Short track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Short Track Speed Skating at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	White Ring
Dates	17-21 February 1998
No. of events	6
Competitors	94 from 18 nations

Short track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics
500 m		men		women
1000 m		men		women
3000 m relay				women
5000 m relay		men

For the long track speed skating events, see Speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Short track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics was held from 17 February to 21 February. Six events were contested at the White Ring.^[1]

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	3	1	2	6
2	Canada	2	0	2	4
3	Japan	1	0	1	2
4	China	0	5	1	6
	Total	6	6	6	18

South Korea led the medal table with six, including three golds. Chun Lee-kyung led the individual medal table, with two golds and one bronze. The top men's medalist was Kim Dong-sung, who won one gold and one silver.

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Takafumi Nishitani  Japan	42.862	An Yulong  China	43.022	Hitoshi Uematsu  Japan	43.713
1000 metres	Kim Dong-sung  South Korea	1:32.375	Li Jiajun  China	1:32.428	Éric Bédard  Canada	1:32.661
5000 metre relay	Canada (CAN) Éric Bédard Derrick Campbell François Drolet Marc Gagnon	7:06.075	South Korea (KOR) Chae Ji-hoon Lee Jun-hwan Lee Ho-eung Kim Dong-sung	7:06.776	China (CHN) Li Jiajun Feng Kai Yuan Ye An Yulong	7:11.559

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Annie Perreault  Canada	46.568	Yang Yang (S)  China	46.627	Chun Lee-kyung  South Korea	46.335[lower-alpha 1]
1000 metres	Chun Lee-kyung  South Korea	1:42.776	Yang Yang (S)  China	1:43.343	Won Hye-kyung  South Korea	1:43.361
3000 metre relay	South Korea (KOR) Chun Lee-kyung Won Hye-kyung An Sang-mi Kim Yun-mi	4:16.260	China (CHN) Yang Yang (A) Yang Yang (S) Wang Chunlu Sun Dandan	4:16.383	Canada (CAN) Christine Boudrias Isabelle Charest Annie Perreault Tania Vicent	4:21.205

1. Jeon won a medal as the winner of the B Final, as the A final featured two skaters failing to finish.

Participating NOCs

Eighteen nations competed in the short track events at Nagano. Belarus, the Germany, Poland and Ukraine made their short track debuts.

Australia (5)  Bulgaria (2)  Canada (8)  China (8)  France (2)  Germany (5)  Great Britain (5)  Italy (9)  Japan (11)

South Korea (9)  Mongolia (2)  Netherlands (5)  Poland (1)  North Korea (6)  Russia (2)  Sweden (1)  Ukraine (2)  United States (11)

References

1. "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Retrieved January 16, 2014.

External links

• Sports-Reference 1998 Olympics - Short Track