Olympic Winter Games 2018 / short track - 500 m (men)

500 m short track of the men of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games
winner	Wu Dajing
Competitions
500 m	Women	Men
1000 m	Women	Men
1500 m	Women	Men
Season	Women	Men

500 m short track of the men at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games .

The 500 m in the men's short track took place on February 20 and 22, 2018 in the Gangneung Ice Arena .

The Olympic champion was the Chinese Wu Dajing , ahead of the two South Koreans Hwang Dae-heon and Lim Hyo-jun .

Records

Existing records

World record	John Celski ( United States )	39.937 s	Calgary	October 21, 2012
Olympic record	Charles Hamelin ( Canada )	40.770 s	Vancouver	February 26, 2010

New records

World record	Wu Dajing ( China )	39,800 s	February 22, 2018
		39.584 s
Olympic record	Wu Dajing ( China )	40.264 s	20th February 2018
		39,800 s	February 22, 2018
		39.584 s

Results

Q - qualify for the next round

ADV - Advanced

Prelims

rank	Run	athlete	country	Time (s)	Remarks
1	1	Wu Dajing	China	40.264	Q, OR
2	1	Bartosz Konopko	Poland	41.039	Q
3	1	Andy Jung	Australia	63,137
4th	1	Thibaut Fauconnet	France	64.756
	1	Aaron Tran	United States		DSQ
1	2	Samuel Girard	Canada	40.493	Q
2	2	Roberts Zvejnieks	Latvia	40.563	Q
3	2	Yuri Confortola	Italy	40.869
4th	2	Vladislav Bykanov	Israel	47.177
1	3	Seo Yi-ra	South Korea	40.438	Q
2	3	Dylan Hoogerwerf	Netherlands	40.657	Q
3	3	Sébastien Lepape	France	40,900
4th	3	Viktor Knoch	Hungary	66.060
1	4th	Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	40,418	Q
2	4th	Daan Breeuwsma	Netherlands	40,806	Q
3	4th	Denis Nikischa	Kazakhstan	41,436	ADV
	4th	Charles Hamelin	Canada		DSQ
1	5	Ren Ziwei	China	40.294	Q
2	5	Alexander Shulginov	Olympic athletes from Russia	40,585	Q
3	5	Nurbergen Shumaghasiev	Kazakhstan	40.748	ADV
	5	Sjinkie Knegt	Netherlands		DSQ
1	6th	Shaoang Liu	Hungary	40.526	Q
2	6th	Ryosuke Sakazume	Japan	40.658	Q
3	6th	Absal Ashghaliyev	Kazakhstan	43,388	ADV
	6th	Pavel Sitnikov	Olympic athletes from Russia		DSQ
1	7th	Hwang Dae-heon	South Korea	40.758	Q
2	7th	Keita Watanabe	Japan	41.678	Q
3	7th	Thomas Insuk Hong	United States	43.096
	7th	Jong Kwang-bom	North Korea		DSQ
1	8th	Shaolin Sándor Liu	Hungary	40.650	Q
2	8th	Han Tianyu	China	40.744	Q
3	8th	Semyon Jelistratov	Olympic athletes from Russia	40.829
4th	8th	John-Henry Krueger	United States	41.008

Quarter finals

rank	Run	athlete	country	Time (s)	Remarks
1	1	Ren Ziwei	China	40.032	Q
2	1	Shaolin Sándor Liu	Hungary	40.471	Q
3	1	Denis Nikischa	Kazakhstan	40,806
4th	1	Alexander Shulginov	Olympic athletes from Russia	54.498
5	1	Bartosz Konopko	Poland	70.996
1	2	Wu Dajing	China	39,800	Q, WR , OR
2	2	Hwang Dae-heon	South Korea	40.861	Q
3	2	Roberts Zvejnieks	Latvia	40.904
4th	2	Keita Watanabe	Japan	41.354
5	2	Nurbergen Shumaghasiev	Kazakhstan	DNF
1	3	Samuel Girard	Canada	40.477	Q
2	3	Ryosuke Sakazume	Japan	40.563	Q
3	3	Han Tianyu	China	74.891
4th	3	Seo Yi-ra	South Korea	77.779
1	4th	Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	40,400	Q
2	4th	Daan Breeuwsma	Netherlands	40.677	Q
3	4th	Dylan Hoogerwerf	Netherlands	41.007
4th	4th	Absal Ashghaliyev	Kazakhstan	41.616	ADV
	4th	Shaoang Liu	Hungary		DSQ

Semifinals

QA - Qualification for the A final

QB - Qualification for the B final

rank	Run	athlete	country	Time (s)	Remarks
1	1	Wu Dajing	China	40.087	Q, WR , OR
2	1	Samuel Girard	Canada	40.185	QA
3	1	Shaolin Sándor Liu	Hungary	40.399	QB
4th	1	Daan Breeuwsma	Netherlands	40.775	QB
5	1	Absal Ashghaliyev	Kazakhstan	40.835
1	2	Hwang Dae-heon	South Korea	40.108	QA
2	2	Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	40.132	QA
3	2	Ren Ziwei	China	40,418	QB
4th	2	Ryosuke Sakazume	Japan	40.434	QB

B final

rank	athlete	country	Time (s)	Remarks
1	Shaolin Sándor Liu	Hungary	40.651
2	Ren Ziwei	China	40.694
3	Daan Breeuwsma	Netherlands	40.835
4th	Ryosuke Sakazume	Japan	40.985

A final

rank	athlete	country	Time (s)	Remarks
1	Wu Dajing	China	39,584	WR , OR
2	Hwang Dae-heon	South Korea	39.854
3	Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	39.919
4th	Samuel Girard	Canada	39.987

Web links

• Results: heats , quarter-finals , semi-finals , finals on shorttrack.sportresult.com