2025 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships – Men's 500 metres
| Men's 500 metres at the 2025 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships | ||||||||||
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| Venue | Vikingskipet | |||||||||
| Location | Hamar, Norway | |||||||||
| Dates | 14 March | |||||||||
| Competitors | 24 from 11 nations | |||||||||
| Winning time | 34.24 | |||||||||
| Medalists | ||||||||||
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| 2025 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships | ||
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| 500 m | women | |
| 1000 m | men | women |
| 1500 m | men | women |
| 3000 m | women | |
| 5000 m | men | women |
| 10000 m | men | |
| Team sprint | men | women |
| Team pursuit | men | women |
| Mass start | men | women |
The Men's 500 metres competition at the 2025 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships took place on 14 March 2025.[1][2]
Qualification
A total of 24 entry quotas were available for the event, with a maximum of three per country. The entry quotas were assigned to countries following a Special Qualification Ranking List based on rankings and performances of skaters during the 2024–25 ISU Speed Skating World Cup.[3] Eligible skaters had to have met the qualification time of 36.60 at valid International Skating Union (ISU) events after 1 July 2023.[4]
Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and track records were as follows.
| Time | Athlete | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|
| World Record | 33.61 |  Pavel Kulizhnikov (RUS)
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9 March 2019 |
| Track Record | 34.31 | .svg.png){kind=small} Jeremy Wotherspoon (CAN)
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26 January 2008 |
Results
The race was started at 20:55.[5]
| Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Diff |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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12 | i | Jenning de Boo |  Netherlands |
34.24 TR |
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11 | i | Jordan Stolz | .png){kind=small} United States |
34.38 | +0.14 |
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11 | o | Cooper McLeod | United States |
34.52 | +0.28 |
| 4 | 10 | i | Laurent Dubreuil | Canada |
34.53 | +0.29 |
| 5 | 7 | o | Wataru Morishige |  Japan |
34.54 | +0.30 |
| 6 | 10 | o | Tatsuya Shinhama | Japan |
34.59 | +0.35 |
| 7 | 9 | i | Damian Żurek |  Poland |
34.61 | +0.37 |
| 8 | 8 | i | Yevgeniy Koshkin |  Kazakhstan |
34.63 | +0.39 |
| 9 | 12 | o | Marek Kania | Poland |
34.72 | +0.48 |
| 10 | 9 | o | Kim Jun-ho |  South Korea |
34.73 | +0.49 |
| 11 | 8 | o | Merijn Scheperkamp | Netherlands |
34.85 | +0.61 |
| 12 | 2 | o | Cho Sang-hyeok | South Korea |
34.91 | +0.67 |
| 13 | 4 | o | Ryota Kojima | Japan |
34.93 | +0.69 |
| 14 | 7 | i | Marten Liiv |  Estonia |
34.95 | +0.71 |
| 15 | 4 | i | Bjørn Magnussen |  Norway |
35.04 | +0.80 |
| 16 | 5 | o | Piotr Michalski | Poland |
35.06 | +0.82 |
| 17 | 6 | o | Lian Ziwen |  China |
35.09 | +0.85 |
| 18 | 6 | i | Zach Stoppelmoor | United States |
35.19 | +0.95 |
| 19 | 3 | o | Xue Zhiwen | China |
35.39 | +1.15 |
| 20 | 2 | i | Christopher Fiola | Canada |
35.42 | +1.18 |
| 21 | 5 | i | Anders Johnson | Canada |
35.45 | +1.21 |
| 22 | 3 | i | Kim Tae-yun | South Korea |
35.53 | +1.29 |
| 23 | 1 | i | David Bosa |  Italy |
35.65 | +1.41 |
| 1 | o | Janno Botman | Netherlands |
Did not finish | ||
References
- ^ "ISU World Speed Skating Single Distances Championships – Start and result lists". live.isuresults.eu. Retrieved 8 March 2025.
- ^ "Start list" (PDF). ISU. 13 March 2025. Retrieved 13 March 2025.
- ^ "ISU Communication 2654: Speed Skating Championships 2025. Qualification process, quotas and entry procedures" (PDF). 15 July 2024.
- ^ "Final qualification ranking lists for allocation of quota places for World Championships 2025" (PDF). 2 March 2025.
- ^ "Final results" (PDF). ISU. 14 March 2025. Retrieved 14 March 2025.