2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics Women’s 500 Meter Speed Skating Odds

Last Updated on February 9, 2010 2:59 pm by drew

Women’s 500M Sprint

Quickness and leg strength will be vital in the Women’s 500 Meter Speed Skating event at the 2010 Winter Olympics.

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In this event, the skating takes place on a 400 meter oval ice rink. Timed to one-hundredth of a second, athletes compete in by skating counter-clockwise around the oval and changing lanes once per lap, which equals out the distance.

Two-time world champion, Jenny Wolf, has been favored to take home the gold for this event.

Wolf has odds of 8/13 to win the gold medal according to online sports book Sports Interaction. Other short odds to win are Wang Beixing (11/4), Lee Sang-Hwa (5/1), and Annette Gerritsen (16/1).

Wolf won the world championships for this event in 2008 and 2007. She also was the overall sprint champion in 2008. She will compete for

Germany in the Olympics.

Beixing is a Chinese speed skater. She has three silver medals in the world championships, coming in second in 2005, 2007, and 2008.

Hwa competes for

South Korea and is a two-time bronze medalist at the world championships in the 500 meter. She took third in 2009 and in 2005 and was the 2005 bronze medalist in the junior world’s all around competition.

Gerritsen competes for the

Netherlands and she has fared well in national competition for her home country but on the global stage, she hasn’t fared well. She took 12^th in the 2006 Olympics for this event and then climbed to her best finish, a bronze medal in the 2008 world championships.

The 2010 Winter Olympics take place from

Vancouver,
British Columbia,
Canada beginning Friday, Feb. 12. and concluding Sunday, Feb. 28. For complete odds on which skater will win the Women’s 500 Meter Speed Skating event, see below.

Odds to win Women’s 500 Meter Speed Skating at 2010 Winter Olympics

Jenny Wolf (GER) 8/13 

Wang Beixing (CHN) 11/4 

Lee Sang-Hwa (SKOR) 5/1

Annette Gerritsen (NED) 16/1 

Marianne Timmer (NED) 22/1    

Nao Kodaira (JPN) 28/1 

Margot Boer (NED) 33/1 

Sayuri Yoshi (JAP) 33/1 

Tomomi Okazaki (JAP) 40/1 

Yuliya Nemaya (RUS) 40/1 

Jing Yu (CHN) 40/1 

Peiyu Jin (CHN) 33/1 

Christine Nesbitt (AUS) 50/1 

Shuang Zhang (CHN) 50/1 

Laurine van Riessen (NED) 50/1 

Hui Ren (CHN) 50/1 

Elli Ochowicz (

USA) 66/1 

Heather Richardson (

USA) 66/1 

Thijsje Oenema (NED) 80/1

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Posted: 2/9/10 2:59PM ET