Short Track Speed Skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics

Dates 13 – 26 February 2010
Medal Events 8

The Olympic short track events of 2010 were held in the Pacific Coliseum together with the figure skating competitions. The program had remained unchanged, with four events each for men and women. The Chinese female skaters dominated and won all four gold medals, making the country all-time third behind South Korea and Canada, who both won two of the men’s events. Two skaters made the record books: Wang Meng won three gold medals for a total of four golds, one silver and one bronze, to make her the most successful short track Olympian of all time. One skater has won more medals, however: Apolo Anton Ohno increased his Olympic medal tally to eight medals in total.

Events

Event Status Date Participants NOCs
500 metres, Men Olympic 24 – 26 February 2010 32 16
1,000 metres, Men Olympic 17 – 20 February 2010 32 18
1,500 metres, Men Olympic 13 February 2010 36 16
5,000 metres Relay, Men Olympic 17 – 26 February 2010 37 8
500 metres, Women Olympic 13 – 17 February 2010 32 17
1,000 metres, Women Olympic 24 – 26 February 2010 32 18
1,500 metres, Women Olympic 20 February 2010 36 18
3,000 metres Relay, Women Olympic 13 – 24 February 2010 36 8
109 (54/55) 23 (19/19)

Medals

Event Gold Silver Bronze
500 metres, Men Charles HamelinCAN Seong Si-BaekKOR François-Louis TremblayCAN
1,000 metres, Men Lee Jeong-SuKOR Lee Ho-SeokKOR Apolo Anton OhnoUSA
1,500 metres, Men Lee Jeong-SuKOR Apolo Anton OhnoUSA J. R. CelskiUSA
5,000 metres Relay, Men CanadaCAN Republic of KoreaKOR United StatesUSA
500 metres, Women Wang MengCHN Marianne St-GelaisCAN Arianna FontanaITA
1,000 metres, Women Wang MengCHN Katherine ReutterUSA Park Seung-HuiKOR
1,500 metres, Women Zhou YangCHN Lee Eun-ByeolKOR Park Seung-HuiKOR
3,000 metres Relay, Women People's Republic of ChinaCHN CanadaCAN United StatesUSA

Medal table

NOC Gold Silver Bronze Total
People's Republic of China CHN 4 0 0 4
Republic of Korea KOR 2 4 2 8
Canada CAN 2 2 1 5
United States USA 0 2 4 6
Italy ITA 0 0 1 1