List of Olympic medalists in short track speed skating

Short track speed skating is a sport that is contested at the Winter Olympic Games. The first Winter Olympics, held in 1924, included speed skating, but the first official short track speed skating events were not held until the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France.^[1] Before 1992, short track speed skating events were held at the 1988 Winter Olympics as a demonstration sport. At those games, events for both men and women were held in five disciplines: 500 metre, 1000 metre, 1500 metre, 3000 metre and the relay (3000 metres for women, 5000 metres for men). The Netherlands, United Kingdom and South Korea won two gold medals each, with Canada, Italy, Japan and China picking up a gold medal each. The results of those demonstration events are not considered official and are not included in this list.^[2] At the 1992 Winter Olympics, there were four medal events: men's 1000 metres, men's 5000 metre relay, women's 500 metres and women's 3000 metre relay. Men's 500 metres and women's 1000 metres was added in 1994. The men's and women's 1500 metres were added in 2002^[3] and all eight events have been held at every Olympic Games since.^[2]

Viktor Ahn of Russia, formerly of South Korea with his birth name of Ahn Hyun-soo, is the most decorated short-tracker in Olympics, having won eight medals including six gold medals, and two bronze. China's Wang Meng and South Korean Chun Lee-Kyung has won four gold medals each. With his eight medals Viktor Ahn has the most Olympic medals of any short-track speed skater, tied with Apolo Anton Ohno of the United States who won two gold, two silver and four bronze medals and Arianna Fontana of Italy who won one gold, two silver and five bronze medals. Tania Vicent of Canada is the oldest athlete to medal; she was 34 in 2010 when she won a silver medal in the 3000 metre relay.^[4] Kim Yoon-Mi of South Korea is the youngest; she was 13 when she won a gold in the same event in 1994.^[5]

At the 1992 Winter Olympics, South Korea's Kim Ki-hoon became the first short track speed skater to win two gold medals, by winning gold medals in both of the available events (1000m, 5000m relay). In 1994 Kim (1000m) and American Cathy Turner (500m) became the first to successfully defend their respective Olympic title; Kim thus became the first short-tracker to win three Olympic gold medals. Since then Chun Lee-Kyung of South Korea (1000m, 1994–1998) and Wang Meng of China (500m, 2006–2010) also defended an individual Olympic title. In 1998, Chun and Yang Yang (S) of China became the first short-tracker to win three medals in one Olympic. By helping South Korea to defend 3000m relay title as well as defending her 1000m gold medal, Chun became the first (and thus far, only) athlete to successfully defend two Olympic titles. In 2006, South Korea's Jin Sun-Yu and then Ahn Hyun-Soo became the first two short-trackers to have won three gold medals in one Olympic. Ahn also won a bronze medal in the same Games, becoming the first (and thus far, only) short-tracker to win four medals in one Olympic; he repeated the same feat in 2014. In 2010, Wang became the first athlete to have won three individual gold medals in the sport, and in 2014 Ahn became the first to have won four individual gold medals, and six gold medals overall in the sport. South Korean short track speed skaters have won a combined 42 medals, including 21 golds, more than any other nation in both measures. South Korea is also the only country to have won at least one gold medal at every Olympics in which short-track speed skating has been held; Canada and China share with South Korea the honour of being the only nations to have athletes win a medal at every Olympics in the sport. As of the 2010 Winter Olympics, 144 medals (48 of each color) have been awarded and have been won by short track speed skaters from 11 National Olympic Committees (NOC).

Table of contents
Men	500 m • 1000 m • 1500 m • 5000 m relay
Women	500 m • 1000 m • 1500 m • 3000 m relay
Statistics References

Men[]

500 metres[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1994 Lillehammer details	Chae Ji-Hoon South Korea	Mirko Vuillermin Italy	Nicky Gooch Great Britain
1998 Nagano details	Takafumi Nishitani Japan	An Yulong China	Hitoshi Uematsu Japan
2002 Salt Lake City details	Marc Gagnon Canada	Jonathan Guilmette Canada	Rusty Smith United States
2006 Turin details	Apolo Anton Ohno United States	François-Louis Tremblay Canada	Ahn Hyun-Soo South Korea
2010 Vancouver details	Charles Hamelin Canada	Sung Si-Bak South Korea	François-Louis Tremblay Canada
2014 Sochi details	Viktor Ahn Russia	Wu Dajing China	Charle Cournoyer Canada
2018 PyeongChang details	Wu Dajing China	Hwang Dae-heon South Korea	Lim Hyo-jun South Korea

Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	2	2	2	6
2	South Korea	1	2	2	5
3	China	1	2	0	3
5	Japan	1	0	1	2
5	United States	1	0	1	2
6	Russia	1	0	0	1
7	Italy	0	1	0	1
8	United Kingdom	0	0	1	1

1000 metres[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1992 Albertville details	Kim Ki-hoon South Korea	Frédéric Blackburn Canada	Lee Joon-Ho South Korea
1994 Lillehammer details	Kim Ki-hoon South Korea	Chae Ji-Hoon South Korea	Marc Gagnon Canada
1998 Nagano details	Kim Dong-Sung South Korea	Li Jiajun China	Éric Bédard Canada
2002 Salt Lake City details	Steven Bradbury Australia	Apolo Anton Ohno United States	Mathieu Turcotte Canada
2006 Turin details	Ahn Hyun-Soo South Korea	Lee Ho-Suk South Korea	Apolo Anton Ohno United States
2010 Vancouver details	Lee Jung-Su South Korea	Lee Ho-Suk South Korea	Apolo Anton Ohno United States
2014 Sochi details	Viktor Ahn Russia	Vladimir Grigorev Russia	Sjinkie Knegt Netherlands
2018 PyeongChang details	Samuel Girard Canada	John-Henry Krueger United States	Seo Yi-ra South Korea

Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	5	3	2	10
2	Canada	1	1	3	5
3	Russia	1	1	0	2
4	Australia	1	0	0	1
5	United States	0	2	2	4
6	China	0	1	0	1
7	Netherlands	0	0	1	1

1500 metres[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2002 Salt Lake City details	Apolo Anton Ohno United States	Li Jiajun China	Marc Gagnon Canada
2006 Turin details	Ahn Hyun-Soo South Korea	Lee Ho-Suk South Korea	Li Jiajun China
2010 Vancouver details	Lee Jung-Su South Korea	Apolo Anton Ohno United States	J. R. Celski United States
2014 Sochi details	Charles Hamelin Canada	Han Tianyu China	Viktor Ahn Russia
2018 PyeongChang details	Lim Hyo-jun South Korea	Sjinkie Knegt Netherlands	Semion Elistratov Olympic Athletes from Russia

Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	3	1	0	4
2	United States	1	1	1	3
3	Canada	1	0	1	2
4	China	0	2	1	3
5	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
6	Olympic Athletes from Russia	0	0	1	1
6	Russia	0	0	1	1

5000 metre relay[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1992 Albertville details	South Korea (KOR) Kim Ki-hoon Lee Joon-Ho Mo Ji-Soo Song Jae-Kun	Canada (CAN) Frédéric Blackburn Laurent Daignault Michel Daignault Sylvain Gagnon Mark Lackie	Japan (JPN) Yuichi Akasaka Tatsuyoshi Ishihara Toshinobu Kawai Tsutomu Kawasaki
1994 Lillehammer details	Italy (ITA) Maurizio Carnino Orazio Fagone Hugo Herrnhof Mirko Vuillermin	United States (USA) Randy Bartz John Coyle Eric Flaim Andrew Gabel	Australia (AUS) Steven Bradbury Kieran Hansen Andrew Murtha Richard Nizielski
1998 Nagano details	Canada (CAN) Éric Bédard Derrick Campbell François Drolet Marc Gagnon	South Korea (KOR) Chae Ji-Hoon Lee Jun-Hwan Lee Ho-Eung Kim Dong-Sung	China (CHN) Li Jiajun Feng Kai Yuan Ye An Yulong
2002 Salt Lake City details	Canada (CAN) Éric Bédard Marc Gagnon Jonathan Guilmette François-Louis Tremblay Mathieu Turcotte	Italy (ITA) Michele Antonioli Maurizio Carnino Fabio Carta Nicola Franceschina Nicola Rodigari	China (CHN) An Yulong Feng Kai Guo Wei Li Jiajun Li Ye
2006 Turin details	South Korea (KOR) Ahn Hyun-Soo Lee Ho-Suk Oh Se-Jong Seo Ho-Jin Song Suk-Woo	Canada (CAN) Éric Bédard Jonathan Guilmette Charles Hamelin François-Louis Tremblay Mathieu Turcotte	United States (USA) Alex Izykowski J. P. Kepka Apolo Anton Ohno Rusty Smith
2010 Vancouver details	Canada (CAN) Charles Hamelin François Hamelin Olivier Jean François-Louis Tremblay Guillaume Bastille	South Korea (KOR) Kwak Yoon-Gy Lee Ho-Suk Lee Jung-Su Sung Si-Bak Kim Seoung-Il	United States (USA) J. R. Celski Travis Jayner Jordan Malone Apolo Anton Ohno Simon Cho
2014 Sochi details	Russia (RUS) Viktor Ahn Semion Elistratov Vladimir Grigorev Ruslan Zakharov	United States (USA) Eddy Alvarez J. R. Celski Christopher Creveling Jordan Malone	China (CHN) Chen Dequan Han Tianyu Shi Jingnan Wu Dajing
2018 PyeongChang details	Hungary (HUN) Shaoang Liu Sándor Liu Shaolin Viktor Knoch Csaba Burján	China (CHN) Wu Dajing Han Tianyu Chen Dequan Xu Hongzhi Ren Ziwei	Canada (CAN) Samuel Girard Charles Hamelin Charle Cournoyer Pascal Dion

Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Canada	3	2	1	6
2	South Korea	2	2	0	4
3	Italy	1	1	0	2
4	Hungary	1	0	0	1
4	Russia	1	0	0	1
6	United States	0	2	2	4
7	China	0	1	3	4
8	Australia	0	0	1	1
8	Japan	0	0	1	1

Women[]

500 metres[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1992 Albertville details	Cathy Turner United States	Li Yan China	Hwang Ok-Sil North Korea
1994 Lillehammer details	Cathy Turner United States	Zhang Yanmei China	Amy Peterson United States
1998 Nagano details	Annie Perreault Canada	Yang Yang (S) China	Chun Lee-Kyung South Korea
2002 Salt Lake City details	Yang Yang (A) China	Evgenia Radanova Bulgaria	Wang Chunlu China
2006 Turin details	Wang Meng China	Evgenia Radanova Bulgaria	Anouk Leblanc-Boucher Canada
2010 Vancouver details	Wang Meng China	Marianne St-Gelais Canada	Arianna Fontana Italy
2014 Sochi details	Li Jianrou China	Arianna Fontana Italy	Park Seung-Hi South Korea
2018 PyeongChang details	Arianna Fontana Italy	Yara van Kerkhof Netherlands	Kim Boutin Canada

Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	4	3	1	8
2	United States	2	0	1	3
3	Canada	1	1	2	4
4	Italy	1	1	1	3
5	Bulgaria	0	2	0	2
6	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
7	South Korea	0	0	2	2
8	North Korea	0	0	1	1

1000 metres[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1994 Lillehammer details	Chun Lee-kyung South Korea	Nathalie Lambert Canada	Kim So-hui South Korea
1998 Nagano details	Chun Lee-kyung South Korea	Yang Yang (S) China	Won Hye-kyung South Korea
2002 Salt Lake City details	Yang Yang (A) China	Ko Gi-hyun South Korea	Yang Yang (S) China
2006 Turin details	Jin Sun-yu South Korea	Wang Meng China	Yang Yang (A) China
2010 Vancouver details	Wang Meng China	Katherine Reutter United States	Park Seung-hi South Korea
2014 Sochi details	Park Seung-hi South Korea	Fan Kexin China	Shim Suk-hee South Korea
2018 PyeongChang details	Suzanne Schulting Netherlands	Kim Boutin Canada	Arianna Fontana Italy

Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	4	1	4	9
2	China	2	3	2	7
3	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
4	Canada	0	2	0	2
5	United States	0	1	0	1
6	Italy	0	0	1	1

1500 metres[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2002 Salt Lake City details	Ko Gi-hyun South Korea	Choi Eun-kyung South Korea	Evgenia Radanova Bulgaria
2006 Turin details	Jin Sun-yu South Korea	Choi Eun-kyung South Korea	Wang Meng China
2010 Vancouver details	Zhou Yang China	Lee Eun-byul South Korea	Park Seung-hi South Korea
2014 Sochi details	Zhou Yang China	Shim Suk-hee South Korea	Arianna Fontana Italy
2018 PyeongChang details	Choi Min-jeong South Korea	Li Jinyu China	Kim Boutin Canada

Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	3	4	1	8
2	China	2	1	1	4
3	Bulgaria	0	0	1	1
	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1

3000 metre relay[]

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1992 Albertville details	Canada (CAN) Angela Cutrone Sylvie Daigle Nathalie Lambert Annie Perreault	United States (USA) Darcie Dohnal Amy Peterson Cathy Turner Nikki Ziegelmeyer	Unified Team (EUN) Yuliya Allagulova Natalya Isakova Viktoriya Taranina Yuliya Vlasova
1994 Lillehammer details	South Korea (KOR) Chun Lee-kyung Kim So-hui Kim Yoon-mi Won Hye-kyung	Canada (CAN) Christine Boudrias Isabelle Charest Sylvie Daigle Nathalie Lambert	United States (USA) Karen Cashman Amy Peterson Cathy Turner Nikki Ziegelmeyer
1998 Nagano details	South Korea (KOR) Chun Lee-kyung Won Hye-kyung An Sang-mi Kim Yun-mi	China (CHN) Sun Dandan Wang Chunlu Yang Yang (A) Yang Yang (S)	Canada (CAN) Christine Boudrias Isabelle Charest Annie Perreault Tania Vicent
2002 Salt Lake City details	South Korea (KOR) Choi Eun-kyung Choi Min-kyung Joo Min-jin Park Hye-won	China (CHN) Sun Dandan Wang Chunlu Yang Yang (A) Yang Yang (S)	Canada (CAN) Isabelle Charest Marie-Ève Drolet Amélie Goulet-Nadon Alanna Kraus Tania Vicent
2006 Turin details	South Korea (KOR) Byun Chun-sa Choi Eun-kyung Jeon Da-hye Jin Sun-yu Kang Yun-mi	Canada (CAN) Alanna Kraus Anouk Leblanc-Boucher Amanda Overland Kalyna Roberge Tania Vicent	Italy (ITA) Marta Capurso Arianna Fontana Katia Zini Mara Zini
2010 Vancouver details	China (CHN) Sun Linlin Wang Meng Zhang Hui Zhou Yang	Canada (CAN) Jessica Gregg Kalyna Roberge Marianne St-Gelais Tania Vicent	United States (USA) Allison Baver Alyson Dudek Lana Gehring Katherine Reutter Kimberly Derrick
2014 Sochi details	South Korea (KOR) Shim Suk-hee Park Seung-hi Cho Ha-ri Kim A-lang Kong Sang-jeong	Canada (CAN) Marie-Ève Drolet Jessica Hewitt Valérie Maltais Marianne St-Gelais	Italy (ITA) Arianna Fontana Lucia Peretti Martina Valcepina Elena Viviani
2018 PyeongChang details	South Korea (KOR) Shim Suk-hee Choi Min-jeong Kim Ye-jin Kim A-lang Lee Yu-bin	Italy (ITA) Arianna Fontana Lucia Peretti Cecilia Maffei Martina Valcepina	Netherlands (NED) Suzanne Schulting Yara van Kerkhof Lara van Ruijven Jorien ter Mors

Medals:

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	6	0	0	6
2	Canada	1	4	2	7
3	China	1	2	0	3
4	Italy	0	1	2	3
4	United States	0	1	2	3
6	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
6	Unified Team	0	0	1	1

Statistics[]

At 31 years and 191 days, Vladimir Grigorev became the oldest man to win a short track Olympic medal, winning silver at the 1000m event, at the 2014 Olympics on 15 February 2014.^[6] On 21 February 2014, he won the gold in the 5000m relay, upping the oldest male shorttrack athlete record for both medals and gold medals.^[7]

Athlete medal leaders[]

Include athletes with at least four medals of any colour.

Chinese Yang Yang (A) is one of thirteen athletes to win five or more medals in short track speed skating.

