Short-track speed skating
Short-track speed skating is a form of competitive ice speed skating. In competitions, multiple skaters (typically between four and six) skate on an oval ice track with a length of . The rink itself is long by wide, which is the same size as a ...
has been a contest at the
Winter Olympics since the
1992 Winter Games in
Albertville, France. Prior to that, it was a
demonstration sport
A demonstration sport, or exhibition sport, is a sport which is played to promote it, rather than as part of standard medal competition. This occurs commonly during the Olympic Games, but may also occur at other sporting events.
Demonstration spor ...
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
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
,
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.
At the
2010 Winter Olympics
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,
Haralds Silovs of
Latvia
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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.
[ ] After winning the 500m event at the
2014 Winter Olympics
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, events = 98 in 7 sports (15 disciplines)
, athletes = 2,873
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, closing = 23 February 2014
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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.
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. Due to the addition of the event, the competition schedule was increased to six days from five.
Summary
Events
Men's
• = ''official event'', (d) = ''
demonstration event''
Women's
• = ''official event'', (d) = ''
demonstration event''
Mixed
• = ''official event'', (d) = ''
demonstration event''
Medal table
Sources (after the
2022 Winter Olympics
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2022 Winter Olympics
The 2022 Winter Olympics (2022年冬季奥林匹克运动会), officially called the XXIV Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Beijing 2022 (2022), was an international winter multi-sport event held from 4 to 20 February 2022 in Beij ...
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Notes
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Viktor Ahn, with 6 gold medals, has the most Olympic golds in short track.
[
* Italian ]Arianna Fontana
Arianna Fontana OMRI (born 14 April 1990) is an Italian short track speed skater, who has won eleven Olympic medals among these two gold medals in the 500m short track, one at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang and the second one at the 20 ...
, with 11 medals among the womens and Viktor Ahn and Apolo Anton Ohno among the mens, with 8 medals each have the most Olympic medals in short track.
Number of athletes by nation
See also
*List of Olympic venues in short track speed skating
For the Winter Olympics, there are nine venues that have been used for short track speed skating. The 1988 events were held at the same venue with the curling events though both were demonstration events. Since then, the short track speed skat ...
References
External links
{{DEFAULTSORT:Short Track Speed Skating At The Winter Olympics
Sports at the Winter Olympics
Olympics
The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...