# Short-track speed skating at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics – Boys' 500 metres

The boys' 500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2020 Winter Youth Olympics was held on 20 January at the Lausanne Skating Arena.

## Results
### Heats

    Q – qualified for the quarterfinals
    PEN – penalty
| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Julian Macaraeg | Philippines | 43.235 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Péter Jászapáti | Hungary | 43.496 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Liao Wei-cheng | Chinese Taipei | 44.147 | |
| 4 | 1 | Stribor Suman | Croatia | DNF | |
| 1 | 2 | Jang Sung-woo | South Korea | 42.070 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Sanzhar Zhanissov | Kazakhstan | 43.141 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Mateusz Krzemiński | Poland | 43.245 | |
| 4 | 2 | Till Schäfer | Germany | 44.292 | |
| 1 | 3 | Shogo Miyata | Japan | 41.605 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Thomas Nadalini | Italy | 41.929 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Félix Pigeon | Canada | 42.140 | |
| 4 | 3 | Tobias Wolf | Austria | 45.338 | |
| 1 | 4 | Lee Jeong-min | South Korea | 41.625 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Kosei Hayashi | Japan | 43.912 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Sean Yeo | Malaysia | 44.026 | |
| | 4 | Jonathan So | United States | PEN | |
| 1 | 5 | Vladimir Balbekov | Russia | 41.828 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Gabriel Volet | France | 42.812 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Danylo Fedorenko | Ukraine | 44.844 | |
| 4 | 5 | Kieran Guan | Australia | 53.958 | |
| 1 | 6 | Ethan De Rose | New Zealand | 43.280 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Trevor Tan | Singapore | 43.424 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Warre Van Damme | Belgium | 43.829 | |
| 4 | 6 | Matt Gardner | Great Britain | 45.460 | |
| 1 | 7 | Zhang Tianyi | China | 41.263 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | Natthapat Kancharin | Thailand | 43.008 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Thibault Métraux | Switzerland | 45.226 | |
| 4 | 7 | Lubomir Kalchev | Bulgaria | DNF | |
| 1 | 8 | Li Kongchao | China | 41.722 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Daniil Nikolaev | Russia | 41.820 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Jenning de Boo | Netherlands | 41.973 | |
| 4 | 8 | Māris Jānis Šternmanis | Latvia | 47.046 | |

### Quarterfinals

    Q – qualified for the semifinals
    YC – yellow card
| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Lee Jeong-min | South Korea | 40.972 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Jang Sung-woo | South Korea | 41.040 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Gabriel Volet | France | 43.583 | |
| | 1 | Trevor Tan | Singapore | YC | |
| 1 | 2 | Zhang Tianyi | China | 40.614 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Daniil Nikolaev | Russia | 41.334 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Ethan De Rose | New Zealand | 42.689 | |
| 4 | 2 | Kosei Hayashi | Japan | 42.878 | |
| 1 | 3 | Shogo Miyata | Japan | 41.662 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Thomas Nadalini | Italy | 41.926 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Julian Macaraeg | Philippines | 42.046 | |
| 4 | 3 | Péter Jászapáti | Hungary | 42.357 | |
| 1 | 4 | Vladimir Balbekov | Russia | 41.357 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Li Kongchao | China | 41.524 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Sanzhar Zhanissov | Kazakhstan | 42.973 | |
| 4 | 4 | Natthapat Kancharin | Thailand | DNF | |

### Semifinals

    QA – qualified for Final A
    QB – qualified for Final B
| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Vladimir Balbekov | Russia | 41.399 | QA |
| 2 | 1 | Lee Jeong-min | South Korea | 41.454 | QA |
| 3 | 1 | Daniil Nikolaev | Russia | 41.613 | QB |
| 4 | 1 | Li Kongchao | China | 41.639 | QB |
| 1 | 2 | Zhang Tianyi | China | 40.908 | QA |
| 2 | 2 | Jang Sung-woo | South Korea | 40.989 | QA |
| 3 | 2 | Shogo Miyata | Japan | 41.663 | QB |
| 4 | 2 | Thomas Nadalini | Italy | 43.147 | QB |

### Final B

| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
| 5 | Daniil Nikolaev | Russia | 42.266 |
| 6 | Shogo Miyata | Japan | 42.386 |
| 7 | Li Kongchao | China | 42.419 |
| 8 | Thomas Nadalini | Italy | 42.553 |

### Final A

The final A was held at 15:20.
| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
| | Lee Jeong-min | South Korea | 40.772 |
| | Jang Sung-woo | South Korea | 41.000 |
| | Zhang Tianyi | China | 48.570 |
| 4 | Vladimir Balbekov | Russia | 56.847 |