Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

Men's 500 metres; at the XII Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Eisschnellaufbahn
Dates	February 10
Competitors	29 from 16 nations
Winning time	39.17
Medalists
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Speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m		women
5000 m	men
10000 m	men

The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1976 Winter Olympics took place on 10 February, at the Eisschnellaufbahn.^[1]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows:^[2]^[3]

World record	Yevgeny Kulikov (URS)	36.17	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR, Soviet Union	29 March 1975
Olympic record	Erhard Keller (FRG)	39.44	Sapporo, Japan	5 February 1972

The following new Olympic record was set.

Date	Athlete	Time	OR	WR
10 February	Yevgeny Kulikov (URS)	39.17	OR

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Yevgeny Kulikov	Soviet Union	39.17	OR
	Valery Muratov	Soviet Union	39.25
	Dan Immerfall	United States	39.54
4	Mats Wallberg	Sweden	39.56
5	Peter Mueller	United States	39.57
6	Jan Bazen	Netherlands	39.78
6	Arnulf Sunde	Norway	39.78
8	Andrey Malikov	Soviet Union	39.85
9	Oloph Granath	Sweden	39.93
10	Jim Chapin	United States	40.09
11	Tom Overend	Canada	40.22
11	Masaki Suzuki	Japan	40.22
13	Johan Granath	Sweden	40.25
14	Gaétan Boucher	Canada	40.53
15	Pertti Niittylä	Finland	40.65
16	Norio Hirate	Japan	40.85
16	Archie Marshall	Great Britain	40.85
18	Mikio Oyama	Japan	40.90
19	Hans van Helden	Netherlands	40.91
19	Emmanuel Michon	France	40.91
21	Kay Arne Stenshjemmet	Norway	40.94
22	Lee Yeong-Ha	23x15px South Korea	41.08
23	Bruno Toniolli	Italy	41.44
24	Harald Oehme	East Germany	41.54
25	Colin Coates	Australia	41.77
26	Berend Schabus	Austria	42.33
27	Heinz Steinberger	Austria	43.28
28	Jan Egil Storholt	Norway	18.00
-	Horst Freese	West Germany	DNF