# 2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 500 metres

The 500 metres distance for men in the 2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over 12 races on six occasions, out of a total of eight World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Heerenveen, Netherlands, on 12–14 November 2010, and the final occasion also taking place in Heerenveen on 4–6 March 2011.
Lee Kang-seok of South Korea won the cup, while his countryman Lee Kyou-hyuk came second, and Joji Kato of Japan came third. Defending champion Tucker Fredricks of the United States finished in 4th place.

## Top three

| Medal | Athlete | Points | Previous season |
| Gold | Lee Kang-seok | 845 | 6th |
| Silver | Lee Kyou-hyuk | 745 | 7th |
| Bronze | Joji Kato | 671 | 9th |

## Race medallists

| Occasion # | Location | Date | Gold | Time | Silver | Time | Bronze | Time |
| 1 | Heerenveen, Netherlands | 12 November | Joji Kato Japan | 34.85 | Lee Kang-seok South Korea | 35.00 | Lee Kyou-hyuk South Korea | 35.01 |
| 1 | Heerenveen, Netherlands | 14 November | Keiichiro Nagashima Japan | 34.97 | Joji Kato Japan | 35.01 | Lee Kang-seok South Korea | 35.10 |
| 2 | Berlin, Germany | 19 November | Joji Kato Japan | 35.03 | Jan Smeekens Netherlands | 35.04 | Lee Kang-seok South Korea | 35.10 |
| 2 | Berlin, Germany | 20 November | Pekka Koskela Finland | 34.90 | Tucker Fredricks United States | 34.91 | Lee Kang-seok South Korea | 35.13 |
| 4 | Changchun, China | 4 December | Lee Kang-seok South Korea | 35.10 | Joji Kato Japan | 35.25 | Keiichiro Nagashima Japan | 35.30 |
| 4 | Changchun, China | 5 December | Tucker Fredricks United States | 35.26 | Jan Smeekens Netherlands | 35.27 | Lee Kyou-hyuk South Korea | 35.32 |
| 5 | Obihiro, Japan | 11 December | Lee Kang-seok South Korea | 35.11 | Keiichiro Nagashima Japan | 35.16 | Akio Ota Japan | 35.16 |
| 5 | Obihiro, Japan | 12 December | Joji Kato Japan | 34.96 | Keiichiro Nagashima Japan | 35.19 | Lee Kyou-hyuk South Korea | 35.19 |
| 6 | Moscow, Russia | 28 January | Pekka Koskela Finland | 35.15 | Jamie Gregg Canada | 35.23 | Jacques de Koning Netherlands | 35.24 |
| 6 | Moscow, Russia | 29 January | Jan Smeekens Netherlands | 34.93 | Akio Ota Japan | 35.02 | Tucker Fredricks United States | 35.06 |
| 8 | Heerenveen, Netherlands | 4 March | Lee Kang-seok South Korea | 35.03 | Lee Kyou-hyuk South Korea | 35.08 | Jacques de Koning Netherlands | 35.18 |
| 8 | Heerenveen, Netherlands | 6 March | Lee Kyou-hyuk South Korea | 35.00 | Yūya Oikawa Japan | 35.11 | Lee Kang-seok South Korea | 35.12 |

