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).

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 Medal table

Men's events 500 metres 39.584 WR 39.854 39.919 1000 metres 1:24.650 1:24.864 1:31.619 1500 metres 2:10.485 2:10.555 2:10.687 5000 metres relay Shaoang LiuSándor Liu ShaolinViktor KnochCsaba Burján 6:31.971 OR Wu DajingHan TianyuXu HongzhiChen DequanRen Ziwei 6:32.035 Samuel GirardCharles HamelinCharle CournoyerPascal Dion 6:32.282

Women's events 500 metres 42.569 43.256 43.881 1000 metres 1:29.778 1:29.956 1:30.656 1500 metres 2:24.948 2:25.703 2:25.834 3000 metre relay Shim Suk-heeChoi Min-jeongKim Ye-jinKim A-langLee Yu-bin 4:07.361 Arianna FontanaLucia PerettiCecilia MaffeiMartina Valcepina 4:15.901 Suzanne SchultingYara van KerkhofLara van RuijvenJorien ter Mors 4:03.471 WR Skaters who did not participate in the final, but received medals. The 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 RefMen's 500 metres 20 February Heat 1Wu Dajing 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 1:23.407 OR Men's 1500 metres 10 February Final A Lim Hyo-jun 2:10.485 OR Men's 5000 metre relay 13 February Semifinal 2 Hwang Dae-heonKim Do-kyoumKwak Yoon-gyLim Hyo-jun 6:34.510 OR 22 February Final A Shaoang LiuShaolin Sándor LiuViktor KnochCsaba Burján 6:31.971 OR Women's 500 metres 10 February Heat 8 Choi Min-jeong 42.870 OR 13 February Quarterfinal 2 Elise Christie 42.703 OR Semifinal 1 Choi Min-jeong 42.422 OR Women's 3000 metre relay 10 February Semifinal 2 Fan KexinHan YutongQu ChunyuZhou Yang 4:05.315 OR 20 February Final B Suzanne SchultingJorien ter MorsLara van RuijvenYara van Kerkhof 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).

References

External links Official Results Book – Short track speed skating