2012 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships – Men's 500 metres

The men's 500 metre at the 2012 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place on 10 March 2012, at the Shanghai Oriental Sports Center.

Results

Preliminaries

Top two athletes from each heat qualified for the heats.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Semen Elistratov	Russia	42.965	Q
2	Edoardo Reggiani	Italy	43.113	Q
3	Lucas Ng	Singapore	48.911
4	Ievgen Gutenov	Ukraine	1:14.499

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Simon Cho	United States	42.319	Q
2	Yuzo Takamido	Japan	42.956	Q
3	Bence Olah	Hungary	43.496
4	Selim Tanrikulu	Turkey	44.288

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Liang Wenhao	China	42.207	Q
2	Guillaume Bastille	Canada	42.565	Q
3	Nurbergen Zhumagaziyev	Kazakhstan	43.157
4	Nihad Bašić	Bosnia and Herzegovina	45.875

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Noh Jin-Kyu	South Korea	42.510	Q
2	Vladislav Bykanov	Israel	43.401	Q
3	Lui Pan To Barton	Hong Kong	43.470

Heat 9

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kwak Yoon-Gy	South Korea	42.611	Q
2	Jakub Jaworski	Poland	43.055	Q
3	Torsten Kröger	Germany	43.156

Heat 11

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Gong Qiuwen	China	42.543	Q
2	Niels Kerstholt	Netherlands	42.727	Q
3	Jose Cavalli	Switzerland	44.457
4	Kim Ryong-Chol	North Korea	44.510

Heat 13

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Vladimir Grigorev	Russia	42.401	Q
2	Viktor Knoch	Hungary	42.421	Q
3	Aliaksandr Antanenka	Belarus	46.256
4	Shung Fan-Yang	Chinese Taipei	47.330

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Olivier Jean	Canada	41.525	Q
2	Jordan Malone	United States	42.848	Q
3	Kiril Pandov	Bulgaria	1:07.795
4	Tommaso Dotti	Italy		PEN

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Chen Dequan	China	42.318	Q
2	Daisuke Uemura	Japan	43.680	Q
3	Jose Ignacio Fazio	Argentina	45.505
4	Jonathan López	Spain	46.800

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Sin Da-Woon	South Korea	42.469	Q
2	Richard Shoebridge	United Kingdom	42.544	Q
3	Oleksiy Koshelenko	Ukraine	42.790

Heat 8

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Charles Hamelin	Canada	41.704	Q
2	Jack Whelbourne	United Kingdom	42.727	Q
3	Fedor Andreyev	Kazakhstan	45.053
4	Alvaro Peña	Spain	46.412

Heat 10

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Travis Jayner	United States	43.026	Q
2	Jekabs Saulitis	Latvia	43.264	Q
3	Maksim Siarheyu	Belarus	44.787
4	Om Chol	North Korea	44.859

Heat 12

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Sjinkie Knegt	Netherlands	42.339	Q
2	Robert Seifert	Germany	42.340	Q
3	Pierre Boda	Australia	42.712
4	Maxime Chataignier	France	42.736

Heat 14

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Thibaut Fauconnet	France	42.893	Q
2	Lachlan Hay	Australia	43.767	Q
3	Myukerrem Top	Turkey	45.185
4	Blake Skjellerup	New Zealand	1:13.655

Heats

Top two athletes from each heat and the two fastest thirds qualified for the quarterfinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Chen Dequan	China	41.727	Q
2	Vladimir Grigorev	Russia	41.998	Q
3	Richard Shoebridge	United Kingdom	42.040
4	Jekabs Saulitis	Latvia	42.804

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Charles Hamelin	Canada	41.035	Q
2	Gong Qiuwen	China	41.483	Q
3	Robert Seifert	Germany	41.728	q
4	Jakub Jaworski	Poland	42.467

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Noh Jin-Kyu	South Korea	42.581	Q
2	Guillaume Bastille	Canada	42.855	Q
3	Thibaut Fauconnet	France	1:26.160	ADV
4	Jack Whelbourne	United Kingdom		PEN

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Liang Wenhao	China	42.023	Q
2	Niels Kerstholt	Netherlands	42.096	Q
3	Vladislav Bykanov	Israel	42.717
4	Sin Da-Woon	South Korea	1:10.553

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kwak Yoon-Gy	South Korea	42.105	Q
2	Yuzo Takamido	Japan	42.241	Q
3	Edoardo Reggiani	Italy	42.662
4	Travis Jayner	United States	58.536

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Olivier Jean	Canada	41.390	Q
2	Jordan Malone	United States	41.532	Q
3	Semen Elistratov	Russia	41.600	q
4	Viktor Knoch	Hungary	42.272

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Simon Cho	United States	41.743	Q
2	Sjinkie Knegt	Netherlands	41.776	Q
3	Daisuke Uemura	Japan	42.621
4	Lachlan Hay	Australia	46.502

Quarterfinals

Top two athletes from each heat qualified for the semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Robert Seifert	Germany	41.894	Q
2	Simon Cho	United States	42.329	Q
3	Noh Jin-Kyu	South Korea	43.157
4	Gong Qiuwen	China	53.947	ADV
5	Thibaut Fauconnet	France		PEN

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Charles Hamelin	Canada	41.290	Q
2	Niels Kerstholt	Netherlands	41.548	Q
3	Liang Wenhao	China	57.322	ADV
4	Vladimir Grigorev	Russia		PEN

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Olivier Jean	Canada	41.381	Q
2	Sjinkie Knegt	Netherlands	42.410	Q
3	Semen Elistratov	Russia	42.560
4	Yuzo Takamido	Japan	42.668

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Guillaume Bastille	Canada	42.382	Q
2	Kwak Yoon-Gy	South Korea	42.461	Q
3	Jordan Malone	United States	43.392	ADV
4	Chen Dequan	China		PEN

Semifinals

Top two athletes from each heat qualified for the final.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Charles Hamelin	Canada	41.894	Q
2	Sjinkie Knegt	Netherlands	42.329	Q
3	Gong Qiuwen	China	43.157
4	Robert Seifert	Germany	53.947	ADV
5	Simon Cho	United States		PEN

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Olivier Jean	Canada	41.351	Q
2	Kwak Yoon-Gy	South Korea	41.583	Q
3	Guillaume Bastille	Canada	41.664
4	Jordan Malone	United States	42.964
5	Liang Wenhao	China	1:03.588
6	Niels Kerstholt	Netherlands		PEN

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Olivier Jean	Canada	41.077
	Charles Hamelin	Canada	41.186
	Kwak Yoon-Gy	South Korea	41.479
4	Robert Seifert	Germany	41.574
5	Sjinkie Knegt	Netherlands	59.578