Short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics

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Short track speed skating
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Short Track Speed Skating, PyeongChang 2018.svg
Short track speed skating pictogram at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Venue Gangneung Ice Arena
Dates10–22 February
No. of events8 (4 men, 4 women)
Competitors115 from 22 nations
  2014
2022  

Short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics was held at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, South Korea. The eight events were scheduled to take place between 10 and 22 February 2018.

Qualification

A total quota of 120 athletes were allowed to compete at the Games (60 men and 60 women). Countries were assigned quotas using the results of the entire 2017–18 World Cup in the autumn of 2017. Each nation was permitted to enter a maximum of five athletes per gender if it qualified a relay team and three if it did not. There were a maximum of thirty-two qualifiers for the 500m and 1000m events; thirty-six for the 1500m events; and eight for the relays. [1]

Competition schedule

The following was the competition schedule for all eight events. [2] Sessions that included the event finals are shown in bold.

All times are (UTC+9).

DateTimeEvent
10 February19:00Women's 3000 metre relay
Women's 500 metres
Men's 1500 metres
13 February19:00Men's 5000 metre relay
Men's 1000 metres
Women's 500 metres
17 February19:00Women's 1500 metres
Men's 1000 metres
20 February19:00Women's 1000 metres
Men's 500 metres
Women's 3000 metre relay
22 February19:00Women's 1000 metres
Men's 500 metres
Men's 5000 metre relay

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (South Korea)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea*3126
2Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 1214
3Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 1203
4Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1135
5Flag of Italy.svg  Italy 1113
6Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 1001
7Flag of the United States.svg  United States 0101
8Olympic flag.svg  Olympic Athletes from Russia 0011
Totals (8 entries)88824

Men's events

EventGoldSilverBronze
500 metres [3]
details
Wu Dajing
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
39.584 WR Hwang Dae-heon
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
39.854 Lim Hyo-jun
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
39.919
1000 metres [4]
details
Samuel Girard
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
1:24.650 John-Henry Krueger
Flag of the United States.svg  United States
1:24.864 Seo Yi-ra
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
1:31.619
1500 metres [5]
details
Lim Hyo-jun
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
2:10.485 Sjinkie Knegt
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
2:10.555 Semion Elistratov
Olympic flag.svg  Olympic Athletes from Russia
2:10.687
5000 metres relay [6]
details
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary
Shaoang Liu
Sándor Liu Shaolin
Viktor Knoch
Csaba Burján

6:31.971 OR Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
Wu Dajing
Han Tianyu
Xu Hongzhi
Chen Dequan
Ren Ziwei [a]
6:32.035Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Samuel Girard
Charles Hamelin
Charle Cournoyer
Pascal Dion

6:32.282

Women's events

EventGoldSilverBronze
500 metres [7]
details
Arianna Fontana
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
42.569 Yara van Kerkhof
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
43.256 Kim Boutin
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
43.881
1000 metres [8]
details
Suzanne Schulting
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
1:29.778 Kim Boutin
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
1:29.956 Arianna Fontana
Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
1:30.656
1500 metres [9]
details
Choi Min-jeong
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
2:24.948 Li Jinyu
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China
2:25.703 Kim Boutin
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
2:25.834
3000 metre relay [10]
details
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea
Shim Suk-hee
Choi Min-jeong
Kim Ye-jin
Kim A-lang
Lee Yu-bin [a]
4:07.361Flag of Italy.svg  Italy
Arianna Fontana
Lucia Peretti
Cecilia Maffei
Martina Valcepina

4:15.901Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Suzanne Schulting
Yara van Kerkhof
Lara van Ruijven
Jorien ter Mors

4:03.471 WR [b]

a Skaters who did not participate in the final, but received medals.
b Netherlands set a world record despite not winning gold. They won bronze by default when Canada and China were both disqualified from the medal round (Final A) leaving only two teams to take gold and silver (South Korea and Italy); Netherlands had already won the previous race, the classification round (Final B), in world record time.

Records

Twelve Olympic records (OR) and three world records (WR) were set during the competition.

EventDateRoundAthleteCountryTimeRecordRef
Men's 500 metres 20 FebruaryHeat 1 Wu Dajing Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 40.264 OR [11]
22 FebruaryQuarterfinal 239.800OR, WR [12]
Final A39.584OR, WR [13]
Men's 1000 metres 13 FebruaryHeat 5 Charles Hamelin Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada 1:23.407OR [14]
Men's 1500 metres 10 FebruaryFinal A Lim Hyo-jun Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 2:10.485OR [15]
Men's 5000 metre relay 13 FebruarySemifinal 2 Hwang Dae-heon
Kim Do-kyoum
Kwak Yoon-gy
Lim Hyo-jun
Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 6:34.510OR [16]
22 FebruaryFinal A Shaoang Liu
Shaolin Sándor Liu
Viktor Knoch
Csaba Burján
Flag of Hungary.svg  Hungary 6:31.971OR [17]
Women's 500 metres 10 FebruaryHeat 8 Choi Min-jeong Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 42.870OR [18]
13 FebruaryQuarterfinal 2 Elise Christie Flag of the United Kingdom.svg  Great Britain 42.703OR [19]
Semifinal 1Choi Min-jeongFlag of South Korea.svg  South Korea 42.422OR [20]
Women's 3000 metre relay 10 FebruarySemifinal 2 Fan Kexin
Han Yutong
Qu Chunyu
Zhou Yang
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China 4:05.315OR [21]
20 FebruaryFinal B Suzanne Schulting
Jorien ter Mors
Lara van Ruijven
Yara van Kerkhof
Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands 4:03.471OR, WR [22]

Participating nations

A total of 115 athletes from 22 nations (including the IOC's designation of Olympic Athletes from Russia) were scheduled to participate (the numbers of athletes are shown in parentheses). [23]

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