List of Olympic medalists in 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. 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. 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. 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 and all eight events have been held at every Olympic Games since. 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 KoreanChun 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. Kim Yoon-Mi of South Korea is the youngest; she was 13 when she won a gold in the same event in 1994. 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. In 1994 Kim and American Cathy Turner 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 and Wang Meng of China also defended an individual Olympic title. In 1998, Chun and Yang Yang 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 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 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 have been awarded and have been won by short track speed skaters from 11 National Olympic Committees.
Men
500 metres
Medals:
Rank
Nation
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Total
1
Canada
2
2
2
6
2
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
0
0
1
1
1000 metres
Medals:
Rank
Nation
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Total
1
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
Medals:
Rank
Nation
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Total
1
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
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0
0
1
1
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Russia
0
0
1
1
5000 metre relay
Medals:
Rank
Nation
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Total
1
Canada
3
2
1
6
2
2
2
0
4
3
Italy
1
1
0
2
4
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
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
0
2
0
2
6
Netherlands
0
1
0
1
7
0
0
2
2
8
0
0
1
1
1000 metres
Medals:
Rank
Nation
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Total
1
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
Medals:
Rank
Nation
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Total
1
3
4
1
8
2
China
2
1
1
4
3
0
0
1
1
3
Canada
0
0
1
1
3
Italy
0
0
1
1
3000 metre relay
Medals:
Rank
Nation
Gold
Silver
Bronze
Total
1
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
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. 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.
Athlete medal leaders
Include athletes with at least four medals of any colour. 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
2002–2006 2014
6
0
2
8
2002–2010
2
2
4
8
Arianna Fontana
2006–2018
1
2
5
8
Wang Meng
2006–2010
4
1
1
6
Chun Lee-Kyung
1994–1998
4
0
1
5
2006–2018
3
1
1
5
1994–2002
3
0
2
5
1998–2006
2
2
1
5
2002–2010
2
2
1
5
Park Seung-hi
2010–2014
2
0
3
5
Lee Ho-Suk
2006–2014
1
4
0
5
1994–2002
0
4
1
5
Li Jiajun
1998–2006
0
2
3
5
Choi Eun-Kyung
2002–2006
2
2
0
4
1998–2006
2
1
1
4
1992–1998
2
1
1
4
2014–2018
2
1
1
4
2014–2018
1
2
1
4
1998–2010
0
2
2
4
Medals per year
;Key:
Numbers in bold indicate the highest medal count at that year's Olympic Games.
