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The fastest times, season by season

500 m men · one line per season, the fastest actually skated
seniorjunior 500 m1000 m1500 m3000 mmenwomen men’s relay 5000 mwomen’s relay 3000 mmixed relay 2000 mmen’s relay 3000 mmen’s relay 2000 mwomen’s relay 2000 m 33 seasons · quickest 39.505 WR in 2018/2019
38.000 40.000 42.000 44.000 46.000 500 m 2026/2027 2022/2023 2018/2019 2014/2015 2010/2011 2007 2003 1999 1995 ● men ○ flagged a world record
Every point is the fastest 500 m men skated in that season. A ringed point is one the source itself flagged a world record.
season who fastest skater where races behind
2026/2027men39.828Felix Roussel CANWorld Tour #2 Montreal367+0.323
2025/2026men39.937William Dandjinou CANWorld Tour #1 Montréal1,474+0.432
2024/2025men39.660Steven Dubois CANCNSG 2025 ISU World Short Track Championships Beijing Beijing1,266+0.155
2023/2024men39.891Denis Nikisha KAZISU World Cup Dresden1,516+0.386
2022/2023men39.851Denis Nikisha KAZISU World Cup Salt Lake City1,385+0.346
2021/2022men39.878Dajing Wu CHNISU World Cup Dordrecht842+0.373
2020/2021men40.524Shaoang Liu HUNISU World Championships Dordrecht194+1.019
2019/2020men39.688Dae Heon Hwang KORISU World Cup 2019/20 - Salt Lake City (USA) Salt Lake City, Utah Olympic Oval1,222+0.183
2018/2019men39.505 WRDajing Wu CHNISU World Cup 2018/19 - Salt Lake City (USA) Salt Lake City, Utah Olympic Oval1,362the mark
2017/2018men39.584 WRDajing Wu CHNOlympic Winter Games 2018905the mark
2016/2017men40.125Samuel Girard CANISU World Cup 2016/17 - Calgary (CAN) Calgary, Olympic Oval1,342+0.188
2015/2016men40.091Charles Hamelin CANISU World Cup 2015/16 - Dresden (GER) Dresden, EnergieVerbund Arena1,427+0.154
2014/2015men40.170Dajing Wu CHNISU World Cup 2014/15 - Shanghai (CHN) Shanghai1,367+0.233
2013/2014men40.158Dajing Wu CHNISU World Championships 2014 Montreal1,043+0.221
2012/2013men39.937 wrJ.R. Celski USAISU World Cup 2012/2013, Calgary (CAN) Calgary1,304the mark
2011/2012men40.905Charles Hamelin CANISU World Cup 2011/2012, CHN, Shanghai Shanghai1,370+0.254
2010/2011men41.070Simon Cho USAISU World Cup 2010/2011, GER, Dresden Dresden1,334+0.419
2009/2010men40.651Si-Bak Sung KORISU World Cup 2009/2010, USA, Marquette Marquette1,045the mark
2008/2009men41.065Francois-Louis Tremblay CANSamsung ISU World Cup 2008/2009, BUL, Sofia Sofia1,413+0.014
2007/2008men41.051Si-Bak Sung KORSamsung ISU World Cup 2007/2008, USA, Salt Lake City Salt Lake City1,296the mark
2007men41.360Charles Hamelin CANISU World Cup 2006/2007, Hungary, Budapest1,260+0.176
2006men41.439Francois-Louis Tremblay CAN2006 World Championships, USA860+0.255
2005men41.640Charles Hamelin CAN2005 World Cup 6, Slovakia Spišská Nová Ves937+0.456
2004men41.184Jean-Francois Monette CAN2003 World Cup 1, Canada Calgary746the mark
2003men41.916Jean-Francois Monette CAN2002 World Cup 4 Italy Bormio637+0.389
2002men41.527Kim Dong-Sung KOR2001 World Cup - Calgary Calgary785the mark
2001men41.916Apolo Anton Ohno USA2000 World Cup - Calgary Calgary665the mark
2000men42.009Eric Bedard CAN2000 World Championships Sheffield505the mark
1999men42.128Nicola Franceschina ITA1999 Winter Universiade Poprad258the mark
1998men42.458Feng Kai CHN1998 World Championships Vienna334the mark
1997men42.980Satoru Terao JPN1997 World Championships Nagano114the mark
1996men43.071Fagone Orazio ITA1996 World Championships The Hague60the mark
1995men43.46Coyle John USA1995 World Championship60the mark

