Short-track speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres

Men's 1000 metres
at the XVII Olympic Winter Games
Men's 1000 metres; at the XVII Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for short track
Venue	Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre
Dates	22 February
Competitors	31 from 16 nations
Winning time	1:34.57
Medalists
	← 1992 1998 →

The men's 1000 metres in short track speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics took place on 22 February at the Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre.^[1]^[2]

Results

Heats

The first round was held on 22 February. There were eight heats, with the top two finishers moving on to the quarterfinals.^[1]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marc Gagnon	Canada	1:32.52	Q
2	Kieran Hansen	Australia	1:32.96	Q
3	Mirko Vuillermin	Italy	1:33.51
4	Batchuluuny Bat–Orgil	Mongolia	1:40.41

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Andy Gabel	United States	1:32.32	Q
2	Richard Nizielski	Australia	1:32.42	Q
3	Martin Johansson	Sweden	1:32.50
4	Mike McMillen	New Zealand	1:32.65

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Satoru Terao	Japan	1:31.11	Q
2	Nicky Gooch	Great Britain	1:32.05	Q
3	John Coyle	United States	1:32.92
4	Igor Ozerov	Russia	1:44.38

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kim Ki-hoon	South Korea	1:33.63	Q
2	Eric Flaim	United States	1:33.71	Q
3	Erik Duyvelshoff	Netherlands	1:34.37

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Frédéric Blackburn	Canada	1:32.11	Q
2	Orazio Fagone	Italy	1:32.19	Q
3	Sergey Kobyzev	Russia	1:33.07
4	Andrew Nicholson	New Zealand	1:34.18

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Lee Joon-ho	South Korea	1:33.67	Q
2	Li Lianli	China	1:34.52	Q
3	Steven Bradbury	Australia	2:01.89
–	Geert Blanchart	Belgium	DQ

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Derrick Campbell	Canada	1:33.00	Q
2	Li Jiajun	China	1:33.14	Q
3	Wilf O'Reilly	Great Britain	1:33.57
4	Bruno Loscos	France	1:33.93

Heat 8

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Chae Ji-hoon	South Korea	1:32.11	Q
2	Bjørnar Elgetun	Norway	1:32.35	Q
3	Jun Uematsu	Japan	1:32.67
4	Chris Nicholson	New Zealand	1:34.91

Quarterfinals

The quarterfinals were held on 22 February. The top two finishers in each of the four quarterfinals advanced to the semifinals.^[1]

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Chae Ji-hoon	South Korea	1:31.40	Q
2	Derrick Campbell	Canada	1:31.82	Q
3	Kieran Hansen	Australia	1:32.34
–	Orazio Fagone	Italy	DQ

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Lee Joon-ho	South Korea	1:29.58	Q OR
2	Satoru Terao	Japan	1:29.64	Q
3	Eric Flaim	United States	1:29.70
4	Richard Nizielski	Australia	1:29.93

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Frédéric Blackburn	Canada	1:30.83	Q
2	Kim Ki-hoon	South Korea	1:30.89	Q
3	Bjørnar Elgetun	Norway	1:30.96
4	Li Lianli	China	1:32.16

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Marc Gagnon	Canada	1:31.93	Q
2	Nicky Gooch	Great Britain	1:32.00	Q
3	Andy Gabel	United States	1:33.59
–	Li Jiajun	China	DQ

Semifinals

The semifinals were held on 22 February. The top two finishers in each of the two semifinals qualified for the A final, while the third and fourth place skaters advanced to the B Final.^[1]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kim Ki-hoon	South Korea	1:31.69	QA
2	Nicky Gooch	Great Britain	1:31.77	QA
3	Lee Joon-ho	South Korea	1:31.93	QB
4	Marc Gagnon	Canada	2:16.27	QB

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Chae Ji-hoon	South Korea	1:31.56	QA
2	Derrick Campbell	Canada	1:36.12	QA
3	Frédéric Blackburn	Canada	1:41.71	QB
4	Satoru Terao	Japan	1:43.58	QB

Finals

The four qualifying skaters competed in Final A, while four others raced for 5th place in Final B.^[1] Having left the track early due to a lap counting error, Derrick Campbell failed to finish the final, not completing the sufficient number of laps, and Nicky Gooch was disqualified, so the winner of the B final, Marc Gagnon was awarded the bronze medal.

Final A

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Kim Ki-hoon	South Korea	1:34.57
	Chae Ji-hoon	South Korea	1:34.92
–	Nicky Gooch	Great Britain		DQ
–	Derrick Campbell	Canada		DNF

Final B

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Marc Gagnon	Canada	1:33.03
4	Satoru Terao	Japan	1:33.39
5	Lee Joon-ho	South Korea	1:44.99
–	Frédéric Blackburn	Canada		DQ

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e "Lillehammer 1994 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1994. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
^ "Short Track Speed Skating at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Games: Men's 1,000 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2019.

[OfficialReport-1] "Lillehammer 1994 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1994. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2010. Retrieved 16 January 2014.

[SR-2] "Short Track Speed Skating at the 1994 Lillehammer Winter Games: Men's 1,000 metres". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2019.

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