Short-track speed skating at the Winter Olympics

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 are not included in the official Olympic statistics. The sport has been dominated by teams from East Asia and North America, namely South Korea, China, Canada and the United States . Those four countries have won 147 of 195 medals awarded since 1992. South Korea leads the medal tally, with 53 medals including 26 golds since 1992. The majority of medals that South Korea and China have won at the Winter Olympics come from short-track speed skating.

Short-track speed skating at the Winter Olympics
IOC Code	STK
Governing body	ISU
Events	9 (men: 4; women: 4; mixed: 1)
Winter Olympics
1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026 Note: demonstration or exhibition sport years indicated in italics
Medalists Records

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 disciplines on the same day.^[1][2][3][4] After winning the 500m event at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Viktor Ahn became the first short track speedskater to have won gold medals in all four short track disciplines (500m, 1000m, 1500m, 5000m-relay). He had won 3 golds in 2014 representing Russia, and 3 in 2006 representing South Korea.^[5]

In July 2018, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) officially added the mixed relay held over a distance of 2000 metres, increasing the total number of events to nine.^[6] Due to the addition of the event, the competition schedule was increased to six days from five.^[7]

Summary

Games Year Events Best nation 1 → 14 15 1988 10  Netherlands (1) 16 1992 4  South Korea (1) 17 1994 6  South Korea (2) 18 1998 6  South Korea (3) 19 2002 8  China (1)

Games Year Events Best nation 20 2006 8  South Korea (4) 21 2010 8  China (2) 22 2014 8  Russia (1) 23 2018 8  South Korea (5) 24 2022 9  South Korea (6) 25 9

Events

Men's

• = 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	18	22	Years
500 metres															(d)		•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	8
1000 metres															(d)	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	9
1500 metres															(d)				•	•	•	•	•	•	6
3000 metres															(d)										0
5000-metre relay															(d)	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	9
Total events															5	2	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4

Women's

• = 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	18	22	Years
500 metres															(d)	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	9
1000 metres															(d)		•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	8
1500 metres															(d)				•	•	•	•	•	•	6
3000 metres															(d)										0
3000-metre relay															(d)	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	9
Total events															5	2	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4

Mixed

• = 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	18	22	Years
2000-metre relay																								•	1
Total events																								1

Medal table

See also: List of Olympic medalists in short track speed skating

Sources (after the 2022 Winter Olympics):^[8]
Accurate as of 2022 Winter Olympics.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	26	16	11	53
2	China (CHN)	12	16	9	37
3	Canada (CAN)	10	13	14	37
4	United States (USA)	4	7	9	20
5	Italy (ITA)	3	6	6	15
6	Netherlands (NED)	3	3	3	9
7	Russia (RUS)	3	1	1	5
8	Hungary (HUN)	2	0	2	4
9	Japan (JPN)	1	0	2	3
10	Australia (AUS)	1	0	1	2
11	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	2	1	3
12	ROC (ROC)	0	1	1	2
13	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	1	1
	Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR)	0	0	1	1
	Unified Team (EUN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (17 entries)		65	65	65	195

Notes

• Viktor Ahn, with 6 gold medals, has the most Olympic golds in short track.^[5][9]
• Italian Arianna Fontana, with eleven medals among the women's and Viktor Ahn and Apolo Anton Ohno among the men's, with eight medals each have the most Olympic medals in short track.^[10][9]

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	18	22	Years
Australia (AUS)																6	5	5	5	6	2	2	2		8
Austria (AUT)																					1	1			2
Belarus (BLR)																			1	1		2	1		4
Belgium (BEL)																5	4		4	2	1		2		6
Bulgaria (BUL)																	1	2	7	1	3				5
Canada (CAN)																9	8	8	10	10	10	10	10		8
China (CHN)																5	8	8	9	8	10	10	10		8
Czech Republic (CZE)																			1	1	1	2	1		5
Unified Team (EUN)																6									1
France (FRA)																8	5	2	4	6	7	4	4		8
Germany (GER)																		5	7	10	5	2	2		6
Great Britain (GBR)																5	3	5	5	4	7	5	5		8
Hong Kong (HKG)																			2	1	1	1			4
Hungary (HUN)																2			6	4	6	8	10		6
Israel (ISR)																			1			1	1		3
Italy (ITA)																8	9	9	10	9	9	10	7		8
Japan (JPN)																8	5	11	10	10	8	8	10		8
Kazakhstan (KAZ)																	1				1	6	7		4
South Korea (KOR)																6	7	9	10	10	9	10	10		8
Latvia (LAT)																				1	1	1	2		4
Lithuania (LTU)																						1			1
Mongolia (MGL)																	1	2	2						3
Netherlands (NED)																5	5	5	1	3	7	10	10		7
New Zealand (NZL)																4	4		1		1				4
Norway (NOR)																1	5								2
Poland (POL)																		1	1	1	3	1	3		6
North Korea (PRK)																3		6		2			2		4
Romania (ROU)																			1	1	1				3
South Africa (RSA)																	1								1
Russia (RUS)																	6	2	2	3	5	10	7		7
Singapore (SGP)																							1		1
Slovakia (SVK)																			1	1		1			3
Sweden (SWE)																	1	1	1						3
Chinese Taipei (TPE)																						1			1
Ukraine (UKR)																		2	1	1		1			4
United States (USA)																5	8	11	8	10	10	8	8		8
Nations	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	19	18	26	24	23	25	22
Athletes	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	86	87	94	111	106	109	116	115
Year	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	94	98	02	06	10	14	18	22

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.^{[dead link]}
3. CTV Olympics, "Latvian skater makes Olympic history" Archived March 12, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Agence France Press, 14 February 2010 . Retrieved 18 February 2010.
4. New York Times, "Crosstown Ride to a Speedskating First" Archived February 26, 2015, at the Wayback Machine, 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. Zaccardi, Nick (18 July 2018). "Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics add seven new events". www.olympics.nbcsports.com/. NBC. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
7. "Beijing 2022 announces new competition schedule". Xinhua. Beijing, China. 20 November 2018. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
8. "Olympic Analytics - Medals by Countries". olympanalyt.com. Retrieved 2022-02-20.
9. Beth Harris (21 February 2014). "Viktor Ahn of Russia wins 2 short track golds". AP. Yahoo! Sports.
10. Alex Weiner (20 February 2022). "2022 Olympic short track in review: Record-setting women's trio owns podium". NBC Universal.

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