Short-track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Short Track Speed Skating
at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
Short Track Speed Skating; at the XIX Olympic Winter Games
	The Delta Center, venue of short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics.
Venue	Salt Lake Ice Center
Dates	13–23 February
No. of events	8
Competitors	106 from 26 nations
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Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held from 13 to 23 February. Eight events were contested at Salt Lake Ice Center (normally called Delta Center). Two new events were added for these games, with the men's and women's 1500 metres making debuts.^[1]^[2]

Metallic silver skates with golden blades in a glass case with the right skate being slightly elevated. There is a burgundy curtain behind the skates. The blades are much longer than the actual boot of the skates. — The skates Apolo Anton Ohno wore at the 2002 Winter Olympics are preserved in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History.

For the long track speed skating events, see Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Medal summary

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	2	2	3	7
2	South Korea	2	2	0	4
3	Canada	2	1	3	6
4	United States	1	1	1	3
5	Australia	1	0	0	1
6	Bulgaria	0	1	1	2
7	Italy	0	1	0	1
Totals (7 entries)		8	8	8	24

China led the overall table with seven medals, while Evgenia Radanova's two medals for Bulgaria were their first in the sport.

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Marc Gagnon Canada	41.802	Jonathan Guilmette Canada	41.994	Rusty Smith United States	42.027
1000 metres details	Steven Bradbury Australia	1:29.109	Apolo Anton Ohno United States	1:30.160	Mathieu Turcotte Canada	1:30.563
1500 metres details	Apolo Anton Ohno United States	2:18.541	Li Jiajun China	2:18.731	Marc Gagnon Canada	2:18.806
5000 metre relay details	Canada Jonathan Guilmette Marc Gagnon François-Louis Tremblay Mathieu Turcotte Éric Bédard	6:51.579	Italy Nicola Franceschina Nicola Rodigari Fabio Carta Maurizio Carnino Michele Antonioli	6:56.327	China Li Jiajun Feng Kai Guo Wei Li Ye An Yulong	6:59.633

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres details	Yang Yang (A) China	44.187	Evgenia Radanova Bulgaria	44.252	Wang Chunlu China	44.272
1000 metres details	Yang Yang (A) China	1:36.391	Ko Gi-hyun South Korea	1:36.427	Yang Yang (S) China	1:37.008
1500 metres details	Ko Gi-hyun South Korea	2:31.581	Choi Eun-kyung South Korea	2:31.610	Evgenia Radanova Bulgaria	2:31.723
3000 metre relay details	South Korea Choi Eun-kyung Choi Min-kyung Park Hye-won Joo Min-jin	4:12.793	China Yang Yang (A) Yang Yang (S) Sun Dandan Wang Chunlu	4:13.326	Canada Isabelle Charest Alanna Kraus Amélie Goulet-Nadon Marie-Ève Drolet Tania Vicent	4:15.738

Records

Two world records and fifteen Olympic records were set in Salt Lake City.^[1]

Event	Date	Round	Team	Time	OR	WR
Men's 500 metres	23 February	Heat 7	Jonathan Guilmette (CAN)	42.326	OR
	23 February	Quarterfinal 3	Kim Dong-sung (KOR)	41.806	OR
	23 February	A Final	Marc Gagnon (CAN)	41.802	OR
Men's 1000 metres	13 February	Heat 7	Rusty Smith (USA)	1:28.183	OR
Men's 1000 metres	16 February	Quarterfinal 3	Mathieu Turcotte (CAN)	1:27.185	OR
Men's 1500 metres	13 February	Heat 5	Guo Wei (CHN)	2:18.846	OR
Men's 1500 metres	16 February	Semifinal 1	Mathieu Turcotte (CAN)	2:15.942	OR
Men's 5000 metre relay	13 February	Heat 1	Canada Éric Bédard Marc Gagnon François-Louis Tremblay Mathieu Turcotte	6:45.455	OR
Women's 500 metres	16 February	Heat 3	Wang Chunlu (CHN)	44.723	OR
Women's 500 metres	16 February	Semifinal 1	Yang Yang (A) (CHN)	44.118	OR
Women's 1000 metres	23 February	Quarterfinal 1	Yang Yang (A) (CHN)	1:31.235	OR
Women's 1500 metres	13 February	Heat 1	Yang Yang (S) (CHN)	2:26.943	OR
Women's 1500 metres	13 February	Semifinal 2	Choi Eun-kyung (KOR)	2:21.069	OR	WR
Women's 3000 metre relay	13 February	Heat 1	South Korea Choi Eun-kyung Choi Min-kyung Park Hye-won Joo Min-jin	4:14.977	OR
Women's 3000 metre relay	13 February	A Final	South Korea Choi Eun-kyung Choi Min-kyung Park Hye-won Joo Min-jin	4:12.793	OR	WR

Participating NOCs

Twenty-six nations competed in the short track events at Salt Lake City. Belarus, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Israel, Romania and Slovakia made their short track debuts.