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500m Men
OLYMPIC RECORD EVOLUTION 500m Men
ATHLETE
NAME
SCORE
OLYMPIC GAME
DATE
COUNTRY
TIME
[minutes:seconds, 1/100 of a second]
1924
Charles JEWTRAW
44
Chamonix 1924
26 JANUARY
USA
1928
Bernt EVENSEN
43.40
St. Moritz 1928
13 FEBRUARY
NOR
1948
Finn HELGESEN
43.10
St. Moritz 1948
31 JANUARY
NOR
1956
Yevgeny GRISHIN
40.20
Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956
28 JANUARY
URS
1964
Richard MCDERMOTT
40.10
Innsbruck 1964
04 FEBRUARY
USA
1972
Erhard KELLER
39.44
Sapporo 1972
05 FEBRUARY
FRG
1976
Yevgeny KULIKOV
39.17
Innsbruck 1976
10 FEBRUARY
URS
1980
Eric HEIDEN
38.03
Lake Placid 1980
15 FEBRUARY
USA
1988
Uwe-Jens MEY
36.45
Calgary 1988
14 FEBRUARY
GER
1994
Aleksandr GOLUBEV
36.33
Lillehammer 1994
14 FEBRUARY
RUS
1998
Shimizu Hiroyasu
35.76
Nagano 1998
09 FEBRUARY
JPN
Shimizu Hiroyasu
35.59
Nagano 1998
10 FEBRUARY
JPN
2002
Casey FITZRANDOLPH
34.42
Salt Lake City 2002
11 FEBRUARY
USA
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Casey FITZRANDOLPH
Hiroyasu SHIMIZU
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Uwe-Jens MEY
Sergey FOKICHEV
Eric HEIDEN
Yevgeny KULIKOV
Erhard KELLER
Richard MCDERMOTT
Yevgeny GRISHIN
Kenneth HENRY
Finn HELGESEN
Ivar BALLANGRUD
John A. SHEA
Bernt EVENSEN
Clas THUNBERG
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Hiroyasu SHIMIZU
Jeremy WOTHERSPOON
Sergey KLEVCHENYA
Toshiyuki KUROIWA
Jan YKEMA
Yoshihiro KITAZAWA
Yevgeny KULIKOV
Valery MURATOV
Hasse BÖRJES
Magne THOMASSEN
Richard MCDERMOTT
Alv GJESTVANG
Vladimir ORLOV
Yevgeny GRISHIN
William DISNEY
Rafael GRACH
Donald MCDERMOTT
Kenneth BARTHELOMEW
Robert FITZGERALD
Thomas BYBERG
Georg KROG
Bernt EVENSEN
Oskar OLSEN
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Kip CARPENTER
Kevin OVERLAND
Manabu HORII
Junichi INOUE
Akira KUROIWA
Gaetan BOUCHER
Lieuwe DE BOER
Daniel IMMERFALL
Valery MURATOV
Rafael GRACH
Alv GJESTVANG
Arne JOHANSEN
Gordon AUDLEY
Leo FREISINGER
Alexander HURD
Jaakko FRIMAN
John O FARRELL
Roald LARSEN
Clas THUNBERG