Speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres
The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1992 Winter Olympics took place on 15 February, at the L'anneau de vitesse.Records
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:Results
Rank | Pair | Name | Country | Time | Difference |
| 4 | Uwe-Jens Mey | | 37.14 | - |
| 6 | Toshiyuki Kuroiwa | | 37.18 | +0.04 |
| 3 | Junichi Inoue | | 37.26 | +0.12 |
4 | 2 | Dan Jansen | | 37.46 | +0.32 |
5 | 4 | Yasunori Miyabe | | 37.49 | +0.35 |
5 | 11 | Gerard van Velde | | 37.49 | +0.35 |
7 | 1 | Aleksandr Golubev | | 37.51 | +0.37 |
8 | 5 | Igor Zhelezovski | | 37.57 | +0.43 |
9 | 16 | Song Chen | | 37.58 | +0.44 |
10 | 9 | Kim Yoon-man | | 37.60 | +0.46 |
11 | 15 | Liu Hongbo | | 37.66 | +0.52 |
12 | 10 | Jaegal Sung-yeol | | 37.71 | +0.57 |
13 | 1 | Nick Thometz | | 37.83 | +0.69 |
14 | 11 | Robert Dubreuil | | 37.86 | +0.72 |
14 | 6 | Vadim Shakshakbayev | | 37.86 | +0.72 |
16 | 3 | Guy Thibault | | 37.89 | +0.75 |
17 | 12 | Kevin Scott | | 38.02 | +0.88 |
18 | 21 | Yukinori Miyabe | | 38.12 | +0.98 |
19 | 8 | Marty Pierce | | 38.15 | +1.01 |
20 | 9 | Björn Forslund | | 38.24 | +1.10 |
21 | 2 | Sergey Klevchenya | | 38.26 | +1.12 |
22 | 10 | Dave Cruikshank | | 38.28 | +1.14 |
23 | 5 | Peter Adeberg | | 38.33 | +1.19 |
24 | 15 | Li Yong-chol | | 38.38 | +1.24 |
25 | 18 | Olaf Zinke | | 38.40 | +1.26 |
26 | 14 | Harri Ilkka | | 38.48 | +1.34 |
27 | 17 | Dai Jun | | 38.51 | +1.37 |
27 | 13 | Rintje Ritsma | | 38.51 | +1.37 |
29 | 20 | Arie Loef | | 38.61 | +1.47 |
30 | 7 | Sean Ireland | | 38.70 | +1.56 |
31 | 21 | Paweł Abratkiewicz | | 38.74 | +1.60 |
31 | 12 | Lee In-hun | | 38.74 | +1.60 |
33 | 7 | Hans Markström | | 38.89 | +1.75 |
34 | 20 | Bo König | | 39.06 | +1.92 |
35 | 14 | Choi In-chol | | 39.59 | +2.45 |
36 | 19 | Zsolt Baló | | 39.70 | +2.56 |
37 | 18 | Csaba Madarász | | 40.41 | +3.27 |
38 | 22 | Joakim Karlberg | | 40.71 | +3.57 |
39 | 16 | Jiří Kyncl | | 40.92 | +3.78 |
40 | 8 | Roland Brunner | | 42.18 | +5.04 |
41 | 19 | Jiří Musil | | 42.20 | +5.06 |
42 | 13 | Bajro Čenanović | | 43.09 | +5.95 |
43 | 17 | Slavenko Likić | | 43.81 | +6.67 |