# Short-track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

The men's 500 metres competition in short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 11 February (heats) and 13 February (finals), at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing. Shaoang Liu of Hungary won the event, his first individual Olympic gold. Konstantin Ivliev, representing the Russian Olympic committee, won silver, his first Olympic medal. Steven Dubois of Canada won the bronze medal.
The defending champion is Wu Dajing. The bronze medalist, Lim Hyo-jun, qualified for the Olympics as well but will be representing China rather than South Korea, which he represented in 2018. Shaoang Liu is the 2021 World Short Track Speed Skating champion at the 500 m distance. Semion Elistratov and Pietro Sighel are the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Many top athletes did not participate in the championship, however. Shaolin Sándor Liu was leading the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup at the 500 m distance with four races completed before the Olympics, followed by Wu Dajing and Ren Ziwei. Wu Dajing is also the world and Olympic record holder.

## Qualification

Countries were assigned quotas based on their performance during the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup, with the top 32 athletes (maximum of three per country qualifying quotas. If a NOC declined a quota spot, it was distributed to the next available athlete, only if the maximum quota of 56 athletes per gender was not surpassed.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
| World record | Wu Dajing (CHN) | 39.505 | Salt Lake City, United States | 11 November 2018 |
| Olympic record | Wu Dajing (CHN) | 39.584 | Gangneung, South Korea | 22 February 2018 |

## Results
### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Shaolin Sándor Liu | Hungary | 40.948 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Sébastien Lepape | France | 42.081 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Kota Kikuchi | Japan | 42.176 | |
| | 1 | Lee June-seo | South Korea | | PEN |
| 1 | 2 | Ren Ziwei | China | 40.669 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Adil Galiakhmetov | Kazakhstan | 40.722 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Brendan Corey | Australia | 41.097 | |
| 4 | 2 | Maxime Laoun | Canada | No time | |
| 1 | 3 | Steven Dubois | Canada | 40.399 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Pavel Sitnikov | ROC | 40.591 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Andrea Cassinelli | Italy | 42.791 | |
| 4 | 3 | Oleh Handei | Ukraine | 44.163 | |
| 1 | 4 | Denis Nikisha | Kazakhstan | 40.482 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Jordan Pierre-Gilles | Canada | 40.488 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Stijn Desmet | Belgium | 40.585 | q |
| 4 | 4 | Katsunori Koike | Japan | 41.199 | |
| 1 | 5 | Konstantin Ivliev | ROC | 40.272 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | John-Henry Krueger | Hungary | 40.407 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Roberts Krūzbergs | Latvia | 40.430 | q |
| 4 | 5 | Quentin Fercoq | France | 40.548 | |
| 1 | 6 | Abzal Azhgaliyev | Kazakhstan | 40.870 | Q |
| 2 | 6 | Hwang Dae-heon | South Korea | 40.971 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Ryan Pivirotto | United States | 41.018 | q |
| 4 | 6 | Itzhak de Laat | Netherlands | No time | |
| 1 | 7 | Shaoang Liu | Hungary | 40.797 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | Vladislav Bykanov | Israel | 40.900 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Sun Long | China | 42.871 | ADV |
| | 7 | Jens van 't Wout | Netherlands | | PEN |
| 1 | 8 | Wu Dajing | China | 40.230 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Pietro Sighel | Italy | 40.350 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Sidney Chu | Hong Kong | 44.857 | |
| 4 | 8 | Dylan Hoogerwerf | Netherlands | No time | |

### Quarterfinals

| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Denis Nikisha | Kazakhstan | 40.355 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Pavel Sitnikov | ROC | 40.643 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Ren Ziwei | China | 40.714 | |
| 4 | 1 | Sun Long | China | 40.779 | |
| 5 | 1 | Adil Galiakhmetov | Kazakhstan | 40.925 | |
| 1 | 2 | Wu Dajing | China | 40.528 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Pietro Sighel | Italy | 40.644 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Roberts Krūzbergs | Latvia | 40.694 | q |
| 4 | 2 | Shaolin Sándor Liu | Hungary | 40.700 | |
| 5 | 2 | Sébastien Lepape | France | 46.814 | |
| 1 | 3 | Konstantin Ivliev | ROC | 40.351 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Hwang Dae-heon | South Korea | 40.636 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Abzal Azhgaliyev | Kazakhstan | 40.643 | q |
| 4 | 3 | Stijn Desmet | Belgium | 40.718 | |
| 5 | 3 | John-Henry Krueger | Hungary | 40.844 | |
| 1 | 4 | Shaoang Liu | Hungary | 40.386 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Steven Dubois | Canada | 40.494 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Vladislav Bykanov | Israel | 41.157 | |
| 4 | 4 | Ryan Pivirotto | United States | 41.841 | |
| 5 | 4 | Jordan Pierre-Gilles | Canada | No time | |

### Semifinals

| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Konstantin Ivliev | ROC | 40.655 | QA |
| 2 | 1 | Pietro Sighel | Italy | 40.847 | QA |
| 3 | 1 | Pavel Sitnikov | ROC | 40.848 | QB |
| 4 | 1 | Denis Nikisha | Kazakhstan | 41.005 | QB |
| 5 | 1 | Roberts Krūzbergs | Latvia | 41.870 | |
| 1 | 2 | Shaoang Liu | Hungary | 40.157 | QA |
| 2 | 2 | Abzal Azhgaliyev | Kazakhstan | 40.462 | QA |
| 3 | 2 | Wu Dajing | China | 40.478 | QB |
| 4 | 2 | Steven Dubois | Canada | 40.825 | ADVA |
| | 2 | Hwang Dae-heon | South Korea | | PEN |

### Finals
#### Final B

| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
| 6 | Wu Dajing | China | 41.157 |
| 7 | Pavel Sitnikov | ROC | 41.217 |
| 8 | Denis Nikisha | Kazakhstan | 41.329 |
| 9 | Roberts Krūzbergs | Latvia | 41.465 |

#### Final A

| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
| | Shaoang Liu | Hungary | 40.338 |
| | Konstantin Ivliev | ROC | 40.431 |
| | Steven Dubois | Canada | 40.669 |
| 4 | Abzal Azhgaliyev | Kazakhstan | 40.869 |
| 5 | Pietro Sighel | Italy | No time |