2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – Men's 500 metres

The 500 metres distance for men in the 2010–11 ISU Speed Skating World Cup was contested over 12 races on six occasions, out of a total of eight World Cup occasions for the season, with the first occasion taking place in Heerenveen, Netherlands, on 12–14 November 2010, and the final occasion also taking place in Heerenveen on 4–6 March 2011.^[1]

Lee Kang-seok of South Korea won the cup, while his countryman Lee Kyou-hyuk came second, and Joji Kato of Japan came third. Defending champion Tucker Fredricks of the United States finished in 4th place.

Top three

Medal	Athlete	Points	Previous season
Gold	Lee Kang-seok	845	6th
Silver	Lee Kyou-hyuk	745	7th
Bronze	Joji Kato	671	9th

Race medallists

Occasion #	Location	Date	Gold	Time	Silver	Time	Bronze	Time	Report
1	Heerenveen, Netherlands	12 November	Joji Kato  Japan	34.85	Lee Kang-seok  South Korea	35.00	Lee Kyou-hyuk  South Korea	35.01
		14 November	Keiichiro Nagashima  Japan	34.97	Joji Kato  Japan	35.01	Lee Kang-seok  South Korea	35.10
2	Berlin, Germany	19 November	Joji Kato  Japan	35.03	Jan Smeekens  Netherlands	35.04	Lee Kang-seok  South Korea	35.10
		20 November	Pekka Koskela  Finland	34.90	Tucker Fredricks  United States	34.91	Lee Kang-seok  South Korea	35.13
4	Changchun, China	4 December	Lee Kang-seok  South Korea	35.10	Joji Kato  Japan	35.25	Keiichiro Nagashima  Japan	35.30
		5 December	Tucker Fredricks  United States	35.26	Jan Smeekens  Netherlands	35.27	Lee Kyou-hyuk  South Korea	35.32
5	Obihiro, Japan	11 December	Lee Kang-seok  South Korea	35.11	Keiichiro Nagashima  Japan	35.16	Akio Ota  Japan	35.16
		12 December	Joji Kato  Japan	34.96	Keiichiro Nagashima  Japan	35.19	Lee Kyou-hyuk  South Korea	35.19
6	Moscow, Russia	28 January	Pekka Koskela  Finland	35.15	Jamie Gregg  Canada	35.23	Jacques de Koning  Netherlands	35.24
		29 January	Jan Smeekens  Netherlands	34.93	Akio Ota  Japan	35.02	Tucker Fredricks  United States	35.06
8	Heerenveen, Netherlands	4 March	Lee Kang-seok  South Korea	35.03	Lee Kyou-hyuk  South Korea	35.08	Jacques de Koning  Netherlands	35.18
		6 March	Lee Kyou-hyuk  South Korea	35.00	Yūya Oikawa  Japan	35.11	Lee Kang-seok  South Korea	35.12

Standings

Standings as of 6 March 2011 (end of the season).^[2]

