Results of the 1980 Olympic Games 500 meters Men
| place | Lake Placid (USA) | |
| rink | James B. Sheffield Olympic Skating Rink | |
| date | 15 February 1980 | |
| # | name | time | |
| 1 | Eric Heiden | USA | 0:38.03 |
| 2 | Yevgeny Kulikov | URS | 0:38.37 |
| 3 | Lieuwe de Boer | NED | 0:38.48 |
| 4 | Frode Rønning | NOR | 0:38.66 |
| 5 | Dan Immerfall | USA | 0:38.69 |
| 6 | Jarle Pedersen | NOR | 0:38.83 |
| 7 | Anatoly Medennikov | URS | 0:38.88 |
| 8 | Gaétan Boucher | CAN | 0:38.90 |
| 9 | Jan Jóżwik | POL | 0:39.01 |
| 10 | Jan-Åke Carlberg | SWE | 0:39.03 |
| 11 | Steffen Doering | GDR | 0:39.06 |
| 12 | Oloph Granath | SWE | 0:39.15 |
| 13 | Andreas Dietel | GDR | 0:39.21 |
| 14 | Kaoru Fukuda | JPN | 0:39.24 |
| 15 | Sergey Khlebnikov | URS | 0:39.25 |
| 16 | Bert de Jong | NED | 0:39.30 |
| 16 | Kai Arne Engelstad | NOR | 0:39.30 |
| 18 | Jukka Salmela | FIN | 0:39.32 |
| 19 | Lee Yeong-ha | KOR | 0:39.33 |
| 20 | Kazuaki Ichimura | JPN | 0:39.44 |
| 21 | Emmanuel Michon | FRA | 0:39.47 |
| 22 | Pertti Niittylä | FIN | 0:39.54 |
| 23 | Wang Nianchun | CHN | 0:39.73 |
| 24 | Jim Chapin | USA | 0:39.74 |
| 25 | Esa Puolakka | FIN | 0:39.76 |
| 26 | Jacques Thibault | CAN | 0:40.11 |
| 27 | Vasile Coroş | ROU | 0:40.30 |
| 28 | Hilbert van der Duim | NED | 0:40.42 |
| 28 | Giovanni Paganin | ITA | 0:40.42 |
| 30 | Dezideriu Jenei | ROU | 0:40.84 |
| 31 | Zhao Weichang | CHN | 0:41.18 |
| 32 | Mike Richmond | AUS | 0:41.22 |
| 33 | Su He | CHN | 0:41.26 |
| 34 | Dorzjijn Tsenddoo | MGL | 0:41.68 |
| 35 | Tömörbaatarin Njamdavaa | MGL | 0:42.41 |
| 36 | Johan Granath | SWE | 1:21.44 |
| DQ | Archie Marshall | GBR | - |
| Legenda | |
| DQ | disqualified |
| Navigation Olympic Games 1980 | |||||
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