Short-track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics

Short Track Speed Skating
at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Short Track Speed Skating; at the XVIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	White Ring
Dates	17–21 February
No. of events	6
Competitors	94 from 18 nations
	← 1994 2002 →

Short track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics was held from 17 to 21 February. Six events were contested at the White Ring.^[1]^[2]

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
Totals (4 entries)		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 details	Takafumi Nishitani Japan	42.862	An Yulong China	43.022	Hitoshi Uematsu Japan	43.713
1000 metres details	Kim Dong-sung South Korea	1:32.375	Li Jiajun China	1:32.428	Éric Bédard Canada	1:32.661
5000 metre relay details	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 details	Annie Perreault Canada	46.568	Yang Yang (S) China	46.627	Chun Lee-kyung South Korea	46.335^[a]
1000 metres details	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 details	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

^ 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

^ "Nagano 1998 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Nagano Olympics Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1998. Retrieved 16 January 2014.
^ "Short Track Speed Skating at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2019.

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

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

[SR-2] "Short Track Speed Skating at the 1998 Nagano Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 November 2019.

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