#	Name	Nat.	HVN1	HVN2	BER1	BER2	CHA1	CHA2	OBI1	OBI2	MOS1	MOS2	HVN3	HVN4	Total
1	Lee Kang-seok		80	70	70	70	100	60	100	40	–	–	150	105	845
2	Lee Kyou-hyuk		70	45	60	60	60	70	40	70	–	–	120	150	745
3	Kato, JojiJoji Kato		100	80	100	50	80	45	60	100	–	–	40	16	671
4	Fredricks, TuckerTucker Fredricks		28	50	50	80	45	100	36	45	36	70	24	75	639
5	Smeekens, JanJan Smeekens		60	32	80	32	28	80	–	–	45	100	90	45	592
6	Nagashima, KeiichiroKeiichiro Nagashima		36	100	45	45	70	32	80	80	–	–	36	14	538
7	Ota, AkioAkio Ota		40	60	36	36	14	36	70	60	16	80	45	8	501
8	Oikawa, YuyiYūya Oikawa		24	14	18	40	40	40	45	28	50	24	32	120	475
9	Lobkov, DmitryDmitry Lobkov		32	12	28	21	50	50	50	32	24	45	16	90	450
10	Koning, JacquesJacques de Koning		25	36	32	24	32	21	32	5	70	6	105	18	406
11	Ihle, NicoNico Ihle		50	28	40	6	18	12	24	14	40	60	10	21	323
12	Gregg, JamieJamie Gregg		–	–	–	–	36	8	28	50	80	50	18	36	306
13	Koskela, PekkaPekka Koskela		10	0	25	100	–	–	–	–	100	18	0	24	277
14	Haga, RyoheiRyohei Haga		3	18	21	5	24	18	18	18	60	21	28	40	274
15	Groothuis, StefanStefan Groothuis		45	40	12	18	5	12	–	–	21	28	75	–	256
16	Otterspeer, HeinHein Otterspeer		19	19	24	28	8	6	14	16	12	36	21	12	215
17	Yesin, AlekseyAleksey Yesin		11	15	5	16	10	16	16	24	21	32	12	6	184
18	Aarnes Hvammen, EspenEspen Aarnes Hvammen		4	0	19	25	21	28	10	10	32	8	3	4	164
19	Labrie, VincentVincent Labrie		21	16	16	12	16	5	12	21	14	12	5	5	155
20	Poutala, MikaMika Poutala		5	10	–	–	–	–	–	–	28	40	14	28	125
21	Kuipers, SimonSimon Kuipers		–	25	14	10	12	14	–	–	–	10	6	32	123
22	Ioriatti, ErmannoErmanno Ioriatti		6	4	2	6	8	15	15	15	10	16	8	10	115
23	Krech, RomanRoman Krech		2	1	1	0	25	24	21	36	–	–	–	–	110
24	Ouardi, MuncefMuncef Ouardi		0	8	8	4	11	0	11	25	8	14	2	2	93
25	Wang Nan		6	5	0	11	19	11	25	–	–	–	–	–	77
26	Dutton, WilliamWilliam Dutton		12	8	11	19	6	4	8	8	–	–	–	–	76
27	Junio, GilmoreGilmore Junio		15	6	8	4	15	8	6	12	–	–	–	–	74
28	Mun Jun		16	24	10	14	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	64
29	Ihle, DennyDenny Ihle		0	0	0	0	0	19	8	19	6	5	–	–	57
30	Davis, ShaniShani Davis		18	21	6	8	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	53
31	Derraugh, TylerTyler Derraugh		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	15	25	4	3	47
32	Schwarz, SamuelSamuel Schwarz		14	6	4	0	0	–	19	–	–	3	–	–	46
33	Blumel, MikeMike Blumel		1	11	15	2	0	1	2	11	–	–	–	–	43
34	Zhang Yaolin		8	4	6	15	1	6	–	–	–	–	–	–	40
35	Sun Bing		–	–	–	–	2	25	5	6	–	–	–	–	38
36	Greig, DanielDaniel Greig		–	–	0	0	–	–	–	–	19	19	–	–	38
37	Mulder, RonaldRonald Mulder		2	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	25	–	–	–	27
38	Chadayev, SergeySergey Chadayev		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8	15	–	–	23
39	Was, ArturArtur Waś		0	2	0	8	–	–	–	–	5	4	–	–	19
40	Maclean, MatthewMatthew McLean		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	6	8	–	–	14
41	Bos, JanJan Bos		–	–	–	–	–	–	6	6	–	–	–	–	12
42	Lindsey, JoeyJoey Lindsey		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	11	–	–	11
	Puolakka, MarkusMarkus Puolakka		0	–	0	0	–	–	–	–	11	0	–	–	11
44	Macclennan, RichardRichard MacClennan		8	0	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	8
	Schipper, PimPim Schipper		–	–	–	–	–	–	0	8	–	–	–	–	8
46	Guo Qiang		0	0	0	0	6	2	0	0	–	–	–		8
	Lalenkov, YevgenyYevgeny Lalenkov		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	2	6	–	–	8
48	Vries, SjoerdSjoerd de Vries		–	–	–	–	–	–	4	4	–	–	–	–	8
49	Nan Minghao		0	0	0	0	0	4	1	1	–	–	–	–	6
50	Whitmore, MitchellMitchell Whitmore		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	4	–	–	5
51	Fagerli Rukke, ChristofferChristoffer Fagerli Rukke		0	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	4	–	–	–	4
	Flygind Larsen, MikaelMikael Flygind Larsen		–	–	–	–	4	–	–	–	–	0	–	–	4
	Niedzwiedzki, KonradKonrad Niedźwiedzki		4	–	0	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	4
54	Nieminen, TuomasTuomas Nieminen		–	0	0	1	–	–	0	2	–	–	–	–	3
55	Gluschenko, ViktorViktor Gluschenko		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	2	–	–	2
56	Lebedev, AleksandrAleksandr Lebedev		–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	0	1	–	–	1

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