2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup – World Cup 1 – Men's 500 metres

The men's 500 metres races of the 2014–15 ISU Speed Skating World Cup 1, arranged in the Meiji Hokkaido-Tokachi Oval, in Obihiro, Japan, were held on the weekend of 14–16 November 2014.

Race one was won by Jan Smeekens of the Netherlands, while Pavel Kulizhnikov of Russia came second, and Ruslan Murashov of Russia came third. Aleksey Yesin of Russia won Division B of race one, and was thus, under the rules, automatically promoted to Division A for race two.

In race two, Kulizhnikov ended ahead of Smeekens, with Ryohei Haga of Japan in third place. Artyom Kuznetsov of Russia won Division B of race two.

Race 1

Race one took place on Friday, 14 November, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 12:13, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 16:47.

Division A

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Jan Smeekens		9	i	35.06	100	50
	Pavel Kulizhnikov		8	i	35.16	80	40
	Ruslan Murashov		2	o	35.246	70	35
4	Hein Otterspeer		10	i	35.248	60	30
5	Nico Ihle		5	o	35.316	50	25
6	Laurent Dubreuil		8	o	35.319	45	—
7	Ryohei Haga		5	i	35.32	40
8	Denis Koval		6	o	35.48	36
9	Gilmore Junio		4	o	35.50	32
10	Keiichiro Nagashima		4	i	35.54	28
11	Espen Aarnes Hvammen		2	i	35.58	24
12	William Dutton		1	i	35.63	21
13	Gerben Jorritsma		7	i	35.71	18
14	Mo Tae-bum		9	o	35.72	16
15	Yūya Oikawa		6	i	35.76	14
16	Mirko Giacomo Nenzi		1	o	35.82	12
17	Daichi Yamanaka		3	o	35.83	10
18	Pim Schipper		10	o	35.90	8
19	Artur Nogal		3	i	36.07	6
20	Shani Davis		7	o	36.27	5

Division B

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Aleksey Yesin		5	i	35.25	25
2	Artyom Kuznetsov		12	i	35.30	19
3	Kim Jun-ho		12	o	35.31	15
4	Mu Zhongsheng		4	i	35.58	11
5	Lee Kang-seok		9	i	35.68	8
6	Kai Verbij		8	i	35.77	6
7	Richard Maclennan		8	o	35.83	4
8	Tsubasa Hasegawa		7	o	35.85	2
9	Xie Jiaxuan		6	o	35.90	1
10	Wang Nan		6	i	35.95	—
11	Denny Ihle		10	i	35.98
12	Samuel Schwarz		5	o	36.01
13	Vincent De Haître		11	o	36.03
14	Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen		2	i	36.08
15	Fyodor Mezentsev		4	o	36.17
16	Piotr Michalski		7	i	36.18
17	Denis Kuzin		9	o	36.26
18	Sung Ching-Yang		11	i	36.34
19	David Bosa		10	o	36.36
20	Luca Zanghellini		1	i	36.77
21	Armin Hager		3	i	37.11
22	Benjamin Macé		2	o	37.20
23	Haralds Silovs		3	o	DNS

Race 2

Race two took place on Sunday, 16 November, with Division B scheduled in the morning session, at 12:49, and Division A scheduled in the afternoon session, at 16:40.

Division A

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points	GWC points
	Pavel Kulizhnikov		9	o	34.96	100	50
	Jan Smeekens		10	o	35.09	80	40
	Ryohei Haga		6	o	35.17	70	35
4	Ruslan Murashov		10	i	35.23	60	30
5	Mo Tae-bum		5	i	35.261	50	25
6	Espen Aarnes Hvammen		4	o	35.267	45	—
7	Yūya Oikawa		1	o	35.35	40
8	Laurent Dubreuil		8	i	35.38	36
9	Keiichiro Nagashima		5	o	35.39	32
10	Denis Koval		7	i	35.45	28
11	Nico Ihle		9	i	35.46	24
12	Aleksey Yesin		7	o	35.48	21
13	Gilmore Junio		6	i	35.49	18
14	Gerben Jorritsma		2	o	35.61	16
15	William Dutton		3	o	35.63	14
16	Mirko Giacomo Nenzi		4	i	35.65	12
17	Hein Otterspeer		8	o	35.75	10
18	Pim Schipper		2	i	35.79	8
19	Artur Nogal		1	i	35.940	6
20	Daichi Yamanaka		3	i	35.944	5

Division B

Rank	Name	Nat.	Pair	Lane	Time	WC points
1	Artyom Kuznetsov		10	o	34.47	25
2	Kim Jun-ho		10	i	34.67	19
3	Lee Kang-seok		8	o	34.75	15
4	Mu Zhongsheng		9	o	34.82	11
5	Tsubasa Hasegawa		8	i	34.89	8
6	Kai Verbij		7	o	34.91	6
7	Richard Maclennan		9	i	34.923	4
8	Denny Ihle		5	o	34.925	2
9	Xie Jiaxuan		7	i	34.928	1
10	Vincent De Haître		6	i	34.99	—
11	Denis Dressel		2	i	35.03
12	David Bosa		4	i	35.05
13	Wang Nan		6	o	35.06
14	Piotr Michalski		4	o	35.15
15	Fyodor Mezentsev		5	i	35.193
16	Luca Zanghellini		2	o	35.194
17	Sung Ching-Yang		3	o	35.22
18	Aleksandr Zhigin		1	i	35.35
19	Benjamin Macé		3	i	35.38