Short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics

Short track speed skating
at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Short track speed skating; at the XXII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Iceberg Skating Palace ; Sochi, Russia
Dates	10–21 February
No. of events	8
Competitors	116 from 25 nations
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Short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, Russia. The eight events took place between 10–21 February 2014.^[1]

Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for all eight events.^[2] Completed events that include the event finals are shown in bold.

All times are (UTC+4).

Date	Time	Event
10 February	13:45	Women's 3000 metre relay
		Women's 500 metres
		Men's 1500 metres
13 February	14:00	Men's 5000 metre relay
		Men's 1000 metres
		Women's 500 metres
15 February	14:00	Women's 1500 metres
15 February	14:00	Men's 1000 metres
18 February	13:30	Women's 1000 metres
		Men's 500 metres
		Women's 3000 metre relay
21 February	20:30	Women's 1000 metres
		Men's 500 metres
		Men's 5000 metre relay

Medal summary

Medal table

* Host nation (Russia)

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Viktor Ahn Russia	41.312	Wu Dajing China	41.516	Charle Cournoyer Canada	41.617
1000 metres details	Viktor Ahn Russia	1:25.325	Vladimir Grigorev Russia	1:25.399	Sjinkie Knegt Netherlands	1:25.611
1500 metres details	Charles Hamelin Canada	2:14.985	Han Tianyu China	2:15.055	Viktor Ahn Russia	2:15.062
5000 metres relay details	Russia (RUS) Viktor Ahn Semion Elistratov Vladimir Grigorev Ruslan Zakharov	6:42.100 OR	United States (USA) Eddy Alvarez J. R. Celski Christopher Creveling Jordan Malone	6:42.371	China (CHN) Chen Dequan Han Tianyu Shi Jingnan Wu Dajing	6:48.341

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.^[3] On 21 February 2014, he won the gold in the 5000m relay, upping the oldest short track male athlete record for both medals and gold medals.^[4]

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Li Jianrou China	45.263	Arianna Fontana Italy	51.250	Park Seung-hi South Korea	54.207
1000 metres details	Park Seung-hi South Korea	1:30.761	Fan Kexin China	1:30.811	Shim Suk-hee South Korea	1:31.027
1500 metres details	Zhou Yang China	2:19.140	Shim Suk-hee South Korea	2:19.239	Arianna Fontana Italy	2:19.416
3000 metre relay details	South Korea (KOR) Shim Suk-hee Park Seung-hi Cho Ha-ri Kim A-lang Kong Sang-jeong	4:09.498	Canada (CAN) Marie-Ève Drolet Jessica Hewitt Valérie Maltais Marianne St-Gelais	4:10.641	Italy (ITA) Arianna Fontana Lucia Peretti Martina Valcepina Elena Viviani	4:14.014

Notes

Viktor Ahn became the first short track speedskater to win all four Olympic golds (500m, 1000m, 1500m, 5000m relay). He also became the short track speedskater with the most Olympic gold medals, with 6, winning 3 golds in 2014, and 3 in 2006 (for South Korea). With his 4 medals from 2006 and 4 from 2014, he tied Apolo Anton Ohno with the most Olympic short track medals, at 8.^[5]^[6]

Qualification

A total quota of 120 athletes were allowed to compete at the Games (60 men and 60 women). Countries were assigned quotas using a combination of the four special Olympic Qualification classification that were held at two World cups in November 2013. A nation may have entered a maximum of five athletes per gender if it had qualified a relay team and three if it does not. Hosts Russia were guaranteed the full quota of 10 athletes.^[7] For the 500m, and 1000m there were 32 qualifiers, for the 1500m 36 qualifiers, and the relay 8. The ISU released quotas on 22 November 2013.^[8]

Participating nations

A total of 116 athletes from 25 nations participated (the numbers of athletes are shown in parentheses). Two nations, Chinese Taipei and Lithuania made their Olympic debuts in the sport, while Hong Kong qualified its first male athlete at the Winter Olympics in this event.^[9]