Short-track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres

Women’s 500 metres
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Women’s 500 metres; at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Gangneung Ice Arena ; Gangneung, South Korea
Dates	10 February 2018 (heats); 13 February 2018 (quarterfinals, semifinals, final)
Competitors	32 from 14 nations
Winning time	42.569
Medalists
	← 2014 2022 →

Last updated January 03, 2025

Summary

The defending champion from 2014, Li Jianrou, had retired, but the 2014 silver medalist Arianna Fontana competed and eventually won the event. Elise Christie and Choi Min-jeong, who set two Olympic records each in heats and quarterfinals, were considered heavy favorites. They both qualified to the final, but Christie crashed out and finished fourth, and Choi was disqualified for interference after initially finishing second.^[3] Fontana became the Olympic champion, with Yara van Kerkhof, who was advanced to the final, winning the silver, and Kim Boutin bronze.^[4] Fontana's gold medal was the first gold medal in women's short track speed skating won by a European athlete since 1988 (when Monique Velzeboer and the Italian relay team took gold).

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Elise Christie (GBR)	42.335	Salt Lake City, United States	13 November 2016
Olympic record	Wang Meng (CHN)	42.985	Vancouver, Canada	17 February 2010

Three Olympic records were set during the competition.

Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record	Ref
10 February	Heat 8	Choi Min-jeong	South Korea	42.870	OR	^[5]
13 February	Quarterfinal 2	Elise Christie	Great Britain	42.703	OR	^[6]
13 February	Semifinal 1	Choi Min-jeong	South Korea	42.422	OR	^[7]

Results

Heats

Q – qualified for Quarterfinals^[8]

PEN – penalty

Rank	Heat	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	1	Kim Boutin	Canada	43.634	Q
2	1	Natalia Maliszewska	Poland	43.725	Q
3	1	Lana Gehring	United States	43.825
4	1	Lucia Peretti	Italy	43.994
1	2	Arianna Fontana	Italy	43.214	Q
2	2	Andrea Keszler	Hungary	43.274	Q
3	2	Kathryn Thomson	Great Britain	1:08.896
4	2	Suzanne Schulting	Netherlands	DNF
1	3	Sofia Prosvirnova	Olympic Athletes from Russia	43.376	Q
2	3	Yara van Kerkhof	Netherlands	43.430	Q
3	3	Bianca Walter	Germany	43.541
4	3	Sumire Kikuchi	Japan	44.838
1	4	Elise Christie	Great Britain	42.872	Q
2	4	Qu Chunyu	China	42.971	Q
3	4	Shim Suk-hee	South Korea	43.048
4	4	Veronique Pierron	France	43.148
1	5	Fan Kexin	China	43.350	Q
2	5	Maame Biney	United States	43.665	Q
3	5	Kim A-lang	South Korea	43.724
4	5	Anastassiya Krestova	Kazakhstan	43.821
1	6	Martina Valcepina	Italy	43.698	Q
2	6	Han Yutong	China	43.719	Q
3	6	Tifany Huot-Marchand	France	44.659
	6	Jamie Macdonald	Canada		PEN
1	7	Marianne St-Gelais	Canada	43.437	Q
2	7	Anna Seidel	Germany	43.742	Q
3	7	Lara van Ruijven	Netherlands	43.771
4	7	Magdalena Warakomska	Poland	44.311
1	8	Choi Min-jeong	South Korea	42.870	Q, OR
2	8	Petra Jászapáti	Hungary	55.670	Q
3	8	Emina Malagich	Olympic Athletes from Russia	56.830
	8	Charlotte Gilmartin	Great Britain		PEN

Quarterfinals

Q – qualified for Semifinals^[9]

PEN – penalty

Rank	Heat	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	1	Arianna Fontana	Italy	43.128	Q
2	1	Yara van Kerkhof	Netherlands	43.197	Q
3	1	Natalia Maliszewska	Poland	43.384
	1	Marianne St-Gelais	Canada		PEN
1	2	Elise Christie	Great Britain	42.703	Q, OR
2	2	Kim Boutin	Canada	42.789	Q
3	2	Andrea Keszler	Hungary	43.053
4	2	Anna Seidel	Germany	44.325
1	3	Sofia Prosvirnova	Olympic Athletes from Russia	43.466	Q
2	3	Fan Kexin	China	43.485	Q
3	3	Han Yutong	China	43.627
4	3	Maame Biney	United States	44.772
1	4	Qu Chunyu	China	42.954	Q
2	4	Choi Min-jeong	South Korea	42.996	Q
3	4	Martina Valcepina	Italy	43.023
4	4	Petra Jászapáti	Hungary	43.043

