Short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metre relay

Men’s 5000 metre relay; at the XXIII Olympic Winter Games
	Team Hungary celebrates their victory
Venue	Gangneung Ice Arena; Gangneung, South Korea
Dates	13 February (semifinals); 22 February (finals)
Competitors	34 from 8 nations
Winning time	6:31.971
Medalists

The Men’s 5000 metre relay in short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics took place on 13 and 22 February 2018 at the Gangneung Ice Arena in Gangneung, South Korea.^[1] The race was won by Hungary, who upset perennial powerhouses Canada, South Korea and China to claim Hungary's first ever Winter Olympics gold medal.

Records

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

World record	United States Keith Carroll J. R. Celski Thomas Hong John-Henry Krueger	6:29.052	Shanghai, China	12 November 2017
Olympic record	Russia Viktor Ahn Semion Elistratov Vladimir Grigorev Ruslan Zakharov	6:42.100	Sochi, Russia	21 February 2014

Two Olympic records were set during the competition.

Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record	Ref
13 February	Semifinal 2	Hwang Dae-heon Kim Do-kyoum Kwak Yoon-gy Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	6:34.510	OR	^[2]
22 February	Final 2	Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sándor Liu Viktor Knoch Csaba Burján	Hungary	6:31.971	OR	^[3]

The semifinals were held on 13 February.^[2]

QA – qualified for Final A

QB – qualified for Final B

PEN – penalty

Rank	Semifinal	Country	Athletes	Time	Notes
1	1	China	Wu Dajing Han Tianyu Ren Ziwei Xu Hongzhi	6:36.605	QA
2	1	Canada	Samuel Girard Charles Hamelin Charle Cournoyer Pascal Dion	6:41.042	QA
3	1	Kazakhstan	Denis Nikisha Nurbergen Zhumagaziyev Abzal Azhgaliyev Yerkebulan Shamukhanov	6:47.727	QB
	1	Netherlands	Sjinkie Knegt Daan Breeuwsma Itzhak de Laat Dennis Visser		PEN
1	2	South Korea	Hwang Dae-heon Kim Do-kyoum Kwak Yoon-gy Lim Hyo-jun	6:34.510	QA, OR
2	2	Hungary	Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sándor Liu Viktor Knoch Csaba Burján	6:34.866	QA
3	2	United States	J. R. Celski John-Henry Krueger Thomas Hong Aaron Tran	6:36.867	QB
4	2	Japan	Keita Watanabe Ryosuke Sakazume Kazuki Yoshinaga Hiroki Yokoyama	6:42.655	QB

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time
5	United States	J. R. Celski John-Henry Krueger Thomas Hong Aaron Tran	6:52.708
6	Kazakhstan	Denis Nikisha Nurbergen Zhumagaziyev Abzal Azhgaliyev Yerkebulan Shamukhanov	6:52.791
7	Japan	Keita Watanabe Ryosuke Sakazume Kazuki Yoshinaga Hiroki Yokoyama	7:02.554

The final was held on 22 February.^[3]

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time	Notes
	Hungary	Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sándor Liu Viktor Knoch Csaba Burján	6:31.971	OR
	China	Wu Dajing Han Tianyu Xu Hongzhi Chen Dequan	6:32.035
	Canada	Samuel Girard Charles Hamelin Charle Cournoyer Pascal Dion	6:32.282
4	South Korea	Seo Yi-ra Kim Do-kyoum Kwak Yoon-gy Lim Hyo-jun	6:42.118

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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