Short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Short track speed skating
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Short track speed skating; at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
	Short track speed skating pictogram at the 2018 Winter Olympics
Venue	Gangneung Ice Arena
Dates	10–22 February
No. of events	8 (4 men, 4 women)
Competitors	115 from 22 nations
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Last updated August 18, 2024

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).

Date	Time	Event
10 February	19:00	Women's 3000 metre relay
		Women's 500 metres
		Men's 1500 metres
13 February	19:00	Men's 5000 metre relay
		Men's 1000 metres
		Women's 500 metres
17 February	19:00	Women's 1500 metres
17 February	19:00	Men's 1000 metres
20 February	19:00	Women's 1000 metres
		Men's 500 metres
		Women's 3000 metre relay
22 February	19:00	Women's 1000 metres
		Men's 500 metres
		Men's 5000 metre relay

Medal summary

Medal table

* Host nation (South Korea)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea*	3	1	2	6
2	Netherlands	1	2	1	4
3	China	1	2	0	3
4	Canada	1	1	3	5
5	Italy	1	1	1	3
6	Hungary	1	0	0	1
7	United States	0	1	0	1
8	Olympic Athletes from Russia	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		8	8	8	24

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres^[3] details	Wu Dajing China	39.584 WR	Hwang Dae-heon South Korea	39.854	Lim Hyo-jun South Korea	39.919
1000 metres^[4] details	Samuel Girard Canada	1:24.650	John-Henry Krueger United States	1:24.864	Seo Yi-ra South Korea	1:31.619
1500 metres^[5] details	Lim Hyo-jun South Korea	2:10.485	Sjinkie Knegt Netherlands	2:10.555	Semion Elistratov Olympic Athletes from Russia	2:10.687
5000 metres relay^[6] details	Hungary Shaoang Liu Sándor Liu Shaolin Viktor Knoch Csaba Burján	6:31.971 OR	China Wu Dajing Han Tianyu Xu Hongzhi Chen Dequan Ren Ziwei ^[a]	6:32.035	Canada Samuel Girard Charles Hamelin Charle Cournoyer Pascal Dion	6:32.282

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres^[7] details	Arianna Fontana Italy	42.569	Yara van Kerkhof Netherlands	43.256	Kim Boutin Canada	43.881
1000 metres^[8] details	Suzanne Schulting Netherlands	1:29.778	Kim Boutin Canada	1:29.956	Arianna Fontana Italy	1:30.656
1500 metres^[9] details	Choi Min-jeong South Korea	2:24.948	Li Jinyu China	2:25.703	Kim Boutin Canada	2:25.834
3000 metre relay^[10] details	South Korea Shim Suk-hee Choi Min-jeong Kim Ye-jin Kim A-lang Lee Yu-bin ^[a]	4:07.361	Italy Arianna Fontana Lucia Peretti Cecilia Maffei Martina Valcepina	4:15.901	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.

Event	Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record	Ref
Men's 500 metres	20 February	Heat 1	Wu Dajing	China	40.264	OR	^[11]
	22 February	Quarterfinal 2			39.800	OR, WR	^[12]
	22 February	Final A			39.584	OR, WR	^[13]
Men's 1000 metres	13 February	Heat 5	Charles Hamelin	Canada	1:23.407	OR	^[14]
Men's 1500 metres	10 February	Final A	Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	2:10.485	OR	^[15]
Men's 5000 metre relay	13 February	Semifinal 2	Hwang Dae-heon Kim Do-kyoum Kwak Yoon-gy Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	6:34.510	OR	^[16]
Men's 5000 metre relay	22 February	Final A	Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sándor Liu Viktor Knoch Csaba Burján	Hungary	6:31.971	OR	^[17]
Women's 500 metres	10 February	Heat 8	Choi Min-jeong	South Korea	42.870	OR	^[18]
	13 February	Quarterfinal 2	Elise Christie	Great Britain	42.703	OR	^[19]
	13 February	Semifinal 1	Choi Min-jeong	South Korea	42.422	OR	^[20]
Women's 3000 metre relay	10 February	Semifinal 2	Fan Kexin Han Yutong Qu Chunyu Zhou Yang	China	4:05.315	OR	^[21]
Women's 3000 metre relay	20 February	Final B	Suzanne Schulting Jorien ter Mors Lara van Ruijven Yara van Kerkhof	Netherlands	4:03.471	OR, 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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References

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↑ "Women's 1500 metres results". Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
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↑ "Short Track Speed Skating (쇼트트랙 스피드 스케이팅 / Patinage de vitesse sur piste courte): Men's 500m Heats (남자 500m 예선 / 500 m hommes Séries éliminatoires) – Results (경기결과 / Résultats)" (PDF). Pyeongchang 2018 . International Olympic Committee. 20 February 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
↑ "Short Track Speed Skating (쇼트트랙 스피드 스케이팅 / Patinage de vitesse sur piste courte): Men's 500m Quarterfinals (남자 500m 준준결승 / 500 m hommes Quarts de finale) – Results (경기결과 / Résultats)" (PDF). Pyeongchang 2018 . International Olympic Committee. 22 February 2018. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
↑ "Short Track Speed Skating (쇼트트랙 스피드 스케이팅 / Patinage de vitesse sur piste courte): Men's 500m Finals (남자 500m 결승 / 500 m hommes Finales) – Results (경기결과 / Résultats)" (PDF). Pyeongchang 2018 . International Olympic Committee. 22 February 2018. Retrieved 23 February 2018.
↑ "Short Track Speed Skating (쇼트트랙 스피드 스케이팅 / Patinage de vitesse sur piste courte): Men's 1,000m Heats (남자 1,000m 예선 / 1 000 m hommes Séries éliminatoires) – Results (경기결과 / Résultats)" (PDF). Pyeongchang 2018 . International Olympic Committee. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
↑ "Short Track Speed Skating (쇼트트랙 스피드 스케이팅 / Patinage de vitesse sur piste courte): Men's 1,500m Finals (남자 1,500m 결승 / 1 500 m hommes Finales) – 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): Men's 5,000m Relay Heats (남자 5,000m 계주 예선 / Relais 5 000 m hommes Séries éliminatoires) – Results (경기결과 / Résultats)" (PDF). Pyeongchang 2018 . International Olympic Committee. 13 February 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
↑ "Short Track Speed Skating (쇼트트랙 스피드 스케이팅 / Patinage de vitesse sur piste courte): Men's 5,000m Relay Finals (남자 5,000m 계주 결승 / Relais 5 000 m hommes Finales) – Results (경기결과 / Résultats)" (PDF). Pyeongchang 2018 . International Olympic Committee. 22 February 2018. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2018. Retrieved 1 March 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.
↑ "Short Track Speed Skating (쇼트트랙 스피드 스케이팅 / Patinage de vitesse sur piste courte): Ladies' 3,000m Relay Heats (여자 3,000m 계주 예선 / Relais 3 000 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' 3,000m Relay Finals (여자 3,000m 계주 결승 / Relais 3 000 m femmes Finales) – Results (경기결과 / Résultats)" (PDF). Pyeongchang 2018 . International Olympic Committee. 20 February 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
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Short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics

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