Speed ​​skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics - 500 meters (men)

Speed ​​skating on 2014 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1,500 m		men		women
3000 m				women
5000 m		men		women
10 000 m		men
Team race		men		women
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The men's 500k speed skating competition at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held on February 10th . Venue - Adler Arena speed skating stadium. Competitions began at 17:00 local time ( UTC + 4 ).

Men 500 m at the olympic games
Location	Adler Arena
Dates	February 10th
Of the participants	40 out of 17 countries
Top places
Michel Mulder Netherlands Ian Smeckens Netherlands Ronald mulder Netherlands

For the first time in history, a Dutch skater won a 500 meter race at the Olympics (Dutch athletes also never won a 500 meter race at the Olympics).

After the first run, Jan Smekens was the leader (he was the sixth in this race at the 2010 Vancouver Games). The second at 0.04 seconds behind Smekens was Michel Mulder , 0.20 seconds behind the leader was the silver medalist of the 2010 Games at this distance, Japanese Keiichiro Nagashima . Olympic champion in 2010 and world champion in 2012 and 2013 at this distance, one of the main favorites Korean Mo Tae Bom was fourth in 0.25 seconds from Smekens.

In the second race, Ronald Mulder showed the best time, which allowed him to rise from sixth to third place. Nagashima ran unsuccessfully (only 16th time in the second race) and took sixth place in total. Mo Tae Bom also failed to improve his position - fifth in the second race and fourth in total. In the fight for gold, Michel Mulder managed to get ahead of Smekens by 0.01 seconds in the sum of two races.