Short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics explained

Short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics should not be confused with Speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

Event:Short track speed skating
Games:2018 Winter
Venue:Gangneung Ice Arena
Dates:10–22 February
Num Events:8 (4 men, 4 women)
Competitors:115
Nations:22
Prev:2014
Next: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

See main article: Short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – 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
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

Men's events

500 metres[3]
39.584 WR39.85439.919
1000 metres[4]
1:24.6501:24.8641:31.619
1500 metres[5]
2:10.4852:10.5552:10.687
5000 metres relay[6]

Shaoang Liu
Sándor Liu Shaolin
Viktor Knoch
Csaba Burján

6:31.971 OR6:32.035
Samuel Girard
Charles Hamelin
Charle Cournoyer
Pascal Dion

6:32.282

Women's events

500 metres[7]
42.56943.25643.881
1000 metres[8]
1:29.7781:29.9561:30.656
1500 metres[9]
2:24.9482:25.7032:25.834
3000 metre relay[10]
4:07.361
Arianna Fontana
Lucia Peretti
Cecilia Maffei
Martina Valcepina

4:15.901
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

See also: World and Olympic records set at the 2018 Winter Olympics. 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 metres20 FebruaryHeat 1Wu Dajing40.264OR[11]
22 FebruaryQuarterfinal 239.800OR, WR[12]
Final A39.584OR, WR[13]
Men's 1000 metres13 FebruaryHeat 5Charles Hamelin1:23.407OR[14]
Men's 1500 metres10 FebruaryFinal ALim Hyo-jun2:10.485OR[15]
Men's 5000 metre relay13 FebruarySemifinal 2Hwang Dae-heon
Kim Do-kyoum
Kwak Yoon-gy
Lim Hyo-jun
6:34.510OR[16]
22 FebruaryFinal AShaoang Liu
Shaolin Sándor Liu
Viktor Knoch
Csaba Burján
6:31.971OR[17]
Women's 500 metres10 FebruaryHeat 8Choi Min-jeong42.870OR[18]
13 FebruaryQuarterfinal 2Elise Christie42.703OR[19]
Semifinal 1Choi Min-jeong42.422OR[20]
Women's 3000 metre relay10 FebruarySemifinal 2Fan Kexin
Han Yutong
Qu Chunyu
Zhou Yang
4:05.315OR[21]
20 FebruaryFinal BSuzanne Schulting
Jorien ter Mors
Lara van Ruijven
Yara van Kerkhof
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]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Qualification Systems for XXIII Olympic Winter Games, PyeongChang 2018 . . 15 November 2017.
  2. Web site: Schedule. POCOG. 15 September 2017. 5 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171105010048/https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/schedule. dead.
  3. Web site: Men's 500 metres results . 22 February 2018 . 16 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191216170101/https://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt%3D11213100000056%26gen%3Dm%26ref%3D18719%26view%3Drou . dead .
  4. Web site: Men's 1000 metres results . 17 February 2018 . 16 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191216170950/https://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt%3D11213100000056%26gen%3Dm%26ref%3D18711%26view%3Drou . dead .
  5. Web site: Men's 1500 metres results . shorttrack.sportresult.com . 10 February 2018 . 11 February 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180211071555/http://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt=11213100000056&gen=m&ref=18700&view=rou . dead .
  6. Web site: Men's 5000 metre relay results . 22 February 2018 . 16 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191216170007/https://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt%3D11213100000056%26gen%3Dm%26ref%3D18721%26view%3Drou . dead .
  7. Web site: Women's 500 metres results . 13 February 2018 . 16 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191216234055/https://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt%3D11213100000056%26gen%3Dw%26ref%3D18705%26view%3Drou . dead .
  8. Web site: Women's 1000 metres results . 22 February 2018 . 16 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191216234107/https://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt%3D11213100000056%26gen%3Dw%26ref%3D18720%26view%3Drou . dead .
  9. Web site: Women's 1500 metres results . 17 February 2018 . 16 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191216234109/https://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt%3D11213100000056%26gen%3Dw%26ref%3D18710%26view%3Drou . dead .
  10. Web site: Women's 3000 metre relay results . 20 February 2018 . 21 February 2018 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180221100315/http://shorttrack.sportresult.com/Results.aspx?evt=11213100000056&gen=w&ref=18714&view=rou . dead .
  11. Web site: 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. 20 February 2018.
  12. Web site: 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. 23 February 2018.
  13. Web site: 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. 23 February 2018.
  14. Web site: 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. 13 February 2018.
  15. Web site: 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. 10 February 2018.
  16. Web site: 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). Pyeongchang 2018. International Olympic Committee. 13 February 2018. 13 February 2018. 13 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180213150020/https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/resOWG2018/pdf/OWG2018/STK/OWG2018_STK_C73B_STKM5000MRY4----------HEAT--------.pdf. dead.
  17. Web site: 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). Pyeongchang 2018. International Olympic Committee. 22 February 2018. 1 March 2018. 13 February 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180213150020/https://www.pyeongchang2018.com/en/game-time/results/OWG2018/resOWG2018/pdf/OWG2018/STK/OWG2018_STK_C73B_STKM5000MRY4----------HEAT--------.pdf. dead.
  18. Web site: 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. 10 February 2018.
  19. Web site: 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. 14 February 2018.
  20. Web site: 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. 14 February 2018.
  21. Web site: 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. 10 February 2018.
  22. Web site: 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. 20 February 2018.
  23. Web site: Short Track Speed Skating – Number of Entries by NOC. PDF. Pyeongchang 2018. International Olympic Committee. 18 February 2018. 7 March 2018.