Short track speed skating at the Winter Olympics

Short track speed skating at the Winter Olympics
Governing body	ISU
Events	8 (men: 4; women: 4)
Games
1924 • 1928 • 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 • 1976 1980 • 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1994 • 1998 2002 • 2006 • 2010 • 2014 Note: demonstration sport years indicated in italics
Medalists • Records

Short track speed skating has been a contest at the Winter Olympics since the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France. Prior to that, it was a demonstration sport at the 1988 games. The results from the 1988 demonstration competition is not included in the official Olympic statistics. The sport has been dominated by teams from Asia and North America, namely South Korea (IOC code KOR), China (CHN), Canada (CAN) and the United States (USA). Those four countries have won 104 of 120 medals awarded since 1992. South Korea leads the medal tally (and gold medal tally), with 37 medals including 19 golds since 1992. All but 8 medals (including 4 golds) that South Korea won at the Winter Olympics came from Short-track speed skating. Similarly, 24 of China's 44 Winter Olympics medals are from the sport.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Haralds Silovs of Latvia became the first athlete in Olympic history to participate in both short track (1500m) and long track (5000m) speed skating, and the first to compete in two different disciplines on the same day.^[1][2][3][4] At the 2014 Winter Olympics, Viktor Ahn became the first short track speedskater to win all four Olympic golds (500m, 1000m, 1500m, 5000m-relay), by winning the 500m event. He won 3 golds in 2014 representing Russia, and 3 in 2006 representing South Korea.^[5]

Events

• = official event, (d) = demonstration event

Event	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	94	98	02	06	10	14	Years
Men's 500 metres															(d)		•	•	•	•	•	•	6
Men's 1000 metres															(d)	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	7
Men's 1500 metres															(d)				•	•	•	•	4
Men's 3000 metres															(d)
Men's 5000 metre relay															(d)	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	7
Women's 500 metres															(d)	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	7
Women's 1000 metres															(d)		•	•	•	•	•	•	6
Women's 1500 metres															(d)				•	•	•	•	4
Women's 3000 metres															(d)
Women's 3000 metre relay															(d)	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	7
Total events															10	4	6	6	8	8	8	8

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	21	12	9	42
2	China (CHN)	9	13	8	30
3	Canada (CAN)	8	11	9	28
4	United States (USA)	4	6	9	19
5	Russia (RUS)	3	1	1	5
6	Italy (ITA)	1	3	4	8
7	Japan (JPN)	1	0	2	3
8	Australia (AUS)	1	0	1	2
9	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	2	1	3
10	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	1	1
	Unified Team (EUN)	0	0	1	1
Total		48	48	48	144

Updated on Feb 27, 2014

Notes

• Viktor Ahn, with 6 gold medals, has the most Olympic golds in short track.^[5][6]
• Viktor Ahn and Apolo Anton Ohno, with 8 medals each, have the most Olympic medals in short track.^[6]

Number of athletes by Nation

Nation	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	94	98	02	06	10	14	Years
Australia (AUS)																6	5	5	5	6	2	2	7
Austria (AUT)																					1	1	2
Belarus (BLR)																			1	1		2	3
Belgium (BEL)																5	4		4	2	1		5
Bulgaria (BUL)																	1	2	7	1	3		5
Canada (CAN)																9	8	8	10	10	10	10	7
China (CHN)																5	8	8	9	8	10	10	7
Chinese Taipei (TPE)																						1	1
Czech Republic (CZE)																			1	1	1	2	4
France (FRA)																8	5	2	4	6	7	4	7
Germany (GER)																		5	7	10	5	2	5
Great Britain (GBR)																5	3	5	5	4	7	5	7
Hong Kong (HKG)																			2	1	1	1	4
Hungary (HUN)																2			6	4	6	8	5
Israel (ISR)																			1			1	2
Italy (ITA)																8	9	9	10	9	9	10	7
Japan (JPN)																8	5	11	10	10	8	8	7
Kazakhstan (KAZ)																	1				1	6	3
Latvia (LAT)																				1	1	1	3
Lithuania (LTU)																						1	1
Mongolia (MGL)																	1	2	2				3
Netherlands (NED)																5	5	5	1	3	7	10	7
New Zealand (NZL)																4	4		1		1		4
North Korea (PRK)																3		6		2			3
Norway (NOR)																1	5						2
Poland (POL)																		1	1	1	3	1	5
Romania (ROU)																			1	1	1		3
Russia (RUS)																	6	2	2	3	5	10	6
Slovakia (SVK)																			1	1		1	3
South Africa (RSA)																	1						1
South Korea (KOR)																6	7	9	10	10	9	10	7
Sweden (SWE)																	1	1	1				3
Ukraine (UKR)																		2	1	1		1	4
Unified Team (EUN)																6							1
United States (USA)																5	8	11	8	10	10	8	7
Nations	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	19	18	26	24	23		33
Athletes	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	86	87	94	111	106	109		389
Year	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	94	98	02	06	10	14	6

See also

• List of Olympic venues in short track speed skating

References

1. "Latvia's quick-change artist makes Olympic history". Toronto Star. 2010-02-14. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
2. Harris, Beth (2010-02-13). "Latvian speedskater is 1st to do double duty". Washington Post. Retrieved 2010-02-19.
3. CTV Olympics, "Latvian skater makes Olympic history", Agence France Press, 14 February 2010 . Retrieved 18 February 2010.
4. New York Times, "Crosstown Ride to a Speedskating First", Associated Press, 30 January 2010 . Retrieved 18 February 2010.
5. AP (21 February 2014). "Russia's Ahn wins only short track gold that eluded him: 500m". Fox Sports.
6. Beth Harris (21 February 2014). "Viktor Ahn of Russia wins 2 short track golds". AP (Yahoo! Sports).

External links

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