Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres
Rank Pair Lane Athlete Country Time Difference
1 1 o Eric Heiden United States 38.03
2 1 i Yevgeny Kulikov Soviet Union 38.37 +0.34
3 5 o Lieuwe de Boer Netherlands 38.48 +0.45
4 2 o Frode Rønning Norway 38.66 +0.63
5 6 i Dan Immerfall United States 38.69 +0.66
6 5 i Jarle Pedersen Norway 38.83 +0.80
7 2 i Anatoly Medennikov Soviet Union 38.88 +0.85
8 3 o Gaétan Boucher Canada 38.90 +0.87
9 19 i Jan Józwik Poland 39.01 +0.98
10 7 i Jan-Åke Carlberg Sweden 39.03 +1.00
11 8 o Steffen Doering East Germany 39.06 +1.03
12 3 i Oloph Granath Sweden 39.15 +1.12
13 16 i Andreas Dietel East Germany 39.21 +1.18
14 6 o Kaoru Fukuda Japan 39.24 +1.21
15 17 o Sergey Khlebnikov Soviet Union 39.25 +1.22
16 9 o Kai Arne Engelstad Norway 39.30 +1.27
16 4 i Bert de Jong Netherlands 39.30 +1.27
18 9 o Jukka Salmela Finland 39.32 +1.29
19 14 o Lee Yeong-Ha South Korea 39.33 +1.30
20 10 o Kazuaki Ichimura Japan 39.44 +1.41
Results
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The men's 500 metres in speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics took place on 15 February, at the James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink.