Olympic Winter Games 1928 / speed skating - 500 m (men)

sport	Speed ​​skating
discipline	500 m
gender	Men
Attendees	37 from 14 countries
Competition location	Badrutts Park ice rink
Competition phase	February 13, 1928
Medalist Clas Thunberg ( FIN ) Bernt Evensen ( NOR ) not forgiven John Farrell ( USA ) Roald Larsen ( NOR ) Jaakko Friman ( FIN )
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Speed ​​skating competitions at the 1928 Winter Olympics
500 m	Men
1500 m	Men
5000 m	Men
10,000 m	Men

The 500-meter race in men's speed skating at the 1928 Winter Olympics took place on February 13, 1928. The Finn Clas Thunberg and the Norwegian Bernt Evensen both ran Olympic best times with 43.3 seconds and both received the gold medal. Because of this, no silver medal was awarded. The US-American John Farrell , Roald Larsen from Norway and Jaakko Friman from Finland all ran the same time and were therefore all awarded a bronze medal.

Results

rank	country	athlete	Time (s)
1	Finland	Clas Thunberg	43.4 OR
	Norway	Bernt Evensen	43.4 OR
3	United States	John Farrell	43.6
	Norway	Roald Larsen	43.6
	Finland	Jaakko Friman	43.6
6th	Norway	Haakon Pedersen	43.8
7th	Canada	Charles Gorman	43.9
8th	Finland	Bertel Backman	44.4
9	Norway	Oskar Olsen	44.7
10	United States	Eddie Murphy	44.9
11	Finland	Toivo Ovaska	45.2
	Canada	Willy Logan	45.2
	United States	Irving Jaffee	45.2
14th	Canada	Ross Robinson	45.9
15th	Estonia	Christfried Burmeister	46.2
16	Latvia	Albert's rumba	46.3
17th	United States	Valentine Bialas	46.5
18th	Austria	Fritz Moser	46.7
19th	Hungary	Zoltán Eötvös	46.8
20th	German Empire	Fritz Jungblut	47.2
21st	Austria	Otto Polacsek	47.5
22nd	Estonia	Aleksander Mitt	47.7
23	Sweden	Gustaf Andersson	47.9
24	German Empire	Erhard Mayke	49.1
	Austria	Rudolf Riedl	49.1
26th	France	Léonhard Quaglia	49.5
27	Netherlands	Siem Pagans	49.9
28	France	Charles Thaon	50.1
	Lithuania	Kestutis Bulota	50.1
30th	Great Britain	Frederick Dix	53.4
31	Great Britain	Leonard Stewart	54.8
32	Great Britain	Cyril Horn	54.9
33	Netherlands	Wim Kos	56.2

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