Kim Ki-hoon is a retired short-track speed skater and the first gold medalist in the Winter Olympics for South Korea. Kim is a three-time Olympic Champion and 1992 Overall World Champion.
Viktor An,is a South Korean-born Russian short-track speed skating coach and retired short-track speed skater. With a total of eight Olympic medals,six gold and two bronze,he is the only short track speed skater in Olympic history to win gold in every distance,and the first to win a medal in every distance at a single Games. He has the most Olympic gold medals in the sport,three of which he won in the 2006 Winter Olympics and the other three in the 2014 Winter Olympics. Considered to be the greatest short track speed skater of all time,he is a six-time overall World champion,two-time overall World Cup winner,and the 2014 European champion. He holds the most overall titles at the World Short Track Speed Skating Championships,and is the only male short track skater to win five consecutive world titles.
Christine Nesbitt is a Canadian retired long track speed skater who currently resides in Vancouver,British Columbia. She won the gold medal in the 1000 metres event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. She had previously won a silver medal in the team pursuit at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin. She is also the 2011 sprint champion,2012 1500 metres world champion,three-time world champion for 1000 metres,and three-time world champion for team pursuit. On 4 June 2015 she announced her retirement.
Keiichiro Nagashima is a Japanese long track speed skater specialising in the sprint distances 500 and 1000 metres. Nagashima has won two World Cup races and has three Japanese domestic titles. He is a member of the Nidec Sankyo speed skating team.
Lee Kyou-hyuk is a South Korean retired long track speed skater who specializes in the 500 and 1,000 meters. He was the 2007,2008,2010 and 2011 World Sprint Speed Skating Champion and the 2011 World Champion for 500 m. He is one of four men to have won the World Sprint Speed Skating Championships four times.
Lee Sang-hwa is a South Korean retired speed skater who specialises in the sprint distances. She is a two-time Olympic champion in 500 metres and the 2010 World Sprint champion. She is the current world record holder in women's 500 metres with the time of 36.36 seconds set in Salt Lake City on 16 November 2013,and also holds the South Korean record on 1000 metres. She has also won three World Championships medals in 500 metres,and has placed in the top three in World Cup events four times in this distance. Her first World Cup victory,however,came on the non-Olympic distance 100 metres. On the 1000 metres,however,she has never placed higher than fifth in international events.
Katherine Reutter-Adamek is an American short track speed skater. She is a two-time medalist in the Winter Olympics,2011 overall world silver medalist and the 2010–2011 overall ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup champion.
Kim Dong-Sung is a South Korean former short track speed skater. He won a gold medal in 1000m race and silver medal in 5000m relay at the 1998 Winter Olympics. He has been a two-time Overall World Champion in 1997 and in 2002 and two-time Overall World Cup Champion.
Shim Suk-hee is a South Korean short track speed skater. She is a two-time Olympic Champion and a World Champion (2014).
Semion Andreyevich Elistratov is a Russian short track speed skater. He is the 2014 Olympic champion in the 5000 m relay and a double bronze medalist in the 1500 m at the 2018 and 2022 Winter Olympics.
Paul Herrmann is a German short-track speed-skater.
Cecilia Maffei is an Italian short track speed skater.
Andrea Keszler is a Hungarian short-track speed-skater.
Yara van Kerkhof is a Dutch short track speed skater. She won the silver medal in the 500 m event at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang,South Korea.
Sayuri Shimizu is a Japanese short-track speed-skater.
Kim Jun-ho is a South Korean speed skater.
Kim Tae-yun is a South Korean speed skater.
Aleksandr Zhigin is a Kazakhstani speed skater.
Alexander Vadimovich Rumyantsev is a Russian speed skater.
Park Seung-ju is a South Korean speed-skater.
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