O | Song Chen | China | 37.58 | +0.44 |
| 10 | 9 | O | Kim Yoon-man | South Korea | 37.60 | +0.46 |
| 11 | 15 | I | Liu Hongbo | China | 37.66 | +0.52 |
| 12 | 10 | O | Jaegal Sung-yeol | South Korea | 37.71 | +0.57 |
| 13 | 1 | I | Nick Thometz | United States | 37.83 | +0.69 |
| 14 | 11 | I | Robert Dubreuil | Canada | 37.86 | +0.72 |
| 14 | 6 | I | Vadim Shakshakbayev | Unified Team | 37.86 | +0.72 |
| 16 | 3 | O | Guy Thibault | Canada | 37.89 | +0.75 |
| 17 | 12 | I | Kevin Scott | Canada | 38.02 | +0.88 |
| 18 | 21 | I | Yukinori Miyabe | Japan | 38.12 | +0.98 |
| 19 | 8 | I | Marty Pierce | United States | 38.15 | +1.01 |
| 20 | 9 | I | Björn Forslund | Sweden | 38.24 | +1.10 |
| 21 | 2 | I | Sergey Klevchenya | Unified Team | 38.26 | +1.12 |
| 22 | 10 | I | Dave Cruikshank | United States | 38.28 | +1.14 |
| 23 | 5 | O | Peter Adeberg | Germany | 38.33 | +1.19 |
| 24 | 15 | O | Li Yong-chol | North Korea | 38.38 | +1.24 |
| 25 | 18 | O | Olaf Zinke | Germany | 38.40 | +1.26 |
| 26 | 14 | I | Harri Ilkka | Finland | 38.48 | +1.34 |
| 27 | 17 | I | Dai Jun | China | 38.51 | +1.37 |
| 27 | 13 | O | Rintje Ritsma | Netherlands | 38.51 | +1.37 |
| 29 | 20 | O | Arie Loef | Netherlands | 38.61 | +1.47 |
| 30 | 7 | I | Sean Ireland | Canada | 38.70 | +1.56 |
| 31 | 21 | O | Paweł Abratkiewicz | Poland | 38.74 | +1.60 |
| 31 | 12 | O | Lee In-hun | South Korea | 38.74 | +1.60 |
| 33 | 7 | O | Hans Markström | Sweden | 38.89 | +1.75 |
| 34 | 20 | I | Bo König | Sweden | 39.06 | +1.92 |
| 35 | 14 | O | Choi In-chol | North Korea | 39.59 | +2.45 |
| 36 | 19 | I | Zsolt Baló | Romania | 39.70 | +2.56 |
| 37 | 18 | I | Csaba Madarász | Hungary | 40.41 | +3.27 |
| 38 | 22 | O | Joakim Karlberg | Sweden | 40.71 | +3.57 |
| 39 | 16 | I | Jiří Kyncl | Czechoslovakia | 40.92 | +3.78 |
| 40 | 8 | O | Roland Brunner | Austria | 42.18 | +5.04 |
| 41 | 19 | O | Jiří Musil | Czechoslovakia | 42.20 | +5.06 |
| 42 | 13 | I | Bajro Čenanović | Yugoslavia | 43.09 | +5.95 |
| 43 | 17 | O | Slavenko Likić | Yugoslavia | 43.81 | +6.67 |
