title: Speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres
text: The men's 500 metres speed skating competition for the 2006 Winter Olympics was held in Turin, Italy. The competition consisted of two separate 500 metre races, with the competitors ranked by their cumulative time from the two races.
  
  Records
  Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
  
  500 meters (1 race)
  
  500 meters x 2 (2 races)
  
  No new world or Olympic records were set during this competition.
  
  Results
  
  Race 1
  
  Pair order
  
  Skater with first inner lane listed first
  
   Brock Miron, CAN (alone, first inner)
   Dmitry Lobkov, RUS – Sergey Kornilov, RUS
   Maciej Ustynowicz, POL – Vincent Labrie, CAN
   Choi Jae-bong, KOR – Aleksandr Zhigin, KAZ
   Janne Hänninen, FIN – Aleksey Proshin, RUS
   Artur Waś, POL – Erik Zachrisson, SWE
   Mika Poutala, FIN – Maurizio Carnino, ITA
   Zhuo Lu, CHN – Jan Bos, NED
   Dmitry Dorofeyev, RUS – Erben Wennemars, NED
   Li Yu, CHN – Pekka Koskela, FIN
   Ermanno Ioriatti, ITA – An Weijiang, CHN
   Yūya Oikawa, JPN – Simon Kuipers, NED
   Hiroyasu Shimizu, JPN – Lee Kyou-hyuk, KOR
   Tucker Fredricks, USA – Keiichiro Nagashima, JPN
   Beorn Nijenhuis, NED – Kwon Sun Chun, KOR
   Joji Kato, JPN – Michael Ireland, CAN
   Joey Cheek, USA – Jeremy Wotherspoon, CAN
   Casey FitzRandolph, USA – Yu Fengtong, CHN
   Kip Carpenter, USA – Lee Kang-seok, KOR
  
  Fastest 100 m
  
  The ten fastest times are listed
  
  Race 2
  
  Pair order
  
  Skater with first inner lane listed first
  
   Beorn Nijenhuis, NED (alone, last outer)
   Kwon Sun Chun, KOR – Li Yu, CHN
   Aleksandr Zhigin, KAZ – Artur Waś, POL
   Brock Miron, CAN – Vincent Labrie, CAN
   Maurizio Carnino, ITA – Kip Carpenter, USA
   Simon Kuipers, NED – Zhuo Lu, CHN
   Sergey Kornilov, RUS – Maciej Ustynowicz, POL
   Aleksey Proshin, RUS – Tucker Fredricks, USA
   An Weijiang, CHN – Mika Poutala, FIN
   Erik Zachrisson, SWE – Ermanno Ioriatti, ITA
   Lee Kyou-hyuk, KOR – Casey FitzRandolph, USA
   Jan Bos, NED – Hiroyasu Shimizu, JPN
   Choi Jae-bong, KOR – Keiichiro Nagashima, JPN
   Michael Ireland, CAN – Joji Kato, JPN
   Pekka Koskela, FIN – Janne Hänninen, FIN
   Erben Wennemars, NED – Dmitry Lobkov, RUS
   Yūya Oikawa, JPN – Yu Fengtong, CHN
   Jeremy Wotherspoon, CAN – Dmitry Dorofeyev, RUS
   Lee Kang-seok, KOR – Joey Cheek, USA
  
  Fastest 100 m
  
  References
  
  External links
   
  
  Men's speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics