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| Venue | Rotterdam Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands | ||||||||||||
| Dates | 10–12 March | ||||||||||||
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The 2017 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place from 10 to 12 March 2017 in Rotterdam, Netherlands and were the 42nd World Short Track Speed Skating Championships. [1]
* Host nation (Netherlands)
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  South Korea (KOR) | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| 2 |  Great Britain (GBR) | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 3 |  China (CHN) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 4 |  Netherlands (NED)* | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 5 |  Canada (CAN) | 0 | 5 | 2 | 7 |
| 6 |  Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 7 |  Japan (JPN) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (7 entries) | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 | |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall [2] | Seo Yi-ra South Korea | 81 pts | Sjinkie Knegt Netherlands | 73 pts | Samuel Girard Canada | 37 pts |
| 500 m [3] | Sjinkie Knegt Netherlands | 41.832 | Wu Dajing China | 41.891 | Seo Yi-ra South Korea | 42.036 |
| 1000 m [4] | Seo Yi-ra South Korea | 1:25.550 | Liu Shaoang Hungary | 1:25.732 | Charles Hamelin Canada | 1:25.829 |
| 1500 m [5] | Sin Da-woon South Korea | 2:16.919 | Samuel Girard Canada | 2:16.982 | Seo Yi-ra South Korea | 2:17.051 |
| 5000 m relay [6] | Netherlands Daan Breeuwsma Sjinkie Knegt Itzhak de Laat Dennis Visser | 7:06.826 | China Wu Dajing Xu Hongzhi Han Tianyu Ren Ziwei | 7:07.523 | Hungary Viktor Knoch Csaba Burján Sándor Liu Shaolin Liu Shaoang | 7:07.544 |
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze | |||
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| Overall [7] | Elise Christie Great Britain | 89 pts | Marianne St-Gelais Canada | 68 pts | Shim Suk-hee South Korea | 52 pts |
| 500 m [8] | Fan Kexin China | 43.605 | Marianne St-Gelais Canada | 43.630 | Kim Ji-yoo South Korea | 43.744 |
| 1000 m [9] | Elise Christie Great Britain | 1:30.818 | Marianne St-Gelais Canada | 1:31.145 | Suzanne Schulting Netherlands | 1:31.597 |
| 1500 m [10] | Elise Christie Great Britain | 2:54.369 | Marianne St-Gelais Canada | 2:54.381 | Shim Suk-hee South Korea | 2:54.424 |
| 3000 m relay [11] | China Fan Kexin Guo Yihan Lin Yue Zang Yize Qu Chunyu | 4:14.058 | Hungary Bernadett Heidum Andrea Keszler Sára Bácskai Petra Jászapáti | 4:14.627 | Japan Ayuko Ito Hitomi Saito Sumire Kikuchi Aoi Watanabe Moemi Kikuchi | 4:16.668 |
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