Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

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Men's 500 metres speed skating
at the IX Olympic Winter Games
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Pictogram for speed skating
VenueEisschnelllaufbahn Innsbruck
Date4 February 1964
Competitors44 from 19 nations
Winning time40.1 OR
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Terry McDermott  United States
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Alv Gjestvang  Norway
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Yevgeny Grishin  Soviet Union
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Vladimir Orlov  Soviet Union
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The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place on 4 February, at the Eisschnelllaufbahn Innsbruck.[1][2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:[3][4]

World record  Yevgeny Grishin (URS) 39.5
Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union
 28 January 1963
Olympic record  Yevgeny Grishin (URS)
 Yevgeny Grishin (URS)		 40.2 Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy
Squaw Valley, United States		 28 January 1956
24 February 1960

The following new Olympic record was set.

Date Athlete Time OR WR
4 February  Terry McDermott (USA) 40.1 OR

Results

[1]

Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Terry McDermott  United States 40.1 OR
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Alv Gjestvang  Norway 40.6
Yevgeny Grishin  Soviet Union 40.6
Vladimir Orlov  Soviet Union 40.6
5 Keiichi Suzuki  Japan 40.7
6
Eddie Rudolph, Jr.
  United States 40.9
7 Heike Hedlund  Sweden 41.0
8 Bill Disney  United States 41.1
Villy Haugen  Norway 41.1
10 Hroar Elvenes  Norway 41.4
Raymond Fonvieille  France 41.4
Rafael Grach
  Soviet Union 41.4
Simo Rinne  Finland 41.4
14 Tom Gray  United States 41.5
15 Boris Gulyayev  Soviet Union 41.7
16 Helmut Kuhnert  United Team of Germany 41.8
Pekka Lattunen  Finland 41.8
Fumio Nagakubo  Japan 41.8
19 Juhani Järvinen  Finland 41.9
Kim Zin-hook  North Korea 41.9
21 Magne Thomassen  Norway 42.0
22 Björn Lekman  Sweden 42.1
23 Toivo Salonen  Finland 42.2
24 Herbert Höfl  United Team of Germany 42.3
Günther Tilch
  United Team of Germany 42.3
26 André Kouprianoff  France 42.5
27 Terry Malkin  Great Britain 42.6
Bo Ollander  Sweden 42.6
29 Manne Lavås  Sweden 42.7
30 Ri Sung-ryool  North Korea 43.0
31 Elio Locatelli  Italy 43.1
32 Oldřich Teplý  Czechoslovakia 43.2
33 François Brueren  Belgium 43.4
Günter Traub  United Team of Germany 43.4 Ŕ
35 Manfred Zojer  Austria 43.5
36 Peter Toyfl  Austria 43.7
37 Mihály Martos  Hungary 44.0
38 Luvsanlkhagvyn Dashnyam  Mongolia 44.1
39 Ralf Olin  Canada 44.2
40 György Ivánkai  Hungary 44.3
41 Satoshi Shinpo  Japan 44.4
42
Choi Yeong-Bae
  South Korea 44.8
43 Jean-Pierre Guéron  Switzerland 44.9
44 Thomas Dawson  Great Britain 45.2

References

  1. ^ a b "Offizieller Bericht der IX. Olympischen Winterspiele Innsbruck 1964" (PDF). Austrian Federal Publishing House for Instruction, Science and Art, Vienna and Munich. LA84 Foundation. 1964. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Speed Skating at the 1964 Innsbruck Winter Games: Men's 500 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 28 October 2019.
  3. ^ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - World Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
  4. ^ "ISU - Speed Skating - Records - Olympic Records". International Skating Union. Retrieved 29 January 2014.
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