Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres
# Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place on 4 February, at the Eisschnelllaufbahn Innsbruck.

## Records

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

| World record | Yevgeny Grishin (URS) | 39.5 | Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union | 28 January 1963 |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| Olympic record | Yevgeny Grishin (URS) Yevgeny Grishin (URS) | 40.2 | Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy Squaw Valley, United States | 28 January 1956 24 February 1960 |

The following new Olympic record was set.

| Date | Athlete | Time | OR | WR |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| 4 February | Terry McDermott (USA) | 40.1 | OR | |

## Results

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - |
| | Terry McDermott | United States | 40.1 | OR |
| | Alv Gjestvang | Norway | 40.6 | |
| | Yevgeny Grishin | Soviet Union | 40.6 | |
| | Vladimir Orlov | Soviet Union | 40.6 | |
| 5 | Keiichi Suzuki | Japan | 40.7 | |
| 6 | Eddie Rudolph, Jr. | United States | 40.9 | |
| 7 | Heike Hedlund | Sweden | 41.0 | |
| 8 | Bill Disney | United States | 41.1 | |
| 8 | Villy Haugen | Norway | 41.1 | |
| 10 | Hroar Elvenes | Norway | 41.4 | |
| 10 | Raymond Fonvieille | France | 41.4 | |
| 10 | Rafael Grach | Soviet Union | 41.4 | |
| 10 | Simo Rinne | Finland | 41.4 | |
| 14 | Tom Gray | United States | 41.5 | |
| 15 | Boris Gulyayev | Soviet Union | 41.7 | |
| 16 | Helmut Kuhnert | United Team of Germany | 41.8 | |
| 16 | Pekka Lattunen | Finland | 41.8 | |
| 16 | Fumio Nagakubo | Japan | 41.8 | |
| 19 | Juhani Järvinen | Finland | 41.9 | |
| 19 | Kim Zin-hook | North Korea | 41.9 | |
| 21 | Magne Thomassen | Norway | 42.0 | |
| 22 | Björn Lekman | Sweden | 42.1 | |
| 23 | Toivo Salonen | Finland | 42.2 | |
| 24 | Herbert Höfl | United Team of Germany | 42.3 | |
| 24 | Günther Tilch | United Team of Germany | 42.3 | |
| 26 | André Kouprianoff | France | 42.5 | |
| 27 | Terry Malkin | Great Britain | 42.6 | |
| 27 | Bo Ollander | Sweden | 42.6 | |
| 29 | Manne Lavås | Sweden | 42.7 | |
| 30 | Ri Sung-ryool | North Korea | 43.0 | |
| 31 | Elio Locatelli | Italy | 43.1 | |
| 32 | Oldřich Teplý | Czechoslovakia | 43.2 | |
| 33 | François Brueren | Belgium | 43.4 | |
| 33 | Günter Traub | United Team of Germany | 43.4 | Ŕ |
| 35 | Manfred Zojer | Austria | 43.5 | |
| 36 | Peter Toyfl | Austria | 43.7 | |
| 37 | Mihály Martos | Hungary | 44.0 | |
| 38 | Luvsanlkhagvyn Dashnyam | Mongolia | 44.1 | |
| 39 | Ralf Olin | Canada | 44.2 | |
| 40 | György Ivánkai | Hungary | 44.3 | |
| 41 | Satoshi Shinpo | Japan | 44.4 | |
| 42 | Choi Yeong-Bae | South Korea | 44.8 | |
| 43 | Jean-Pierre Guéron | Switzerland | 44.9 | |
| 44 | Thomas Dawson | Great Britain | 45.2 | |
