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Short track speed skating at the Winter Olympics

Governing body

Events

8 (men: 4; women: 4)

Games

1924	•	1928	•	1932	•	1936	•	1948	•	1952
1956	•	1960	•	1964	•	1968	•	1972	•	1976
1980	•	1984	•	1988	•	1992	•	1994	•	1998
2002	•	2006	•	2010	•	2014
Note: demonstration sport years indicated in italics

Medalists • Records

Short track speed skating has been a contest at the Winter Olympics since the 1992 Winter Games in Albertville, France. Prior to that, it was a demonstration sport at the 1988 games. The results from the 1988 demonstration competition is not included in the official Olympic statistics. The sport has been dominated by teams from Asia and North America, namely South Korea (IOC code KOR), China (CHN), Canada (CAN) and the United States (USA). Those four countries have won 104 of 120 medals awarded since 1992. South Korea leads the medal tally (and gold medal tally), with 37 medals including 19 golds since 1992. All but 8 medals (including 4 golds) that South Korea won at the Winter Olympics came from Short-track speed skating. Similarly, 24 of China's 44 Winter Olympics medals are from the sport.

At the 2010 Winter Olympics, Haralds Silovs of Latvia 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 different disciplines on the same day.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]

1 Events
2 Medal table
3 Number of athletes by Nation
4 See also
5 References

Events[edit]

• = official event, (d) = demonstration event

Event	88	92	94	98	02	06	10	Years
Men's 500 metres	(d)		•	•	•	•	•	5
Men's 1000 metres	(d)	•	•	•	•	•	•	6
Men's 1500 metres	(d)				•	•	•	3
Men's 3000 metres	(d)
Men's 5000 metre relay	(d)	•	•	•	•	•	•	6
Women's 500 metres	(d)	•	•	•	•	•	•	6
Women's 1000 metres	(d)		•	•	•	•	•	5
Women's 1500 metres	(d)				•	•	•	3
Women's 3000 metres	(d)
Women's 3000 metre relay	(d)	•	•	•	•	•	•	6

Total events	10	4	6	6	8	8	8

Medal table[edit]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	19	11	7	37
2	Canada (CAN)	7	10	8	25
3	China (CHN)	7	10	7	24
4	United States (USA)	4	5	9	18
5	Italy (ITA)	1	2	2	5
6	Japan (JPN)	1	0	2	3
7	Australia (AUS)	1	0	1	2
8	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	2	1	3
9	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	1	1
	Unified Team (EUN)	0	0	1	1
Total		40	40	40	120

Updated after the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Number of athletes by Nation[edit]

Nation	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	94	98	02	06	10	Years
Australia (AUS)																6	5	5	5	6	2	6
Austria (AUT)																					1	1
Belarus (BLR)																			1	1		2
Belgium (BEL)																5	4		4	2	1	5
Bulgaria (BUL)																	1	2	7	1	3	5
Canada (CAN)																9	8	8	10	10	10	6
China (CHN)																5	8	8	9	8	10	6
Czech Republic (CZE)																			1	1	1	3
France (FRA)																8	5	2	4	6	7	6
Germany (GER)																		5	7	10	5	4
Great Britain (GBR)																5	3	5	5	4	7	6
Hong Kong (HKG)																			2	1	1	3
Hungary (HUN)																2			6	4	6	4
Israel (ISR)																			1			1
Italy (ITA)																8	9	9	10	9	9	6
Japan (JPN)																8	5	11	10	10	8	6
Kazakhstan (KAZ)																	1				1	2
Latvia (LAT)																				1	1	2
Mongolia (MGL)																	1	2	2			3
Netherlands (NED)																5	5	5	1	3	7	6
New Zealand (NZL)																4	4		1		1	4
North Korea (PRK)																3		6		2		3
Norway (NOR)																1	5					2
Poland (POL)																		1	1	1	3	4
Romania (ROU)																			1	1	1	3
Russia (RUS)																	6	2	2	3	5	5
Slovakia (SVK)																			1	1		2
South Africa (RSA)																	1					1
South Korea (KOR)																6	7	9	10	10	9	6
Sweden (SWE)																	1	1	1			3
Ukraine (UKR)																		2	1	1		3
Unified Team (EUN)																6						1
United States (USA)																5	8	11	8	10	10	6

Nations	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	16	19	18	26	24	23	33
Athletes	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	86	87	94	111	106	109	389
Year	24	28	32	36	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	80	84	88	92	94	98	02	06	10	6

References[edit]

^ "Latvia's quick-change artist makes Olympic history". Toronto Star. 2010-02-14. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
^ Harris, Beth (2010-02-13). "Latvian speedskater is 1st to do double duty". Washington Post. Retrieved 2010-02-19. ^{[dead link]}
^ CTV Olympics, "Latvian skater makes Olympic history", Agence France Press, 14 February 2010 . Retrieved 18 February 2010.
^ New York Times, "Crosstown Ride to a Speedskating First", Associated Press, 30 January 2010 . Retrieved 18 February 2010.

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