On the evening of February 13, Beijing time, the beijing Winter Olympics short track speed skating men's 500 meters semi-final competition began to compete, China's Wu Dajing passed the quarter-final challenge, successfully qualified for the semi-final competition. In the end, Wu Dajing won the third place in the group and did not have the opportunity to enter the final of the final group A.
In the semi-finals, Wu Dajing was placed in Group 2, with opponents including Hungary's Liu Shaoang, Canada's Dubois, South Korea's Hwang Daehyun and Kazakhstan's Azhgaliyev.
After the start of the race, Wu Dajing was in the 3rd position, since then Wu Dajing has been ranked 3rd, and finally sprinted Liu Shaoang 40.15 seconds to cross the finish line first, Azh galiyev crossed the finish line in 40.47 seconds, and Wu Dajing crossed the finish line in the third place in 40.50 seconds, and did not qualify for the final of Group A. DuBois in the same group was directly sentenced to the final of Group A because of Huang Daxian's foul.
Group 1 Russian Olympic team Ivliev was the first to cross the finish line, his time was 40.655 seconds. Italy's Sigil was second in the group in 40.847 seconds, and the two were given the opportunity to advance to the final of Group A.