1996-97 World Cup 4 (Sprint distances): Results 500 meters Men
| Place | Rink | |
| Ikaho | JPN | Machiyama Highland Skating Center |
| Date | Discipline | |
| 14 Dec 1996 | 500 meters (Men) | |
| 15 Dec 1996 | 500 meters (Men) | |
| 14 Dec 1996 | 1000 meters (Men) | |
| 15 Dec 1996 | 1000 meters (Men) | |
| 14 Dec 1996 | 500 meters (Women) | |
| 15 Dec 1996 | 500 meters (Women) | |
| 14 Dec 1996 | 1000 meters (Women) | |
| 15 Dec 1996 | 1000 meters (Women) | |
| Group A | |||||||
| # | name | time | points | ||||
| 1 | Hiroyasu Shimizu | JPN | 0:36.51 | 50 | |||
| 2 | Manabu Horii | JPN | 0:36.57 | 45 | |||
| 3 | Sergey Klevchenya | RUS | 0:36.63 | 40 | |||
| 4 | Junichi Inoue | JPN | 0:36.65 | 35 | |||
| 5 | Jaegal Sung-yeol | KOR | 0:36.74 | 30 | |||
| 6 | Hiroaki Yamakage | JPN | 0:36.75 | 25 | |||
| 7 | Yasunori Miyabe | JPN | 0:36.85 | 20 | |||
| 8 | Kim Yoon-man | KOR | 0:36.89 | 17 | |||
| 9 | Casey FitzRandolph | USA | 0:37.31 | 15 | |||
| 10 | Gerard van Velde | NED | 0:37.37 | 13 | |||
| 11 | Mike Ireland | CAN | 0:37.38 | 11 | |||
| 12 | Sylvain Bouchard | CAN | 0:37.43 | 9 | |||
| 13 | Liu Hongbo | CHN | 0:37.53 | 7 | |||
| 14 | Lee Kyou-hyuk | KOR | 0:37.56 | 5 | |||
| 15 | Jan Bos | NED | 0:37.95 | 3 | |||
| DNF | Grunde Njøs | NOR | - | 0 | |||
| Group B | |||||||
| # | name | time | points | ||||
| 1 | Jeremy Wotherspoon | CAN | 0:37.25 | 14 | |||
| 2 | Michael Künzel | GER | 0:37.29 | 10 | |||
| 3 | Kevin Scott | CAN | 0:37.33 | 8 | |||
| 4 | Tomasz Świst | POL | 0:37.64 | 6 | |||
| 5 | Patrick Kelly | USA | 0:37.65 | 4 | |||
| 6 | Dave Cruikshank | USA | 0:37.67 | 2 | |||
| 7 | Aleksandr Golubev (1972) | RUS | 0:37.71 | (20) | |||
| 8 | Magnus Enfeldt | SWE | 0:37.76 | (17) | |||
| 9 | Andrey Finevich | RUS | 0:37.83 | (15) | |||
| 10 | Peter Adeberg | GER | 0:37.84 | (13) | |||
| 11 | Roland Brunner | AUT | 0:37.86 | (11) | |||
| 12 | Matthias Pfeiffer | GER | 0:37.90 | (9) | |||
| 13 | Magnus Jansson | SWE | 0:38.06 | (7) | |||
| 14 | Brendan Eppert | USA | 0:38.09 | (5) | |||
| 15 | Boris Terentyev | RUS | 0:38.19 | (3) | |||
| 16 | Janne Hänninen | FIN | 0:38.25 | (1) | |||
| 17 | Paweł Abratkiewicz | POL | 0:38.41 | 0 | |||
| 18 | Erben Wennemars | NED | 0:38.44 | 0 | |||
| 19 | Jakko Jan Leeuwangh | NED | 0:38.51 | 0 | |||
| 20 | Lionel Sodogas | FRA | 0:38.60 | 0 | |||
| 21 | Pascal Hinni | SUI | 0:39.90 | 0 | |||
| 22 | Paulo José Peralta | POR | 0:40.71 | 0 | |||
| Legenda | |
| DNF | = did not finish |
| Navigation 500 meters Men 1996-97 | |||
| 7 Dec 1996 | World Cup 3 | Jeonju | KOR |
| 8 Dec 1996 | World Cup 3 | Jeonju | KOR |
| 14 Dec 1996 | World Cup 4 (Sprint) | Ikaho | JPN |
| 15 Dec 1996 | World Cup 4 (Sprint) | Ikaho | JPN |
| 3 Jan 1997 | World Cup 5 | Calgary | CAN |
| 4 Jan 1997 | World Cup 5 | Calgary | CAN |
| 11 Jan 1997 | World Cup 6 | Milwaukee | USA |
| 12 Jan 1997 | World Cup 6 | Milwaukee | USA |
| 22 Feb 1997 | World Cup 9 | Innsbruck | AUT |
| 23 Feb 1997 | World Cup 9 | Innsbruck | AUT |
| 28 Feb 1997 | World Cup 10 (Final) | Inzell | GER |
| 1 Mar 1997 | World Cup 10 (Final) | Inzell | GER |
| Navigation 1996-97 | |||
| 23/24 Nov 1996 | World Cup 1 | Berlin | GER |
| 30/1 Dec 1996 | World Cup 2 | Heerenveen | NED |
| 7/8 Dec 1996 | World Cup 3 | Jeonju | KOR |
| 14/15 Dec 1996 | World Cup 4 (Sprint) | Ikaho | JPN |
| 14/15 Dec 1996 | World Cup 4 (Long) | Hamar | NOR |
| 3/4 Jan 1997 | World Cup 5 | Calgary | CAN |
| 11/12 Jan 1997 | World Cup 6 | Milwaukee | USA |
| 18/19 Jan 1997 | World Cup 7 | Baselga di Pinè | ITA |
| 25/26 Jan 1997 | World Cup 8 | Davos | SUI |
| 22/23 Feb 1997 | World Cup 9 | Innsbruck | AUT |
| 28/2 Mar 1997 | World Cup 10 (Final) | Inzell | GER |
