Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres

Men's 1000 metres; at the XX Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for short track
Venue	Torino Palavela
Dates	February 15–18
Competitors	26 from 17 nations
Medalists

The men's 1000 metres in short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics began on 15 February, with the final on 18 February, at the Torino Palavela.

Records

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

World record	Li Jiajun (CHN)	1:24.674	Bormio, Italy	14 February 2004
Olympic record	Mathieu Turcotte (CAN)	1:27.185	Salt Lake City, United States	16 February 2002

The following new world and Olympic records were set during this competition.

Date^[1]	Event	Team	Time	OR
15 February	Heat 1	Li Ye (CHN)	1:27.048	OR
18 February	Quarterfinal 1	Rusty Smith (USA)	1:27.000	OR
18 February	Final A	Ahn Hyun-soo (KOR)	1:26.739	OR

Results

Heats

The first round was held on 15 February. There were seven heats of three or four skaters each, with the top two finishers and the two fastest third-place finishers also moving on to the quarterfinals. As two skaters tied for the second-fastest third-place time, three skaters advanced through this method. Two other skaters were advanced after being interfered with.^[1]

Heats

Heat	Rank	Athlete	Country	Result	Notes
1	1	Li Ye	China	1:27.048	Q OR
1	2	Nicola Rodigari	Italy	1:27.184	Q
1	3	Jean Charles Mattei	France	1:28.009
1	4	Paul Stanley	Great Britain	1:28.511
2	1	François-Louis Tremblay	Canada	1:28.925	Q
2	2	Satoru Terao	Japan	1:29.090	Q
2	3	Jon Eley	Great Britain	1:29.147
2	4	Mark McNee	Australia	1:30.033
3	1	Ahn Hyun-soo	South Korea	1:27.372	Q
3	2	Rusty Smith	United States	1:27.508	Q
3	3	Peter Darazs	Hungary	1:27.929	q
4	1	Lee Ho-suk	South Korea	1:35.634	Q
4	2	Matus Uzak	Slovakia	1:35.989	Q
4	3	Vyacheslav Kurginyan	Russia	1:36.070
5	1	Éric Bédard	Canada	1:28.274	Q
5	2	Dariusz Kulesza	Poland	1:29.102	Q
5	3	Sebastian Praus	Germany	1:35.375	ADV
5	–	Maxime Chataignier	France	DQ
6	1	Li Jiajun	China	1:27.765	Q
6	2	Fabio Carta	Italy	1:27.826	Q
6	3	Pieter Gysel	Belgium	1:27.994	q
6	4	Arian Nachbar	Germany	1:27.994	q
7	1	Apolo Anton Ohno	United States	1:36.120	Q
7	2	Volodymyr Grygoriev	Ukraine	1:36.397	Q
7	3	Mikhail Rajine	Russia	1:42.677	ADV
7	–	Niels Kerstholt	Netherlands	DQ

Quarterfinals

The top two finishers in each of the four quarterfinals advanced to the semifinals.^[1]

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Result	Notes
1	Rusty Smith	United States	1:27.000	Q OR
2	Li Ye	China	1:27.078	Q
3	Nicola Rodigari	Italy	1:27.240
4	Mikhail Rajine	Russia	1:32.432
–	Matus Uzak	Slovakia	DQ

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Result	Notes
1	Ahn Hyun-Soo	South Korea	1:29.371	Q
2	Apolo Anton Ohno	United States	1:29.650	Q
3	Sebastian Praus	Germany	1:29.820
4	Dariusz Kulesza	Poland	1:30.556

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Result	Notes
1	Li Juajun	China	1:28.179	Q
2	Pieter Gysel	Belgium	1:28.335	Q
3	Satoru Terao	Japan	1:28.499
4	Peter Darazs	Hungary	1:28.738
–	François-Louis Tremblay	Canada	DQ

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Result	Notes
1	Lee Ho-suk	South Korea	1:27.265	Q
2	Éric Bédard	Canada	1:27.546	Q
3	Fabio Carta	Italy	1:27.656
4	Arian Nachbar	Germany	1:27.679
5	Volodymyr Grygoriev	Ukraine	1:29.168

Semifinals

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] In the first semifinal, China's Li Ye fell, but he was advanced to the final after Belgium's Pieter Gysel was disqualified.^[2]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Result	Notes
1	Lee Ho-suk	South Korea	1:29.150	QA
2	Rusty Smith	United States	1:29.515	QA
3	Li Ye	China	1:47.965	ADV
–	Pieter Gysel	Belgium	DQ

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Result	Notes
1	Ahn Hyun-Soo	South Korea	1:27.900	QA
2	Apolo Anton Ohno	United States	1:28.080	QA
3	Li Jiajun	China	1:29.183	QB
–	Éric Bédard	Canada	DQ

Finals

The five qualifying skaters competed in Final A. Since only one skater qualified for the B Final (the two disqualified semifinalists did not advance), it was not contested, and China's Li Jiajun was awarded 6th place.^[1]

Final A

Rank	Athlete	Country	Result	Notes
	Ahn Hyun-soo	South Korea	1:26.739	OR
	Lee Ho-suk	South Korea	1:26.764
	Apolo Anton Ohno	United States	1:26.927
4	Rusty Smith	United States	1:27.435
5	Li Ye	China	1:29.918

References

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↑ "Ohno, Smith Make 1,000m Short Track Final". Associated Press. San Francisco Chronicle. February 18, 2006. Retrieved May 24, 2009.

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[2] "Ohno, Smith Make 1,000m Short Track Final". Associated Press. San Francisco Chronicle. February 18, 2006. Retrieved May 24, 2009.

Short track speed skating at the 2006 Winter Olympics

500 m	men	women
1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
3000 m relay		women
5000 m relay	men