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

The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics took place on 4 February, at the Eisschnelllaufbahn Innsbruck.[1][2]

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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Records

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

World record   Yevgeny Grishin (URS) 39.5 Alma-Ata, 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

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Rank Athlete Country Time Notes
  Terry McDermott   United States 40.1 OR
  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

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  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.