List of speed skating world records over 500 meters men

This list contains all the world records in men's speed skating over 500 meters recognized by the International Skating Union .

Men's world records over 500 meters

No.	athlete	time	date	place	particularities	Duration
1	Oscar Grundén	50.8	February 28, 1891	Nybroviken Stockholm	HI, Bo, En	1 year and 0 days
2	Einar Halvorsen	50.2	February 28, 1892	Mjosen Hamar	HI, Bo, En	0 years and 343 days
3	Alfred Næss	49.4	February 5, 1893	Mjosen Hamar	HI, Bo, En	0 years and 21 days
4th	Einar Halvorsen	48.0	February 26, 1893	Mjosen Hamar	HI, Bo, En	0 years and 0 days
5	Alfred Næss	48.0	February 26, 1893	Mjosen Hamar	HI, Bo, En	0 years and 329 days
6th	Oskar Fredriksen	47.8	January 21, 1894	Majorstubans Oslo	HI, Bo, En	0 years and 34 days
7th	Einar Halvorsen	47.0	February 24, 1894	Mjosen Hamar	HI, Bo, En	0 years and 0 days
8th	Alfred Næss	47.0	February 24, 1894	Mjosen Hamar	HI, Bo, En	0 years and 344 days
9	Wilhelm Mauseth	46.8	February 3, 1895	Kalvskindet	HI, Bo, En	2 years and 4 days
10	Peder Ostlund	46.6	February 7, 1897	Kalvskindet	HI, Bo, En	3 years and 3 days
11	Peder Ostlund	45.2	February 10, 1900	Ice stadium Davos	H III, Bo, En	5 years and 351 days
12	Rudolf Gundersen	44.8	January 27, 1906	Ice stadium Davos	H III, Bo, En	2 years and 13 days
13	Johan Vikander	44.4	February 9, 1908	Ice stadium Davos	H III, Bo, En	0 years and 0 days
14th	Sigurd Mathisen	44.4	February 9, 1908	Ice stadium Davos	H III, Bo, En	4 years and 8 days
15th	Oscar Mathisen	44.2	February 17, 1912	Frogner Stadium	HI, Bo, En	1 year and 27 days
16	Oscar Mathisen	44.0	March 16, 1913	Mjøsa	HI, Bo, En	0 years and 300 days
17th	Oscar Mathisen	43.7	January 10, 1914	Frogner Stadium	HI, Bo, En	0 years and 7 days
18th	Oscar Mathisen	43.4	January 17, 1914	Ice stadium Davos	H III, Bo, En	14 years and 18 days
19th	Roald Larsen	43.1	February 4, 1928	Ice stadium Davos	H III, Bo, En	0 years and 350 days
20th	Clas Thunberg	42.8	January 19, 1929	Ice stadium Davos	H III, Bo, En	1 year and 359 days
21st	Clas Thunberg	42.6	January 13, 1931	Badrutts Park	H III, Bo, En	2 years and 8 days
22nd	Hans Engnestangen	42.5	January 21, 1933	Ice stadium Davos	H III, Bo, En	2 years and 362 days
23	Allan W. Potts	42.4	January 18, 1936	Frogner Stadium	HI, Bo, En	1 year and 12 days
24	Hans Engnestangen	42.3	January 30, 1937	Ice stadium Davos	H III, Bo, En	1 year and 6 days
25th	Hans Engnestangen	41.8	February 5, 1938	Ice stadium Davos	H III, Bo, En	13 years and 335 days
26th	Yuri Sergeyev	41.7	January 6, 1952	Medeo	H III, Bo, En	0 years and 13 days
27	Yuri Sergeyev	41.2	January 19, 1952	Medeo	H III, Bo, En	1 year and 6 days
28	Yuri Sergeyev	40.9	January 25, 1953	Medeo	H III, Bo, En	0 years and 0 days
29	Yuri Sergeyev	40.8	January 19, 1955	Medeo	H III, Bo, En	2 years and 362 days
30th	Yevgeny Grishin	40.2	January 22, 1956	Misurina lake	H III, Bo, En	0 years and 6 days
31	Yevgeny Grishin	40.2	January 28, 1956	Misurina lake	H III, Bo, En	6 years and 364 days
32	Yevgeny Grishin	39.6	January 27, 1963	Medeo	H III, Bo, En	0 years and 1 day
33	Yevgeny Grishin	39.5	January 28, 1963	Medeo	H III, Bo, En	5 years and 0 days
34	Erhard Keller	39.2	January 28, 1968	Inzell ice rink	H II, Bo, Ek	1 year and 32 days
35	Keiichi Suzuki	39.2	March 1, 1969	Inzell ice rink	H II, Bo, Ek	0 years and 314 days
36	Valery Muratov	39.09	January 9, 1970	Medeo	H III, Bo, En	0 years and 4 days
37	Nikolai Gulyayev	39.03	January 13, 1970	Medeo	H III, Bo, En	0 years and 5 days
38	Hate Börjes	38.9	January 18, 1970	Ice stadium Davos	H III, Bo, En	0 years and 6 days
39	Valery Muratov	38.99	January 24, 1970	Medeo	H III, Bo, En	0 years and 1 day
40	Hate Börjes	38.87	January 25, 1970	Medeo	H III, Bo, En	0 years and 4 days
41	Valery Muratov	38.73	January 29, 1970	Medeo	H III, Bo, En	0 years and 37 days
42	Keiichi Suzuki	38.71	March 7, 1970	Inzell ice rink	H II, Bo, Ek	0 years and 1 day
43	Hate Börjes	38.46	March 8, 1970	Inzell ice rink	H II, Bo, Ek	1 year and 6 days
