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

2012 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
1500 m		men		women
3000 m		men		women
3000 m relay				women
5000 m relay		men

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.^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

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.^[4]

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

^[5]

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

References

1. Preliminaries Results
2. Heats Results
3. Quarterfinals Results
4. Semifinals Results
5. Final Results