# Short-track speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

The men's 500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics was held 24–26 February 2010 at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The qualifying heats were held on 24 February with the quarterfinal, the semifinal and the final were held on 26 February.

## Results

There were thirty-two competitors representing sixteen nations.

### Heats

| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Sung Si-bak | South Korea | 41.889 | Q |
| 2 | 1 | Niels Kerstholt | Netherlands | 42.180 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Nicolas Bean | Italy | 42.344 | |
| 4 | 1 | Takahiro Fujimoto | Japan | 42.366 | |
| 1 | 2 | Lee Ho-suk | South Korea | 41.632 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Simon Cho | United States | 41.726 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Semion Elistratov | Russia | 42.982 | |
| 4 | 2 | Sjinkie Knegt | Netherlands | 44.448 | |
| 1 | 3 | Kwak Yoon-gy | South Korea | 42.147 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Pieter Gysel | Belgium | 42.443 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Peter Darazs | Hungary | 42.800 | |
| 4 | 3 | Jordan Malone | United States | 1:03.884 | |
| 1 | 4 | Charles Hamelin | Canada | 41.463 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Jon Eley | Great Britain | 42.081 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Nicola Rodigari | Italy | 42.190 | |
| 4 | 4 | Ruslan Zakharov | Russia | 43.207 | |
| 1 | 5 | Thibaut Fauconnet | France | 41.730 | Q |
| 2 | 5 | Tyson Heung | Germany | 41.835 | Q |
| 3 | 5 | Blake Skjellerup | New Zealand | 42.510 | |
| – | 5 | Liang Wenhao | China | | DSQ |
| 1 | 6 | François-Louis Tremblay | Canada | 41.397 | Q, OR |
| 2 | 6 | Haralds Silovs | Latvia | 41.673 | Q |
| 3 | 6 | Ma Yunfeng | China | 41.954 | |
| 4 | 6 | Yuri Confortola | Italy | 1:17.401 | |
| 1 | 7 | Apolo Ohno | United States | 41.665 | Q |
| 2 | 7 | Olivier Jean | Canada | 41.737 | Q |
| 3 | 7 | Paul Worth | Great Britain | 42.936 | |
| – | 7 | Aidar Bekzhanov | Kazakhstan | | DSQ |
| 1 | 8 | Han Jialiang | China | 41.869 | Q |
| 2 | 8 | Jumpei Yoshizawa | Japan | 42.158 | Q |
| 3 | 8 | Robert Seifert | Germany | 42.181 | |
| 4 | 8 | Viktor Knoch | Hungary | 42.197 | |

### Quarterfinal

| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Charles Hamelin | Canada | 40.770 | Q, OR |
| 2 | 1 | Sung Si-bak | South Korea | 40.821 | Q |
| 3 | 1 | Simon Cho | United States | 41.211 | |
| 4 | 1 | Niels Kerstholt | Netherlands | 42.128 | |
| 1 | 2 | Jon Eley | Great Britain | 41.875 | Q |
| 2 | 2 | Apolo Ohno | United States | 42.004 | Q |
| 3 | 2 | Tyson Heung | Germany | 48.554 | ADV |
| 4 | 2 | Thibaut Fauconnet | France | 51.339 | |
| 1 | 3 | Lee Ho-suk | South Korea | 41.269 | Q |
| 2 | 3 | Olivier Jean | Canada | 41.275 | Q |
| 3 | 3 | Han Jialiang | China | 41.443 | |
| 4 | 3 | Jumpei Yoshizawa | Japan | 41.906 | |
| 1 | 4 | François-Louis Tremblay | Canada | 41.326 | Q |
| 2 | 4 | Kwak Yoon-gy | South Korea | 41.761 | Q |
| 3 | 4 | Haralds Silovs | Latvia | 41.837 | |
| 4 | 4 | Pieter Gysel | Belgium | 41.980 | |

### Semifinal

| Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | 1 | Charles Hamelin | Canada | 40.964 | QA |
| 2 | 1 | Sung Si-bak | South Korea | 41.126 | QA |
| 3 | 1 | Tyson Heung | Germany | 41.455 | QB |
| 4 | 1 | Jon Eley | Great Britain | 41.504 | QB |
| – | 1 | Olivier Jean | Canada | | DSQ |
| 1 | 2 | Apolo Ohno | United States | 41.460 | QA |
| 2 | 2 | François-Louis Tremblay | Canada | 41.515 | QA |
| 3 | 2 | Kwak Yoon-gy | South Korea | 41.620 | QB |
| 4 | 2 | Lee Ho-suk | South Korea | 1:24.514 | QB |

### Finals
#### Final B (Classification Round)

| Rank | Name | Country | Time |
| 4 | Kwak Yoon-gy | South Korea | 42.123 |
| 5 | Tyson Heung | Germany | 42.307 |
| 6 | Jon Eley | Great Britain | 42.681 |
| 7 | Lee Ho-suk | South Korea | 49.149 |

#### Final A (Medal Round)

| Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
| | Charles Hamelin | Canada | 40.981 | |
| | Sung Si-bak | South Korea | 41.340 | |
| | François-Louis Tremblay | Canada | 46.366 | |
| – | Apolo Ohno | United States | | DSQ |