# Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics took place on 9 and 10 February, at the M-Wave.

## Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:
| World record | Hiroyasu Shimizu (JPN) | 35.39 | Calgary, Canada | 2 March 1996 |
| Olympic record | Aleksandr Golubev (RUS) | 36.33 | Hamar, Norway | 14 February 1994 |
The following new Olympic records were set during this competition.
| Date | Athlete | Country | Time | OR |
| 9 February | Ermanno Ioriatti | Italy | 36.30 | OR |
| 9 February | Casey FitzRandolph | United States | 35.81 | OR |
| 9 February | Kevin Overland | Canada | 35.78 | OR |
| 9 February | Hiroyasu Shimizu | Japan | 35.76 | OR |
| 10 February | Hiroyasu Shimizu | Japan | 35.59 | OR |

## Results

| Rank | Name | Country | Race 1 | Race 2 | Total | Notes |
| | Hiroyasu Shimizu | Japan | 35.76 | 35.59 | 1:11.35 | OR |
| | Jeremy Wotherspoon | Canada | 36.04 | 35.80 | 1:11.84 |
| | Kevin Overland | Canada | 35.78 | 36.08 | 1:11.86 |
| 4 | Sylvain Bouchard | Canada | 35.90 | 36.10 | 1:12.00 |
| 5 | Pat Bouchard | Canada | 35.96 | 36.09 | 1:12.05 |
| 6 | Casey FitzRandolph | United States | 35.81 | 36.39 | 1:12.20 |
| 7 | Kim Yun-Man | South Korea | 36.13 | 36.23 | 1:12.36 |
| 8 | Lee Kyu-Hyuk | South Korea | 36.14 | 36.41 | 1:12.55 |
| 9 | Ermanno Ioriatti | Italy | 36.30 | 36.36 | 1:12.66 |
| 10 | Roger Strøm | Norway | 36.53 | 36.15 | 1:12.68 |
| 11 | Michael Künzel | Germany | 36.56 | 36.19 | 1:12.75 |
| 12 | Jan Bos | Netherlands | 36.66 | 36.11 | 1:12.77 |
| 13 | Manabu Horii | Japan | 36.37 | 36.41 | 1:12.78 |
| 14 | Sergey Klevchenya | Russia | 36.56 | 36.30 | 1:12.86 |
| 15 | Hiroaki Yamakage | Japan | 36.61 | 36.30 | 1:12.91 |
| 16 | Toshiyuki Kuroiwa | Japan | 36.37 | 36.60 | 1:12.97 |
| 16 | Jegal Seong-Ryeol | South Korea | 36.58 | 36.39 | 1:12.97 |
| 18 | Janne Hänninen | Finland | 36.58 | 36.46 | 1:13.04 |
| 19 | Christian Breuer | Germany | 36.78 | 36.41 | 1:13.19 |
| 20 | Aleksandr Golubev | Russia | 36.67 | 36.54 | 1:13.21 |
| 21 | Jakko Jan Leeuwangh | Netherlands | 36.69 | 36.54 | 1:13.23 |
| 22 | Paweł Abratkiewicz | Poland | 36.76 | 36.51 | 1:13.27 |
| 23 | Marc Pelchat | United States | 36.94 | 36.41 | 1:13.35 |
| 24 | Vadim Shakshakbayev | Kazakhstan | 36.87 | 36.57 | 1:13.44 |
| 25 | Dave Cruikshank | United States | 36.67 | 36.86 | 1:13.53 |
| 26 | Tomasz Świst | Poland | 36.86 | 36.68 | 1:13.54 |
| 27 | Li Yu | China | 36.79 | 36.79 | 1:13.58 |
| 28 | Liu Hongbo | China | 36.77 | 36.95 | 1:13.72 |
| 29 | Roland Brunner | Austria | 36.90 | 36.86 | 1:13.76 |
| 30 | Davide Carta | Italy | 37.11 | 36.80 | 1:13.91 |
| 31 | Dai Dengwen | China | 37.03 | 36.95 | 1:13.98 |
| 32 | Vladimir Klepinin | Kazakhstan | 37.22 | 36.92 | 1:14.14 |
| 33 | Aleksandr Kibalko | Russia | 37.32 | 36.86 | 1:14.18 |
| 34 | Kim Jin-su | South Korea | 37.19 | 37.13 | 1:14.32 |
| 35 | Oleh Kostromitin | Ukraine | 37.27 | 37.19 | 1:14.46 |
| 36 | Cory Carpenter | United States | 37.35 | 37.76 | 1:15.11 |
| 37 | Zsolt Baló | Hungary | 38.48 | 38.08 | 1:16.56 |
| 38 | Ids Postma | Netherlands | 78.68 | 37.81 | 1:56.49 |
| - | Erben Wennemars | Netherlands | 35.96 | DNF | - |
| - | Grunde Njøs | Norway | 36.32 | DNF | - |
| - | Peter Adeberg | Germany | 36.92 | DNF | - |
| - | Sergey Savelyev | Russia | DQ | - | - |