Speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics – Men's 500 metres

Men's 500 metres speed skating at the III Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink
Date	4 February 1932
Competitors	16 from 4 nations
Winning time	43.4
Medalists
Jack Shea  United States Bernt Evensen  Norway Alexander Hurd  Canada
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Speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics
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The 500 metres speed skating event was part of the speed skating at the 1932 Winter Olympics programme. The competition was held on Thursday, February 4, 1932. Sixteen speed skaters from four nations competed.

Like all other speed skating events at this Olympics the competition was held for the only time in pack-style format, having all competitors skate at the same time.^[1]

Gold	Silver	Bronze
Jack Shea  United States	Bernt Evensen  Norway	Alexander Hurd  Canada

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1932 Winter Olympics.

World Record	42.6(*)	Clas Thunberg	St. Moritz (SUI)	January 13, 1931
Olympic Record	43.4	Clas Thunberg	St. Moritz (SUI)	February 13, 1928
	43.4	Bernt Evensen	St. Moritz (SUI)	February 13, 1928

(*) The record was set in a high altitude venue (more than 1000 metres above sea level) and on naturally frozen ice.

In the final Jack Shea equalized the Olympic record with 43.4 seconds, but in pack-style format.

Heat 1

Place	Name	Time	Qual.
1	Frank Stack (CAN)	44.3	Q
2	Jack Shea (USA)		Q
3	Shozo Ishihara (JPN)
4	Erling Lindboe (NOR)
5	Yasuo Kawamura (JPN)

Heat 2

Place	Name	Time	Qual.
1	Bernt Evensen (NOR)	45.3	Q
2	Willy Logan (CAN)		Q
3	Raymond Murray (USA)
4	Tokuo Kitani (JPN)
5	Leopold Sylvestre (CAN)

Heat 3

Place	Name	Time	Qual.
1	Alexander Hurd (CAN)	44.9	Q
2	John Farrell (USA)		Q
3	Allan Potts (USA)
4	Haakon Pedersen (NOR)
5	Hans Engnestangen (NOR)
6	Tomeju Uruma (JPN)

Place	Name	Time
1	Jack Shea (USA)	43.4
2	Bernt Evensen (NOR)	5 m behind
3	Alexander Hurd (CAN)	8 m behind
4	Frank Stack (CAN)
5	Willy Logan (CAN)
6	John Farrell (USA)

• Official Olympic Report
• "Results of the 1932 Olympic Games 500 meters Men". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 27 August 2012.