# 2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships – Men's 500 metres

The men's 500 metre at the 2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place 12 March at the Sheffield Arena.

## Results
### Preliminaries

Top two athletes from each heat and the next two fastest thirds qualified for heats.
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Song Weilong | China | 43.449 | Q |
| 2 | Maxime Chataignier | France | 43.709 | Q |
| 3 | Daisuke Uemura | Japan | 44.043 | |
| 4 | Pierre Boda | Australia | 44.252 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Charles Hamelin | Canada | 42.586 | Q |
| 2 | Jack Whelbourne | United Kingdom | 42.689 | Q |
| 3 | Vladislav Bykanov | Israel | 43.922 | q |
| 4 | Edin Brankovic | Bosnia and Herzegovina | 45.673 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Noh Jin-Kyu | South Korea | 43.405 | Q |
| 2 | Dariusz Kulesza | Poland | 44.042 | Q |
| 3 | Bence Olah | Hungary | 44.608 | |
| 4 | Edoardo Reggiani | Italy | 1:02.458 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Olivier Jean | Canada | 43.064 | Q |
| 2 | Thibaut Fauconnet | France | 43.424 | Q |
| 3 | Liu Pan To Barton | Hong Kong | 45.554 | |
| 4 | Jonathan Lopez | Spain | 49.129 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | John Eley | United Kingdom | 42.910 | Q |
| 2 | Liang Wenhao | China | 42.945 | Q |
| 3 | Kiril Pandov | Bulgaria | 44.140 | |
| 4 | Selim Tanrikulu | Turkey | 44.835 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Simon Cho | United States | 43.799 | Q |
| 2 | Jeremy Masson | France | 44.487 | Q |
| 3 | Yang-Chun Wang | Chinese Taipei | 46.572 | |
| 4 | Istvan Gal-Oravecz | Romania | 46.614 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Nicola Rodigari | Italy | 43.815 | Q |
| 2 | Oleksiy Koshelenko | Ukraine | 44.230 | Q |
| 3 | Um Cheon-Ho | South Korea | 46.261 | |
| 4 | Jose Ignacio Fazio | Argentina | 47.546 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Francois Hamelin | Canada | 43.449 | Q |
| 2 | Travis Jayner | United States | 43.709 | Q |
| 3 | Siarhei Yakushkou | Belarus | 44.043 | |
| 4 | Peter Jelen | Slovakia | 44.252 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Bartosz Konopko | Poland | 42.967 | Q |
| 2 | Liu Xianwei | China | 43.131 | Q |
| 3 | Assen Pandov | Bulgaria | 43.627 | q |
| 4 | Yauheni Ryzhou | Belarus | 45.313 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Niels Kerstholt | Netherlands | 43.854 | Q |
| 2 | Yuzo Takamido | Japan | 43.940 | Q |
| 3 | Dmytro Poltavets | Ukraine | 45.336 | |
| 4 | Andrej Valach | Slovakia | 45.405 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Sjinkie Knegt | Netherlands | 43.857 | Q |
| 2 | Ruslan Zakharov | Russia | 44.173 | Q |
| 3 | Jekabs Saulitis | Latvia | 45.207 | |
| 4 | Álvaro Peña | Spain | 46.320 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Robert Seifert | Germany | 43.070 | Q |
| 2 | Jeff Simon | United States | 43.117 | Q |
| 3 | Sergey Prankevich | Russia | 44.237 | |
| 4 | Csaba Burjan | Hungary | 44.756 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Lee Ho-Suk | South Korea | 44.157 | Q |
| 2 | Paul Herrmann | Germany | 44.159 | Q |
| 3 | Blake Skjellerup | New Zealand | 45.625 | |
| 4 | Jakov Domitrek | Croatia | 47.608 | |

