Women’s 500 metres at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games | |||||||||||||
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Venue | Gangneung Ice Arena Gangneung, South Korea | ||||||||||||
Dates | 10 February (heats) 13 February (quarterfinals, semifinals, final) | ||||||||||||
Competitors | 32 from 14 nations | ||||||||||||
Winning time | 42.569 | ||||||||||||
Medalists | |||||||||||||
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Short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics | ||
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Qualification | ||
500 m | men | women |
1000 m | men | women |
1500 m | men | women |
3000 m relay | women | |
5000 m relay | men | |
The Women’s 500 metres in short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics took place from 10 to 13 February 2018 at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, South Korea. [1] [2]
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).
Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.
World record | ![]() | 42.335 | Salt Lake City, United States | 13 November 2016 |
Olympic record | ![]() | 42.985 | Vancouver, Canada | 17 February 2010 |
Three Olympic records were set during the competition.
Date | Round | Athlete | Country | Time | Record | Ref |
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10 February | Heat 8 | Choi Min-jeong | ![]() | 42.870 | OR | [5] |
13 February | Quarterfinal 2 | Elise Christie | ![]() | 42.703 | OR | [6] |
Semifinal 1 | Choi Min-jeong | ![]() | 42.422 | OR | [7] |
Rank | Heat | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
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1 | 1 | Arianna Fontana | ![]() | 43.128 | Q |
2 | 1 | Yara van Kerkhof | ![]() | 43.197 | Q |
3 | 1 | Natalia Maliszewska | ![]() | 43.384 | |
1 | Marianne St-Gelais | ![]() | PEN | ||
1 | 2 | Elise Christie | ![]() | 42.703 | Q, OR |
2 | 2 | Kim Boutin | ![]() | 42.789 | Q |
3 | 2 | Andrea Keszler | ![]() | 43.053 | |
4 | 2 | Anna Seidel | ![]() | 44.325 | |
1 | 3 | Sofia Prosvirnova | ![]() | 43.466 | Q |
2 | 3 | Fan Kexin | ![]() | 43.485 | Q |
3 | 3 | Han Yutong | ![]() | 43.627 | |
4 | 3 | Maame Biney | ![]() | 44.772 | |
1 | 4 | Qu Chunyu | ![]() | 42.954 | Q |
2 | 4 | Choi Min-jeong | ![]() | 42.996 | Q |
3 | 4 | Martina Valcepina | ![]() | 43.023 | |
4 | 4 | Petra Jászapáti | ![]() | 43.043 |
Rank | Semifinal | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
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1 | 1 | Choi Min-jeong | ![]() | 42.422 | QA, OR |
2 | 1 | Arianna Fontana | ![]() | 42.635 | QA |
3 | 1 | Sofia Prosvirnova | ![]() | 43.219 | QB |
1 | Fan Kexin | ![]() | PEN | ||
1 | 2 | Yara van Kerkhof | ![]() | 43.182 | QA |
2 | 2 | Elise Christie | ![]() | 43.184 | QA |
3 | 2 | Kim Boutin | ![]() | 43.234 | ADV |
2 | Qu Chunyu | ![]() | PEN |
Final B was scratched as Sofia Prosvirnova (5th place overall) was the only athlete who qualified for it. [11]
Rank | Name | Country | Time | Notes |
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![]() | Arianna Fontana | ![]() | 42.569 | |
![]() | Yara van Kerkhof | ![]() | 43.256 | |
![]() | Kim Boutin | ![]() | 43.881 | |
4 | Elise Christie | ![]() | 1:23.063 | |
Choi Min-jeong | ![]() | PEN |
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