Short Track Speed Skating At The 2022 Winter Olympics

The events are scheduled to take place between 5 and 16 February 2022. A total of nine short track speed skating events will be held.

Short track speed skating at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Short track speed skating pictogram
Venue	Capital Indoor Stadium
Dates	5–16 February
No. of events	9 (4 men, 4 women, 1 mixed)
Competitors	112 from 23 nations (58 men and 54 women)
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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.

A total of 112 quota spots (56 per gender) were distributed to the sport, a decline of eight from the 2018 Winter Olympics. A total of nine events were contested, four for men, four for women and one mixed.

A total quota of 112 athletes are scheduled to compete (56 men and 56 women). Countries were assigned quotas using the results of the entire 2020–21 World Cup in the autumn of 2021. 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; eight for the single gender relays, and 12 for the mixed relay. At the end of qualification, the International Skating Union confirmed 58 men and 54 women earned quota spots, which meant two quota spots were transferred from women to men.

The following was the competition schedule for all nine events. Sessions that included the event finals are shown in bold.

All times are (UTC+8).

Medal table

  *   Host nation (China)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	2	3	0	5
2	China*	2	1	1	4
	Netherlands	2	1	1	4
4	Italy	1	2	1	4
5	Canada	1	1	2	4
6	Hungary	1	0	2	3
7	ROC	0	1	1	2
8	Belgium	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		9	9	9	27

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Shaoang Liu   Hungary	40.338	Konstantin Ivliev   ROC	40.431	Steven Dubois   Canada	40.669
1000 metres details	Ren Ziwei   China	1:26.768	Li Wenlong   China	1:29.917	Shaoang Liu   Hungary	1:35.693
1500 metres details	Hwang Dae-heon   South Korea	2:09.219	Steven Dubois   Canada	2:09.254	Semion Elistratov   ROC	2:09.267
5000 metre relay details	Canada Charles Hamelin Steven Dubois Jordan Pierre-Gilles Pascal Dion Maxime Laoun[a]	6:41.257	South Korea Lee June-seo Hwang Dae-heon Kwak Yoon-gy Park Jang-hyuk Kim Dong-wook[a]	6:41.679	Italy Pietro Sighel Yuri Confortola Tommaso Dotti Andrea Cassinelli	6:43.431

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Arianna Fontana   Italy	42.488	Suzanne Schulting   Netherlands	42.559	Kim Boutin   Canada	42.724
1000 metres details	Suzanne Schulting   Netherlands	1:28.391	Choi Min-jeong   South Korea	1:28.443	Hanne Desmet   Belgium	1:28.928
1500 metres details	Choi Min-jeong   South Korea	2:17.789	Arianna Fontana   Italy	2:17.862	Suzanne Schulting   Netherlands	2:17.865
3000 metre relay details	Netherlands Suzanne Schulting Selma Poutsma Xandra Velzeboer Yara van Kerkhof	4:03.409	South Korea Seo Whi-min Choi Min-jeong Kim A-lang Lee Yu-bin	4:03.627	China Qu Chunyu Zhang Chutong Fan Kexin Zhang Yuting Han Yutong[a]	4:03.863

Mixed event

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2000 metre relay details	China Qu Chunyu Fan Kexin Wu Dajing Ren Ziwei Zhang Yuting[a]	2:37.348	Italy Arianna Fontana Martina Valcepina Pietro Sighel Andrea Cassinelli Arianna Valcepina[a] Yuri Confortola[a]	2:37.364	Hungary Petra Jászapáti Zsófia Kónya Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sándor Liu John-Henry Krueger[a]	2:40.900

^a Skaters who did not participate in the final, but received medals.

World records (WR) and Olympic records (OR) set during the competition.

Event	Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record	Ref
Women's 500 metres	5 February	Heat 4	Suzanne Schulting	Netherlands	42.379	OR
Men's 1000 metres	5 February	Heat 5	Hwang Dae-heon	South Korea	1:23.042	OR
Mixed 2000 metre relay	5 February	Heat 2	Suzanne Schulting Xandra Velzeboer Itzhak de Laat Jens van 't Wout	Netherlands	2:36.437	OR
Women's 1000 metres	9 February	Heat 2	Suzanne Schulting	Netherlands	1:27.292	OR
Men's 1500 metres	9 February	Quarterfinal 1	Shaolin Sándor Liu	Hungary	2:09.213	OR
Women's 1000 metres	11 February	Quarterfinal 1	Suzanne Schulting	Netherlands	1:26.514	WR, OR
Women's 3000 metre relay	13 February	Final A	Suzanne Schulting Selma Poutsma Xandra Velzeboer Yara van Kerkhof	Netherlands	4:03.409	OR
Women's 1500 metres	16 February	Semifinal 3	Choi Min-jeong	South Korea	2:16.831	OR

A total of 112 athletes from 22 nations (including the IOC's designation of ROC for the Russian Olympic Committee) qualified to participate. Turkey made its debut in the sport at these Winter Olympics.

The numbers in parentheses represents the number of participants entered.

The Men's 1000 meters event was marred by controversy. During the semifinals, Hwang Dae-heon of South Korea was disqualified for an "illegal late pass causing contact", and Lee June-seo of South Korea were penalized for a lane change that caused contact, allowing Li Wenlong from China to qualify for the A final joining two countrymen. Then, after the conclusion of the A final, Shaolin Sandor Liu of Hungary was disqualified for a "straight lane change from inside to out causing contact” and an “arm block at the finish", resulting in Ren Ziwei and Li from China being awarded the gold and silver medals respectively The International Skating Union received and rejected two protests from Hungary and South Korea on February 7, 2022. The International Skating Union stated that they reviewed the incident with the Video Referee and rejected the protests, standing by the original decisions made by the Chief Referee.

Australian former Olympic gold medalist Steven Bradbury said, "nothing could be more favorable for the Chinese team with the judges than what’s happened tonight here in Beijing". While Stephen Gough, head coach of the U.S. team, stated that he did not believe that the Chinese team should have been penalized.

However, the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee later filed an official appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport over the disqualification of two of the South Korean athletes from the men's 1000 metres speedskating event semifinals.

During the 5000 metres relay event, in the semifinals of the event, the Chinese team fell with 10 laps to go. There was no obvious obstruction on the Chinese skater, but they were advanced to the A final, with no team disqualified during the race. The Chinese team were advanced, even though they finished last in the race and there was no impeding action on the team.