## Standings

Standings as of 6 March 2011 (end of the season).
| # | Name | HVN1 | HVN2 | BER1 | BER2 | CHA1 | CHA2 | OBI1 | OBI2 | MOS1 | MOS2 | HVN3 | HVN4 | Total |
| 1 | Lee Kang-seok | 80 | 70 | 70 | 70 | 100 | 60 | 100 | 40 | – | – | 150 | 105 | 845 |
| 2 | Lee Kyou-hyuk | 70 | 45 | 60 | 60 | 60 | 70 | 40 | 70 | – | – | 120 | 150 | 745 |
| 3 | Joji Kato | 100 | 80 | 100 | 50 | 80 | 45 | 60 | 100 | – | – | 40 | 16 | 671 |
| 4 | Tucker Fredricks | 28 | 50 | 50 | 80 | 45 | 100 | 36 | 45 | 36 | 70 | 24 | 75 | 639 |
| 5 | Jan Smeekens | 60 | 32 | 80 | 32 | 28 | 80 | – | – | 45 | 100 | 90 | 45 | 592 |
| 6 | Keiichiro Nagashima | 36 | 100 | 45 | 45 | 70 | 32 | 80 | 80 | – | – | 36 | 14 | 538 |
| 7 | Akio Ota | 40 | 60 | 36 | 36 | 14 | 36 | 70 | 60 | 16 | 80 | 45 | 8 | 501 |
| 8 | Yūya Oikawa | 24 | 14 | 18 | 40 | 40 | 40 | 45 | 28 | 50 | 24 | 32 | 120 | 475 |
| 9 | Dmitry Lobkov | 32 | 12 | 28 | 21 | 50 | 50 | 50 | 32 | 24 | 45 | 16 | 90 | 450 |
| 10 | Jacques de Koning | 25 | 36 | 32 | 24 | 32 | 21 | 32 | 5 | 70 | 6 | 105 | 18 | 406 |
| 11 | Nico Ihle | 50 | 28 | 40 | 6 | 18 | 12 | 24 | 14 | 40 | 60 | 10 | 21 | 323 |
| 12 | Jamie Gregg | – | – | – | – | 36 | 8 | 28 | 50 | 80 | 50 | 18 | 36 | 306 |
| 13 | Pekka Koskela | 10 | 0 | 25 | 100 | – | – | – | – | 100 | 18 | 0 | 24 | 277 |
| 14 | Ryohei Haga | 3 | 18 | 21 | 5 | 24 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 60 | 21 | 28 | 40 | 274 |
| 15 | Stefan Groothuis | 45 | 40 | 12 | 18 | 5 | 12 | – | – | 21 | 28 | 75 | – | 256 |
| 16 | Hein Otterspeer | 19 | 19 | 24 | 28 | 8 | 6 | 14 | 16 | 12 | 36 | 21 | 12 | 215 |
| 17 | Aleksey Yesin | 11 | 15 | 5 | 16 | 10 | 16 | 16 | 24 | 21 | 32 | 12 | 6 | 184 |
| 18 | Espen Aarnes Hvammen | 4 | 0 | 19 | 25 | 21 | 28 | 10 | 10 | 32 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 164 |
| 19 | Vincent Labrie | 21 | 16 | 16 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 12 | 21 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 5 | 155 |
| 20 | Mika Poutala | 5 | 10 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 28 | 40 | 14 | 28 | 125 |
| 21 | Simon Kuipers | – | 25 | 14 | 10 | 12 | 14 | – | – | – | 10 | 6 | 32 | 123 |
| 22 | Ermanno Ioriatti | 6 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 10 | 16 | 8 | 10 | 115 |
| 23 | Roman Krech | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 25 | 24 | 21 | 36 | – | – | – | – | 110 |
| 24 | Muncef Ouardi | 0 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 11 | 25 | 8 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 93 |
| 25 | Wang Nan | 6 | 5 | 0 | 11 | 19 | 11 | 25 | – | – | – | – | – | 77 |
| 26 | William Dutton | 12 | 8 | 11 | 19 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 8 | – | – | – | – | 76 |
| 27 | Gilmore Junio | 15 | 6 | 8 | 4 | 15 | 8 | 6 | 12 | – | – | – | – | 74 |
| 28 | Mun Jun | 16 | 24 | 10 | 14 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 64 |
| 29 | Denny Ihle | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19 | 8 | 19 | 6 | 5 | – | – | 57 |
| 30 | Shani Davis | 18 | 21 | 6 | 8 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 53 |
| 31 | Tyler Derraugh | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 15 | 25 | 4 | 3 | 47 |
| 32 | Samuel Schwarz | 14 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 0 | – | 19 | – | – | 3 | – | – | 46 |
| 33 | Mike Blumel | 1 | 11 | 15 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 11 | – | – | – | – | 43 |
| 34 | Zhang Yaolin | 8 | 4 | 6 | 15 | 1 | 6 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 40 |
| 35 | Sun Bing | – | – | – | – | 2 | 25 | 5 | 6 | – | – | – | – | 38 |
| 36 | Daniel Greig | – | – | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 19 | 19 | – | – | 38 |
| 37 | Ronald Mulder | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 25 | – | – | – | 27 |
| 38 | Sergey Chadayev | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8 | 15 | – | – | 23 |
| 39 | Artur Waś | 0 | 2 | 0 | 8 | – | – | – | – | 5 | 4 | – | – | 19 |
| 40 | Matthew McLean | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | 8 | – | – | 14 |
| 41 | Jan Bos | – | – | – | – | – | – | 6 | 6 | – | – | – | – | 12 |
| 42 | Joey Lindsey | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 11 | – | – | 11 |
| 42 | Markus Puolakka | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | 11 | 0 | – | – | 11 |
| 44 | Richard MacClennan | 8 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 8 |
| 44 | Pim Schipper | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 8 | – | – | – | – | 8 |
| 46 | Guo Qiang | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | | 8 |
| 46 | Yevgeny Lalenkov | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 2 | 6 | – | – | 8 |
| 48 | Sjoerd de Vries | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | 4 | – | – | – | – | 8 |
| 49 | Nan Minghao | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | – | – | – | – | 6 |
| 50 | Mitchell Whitmore | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 4 | – | – | 5 |
| 51 | Christoffer Fagerli Rukke | 0 | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | 4 |
| 51 | Mikael Flygind Larsen | – | – | – | – | 4 | – | – | – | – | 0 | – | – | 4 |
| 51 | Konrad Niedźwiedzki | 4 | – | 0 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 4 |
| 54 | Tuomas Nieminen | – | 0 | 0 | 1 | – | – | 0 | 2 | – | – | – | – | 3 |
| 55 | Viktor Gluschenko | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 2 | – | – | 2 |
| 56 | Aleksandr Lebedev | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 0 | 1 | – | – | 1 |