# Road speed skating at the 2017 World Games – Men's 500 m sprint

The men's 500 m sprint competition in road speed skating at the 2017 World Games took place on 25 July 2017 at the Millennium Park in Wrocław, Poland.

## Competition format

A total of 34 athletes entered the competition. In each round 2 best skaters qualify to the next round.

## Results
### Preliminaries

| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Gwendal Le Pivert | France | 44.321 | Q |
| 2 | Huang Yu-lin | Chinese Taipei | 44.921 | Q |
| 3 | Gaweł Oficjalski | Poland | 45.771 | |
| 4 | Jan Świątek | Poland | 47.036 | |
| 5 | Kao Mao-chieh | Chinese Taipei | 47.360 | |
| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Edwin Estrada | Colombia | 43.204 | Q |
| 2 | Michel Mulder | Netherlands | 43.723 | Q |
| 3 | Emanuelle Silva Santibanez | Chile | 44.049 | |
| | Livio Wenger | Switzerland | DNS | |
| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Giuseppe Bramante | Italy | 44.913 | Q |
| 2 | Renato Campana | Ecuador | 45.219 | Q |
| 3 | Christian Kromoser | Austria | 45.953 | |
| | Jorge Luis Martinez | Mexico | DNS | |
| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Martyn Dias | Portugal | 47.058 | Q |
| 2 | Ezequiel Cappellano | Argentina | 47.063 | Q |
| 3 | Antony Nalder | New Zealand | 47.265 | |
| | Ioseba Fernandez | Spain | DNS | |
| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Elton De Souza | France | 45.618 | Q |
| 2 | Lucas Silva Santibanez | Chile | 46.367 | Q |
| 3 | Kay Schipper | Netherlands | 46.506 | |
| 4 | Paweł Ciężki | Poland | 46.727 | |
| | Daniel Niero | Italy | DNS | |
| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Andrés Jiménez | Colombia | 45.364 | Q |
| 2 | Ronald Mulder | Netherlands | 45.422 | Q |
| | Stefano Mareschi | Italy | DNS | |
| | Bart Swings | Belgium | DNS | |
| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Jhoan Guzmán | Venezuela | 44.530 | Q |
| 2 | Diogo Marreiros | Portugal | 44.606 | Q |
| 3 | Franco Geancarlo | Ecuador | 44.725 | |
| 4 | Matej Pravda | Czech Republic | 45.070 | |
| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Simon Albrecht | Germany | 47.116 | Q |
| 2 | Liam Garriga | Australia | 47.376 | Q |
| | Peter Michael | New Zealand | DNS | |
| | Felix Rijnhen | Germany | DNS | |

### Quarterfinals

| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Gwendal Le Pivert | France | 42.634 | Q |
| 2 | Simon Albrecht | Germany | 42.931 | Q |
| 3 | Huang Yu-lin | Chinese Taipei | 43.451 | |
| 4 | Liam Garriga | Australia | 44.375 | |
| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Edwin Estrada | Colombia | 43.016 | Q |
| 2 | Jhoan Guzmán | Venezuela | 43.144 | Q |
| 3 | Michel Mulder | Netherlands | 43.255 | |
| 4 | Diogo Marreiros | Portugal | 43.813 | |
| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Lucas Silva Santibanez | Chile | 45.117 | Q |
| 2 | Elton De Souza | France | 45.126 | Q |
| 3 | Martyn Dias | Portugal | 45.220 | |
| 4 | Ezequiel Cappellano | Argentina | 45.308 | |
| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Andrés Jiménez | Colombia | 43.869 | Q |
| 2 | Giuseppe Bramante | Italy | 43.876 | Q |
| 3 | Ronald Mulder | Netherlands | 43.905 | |
| 4 | Renato Campana | Ecuador | 44.362 | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Gwendal Le Pivert | France | 41.841 | Q |
| 2 | Simon Albrecht | Germany | 41.969 | Q |
| 3 | Giuseppe Bramante | Italy | 42.411 | |
| 4 | Andrés Jiménez | Colombia | 42.944 | |
| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Edwin Estrada | Colombia | 41.896 | Q |
| 2 | Jhoan Guzmán | Venezuela | 42.047 | Q |
| 3 | Elton De Souza | France | 42.201 | |
| 4 | Lucas Silva Santibanez | Chile | 52.616 | |

### Final

| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
| | Gwendal Le Pivert | France | 42.218 |
| | Edwin Estrada | Colombia | 42.249 |
| | Jhoan Guzmán | Venezuela | 42.405 |
| 4 | Simon Albrecht | Germany | 42.799 |