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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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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 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.

Competition schedule

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

All times are (UTC+9).

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 details	Wu Dajing  China	39.584 WR	Hwang Dae-heon  South Korea	39.854	Lim Hyo-jun  South Korea	39.919
1000 metres 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 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 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	6:32.035	Canada Samuel Girard Charles Hamelin Charle Cournoyer Pascal Dion	6:32.282

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Arianna Fontana  Italy	42.569	Yara van Kerkhof  Netherlands	43.256	Kim Boutin  Canada	43.881
1000 metres details	Suzanne Schulting  Netherlands	1:29.778	Kim Boutin  Canada	1:29.956	Arianna Fontana  Italy	1:30.656
1500 metres details	Choi Min-jeong  South Korea	2:24.948	Li Jinyu  China	2:25.703	Kim Boutin  Canada	2:25.834
3000 metre relay details	South Korea Shim Suk-hee Choi Min-jeong Kim Ye-jin Kim A-lang Lee Yu-bin	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

Skaters who did not participate in the final, but received medals.
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
	22 February	Quarterfinal 2			39.800	OR, WR
		Final A			39.584	OR, WR
Men's 1000 metres	13 February	Heat 5	Charles Hamelin	Canada	1:23.407	OR
Men's 1500 metres	10 February	Final A	Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	2:10.485	OR
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
	22 February	Final A	Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sándor Liu Viktor Knoch Csaba Burján	Hungary	6:31.971	OR
Women's 500 metres	10 February	Heat 8	Choi Min-jeong	South Korea	42.870	OR
	13 February	Quarterfinal 2	Elise Christie	Great Britain	42.703	OR
		Semifinal 1	Choi Min-jeong	South Korea	42.422	OR
Women's 3000 metre relay	10 February	Semifinal 2	Fan Kexin Han Yutong Qu Chunyu Zhou Yang	China	4:05.315	OR
	20 February	Final B	Suzanne Schulting Jorien ter Mors Lara van Ruijven Yara van Kerkhof	Netherlands	4:03.471	OR, WR

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).

•  Australia (2)
•  Belarus (1)
•  Belgium (2)
•  Canada (10)
•  China (10)
•  Czech Republic (1)
•  France (4)
•  Germany (2)
•  Great Britain (5)
•  Hungary (10)
•  Israel (1)
•  Italy (7)
•  Japan (10)
•  Kazakhstan (7)
•  Latvia (2)
•  Netherlands (10)
•  North Korea (2)
•  Olympic Athletes from Russia (7)
•  Poland (3)
•  Singapore (1)
•  South Korea (10)
•  United States (8)

References

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2. "Schedule". POCOG. Archived from the original on 5 November 2017. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
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4. "Men's 1000 metres results". Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
5. "Men's 1500 metres results". shorttrack.sportresult.com. Archived from the original on 11 February 2018. Retrieved 10 February 2018.
6. "Men's 5000 metre relay results". Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
7. "Women's 500 metres results". Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
8. "Women's 1000 metres results". Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
9. "Women's 1500 metres results". Archived from the original on 16 December 2019. Retrieved 17 February 2018.
10. "Women's 3000 metre relay results". Archived from the original on 21 February 2018. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
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21. "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.
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External links

• Official Results Book – Short track speed skating

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