Short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres
# Short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

The men's 500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held between 18–21 February 2014 at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, Russia.

The qualifying heats was held on 18 February with the quarterfinal, the semifinal and the final on 21 February.

The defending Olympic Champion was Charles Hamelin of Canada, while the defending World Champion was Liang Wenhao of China. None of them won a medal.

Viktor Ahn of Russia won the race, getting the third individual medal in short track speed skating at the same Olympics (two golds and one bronze) and thus replicating his own performance at the 2006 Winter Olympics. No other male short track skater ever won three individual medals at the same Olympics. Wu Dajing of China finished second, and Charle Cournoyer of Canada won the bronze medal.

## Qualification

Countries were assigned quotas using a combination of the four special Olympic Qualification classifications that were held at two world cups in November 2013. A nation may enter a maximum of three athletes per event. For this event a total of 32 athletes representing 16 nations qualified to compete.

## Results

The event was started at 20:30.

### Preliminaries

**Heats**


    Q – qualified for Quarterfinals
    ADV – advanced
    PEN – penalty

| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Park Se-yeong | South Korea | 41.566 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Satoshi Sakashita | Japan | 41.629 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Vladislav Bykanov | Israel | 41.769 | |
| 4 | 1 | Pierre Boda | Australia | 42.702 | |
| 1 | 2 | Charle Cournoyer | Canada | 41.180 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Freek van der Wart | Netherlands | 41.190 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Sándor Liu Shaolin | Hungary | 41.683 | |
| 4 | 2 | Anthony Lobello | Italy | 42.133 | |
| 1 | 3 | Liang Wenhao | China | 41.647 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Lee Han-bin | South Korea | 41.982 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Yuri Confortola | Italy | 42.042 | |
| 4 | 3 | Eduardo Alvarez | United States | 1:15.108 | |
| 1 | 4 | Han Tianyu | China | 41.592 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Vladimir Grigorev | Russia | 41.883 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Sébastien Lepape | France | 42.167 | |
| 4 | 4 | Jack Whelbourne | Great Britain | 42.513 | |
| 1 | 5 | Viktor Ahn | Russia | 41.450 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Jon Eley | Great Britain | 41.554 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Aidar Bekzhanov | Kazakhstan | 41.800 | |
| 4 | 5 | Jordan Malone | United States | 42.533 | |
| 1 | 6 | Wu Dajing | China | 41.712 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Viktor Knoch | Hungary | 42.261 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Niels Kerstholt | Netherlands | 42.441 | |
| 4 | 6 | Nurbergen Zhumagaziyev | Kazakhstan | 42.680 | |
| 1 | 7 | Olivier Jean | Canada | 41.616 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | J. R. Celski | United States | 41.717 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Mackenzie Blackburn | Chinese Taipei | 42.337 | |
| 4 | 7 | Thibaut Fauconnet | France | 42.368 | |
| 1 | 8 | Sjinkie Knegt | Netherlands | 41.235 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Semen Elistratov | Russia | 41.355 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Robert Seifert | Germany | 41.624 | |
| 4 | 8 | Charles Hamelin | Canada | 1:18.871 | |

**Quarterfinal**


    Q – qualified for Semifinals
    ADV – advanced
    PEN – penalty

| Rank | Quarterfinal | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Sjinkie Knegt | Netherlands | 41.683 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Liang Wenhao | China | 41.817 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Viktor Knoch | Hungary | 42.043 | |
| – | 1 | Semen Elistratov | Russia | | PEN |
| 1 | 2 | Han Tianyu | China | 41.390 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | J. R. Celski | United States | 53.178 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Satoshi Sakashita | Japan | 59.249 | ADV |
| – | 2 | Park Se-yeong | South Korea | | PEN |
| 1 | 3 | Wu Dajing | China | 41.056 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Charle Cournoyer | Canada | 41.060 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Freek van der Wart | Netherlands | 1:01.371 | |
| – | 3 | Vladimir Grigorev | Russia | | PEN |
| 1 | 4 | Viktor Ahn | Russia | 41.257 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Jon Eley | Great Britain | 41.337 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Lee Han-bin | South Korea | 41.471 | |
| 4 | 4 | Olivier Jean | Canada | 41.760 | |

**Semifinals**


    QA – qualified for Final A
    QB – qualified for Final B
    ADV – advanced
    PEN – penalty
    YC – yellow card

| Rank | Semifinal | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | 1 | Wu Dajing | China | 40.846 | QA |
| 2 | 1 | Charle Cournoyer | Canada | 40.945 | QA |
| 3 | 1 | Han Tianyu | China | 41.151 | QB |
| 4 | 1 | J. R. Celski | United States | 41.152 | QB |
| 5 | 1 | Satoshi Sakashita | Japan | 41.661 | |
| 1 | 2 | Viktor Ahn | Russia | 41.063 | QA |
| 2 | 2 | Liang Wenhao | China | 41.221 | QA |
| 3 | 2 | Sjinkie Knegt | Netherlands | 41.290 | QB |
| 4 | 2 | Jon Eley | Great Britain | 41.441 | QB |

### Finals

**Final B (Classification Round)**

| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| 5 | Han Tianyu | China | 41.534 |
| 6 | J. R. Celski | United States | 41.786 |
| 7 | Jon Eley | Great Britain | 41.870 |
| 8 | Sjinkie Knegt | Netherlands | 42.608 |

**Final A (Medal Round)**

| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
| - | - | - | - |
| | Viktor Ahn | Russia | 41.312 |
| | Wu Dajing | China | 41.516 |
| | Charle Cournoyer | Canada | 41.617 |
| 4 | Liang Wenhao | China | 1:13.590 |
