Results of the 1976 Olympic Games 500 meters Men
| place | Innsbruck (AUT) | |
| rink | Olympia Eisstadion | |
| date | 10 February 1976 | |
| # | name | time | |
| 1 | Yevgeny Kulikov | URS | 0:39.17 |
| 2 | Valery Muratov | URS | 0:39.25 |
| 3 | Dan Immerfall | USA | 0:39.54 |
| 4 | Mats Wallberg | SWE | 0:39.56 |
| 5 | Peter Mueller | USA | 0:39.57 |
| 6 | Jan Bazen | NED | 0:39.78 |
| 6 | Arnulf Sunde | NOR | 0:39.78 |
| 8 | Andrey Malikov | URS | 0:39.85 |
| 9 | Oloph Granath | SWE | 0:39.93 |
| 10 | Jim Chapin | USA | 0:40.09 |
| 11 | Masaki Suzuki | JPN | 0:40.22 |
| 11 | Tom Overend | CAN | 0:40.22 |
| 13 | Johan Granath | SWE | 0:40.25 |
| 14 | Gaétan Boucher | CAN | 0:40.53 |
| 15 | Pertti Niittylä | FIN | 0:40.65 |
| 16 | Emmanuel Michon | FRA | 0:40.85 |
| 16 | Norio Hirate | JPN | 0:40.85 |
| 18 | Mikio Oyama | JPN | 0:40.90 |
| 19 | Hans van Helden | NED | 0:40.91 |
| 19 | Archie Marshall | GBR | 0:40.91 |
| 21 | Kay Arne Stenshjemmet | NOR | 0:40.94 |
| 22 | Lee Yeong-ha | KOR | 0:41.08 |
| 23 | Bruno Toniolli | ITA | 0:41.44 |
| 24 | Harald Oehme | GDR | 0:41.54 |
| 25 | Colin Coates | AUS | 0:41.77 |
| 26 | Berend Schabus | AUT | 0:42.33 |
| 27 | Heinz Steinberger | AUT | 0:43.28 |
| 28 | Jan Egil Storholt | NOR | 1:18.00 |
| Navigation Olympic Games 1976 | |||||
| Men | 500m | 1000m | 1500m | 5000m | 10,000m |
| Women | 500m | 1000m | 1500m | 3000m | |
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