Athlete	Nation	Olympics	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Ahn Hyun-Soo Viktor Ahn	South Korea (KOR) Russia (RUS)	2002–2006 2014	6	0	2	8
Apolo Anton Ohno	United States (USA)	2002–2010	2	2	4	8
Arianna Fontana	Italy (ITA)	2006–2018	1	2	5	8
Wang Meng	China (CHN)	2006–2010	4	1	1	6
Chun Lee-Kyung	South Korea (KOR)	1994–1998	4	0	1	5
Charles Hamelin	Canada (CAN)	2006–2018	3	1	1	5
Marc Gagnon	Canada (CAN)	1994–2002	3	0	2	5
Yang Yang (A)	China (CHN)	1998–2006	2	2	1	5
François-Louis Tremblay	Canada (CAN)	2002–2010	2	2	1	5
Park Seung-hi	South Korea (KOR)	2010–2014	2	0	3	5
Lee Ho-Suk	South Korea (KOR)	2006–2014	1	4	0	5
Yang Yang (S)	China (CHN)	1994–2002	0	4	1	5
Li Jiajun	China (CHN)	1998–2006	0	2	3	5
Choi Eun-Kyung	South Korea (KOR)	2002–2006	2	2	0	4
Éric Bédard	Canada (CAN)	1998–2006	2	1	1	4
Cathy Turner	United States (USA)	1992–1998	2	1	1	4
Shim Suk-hee	South Korea (KOR)	2014–2018	2	1	1	4
Wu Dajing	China (CHN)	2014–2018	1	2	1	4
Tania Vicent	Canada (CAN)	1998–2010	0	2	2	4

Medals per year[]

Key

Numbers in bold indicate the highest medal count at that year's Olympic Games.

Nation	92	94	98	02	06	10	14	18	Total
Australia (AUS)	–	1	–	1	–	–	–	–	2
Bulgaria (BUL)	–	–	–	2	1	–	–	–	3
Canada (CAN)	3	3	4	6	4	5	3	5	33
China (CHN)	1	1	6	7	5	4	6	3	33
Great Britain (GBR)	–	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	1
Hungary (HUN)	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	1
Italy (ITA)	–	2	–	1	1	1	3	3	11
Japan (JPN)	1	–	2	–	–	–	–	–	3
Netherlands (NED)	–	–	–	–	–	–	1	4	5
North Korea (PRK)	1		–		–	–		–	1
Olympic Athletes from Russia (OAR)								1	1
Russia (RUS)	–	–	–	–	–	–	5		5
South Korea (KOR)	3	6	6	4	10	8	5	6	48
Unified Team (EUN)	1								1
United States (USA)	2	4	–	3	3	6	1	1	20

References[]

General

1992–2002: "Short Track Skating > Past Results > Major Events". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2008-10-19. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
- Men's: 500m 1000m 1500m 5000m relay
- Women's: 500m 1000m 1500m 3000m relay
2006: "2006 Winter Olympic Games Final Medal Winners". Slam! Olympics. 2006. Archived from the original on 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
"Results database". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2009-01-08.

Specific

^ "Skating". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 2008-12-17. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
^ ^a ^b "Skating > Short track speed skating". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
^ "Short-track Speed Skating History". CBC Sports. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
^ Kelley, Jim (1998-02-17). "Turner out to clear her name". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
^ "Athlete profile: Kim Yoon-Mi". Sports Illustrated. 1998-02-03. Archived from the original on 2011-06-22.
^ Beth Harris (15 February 2014). "Viktor Ahn wins 1st Olympic gold and 2nd short track medal for his adopted Russia". Yahoo! Sports. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 17 March 2014.
^ ESPN (21 February 2014). "Results Fri, Feb 21". Sochi 2014 Olympics. ESPN Winter Olympics. Retrieved 2014-02-21.

External links[]

Short Track Speed Skating - Olympics at Sports-reference.com
Olympic Review and Revue Olympique. LA84 Foundation

[1] "Skating". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 2008-12-17. Retrieved 2009-01-08.

[IOC-2] "Skating > Short track speed skating". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2009-01-08.

[3] "Short-track Speed Skating History". CBC Sports. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2009-01-08.

[4] Kelley, Jim (1998-02-17). "Turner out to clear her name". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2009-01-27.

[5] "Athlete profile: Kim Yoon-Mi". Sports Illustrated. 1998-02-03. Archived from the original on 2011-06-22.

[6] Beth Harris (15 February 2014). "Viktor Ahn wins 1st Olympic gold and 2nd short track medal for his adopted Russia". Yahoo! Sports. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 17 March 2014.

[7] ESPN (21 February 2014). "Results Fri, Feb 21". Sochi 2014 Olympics. ESPN Winter Olympics. Retrieved 2014-02-21.

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