Semifinals

QA – qualified for Final A^[10]

QB – qualified for Final B

ADV – advanced

PEN – penalty

Rank	Semifinal	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	1	Choi Min-jeong	South Korea	42.422	QA, OR
2	1	Arianna Fontana	Italy	42.635	QA
3	1	Sofia Prosvirnova	Olympic Athletes from Russia	43.219	QB
	1	Fan Kexin	China		PEN
1	2	Yara van Kerkhof	Netherlands	43.182	QA
2	2	Elise Christie	Great Britain	43.184	QA
3	2	Kim Boutin	Canada	43.234	ADV
	2	Qu Chunyu	China		PEN

Final

Final B was scratched as Sofia Prosvirnova (5th place overall) was the only athlete who qualified for it.^[11]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
	Arianna Fontana	Italy	42.569
	Yara van Kerkhof	Netherlands	43.256
	Kim Boutin	Canada	43.881
4	Elise Christie	Great Britain	1:23.063
	Choi Min-jeong	South Korea		PEN

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References

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↑ "Start list". Archived from the original on 2018-03-15. Retrieved 2018-02-13.
↑ "Winter Olympics: Kim Boutin target of online abuse after bronze medal". BBC Sport. 14 February 2018. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
↑ Hodges, Vicky (13 February 2018). "History repeats itself as speed skater Elise Christie crashes out in final at Winter Olympics". The Telegraph. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
↑ "Short Track Speed Skating (쇼트트랙 스피드 스케이팅 / Patinage de vitesse sur piste courte): Ladies' 500m Heats (여자 500m 예선 / 500 m femmes Séries éliminatoires) – Results (경기결과 / Résultats)" (PDF). Pyeongchang 2018 . International Olympic Committee. 10 February 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
↑ "Short Track Speed Skating (쇼트트랙 스피드 스케이팅 / Patinage de vitesse sur piste courte): Ladies' 500m Quarterfinals (여자 500m 준준결승 / 500 m femmes Quarts de finale) – Results (경기결과 / Résultats)" (PDF). Pyeongchang 2018 . International Olympic Committee. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
↑ "Short Track Speed Skating (쇼트트랙 스피드 스케이팅 / Patinage de vitesse sur piste courte): Ladies' 500m Semifinals (여자 500m 준결승 / 500 m femmes Demi-finales) – Results (경기결과 / Résultats)" (PDF). Pyeongchang 2018 . International Olympic Committee. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2018.
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↑ "Semifinals results". Archived from the original on 2018-03-17. Retrieved 2018-02-13.
↑ "Final results". Archived from the original on 2019-12-16. Retrieved 2018-02-13.

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[6] "Short Track Speed Skating (쇼트트랙 스피드 스케이팅 / Patinage de vitesse sur piste courte): Ladies' 500m Quarterfinals (여자 500m 준준결승 / 500 m femmes Quarts de finale) – Results (경기결과 / Résultats)" (PDF). Pyeongchang 2018 . International Olympic Committee. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2018.

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[8] "Heats results". Archived from the original on 2018-03-15. Retrieved 2018-02-13.

[9] "Quarterfinals results". Archived from the original on 2018-03-15. Retrieved 2018-02-13.

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[11] "Final results". Archived from the original on 2019-12-16. Retrieved 2018-02-13.

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v t e Olympic champions in women's 500 m short track speed skating
As exhibition sport	1988: Monique Velzeboer (NED)
As official sport	1992: Cathy Turner (USA) 1994: Cathy Turner (USA) 1998: Annie Perreault (CAN) 2002: Yang Yang (CHN) 2006: Wang Meng (CHN) 2010: Wang Meng (CHN) 2014: Li Jianrou (CHN) 2018: Arianna Fontana (ITA) 2022: Arianna Fontana (ITA)

Short-track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Qualification
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m relay		women
5000 m relay	men
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Short-track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres

Contents

Summary

Records

Results

Heats

Quarterfinals

Semifinals

Final

Related Research Articles

References