2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships – Men's 500 metres

The men's 500 metre at the 2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place 12 March at the Sheffield Arena.

Results

Preliminaries

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

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Song Weilong	China	43.449	Q
2	Maxime Chataignier	France	43.709	Q
3	Daisuke Uemura	Japan	44.043
4	Pierre Boda	Australia	44.252

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Charles Hamelin	Canada	42.586	Q
2	Jack Whelbourne	United Kingdom	42.689	Q
3	Vladislav Bykanov	Israel	43.922	q
4	Edin Brankovic	Bosnia and Herzegovina	45.673

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Noh Jin-Kyu	South Korea	43.405	Q
2	Dariusz Kulesza	Poland	44.042	Q
3	Bence Olah	Hungary	44.608
4	Edoardo Reggiani	Italy	1:02.458

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Olivier Jean	Canada	43.064	Q
2	Thibaut Fauconnet	France	43.424	Q
3	Liu Pan To Barton	Hong Kong	45.554
4	Jonathan Lopez	Spain	49.129

Heat 9

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	John Eley	United Kingdom	42.910	Q
2	Liang Wenhao	China	42.945	Q
3	Kiril Pandov	Bulgaria	44.140
4	Selim Tanrikulu	Turkey	44.835

Heat 11

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Simon Cho	United States	43.799	Q
2	Jeremy Masson	France	44.487	Q
3	Yang-Chun Wang	Chinese Taipei	46.572
4	Istvan Gal-Oravecz	Romania	46.614

Heat 13

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Nicola Rodigari	Italy	43.815	Q
2	Oleksiy Koshelenko	Ukraine	44.230	Q
3	Um Cheon-Ho	South Korea	46.261
4	Jose Ignacio Fazio	Argentina	47.546

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Francois Hamelin	Canada	43.449	Q
2	Travis Jayner	United States	43.709	Q
3	Siarhei Yakushkou	Belarus	44.043
4	Peter Jelen	Slovakia	44.252

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Bartosz Konopko	Poland	42.967	Q
2	Liu Xianwei	China	43.131	Q
3	Assen Pandov	Bulgaria	43.627	q
4	Yauheni Ryzhou	Belarus	45.313

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Niels Kerstholt	Netherlands	43.854	Q
2	Yuzo Takamido	Japan	43.940	Q
3	Dmytro Poltavets	Ukraine	45.336
4	Andrej Valach	Slovakia	45.405

Heat 8

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Sjinkie Knegt	Netherlands	43.857	Q
2	Ruslan Zakharov	Russia	44.173	Q
3	Jekabs Saulitis	Latvia	45.207
4	Álvaro Peña	Spain	46.320

Heat 10

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Robert Seifert	Germany	43.070	Q
2	Jeff Simon	United States	43.117	Q
3	Sergey Prankevich	Russia	44.237
4	Csaba Burjan	Hungary	44.756

Heat 12

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Lee Ho-Suk	South Korea	44.157	Q
2	Paul Herrmann	Germany	44.159	Q
3	Blake Skjellerup	New Zealand	45.625
4	Jakov Domitrek	Croatia	47.608

Heats

Top 2 Athletes from each heat and the next 2 fastest thirds qualified for quarterfinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Thibaut Fauconnet	France	43.384	Q
2	Bartosz Konopko	Poland	43.561	Q
3	Oleksiy Koshelenko	Ukraine	43.714
4	Simon Cho	United States		ADV

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Nicola Rodigari	Italy	43.759	Q
2	Liu Xianwei	China	43.893	Q
3	Maxime Chataignier	France	44.865
4	Jeff Simon	United States		PEN

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Jack Whelbourne	United Kingdom	42.806	Q
2	Olivier Jean	Canada	42.941	Q
3	Lee Ho-Suk	South Korea	43.068	q
4	Jeremy Masson	France	43.695

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Robert Seifert	Germany	43.099	Q
2	Niels Kerstholt	Netherlands	43.197	Q
3	Vladislav Bykanov	Israel	44.960
4	Noh Jin-Kyu	South Korea	1:16.644

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Liang Wenhao	China	42.580	Q
2	Charles Hamelin	Canada	42.678	Q
3	Dariusz Kulesza	Poland	44.227
4	Yuzo Takamido	Japan	44.264

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Francois Hamelin	Canada	42.883	Q
2	John Eley	United Kingdom	42.949	Q
3	Paul Herrmann	Germany	43.063	q
4	Ruslan Zakharov	Russia	43.405

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Travis Jayner	United States	44.029	Q
2	Song Weilong	China	44.156	Q
3	Kiril Pandov	Bulgaria	44.755	ADV
–	Sjinkie Knegt	Netherlands		PEN

Quarterfinals

Top 2 Athletes from each heat qualified for Semifinals.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Liang Wenhao	China	42.237	Q
2	Simon Cho	United States	42.364	Q
3	Jack Whelbourne	United Kingdom	42.451
4	Nicola Rodigari	Italy	42.748

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Francois Hamelin	Canada	42.638	Q
2	Thibaut Fauconnet	France	42.697	Q
3	Robert Seifert	Germany	42.795
4	Lee Ho-Suk	South Korea	42.917

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Charles Hamelin	Canada	42.736	Q
2	Niels Kerstholt	Netherlands	43.320	Q
3	Paul Herrmann	Germany	44.630
4	Liu Xianwei	China	1:01.288	ADV
–	Travis Jayner	United States		PEN

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Olivier Jean	Canada	42.757	Q
2	John Eley	United Kingdom	42.959	Q
3	Song Weilong	China	43.304
4	Bartosz Konopko	Poland	43.579
5	Kiril Pandov	Bulgaria	1:37.704

Semifinals

Top 2 Athletes from each heat qualified for the Final.

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Simon Cho	United States	42.625	Q
2	Liu Xianwei	China	42.737	Q
3	John Eley	United Kingdom	1:11.002
4	Francois Hamelin	Canada	1:13.490

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Niels Kerstholt	Netherlands	43.364	Q
2	Olivier Jean	Canada	43.896	Q
3	Liang Wenhao	China	44.303
4	Thibaut Fauconnet	France	44.516	ADV
–	Charles Hamelin	Canada		PEN

Final

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Simon Cho	United States	42.307
	Olivier Jean	Canada	42.429
	Liang Wenhao	China	42.493
4	Liu Xianwei	China	42.523
5	Niels Kerstholt	Netherlands	58.500