2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 500 metres

The 500 metres distance for men in the 2008–09 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over 13 races on seven occasions, out of a total of nine World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Berlin, Germany, on 7–9 November 2008, and the final occasion taking place in Salt Lake City, United States, on 6–7 March 2009.

Yu Fengtong of China won the cup, while Keiichiro Nagashima of Japan came second, and Tucker Fredricks of the United States came third. Defending champion Jeremy Wotherspoon of Canada suffered an arm injury in race 2 of the first occasion, which stopped him from participating in the rest of the World Cup season.

Top three

Medal	Athlete	Points	Previous season
Gold	Yu Fengtong	1086	14th
Silver	Keiichiro Nagashima	957	9th
Bronze	Tucker Fredricks	642	8th

Race medallists

Occasion #	Location	Date	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
1	Berlin, Germany	7 November	Keiichiro Nagashima Japan	34.92	Pekka Koskela Finland	34.99	Lee Kyou-hyuk South Korea	35.01
		8 November	Joji Kato Japan	34.70	Yu Fengtong China	35.07	Mika Poutala Finland	35.13
2	Heerenveen, Netherlands	14 November	Pekka Koskela Finland	34.88	Dmitry Lobkov Russia	35.16	Yu Fengtong China	35.18
		15 November	Joji Kato Japan	34.82	Yu Fengtong China	35.05	Pekka Koskela Finland	35.09
4	Changchun, China	6 December	Yu Fengtong China	34.97	Keiichiro Nagashima Japan	35.08	Lee Kyou-hyuk South Korea	35.27
		7 December	Dmitry Lobkov Russia	35.07	Yu Fengtong China	35.09	Keiichiro Nagashima Japan	35.20
5	Nagano, Japan	13 December	Keiichiro Nagashima Japan	34.81	Yu Fengtong China	34.91	Joji Kato Japan	35.06
		14 December	Lee Kyou-hyuk South Korea	34.92	Yu Fengtong China	34.95	Joji Kato Japan	34.96
6	Kolomna, Russia	24 January	Keiichiro Nagashima Japan	34.85	Yu Fengtong China	34.89	Yuya Oikawa Japan	34.96
		25 January	Tucker Fredricks United States	34.81	Keiichiro Nagashima Japan	34.87	Yu Fengtong China	34.89
7	Erfurt, Germany	30 January	Yu Fengtong China	35.03	Keiichiro Nagashima Japan	35.04	Tucker Fredricks United States	35.12
		31 January	Tucker Fredricks United States	34.91	Yu Fengtong China	35.00	Jan Smeekens Netherlands	35.26
9	Salt Lake City, United States	6 March	Yu Fengtong China	34.37	Lee Kyou-hyuk South Korea	34.38	Tucker Fredricks United States	34.51

Final standings

Standings as of 8 March 2009 (end of the season).

#	Name	Nat.	BER1	BER2	HVN1	HVN2	CHA1	CHA2	NAG1	NAG2	KOL1	KOL2	ERF1	ERF2	SLC	Total
1	Yu Fengtong		36	80	70	80	100	80	80	80	80	70	100	80	150	1086
2	Keiichiro Nagashima		100	60	45	32	80	70	100	60	100	80	80	60	90	957
3	Tucker Fredricks		50	32	40	40	–	–	21	40	60	100	70	100	105	642
4	Mika Poutala		45	70	60	60	45	50	40	45	50	60	16	12	40	593
5	Lee Kyou-hyuk		70	40	50	36	70	45	50	100	–	–	–	–	120	581
6	Joji Kato		3	100	6	100	36	60	70	70	8	32	6	6	45	542
7	Yuya Oikawa		15	19	32	21	50	36	6	32	70	28	50	24	75	458
8	Dmitry Lobkov		60	36	80	45	0	100	0	40	36	0	–	–	2	399
9	Pekka Koskela		80	45	100	70	–	–	60	5	–	–	0	–	–	360
10	Zhang Zhongqi		25	25	36	18	40	32	32	16	45	50	–	–	21	340
11	Jan Smeekens		10	21	18	50	16	14	16	14	16	14	45	70	24	328
12	Simon Kuipers		2	16	25	25	60	18	–	–	32	36	60	40	14	328
13	Lee Kang-seok		32	50	21	24	21	40	45	50	–	–	–	–	28	311
14	Tadashi Obara		12	5	0	0	25	25	36	36	40	40	36	10	18	283
15	Jamie Gregg		14	8	–	–	19	15	24	21	28	45	40	36	32	282
16	Shani Davis		6	15	24	6	18	21	18	12	5	–	28	50	36	239
17	Mark Tuitert		24	14	0	14	28	24	–	–	24	18	14	14	3	177
18	Zhang Yaolin		–	–	–	–	11	11	4	25	14	24	32	45	10	176
19	Stefan Groothuis		21	10	14	10	14	16	–	–	21	16	12	32	6	172
20	Mo Tae-bum		4	18	28	16	32	12	28	28	–	–	–	–	–	166
21	Muncef Ouardi		8	11	8	15	8	10	14	10	12	12	24	16	10	158
22	Vincent Labrie		28	28	16	0	–	–	–	–	19	15	18	21	12	157
23	Lee Ki-ho		8	12	19	15	24	8	12	18	–	–	–	–	16	132
24	Beorn Nijenhuis		18	6	10	12	–	–	–	–	11	8	15	25	5	110
25	Pasi Koskela		11	4	15	19	6	6	10	6	0	0	25	–	4	106
26	Sergey Chadayev		0	0	0	0	8	6	25	0	18	21	8	18	–	104
27	Ermanno Ioriatti		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	25	25	21	28	–	99
28	An Weijiang		16	24	12	28	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	80
29	Nico Ihle		2	1	11	4	0	0	2	15	4	11	4	15	–	69
30	Kyle Parrott		–	–	–	–	4	8	11	2	–	–	19	19	–	63
31	Brent Aussprung		6	4	1	0	–	–	0	19	10	10	0	8	–	58
32	Hiroyasu Shimizu		19	8	8	8	12	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	55
33	Mun Jun		–	–	–	–	10	28	6	6	–	–	–	–	–	50
34	Liu Fangyi		–	–	–	–	15	19	8	8	–	–	–	–	–	50
35	Christopher Needham		0	0	6	2	–	–	8	11	0	2	11	6	–	46
36	Maciej Ustynowicz		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8	19	10	8	–	45
37	Denny Morrison		–	2	0	6	0	2	15	4	15	–	–	1	–	45
38	Jeremy Wotherspoon		40	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	40
39	Mike Blumel		0	0	0	1	–	–	19	0	6	8	–	–	–	34
40	Tuomas Nieminen		4	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	6	6	8	0	–	26
41	Frank Steiner		0	2	4	0	0	0	0	8	0	0	6	2	–	22
42	François-Olivier Roberge		–	–	0	8	2	4	1	1	0	4	0	–	–	20
43	Markus Puolakka		0	0	0	0	–	–	–	–	0	0	0	11	–	11
44	Artur Waś		5	3	0	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8
45	Aleksandr Lebedev		0	–	0	0	6	1	0	–	0	–	–	–	–	7
46	Lee Jong-woo		–	6	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	6
47	Mitchell Whitmore		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	4	–	6
48	Matthias Schwierz		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	0	0	–	3
49	Jan Friesinger		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	–	–	1
	Takaharu Nakajima		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	0	–	–	–	1
	Yevgeny Lalenkov		1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1
	Nan Minghao		–	–	–	–	1	0	0	0	–	–	–	–	–	1