title: 2020 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships – Men's 500 metres
text: # 2020 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships – Men's 500 metres
  
  The Men's 500 metres competition at the 2020 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships was held on February 14, 2020.
  
  ## Results
  
  The race was started at 16:35.
  
  | Rank | Pair | Lane | Name | Country | Time | Diff |
  | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
  | | 5 | i | Pavel Kulizhnikov | Russia | 33.72 | |
  | | 11 | o | Ruslan Murashov | Russia | 33.99 | +0.27 |
  | | 10 | o | Tatsuya Shinhama | Japan | 34.03 | +0.31 |
  | 4 | 11 | i | Viktor Mushtakov | Russia | 34.05 | +0.33 |
  | 5 | 4 | i | Daichi Yamanaka | Japan | 34.06 | +0.34 |
  | 6 | 9 | o | Laurent Dubreuil | Canada | 34.12 | +0.40 |
  | 7 | 4 | o | Cha Min-kyu | South Korea | 34.21 | +0.49 |
  | 8 | 12 | i | Kim Jun-ho | South Korea | 34.26 | +0.54 |
  | 9 | 10 | i | Gao Tingyu | China | 34.28 | +0.56 |
  | 10 | 7 | o | Kai Verbij | Netherlands | 34.32 | +0.60 |
  | 11 | 9 | i | Gilmore Junio | Canada | 34.44 | +0.72 |
  | 12 | 2 | o | Jan Smeekens | Netherlands | 34.45 | +0.73 |
  | 13 | 8 | o | Dai Dai Ntab | Netherlands | 34.48 | +0.76 |
  | 14 | 12 | o | Yuma Murakami | Japan | 34.52 | +0.80 |
  | 15 | 5 | o | Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen | Norway | 34.53 | +0.81 |
  | 16 | 6 | o | Artur Nogal | Poland | 34.56 | +0.84 |
  | 17 | 8 | i | Alex Boisvert-Lacroix | Canada | 34.60 | +0.88 |
  | 18 | 3 | o | Nico Ihle | Germany | 34.65 | +0.93 |
  | 19 | 3 | i | Ignat Golovatsiuk | Belarus | 34.69 | +0.97 |
  | 20 | 6 | i | Kim Tae-yun | South Korea | 34.70 | +0.98 |
  | 21 | 7 | i | Piotr Michalski | Poland | 35.00 | +1.28 |
  | 22 | 1 | i | Alexander Klenko | Kazakhstan | 44.50 | +10.78 |
  | | 2 | i | Artiom Chaban | Belarus | Did not finish | Did not finish |
  | | 1 | o | Hendrik Dombek | Germany | Disqualified | Disqualified |
  