# Short-track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics

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 |
| 10 February | 19:00 | Women's 500 metres |
| 10 February | 19:00 | Men's 1500 metres |
| 13 February | 19:00 | Men's 5000 metre relay |
| 13 February | 19:00 | Men's 1000 metres |
| 13 February | 19:00 | Women's 500 metres |
| 17 February | 19:00 | Women's 1500 metres |
| 17 February | 19:00 | Men's 1000 metres |
| 20 February | 19:00 | Women's 1000 metres |
| 20 February | 19:00 | Men's 500 metres |
| 20 February | 19:00 | Women's 3000 metre relay |
| 22 February | 19:00 | Women's 1000 metres |
| 22 February | 19:00 | Men's 500 metres |
| 22 February | 19:00 | Men's 5000 metre relay |

## 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) | Totals (8 entries) | 8 | 8 | 8 | 24 |

### Men's events

| Event | Gold | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | 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 | Gold | Silver | Silver | Bronze | 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 |
$^a$ Skaters who did not participate in the final, but received medals. $^b$ 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 |
| Men's 500 metres | 20 February | Heat 1 | Wu Dajing | China | 40.264 | OR |
| Men's 500 metres | 22 February | Quarterfinal 2 | Wu Dajing | China | 39.800 | OR, WR |
| Men's 500 metres | 22 February | Final A | Wu Dajing | China | 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 |
| Men's 5000 metre relay | 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 |
| Women's 500 metres | 13 February | Quarterfinal 2 | Elise Christie | Great Britain | 42.703 | OR |
| Women's 500 metres | 13 February | 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 |
| Women's 3000 metre relay | 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)