Short-track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres

Men's 1000 metres
at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Men's 1000 metres; at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Gangneung Ice Arena; Gangneung, South Korea
Dates	13 February (heats); 17 February (quarterfinals, semifinals, final)
Competitors	32 from 14 nations
Winning time	1:24.650
Medalists
	← 2014 2022 →

The men's 1000 metres in short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics took place on 13 and 17 February 2018 at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, South Korea.^[1] Samuel Girard won gold, John-Henry Krueger took the silver medal, and Seo Yi-ra won bronze. For all of them, this was their first Olympic medal.

Charles Hamelin set an Olympic record in the heats but was disqualified in semifinals. In Final A, Sándor Liu Shaolin, trying to pass from the inside, interfered with one of the competitors, which resulted in the fall of both Lim Hyo-jun and Seo Yi-ra. The two remaining contenders, Girard and Krueger, became gold and silver medalists. Liu Shaolin was disqualified, and Seo Yi-ra won the bronze medal by standing after the fall and crossing the finish line first.

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record	Hwang Dae-heon (KOR)	1:20.875	Salt Lake City, United States	12 November 2016
Olympic record	Lee Jung-su (KOR)	1:23.747	Vancouver, Canada	20 February 2010

One Olympic record was set during the competition.

Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record	Ref
13 February	Heat 5	Charles Hamelin	Canada	1:23.407	OR	^[2]

Results

Heats

Q – qualified for the quarterfinals^[3]

ADV – advanced

PEN – penalty

YC – yellow card

OR - olympic record

Rank	Heat	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	1	John-Henry Krueger	United States	1:25.913	Q
2	1	Farrell Treacy	Great Britain	1:26.762	Q
3	1	Ryosuke Sakazume	Japan	DNF	ADV
	1	Shaoang Liu	Hungary		PEN
1	2	Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	1:23.971	Q
2	2	Kazuki Yoshinaga	Japan	1:24.030	Q
3	2	Charle Cournoyer	Canada	1:24.051
4	2	Daan Breeuwsma	Netherlands	1:24.429
1	3	Samuel Girard	Canada	1:23.894	Q
2	3	Semion Elistratov	Olympic Athletes from Russia	1:23.979	Q
3	3	Keita Watanabe	Japan	1:24.078
4	3	Nurbergen Zhumagaziyev	Kazakhstan	1:24.271
1	4	Sjinkie Knegt	Netherlands	1:23.823	Q
2	4	Thibaut Fauconnet	France	1:24.381	Q
3	4	Roberts Zvejnieks	Latvia	1:26.408	ADV
	4	Ren Ziwei	China		PEN
1	5	Charles Hamelin	Canada	1:23.407	Q, OR
2	5	Wu Dajing	China	1:23.463	Q
3	5	Sébastien Lepape	France	1:23.489
4	5	Aleksandr Shulginov	Olympic Athletes from Russia	1:31.133
1	6	Itzhak de Laat	Netherlands	1:24.639	Q
2	6	Seo Yi-ra	South Korea	1:24.734	Q
3	6	Tommaso Dotti	Italy	1:25.369
	6	Han Tianyu	China		PEN
1	7	Hwang Dae-heon	South Korea	1:24.457	Q
2	7	Yuri Confortola	Italy	1:25.297	Q
3	7	Josh Cheetham	Great Britain	1:26.223
	7	Vladislav Bykanov	Israel		PEN
1	8	Sándor Liu Shaolin	Hungary	1:31.547	Q
2	8	Roberto Puķītis	Latvia	1:31.635	Q
3	8	J. R. Celski	United States	1:31.812
	8	Pavel Sitnikov	Olympic Athletes from Russia		PEN

Quarterfinals

Q – qualified for Semifinals^[4]