### Heats

Top 2 Athletes from each heat and the next 2 fastest thirds qualified for quarterfinals.
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Thibaut Fauconnet | France | 43.384 | Q |
| 2 | Bartosz Konopko | Poland | 43.561 | Q |
| 3 | Oleksiy Koshelenko | Ukraine | 43.714 | |
| 4 | Simon Cho | United States | | ADV |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Nicola Rodigari | Italy | 43.759 | Q |
| 2 | Liu Xianwei | China | 43.893 | Q |
| 3 | Maxime Chataignier | France | 44.865 | |
| 4 | Jeff Simon | United States | | PEN |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Jack Whelbourne | United Kingdom | 42.806 | Q |
| 2 | Olivier Jean | Canada | 42.941 | Q |
| 3 | Lee Ho-Suk | South Korea | 43.068 | q |
| 4 | Jeremy Masson | France | 43.695 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Robert Seifert | Germany | 43.099 | Q |
| 2 | Niels Kerstholt | Netherlands | 43.197 | Q |
| 3 | Vladislav Bykanov | Israel | 44.960 | |
| 4 | Noh Jin-Kyu | South Korea | 1:16.644 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Liang Wenhao | China | 42.580 | Q |
| 2 | Charles Hamelin | Canada | 42.678 | Q |
| 3 | Dariusz Kulesza | Poland | 44.227 | |
| 4 | Yuzo Takamido | Japan | 44.264 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Francois Hamelin | Canada | 42.883 | Q |
| 2 | John Eley | United Kingdom | 42.949 | Q |
| 3 | Paul Herrmann | Germany | 43.063 | q |
| 4 | Ruslan Zakharov | Russia | 43.405 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Travis Jayner | United States | 44.029 | Q |
| 2 | Song Weilong | China | 44.156 | Q |
| 3 | Kiril Pandov | Bulgaria | 44.755 | ADV |
| – | Sjinkie Knegt | Netherlands | | PEN |

### Quarterfinals

Top 2 Athletes from each heat qualified for Semifinals.
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Liang Wenhao | China | 42.237 | Q |
| 2 | Simon Cho | United States | 42.364 | Q |
| 3 | Jack Whelbourne | United Kingdom | 42.451 | |
| 4 | Nicola Rodigari | Italy | 42.748 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Francois Hamelin | Canada | 42.638 | Q |
| 2 | Thibaut Fauconnet | France | 42.697 | Q |
| 3 | Robert Seifert | Germany | 42.795 | |
| 4 | Lee Ho-Suk | South Korea | 42.917 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Charles Hamelin | Canada | 42.736 | Q |
| 2 | Niels Kerstholt | Netherlands | 43.320 | Q |
| 3 | Paul Herrmann | Germany | 44.630 | |
| 4 | Liu Xianwei | China | 1:01.288 | ADV |
| – | Travis Jayner | United States | | PEN |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Olivier Jean | Canada | 42.757 | Q |
| 2 | John Eley | United Kingdom | 42.959 | Q |
| 3 | Song Weilong | China | 43.304 | |
| 4 | Bartosz Konopko | Poland | 43.579 | |
| 5 | Kiril Pandov | Bulgaria | 1:37.704 | |

### Semifinals

Top 2 Athletes from each heat qualified for the Final.
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Simon Cho | United States | 42.625 | Q |
| 2 | Liu Xianwei | China | 42.737 | Q |
| 3 | John Eley | United Kingdom | 1:11.002 | |
| 4 | Francois Hamelin | Canada | 1:13.490 | |
| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time | Notes |
| 1 | Niels Kerstholt | Netherlands | 43.364 | Q |
| 2 | Olivier Jean | Canada | 43.896 | Q |
| 3 | Liang Wenhao | China | 44.303 | |
| 4 | Thibaut Fauconnet | France | 44.516 | ADV |
| – | Charles Hamelin | Canada | | PEN |

### Final

| Rank | Athlete | Country | Time |
| | Simon Cho | United States | 42.307 |
| | Olivier Jean | Canada | 42.429 |
| | Liang Wenhao | China | 42.493 |
| 4 | Liu Xianwei | China | 42.523 |
| 5 | Niels Kerstholt | Netherlands | 58.500 |