44	Erhard Keller	38.42	March 14, 1971	Inzell ice rink	H II, Bo, Ek	0 years and 294 days
45	Erhard Keller	38.3	2nd January 1972	Inzell ice rink	H II, Bo, Ek	0 years and 6 days
46	Leo Linkovesi	38.0	January 8, 1972	Ice stadium Davos	H III, Bo, En	0 years and 56 days
47	Erhard Keller	38.0	March 4th 1972	Inzell ice rink	H II, Bo, Ek	0 years and 0 days
48	Hate Börjes	38.0	March 4th 1972	Inzell ice rink	H II, Bo, Ek	0 years and 315 days
49	Let Efskind	38.0	January 13, 1973	Ice stadium Davos	H III, Bo, En	2 years and 61 days
50	Yevgeny Kulikov	37.99	March 15, 1975	Medeo	H III, Bo, Ek	0 years and 1 day
51	Yevgeny Kulikov	37.97	March 16, 1975	Medeo	H III, Bo, Ek	0 years and 2 days
52	Valery Muratov	37.85	March 18, 1975	Medeo	H III, Bo, Ek	0 years and 10 days
53	Yevgeny Kulikov	37.20	March 28, 1975	Medeo	H III, Bo, Ek	0 years and 1 day
54	Yevgeny Kulikov	37.00	March 29, 1975	Medeo	H III, Bo, Ek	5 years and 364 days
55	Yevgeny Kulikov	36.91	March 28, 1981	Medeo	H III, Bo, Ek	1 year and 362 days
56	Pavel Pegov	36.68	March 25, 1983	Medeo	H III, Bo, Ek	0 years and 1 day
57	Pavel Pegov	36.57	March 26, 1983	Medeo	H III, Bo, Ek	3 years and 358 days
58	Nick Thometz	36.55	March 19, 1987	Thialf	HI, Bh, Ek	0 years and 332 days
59	Uwe-Jens Mey	36.45	February 14, 1988	Olympic oval	H III, Bh, Ek	3 years and 339 days
60	Uwe-Jens Mey	36.43	January 19, 1992	Ice stadium Davos	H III, Bo, En	0 years and 6 days
61	Dan Jansen	36.41	January 25, 1992	Ice stadium Davos	H III, Bo, En	1 year and 53 days
62	Dan Jansen	36.41	March 19, 1993	Olympic oval	H III, Bh, Ek	0 years and 1 day
63	Dan Jansen	36.02	March 20, 1993	Olympic oval	H III, Bh, Ek	0 years and 259 days
64	Dan Jansen	35.92	4th December 1993	Vikingskipet	H III, Bh, Ek	0 years and 57 days
65	Dan Jansen	35.76	January 30, 1994	Olympic oval	H III, Bh, Ek	2 years and 32 days
66	Hiroyasu Shimizu	35.39	March 2, 1996	Olympic oval	H III, Bh, Ek	2 years and 26 days
Introduction of the folding ice skate
67	Hiroyasu Shimizu	35.36	March 28, 1998	Olympic oval	H III, Bh, Ek	0 years and 0 days
68	Hiroyasu Shimizu	34.82	March 28, 1998	Olympic oval	H III, Bh, Ek	0 years and 329 days
69	Jeremy Wotherspoon	34.76	February 20, 1999	Olympic oval	H III, Bh, Ek	0 years and 343 days
70	Jeremy Wotherspoon	34.63	January 29, 2000	Olympic oval	H III, Bh, Ek	1 year and 40 days
71	Hiroyasu Shimizu	34.32	March 10, 2001	Utah Olympic Oval	H III, Bh, Ek	4 years and 254 days
72	Joji Kato	34.30	November 19, 2005	Utah Olympic Oval	H III, Bh, Ek	1 year and 110 days
73	Kang-Seok Lee	34.25	March 9, 2007	Utah Olympic Oval	H III, Bh, Ek	0 years and 245 days
74	Jeremy Wotherspoon	34.03	November 9, 2007	Utah Olympic Oval	H III, Bh, Ek	8 years and 6 days
75	Pavel Kulischnikow	34.00	15th November 2015	Olympic oval	H III, Bh, Ek	0 years and 5 days
76	Pavel Kulischnikow	33.98	20th November 2015	Utah Olympic Oval	H III, Bh, Ek	3 years and 109 days
Reigning speed skating world record holder over 500 meters
76	Pavel Kulischnikow	33.61	March 9, 2019	Utah Olympic Oval	H III, Bh, Ek	1 year and 175 days

• As of March 29, 2020
• In the 1990s years came clap skate internationally for the first time used. The folding system, which enables faster running, has been a change since the 1998 Winter Olympics at the latest .

The abbreviations in "special features" mean

• H = altitude of the railway; HI = up to 500 meters, H II = over 500 meters, H III = over 1000 meters
• B = track layout; Bf = open air (open), Bh = indoor track, Bm = mix (semi-open, covered track)
• E = ice; Ek = artificial (cooling system), En = natural ice (without technical cooling system)

See also

• List of speed skating world records

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Valeri Muratows electronically measured time was compared to the few days before hand stopped the "shorter" time of Hasse Börje managed as a new world record.
2. ↑ Men's world records over 500m at www.speedskatingstats.com
3. ↑ World records on speedskatingnews.info