ADV – advanced

PEN – penalty

YC – yellow card

Rank	Heat	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	1	Seo Yi-ra	South Korea	1:24.053	Q
2	1	Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	1:24.095	Q
3	1	Thibaut Fauconnet	France	1:24.344
	1	Hwang Dae-heon	South Korea		PEN
1	2	Samuel Girard	Canada	1:24.289	Q
2	2	Yuri Confortola	Italy	1:24.383	Q
3	2	Itzhak de Laat	Netherlands	1:24.423
4	2	Kazuki Yoshinaga	Japan	1:24.649
1	3	Semion Elistratov	Olympic Athletes from Russia	1:23.893	Q
2	3	Ryosuke Sakazume	Japan	1:24.099	Q
3	3	John-Henry Krueger	United States	1:24.598	ADV
4	3	Farrell Treacy	Great Britain	1:25.080
	3	Sjinkie Knegt	Netherlands		PEN
1	4	Sándor Liu Shaolin	Hungary	1:24.012	Q
2	4	Charles Hamelin	Canada	1:24.015	Q
3	4	Roberto Puķītis	Latvia	1:24.022
4	4	Roberts Zvejnieks	Latvia	1:24.306
	4	Wu Dajing	China		PEN

Semifinals

QA – qualified for Final A^[5]

QB – qualified for Final B

ADV – advanced

PEN – penalty

YC – yellow card

Rank	Heat	Name	Country	Time	Notes
1	1	Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	1:26.463	QA
2	1	Sándor Liu Shaolin	Hungary	1:26.488	QA
3	1	Yuri Confortola	Italy	1:26.626	QB
4	1	Semion Elistratov	Olympic Athletes from Russia	1:26.773	QB
1	2	John-Henry Krueger	United States	1:24.187	QA
2	2	Seo Yi-ra	South Korea	1:24.252	QA
3	2	Ryosuke Sakazume	Japan	1:24.317	QB
4	2	Samuel Girard	Canada	1:25.102	ADV
	2	Charles Hamelin	Canada		PEN

Final B

Rank	Name	Country	Time
5	Ryosuke Sakazume	Japan	1:27.522
6	Semion Elistratov	Olympic Athletes from Russia	1:27.621
7	Yuri Confortola	Italy	1:27.712

Final A

The final was held on 17 February 2018 at 21:24.^[6]

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
	Samuel Girard	Canada	1:24.650
	John-Henry Krueger	United States	1:24.864
	Seo Yi-ra	South Korea	1:31.619
4	Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	1:33.312
8	Sándor Liu Shaolin	Hungary		PEN

References

^ "Schedule". POCOG. Archived from the original on 5 November 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2018.
^ "Short Track Speed Skating (쇼트트랙 스피드 스케이팅 / Patinage de vitesse sur piste courte): Men's 1,000m Heats (남자 1,000m 예선 / 1 000 m hommes Séries éliminatoires) – Results (경기결과 / Résultats)" (PDF). Pyeongchang 2018. International Olympic Committee. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2018.
^ "Heats results". Archived from the original on 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
^ "Quarterfinals results". Archived from the original on 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
^ "Semifinals results". Archived from the original on 2018-03-23. Retrieved 2018-02-17.
^ Final results^{[dead link‍]}

[1] "Schedule". POCOG. Archived from the original on 5 November 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2018.

[2] "Short Track Speed Skating (쇼트트랙 스피드 스케이팅 / Patinage de vitesse sur piste courte): Men's 1,000m Heats (남자 1,000m 예선 / 1 000 m hommes Séries éliminatoires) – Results (경기결과 / Résultats)" (PDF). Pyeongchang 2018. International Olympic Committee. 13 February 2018. Retrieved 13 February 2018.

[3] "Heats results". Archived from the original on 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2018-02-17.

[4] "Quarterfinals results". Archived from the original on 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2018-02-17.

[5] "Semifinals results". Archived from the original on 2018-03-23. Retrieved 2018-02-17.

[6] Final results^{[dead link‍]}

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Short-track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics

Qualification
500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m relay		women
5000 m relay	men
v t e

v t e Olympic champions in men's 1000 m short track speed skating
As exhibition sport	1988: Wilf O'Reilly (GBR)
As official sport	1992: Kim Ki-hoon (KOR) 1994: Kim Ki-hoon (KOR) 1998: Kim Dong-sung (KOR) 2002: Steven Bradbury (AUS) 2006: Ahn Hyun-soo (KOR) 2010: Lee Jung-su (KOR) 2014: Viktor Ahn (RUS) 2018: Samuel Girard (CAN) 2022: Ren Ziwei (CHN)