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| Born | March 7, 2001 Warrington Township, Pennsylvania, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 7 in (170 cm) | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | United States | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Short track speed skating | ||||||||||||||
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Andrew Heo (born March 7, 2001) is an American short track speed skater. He represented the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Heo won a bronze medal at the 2020 Four Continents Short Track Speed Skating Championships in the 5000 metre relay. [1]
Heo represented the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics in the men's 1000 metres. [2] [3]
Heo won a silver medal at the 2023 Four Continents Short Track Speed Skating Championships in the 500 metres. [4]
Heo's older brother, Aaron, is a short track speed skater and represented the United States at the 2016 Winter Youth Olympics. [5] [6]
Short-track speed skating has been a contest at the Winter Olympics since the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France. Prior to that, it was a demonstration sport at the 1988 games. The results from the 1988 demonstration competition are not included in the official Olympic statistics. The sport has been dominated by teams from East Asia and North America, namely South Korea, China, Canada and the United States. Those four countries have won 147 of 195 medals awarded since 1992. South Korea leads the medal tally, with 53 medals including 26 golds since 1992. The majority of medals that South Korea and China have won at the Winter Olympics come from short-track speed skating.
Valérie Maltais is a Canadian short track speed skater and speed skater. She has won six world championship medals, including finishing second overall in 2012.
Zbigniew Marcin Bródka is a Polish speed skater and a 2014 Olympic champion in 1500 metres. He also works as a firefighter in the State Fire Service station in Łowicz.
Ivanie Blondin is a Canadian speed skater. She primarily skates in the long distances of 3000 m and 5000 m and the mass start event. Blondin won a silver medal in the mass start event at the 2015 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships and a gold medal in the same event at the 2020 World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships. She also won the silver medal at the 2020 World Allround Speed Skating Championships. She won a gold medal at the 2022 Winter Olympics, in Women's team pursuit.
Erin Jackson is an American speed skater, roller derby player, and Olympic gold medalist. Jackson is the first Black woman to win a Winter Olympic gold medal in an individual sport. She qualified for The World Games 2017 in Wroclaw, Poland, where she competed in inline speed skating in various distances on road and track. She also qualified to compete in the 500 meters long track speed skating event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang.
Natalia Maliszewska is a Polish short track speed skater. She won silver medal at the 2018 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships and gold medal at the 2019 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships.
Suzanne Schulting is a Dutch short track speed skater who is also active as a long track speed skater. At the 2018 Winter Olympics, she won the Netherlands' first-ever gold medal in short track speed skating and became one of the youngest-ever Dutch Winter Olympic champions. She is also a two-time overall World Champion and three-time overall European Champion, and the current world record holder for 1000m.
Shaoang Liu is a Hungarian-born Olympic gold medalist short track speed skater. He is the younger brother of teammate Shaolin Sándor Liu, and has won two golds and two bronzes represent Hungary at the Winter Olympics in 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics in short track speed skating. The gold medals were the first ever team gold, and the first ever individual gold at the Winter Olympics for Hungary. He changed his nationality and may represent China after 2023.
Hwang Dae-heon is a South Korean short track speed skater. He also currently holds the world record in men's 1000 metres short track speed skating.
Courtney Lee Sarault is a Canadian short track speed skater.
Short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics are scheduled to be held at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing, China. The events are scheduled to take place between 5 and 16 February 2022. A total of nine short track speed skating events will be held.
The men's 1000 metres competition in short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 5 February (heats) and 7 February (finals), at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing. Ren Ziwei of China won the event, achieving his first individual Olympic gold medal. His teammate, Li Wenlong took the silver – his first Olympic medal, and Shaoang Liu of Hungary won the bronze.
Steven Dubois is a Canadian short-track speed skater.
Corinne Stoddard is an American short track speed skater. She represented the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Ryan Pivirotto is an American short track speed skater.
Austin Kleba is an American speed skater who represented the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Casey Dawson is an American speed skater who represented the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Ethan Cepuran is an American speed skater who represented the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
Kimi Goetz is an American speed skater who represented the United States at the 2022 Winter Olympics.
McKenzie Browne is an American speed skater.