Where they were skated

17% 14% 10% 45% 29 on file Calgary 5 17% Salt Lake City 4 14% Dresden 3 10% Dordrecht 2 7% Montreal 2 7% 12 other venues 13 45% 4 of 33 carry no venue and are not in the ring
Where those seasons' fastest times were actually skated. The five busiest venues and everything else — the full list is the table above. A rink filed under two names ("Salt Lake City" and "Salt Lake City, Utah Olympic Oval") is counted once, by the city.
33% 17% 25% 12 records Calgary 4 33% Salt Lake City 2 17% Marquette 1 8% Nagano 1 8% Poprad 1 8% 3 other venues 3 25% 1 of 13 carry no venue and are not in the ring
And where the records were set: every season in the table that beat the mark standing before it, added up across the whole span. These are records in this archive — the fastest it had ever seen at the time — and not the official world record list, for the reason in the note at the foot of the page. The first season on file beat nothing and is not counted.

The three distances, men and women

35.000 40.000 45.000 50.000 500 m 1:10.000 1:20.000 1:30.000 1:40.000 1000 m 2:00.000 2:15.000 2:30.000 2:45.000 1500 m 2026/2027 2022/2023 2018/2019 2014/2015 2010/2011 2007 2003 1999 1995 ● men ● women ○ flagged a world record
One shared season axis, but a scale of its own for each distance: forty seconds and two minutes cannot share an axis without flattening the 500 m into a straight line.

The relays

6:20.000 6:40.000 7:00.000 7:20.000 5000 m men’s 4:00.000 4:10.000 4:20.000 4:30.000 3000 m women’s 2:30.000 2:35.000 2:40.000 2:45.000 2000 m mixed 2026/2027 2022/2023 2018/2019 2014/2015 2010/2011 2007 2003 1999 1995 ● men ● women ● mixed ○ flagged a world record
Three different races rather than one distance raced by two fields — the men skate 5000 m, the women 3000 m, and the mixed relay 2000 m.

Against the mark of the day

record +1.8% +3.5% +5.3% +7.0% 2026/2027 2022/2023 2018/2019 2014/2015 2010/2011 2007 2003 1999 1995 ━ 500 m ━ 1000 m ━ 1500 m solid: men · dashed: women · a dot is a season that set the mark
The same seasons as a percentage off the fastest this archive had seen by then, which is the one way all six events fit honestly on a single axis. A line touching the top set the mark that season.

A database best, not an official record. The mark on these charts is the fastest time in this archive up to that season. The ISU's own results database keeps only one heat per round before about 2022 and holds no Olympic results before 2026, so a world record set outside what is here is simply not here either. 33 times in the archive carry the source's own WR flag, and those are the ringed points. Times are as published, record flags and all; penalised and unfinished races carry no time and cannot be fastest. Super finals are left out — a super final is a bonus race, and its 3000 m "record" is really a 1000 m split. And until 1999 the men's relay qualified over 3000 m, with only the final skated over the full 5000 m: those heats and semifinals are real races at a different distance, not 5000 m times, so they are not counted as one. 1998 is the changeover season and carries both. every timed race built into the archive · super finals excluded · junior and senior competitions are separate events, because the junior relay is 3000 m for both men and women and the 2000 m was the junior relay distance until 2007/08, long before it became the mixed relay

Junior and senior are separate events here, and so is every relay. A junior time is not a senior time, and at 3000 m they are not even the same race: the junior relay is 3000 m for both men and women, alongside the senior women's 3000 m. The 2000 m is three races rather than one — it was the junior men's and the junior women's relay from 2001 to 2007/08, and it is the mixed relay from 2018. Drawn on one line those two eras would read as a single event improving across a seven-season gap it never raced.

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