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.
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.
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.
Mo Tae-bum is a South Korean speed skater. He is the 2010 Olympic Champion and the 2012 and 2013 World Champion in 500 m. He started speedskating while in the third grade. Prior to the 2010 Winter Olympics,Mo won two distances at the 2006 World Junior Speed Skating Championships. He has competed on the national level since 2004 and has competed internationally since 2005.
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).
Yun Sung-Bin is a South Korean skeleton racer. He won the gold medal in men's skeleton at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and was a participant at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.
Kim Cheol-min is a South Korean speed skater.
Kim Jun-ho is a South Korean speed skater.
Tian Guojun is a Chinese speed-skater.
Tommi Pulli is a Finnish speed skater.
Daichi Yamanaka is a Japanese speed skater.
Fyodor Mezentsev is a Kazakhstani speed skater. He was brought up in the cit of Almaty and was introduced to skating when he was 10 years old from his mother and sister. He was coached by Dmitry Babenko later in life. As a young adult,he studied international law at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty,Kazakhstan.
David Andersson is a Swedish speed skater.
Aleksandr Zhigin is a Kazakhstani speed skater.
Alexander Vadimovich Rumyantsev is a Russian speed skater.
Kim Hyun-yung is a South Korean speed-skater.
Park Seung-ju is a South Korean speed-skater.
Li Qishi is a Chinese speed skater.
