These are the results of the 500 metres speed skating

Speed skating

Speed skating, or speedskating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in traveling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating...

event at the 1924 Winter Olympics

1924 Winter Olympics

The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France...

. It was the first event of the Games, held on Saturday, January 26, 1924, which makes Charles Jewtraw

Charles Jewtraw

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 the first gold medal winner in Winter Olympic Games

Winter Olympic Games

The Winter Olympic Games is a sporting event, which occurs every four years. The first celebration of the Winter Olympics was held in Chamonix, France, in 1924. The original sports were alpine and cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping and speed skating...

 history. Twenty-seven speed skaters from 10 nations competed.

Medalists

Records

These were the standing world and Olympic records (in seconds) prior to the 1924 Winter Olympics.

World Record	43.4(*)	Oscar Mathisen Oscar Mathisen Oscar Wilhelm Mathisen was a Norwegian speed skater and celebrity, almost rivalling Roald Amundsen and Fridtjof Nansen as symbols for a young nation...	Davos Davos Davos is a municipality in the district of Prättigau/Davos in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a permanent population of 11,248 . Davos is located on the Landwasser River, in the Swiss Alps, between the Plessur and Albula Range...  (SUI Switzerland Switzerland name of one of the Swiss cantons. ; ; ; or ), in its full name the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities. The country is situated in Western Europe,Or Central Europe depending on the definition.... )	January 17, 1914
Olympic Record		-

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

Results

Place	Athlete	Time
1		44.0
2		44.2
3		44.8
		44.8
5		45.0
6		45.2
7		45.4
8		45.6
		45.6
10		46.4
11		46.6
12		47.0
13		47.2
14		47.8
15		48.4
16		48.8
17		49.6
18		50.6
19		52.8
20		53.2
21		54.8
22		55.8
23		56.4
		56.4
25		60.8
26		62.2
27		64.4