List of Olympic medalists in short track speed skating
Short track speed skating is a sport that is contested at the Winter Olympic Games. The first Winter Olympics, held in 1924, included speed skating, but the first official short track speed skating events were not held until the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville, France.[1] Before 1992, short track speed skating events were held at the 1988 Winter Olympics as a demonstration sport. At those games, events for both men and women were held in five disciplines: 500 metre, 1000 metre, 1500 metre, 3000 metre and the relay (3000 metres for women, 5000 metres for men). The Netherlands, United Kingdom and South Korea won two gold medals each, with Canada, Italy, Japan and China picking up a gold medal each. The results of those demonstration events are not considered official and are not included in this list.[2] At the 1992 Winter Olympics, there were four medal events: men's 1000 metres, men's 5000 metre relay, women's 500 metres and women's 3000 metre relay. Men's 500 metres and women's 1000 metres was added in 1994. The men's and women's 1500 metres were added in 2002[3] and all eight events have been held at every Olympic Games since.[2]
Viktor Ahn of Russia, formerly of South Korea with his birth name of Ahn Hyun-soo, is the most decorated short-tracker in Olympics, having won eight medals including six gold medals, and two bronze. China's Wang Meng and South Korean Chun Lee-Kyung has won four gold medals each. With his eight medals Viktor Ahn has the most Olympic medals of any short-track speed skater, tied with Apolo Anton Ohno of the United States who won two gold, two silver and four bronze medals and Arianna Fontana of Italy who won one gold, two silver and five bronze medals. Tania Vicent of Canada is the oldest athlete to medal; she was 34 in 2010 when she won a silver medal in the 3000 metre relay.[4] Kim Yoon-Mi of South Korea is the youngest; she was 13 when she won a gold in the same event in 1994.[5]
At the 1992 Winter Olympics, South Korea's Kim Ki-hoon became the first short track speed skater to win two gold medals, by winning gold medals in both of the available events (1000m, 5000m relay). In 1994 Kim (1000m) and American Cathy Turner (500m) became the first to successfully defend their respective Olympic title; Kim thus became the first short-tracker to win three Olympic gold medals. Since then Chun Lee-Kyung of South Korea (1000m, 1994–1998) and Wang Meng of China (500m, 2006–2010) also defended an individual Olympic title. In 1998, Chun and Yang Yang (S) of China became the first short-tracker to win three medals in one Olympic. By helping South Korea to defend 3000m relay title as well as defending her 1000m gold medal, Chun became the first (and thus far, only) athlete to successfully defend two Olympic titles. In 2006, South Korea's Jin Sun-Yu and then Ahn Hyun-Soo became the first two short-trackers to have won three gold medals in one Olympic. Ahn also won a bronze medal in the same Games, becoming the first (and thus far, only) short-tracker to win four medals in one Olympic; he repeated the same feat in 2014. In 2010, Wang became the first athlete to have won three individual gold medals in the sport, and in 2014 Ahn became the first to have won four individual gold medals, and six gold medals overall in the sport. South Korean short track speed skaters have won a combined 42 medals, including 21 golds, more than any other nation in both measures. South Korea is also the only country to have won at least one gold medal at every Olympics in which short-track speed skating has been held; Canada and China share with South Korea the honour of being the only nations to have athletes win a medal at every Olympics in the sport. As of the 2010 Winter Olympics, 144 medals (48 of each color) have been awarded and have been won by short track speed skaters from 11 National Olympic Committees (NOC).
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Men |
500 m • 1000 m • 1500 m • 5000 m relay |
Women |
500 m • 1000 m • 1500 m • 3000 m relay |
Men
500 metres
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
1994 Lillehammer |
Chae Ji-Hoon![]() |
Mirko Vuillermin![]() |
Nicky Gooch![]() |
1998 Nagano |
Takafumi Nishitani![]() |
An Yulong![]() |
Hitoshi Uematsu![]() |
2002 Salt Lake City |
Marc Gagnon![]() |
Jonathan Guilmette![]() |
Rusty Smith![]() |
2006 Turin |
Apolo Anton Ohno![]() |
François-Louis Tremblay![]() |
Ahn Hyun-Soo![]() |
2010 Vancouver |
Charles Hamelin![]() |
Sung Si-Bak![]() |
François-Louis Tremblay![]() |
2014 Sochi |
Viktor Ahn![]() |
Wu Dajing![]() |
Charle Cournoyer![]() |
2018 PyeongChang |
Wu Dajing![]() |
Hwang Dae-heon![]() |
Lim Hyo-jun![]() |
- Medals:
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
2 | ![]() | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
5 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
6 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
7 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
8 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
1000 metres
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
1992 Albertville |
Kim Ki-hoon![]() |
Frédéric Blackburn![]() |
Lee Joon-Ho![]() |
1994 Lillehammer |
Kim Ki-hoon![]() |
Chae Ji-Hoon![]() |
Marc Gagnon![]() |
1998 Nagano |
Kim Dong-Sung![]() |
Li Jiajun![]() |
Éric Bédard![]() |
2002 Salt Lake City |
Steven Bradbury![]() |
Apolo Anton Ohno![]() |
Mathieu Turcotte![]() |
2006 Turin |
Ahn Hyun-Soo![]() |
Lee Ho-Suk![]() |
Apolo Anton Ohno![]() |
2010 Vancouver |
Lee Jung-Su![]() |
Lee Ho-Suk![]() |
Apolo Anton Ohno![]() |
2014 Sochi |
Viktor Ahn![]() |
Vladimir Grigorev![]() |
Sjinkie Knegt![]() |
2018 PyeongChang |
Samuel Girard![]() |
John-Henry Krueger![]() |
Seo Yi-ra![]() |
- Medals:
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 5 | 3 | 2 | 10 |
2 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
4 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
5 | ![]() | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
6 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
7 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
1500 metres
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
2002 Salt Lake City |
Apolo Anton Ohno![]() |
Li Jiajun![]() |
Marc Gagnon![]() |
2006 Turin |
Ahn Hyun-Soo![]() |
Lee Ho-Suk![]() |
Li Jiajun![]() |
2010 Vancouver |
Lee Jung-Su![]() |
Apolo Anton Ohno![]() |
J. R. Celski![]() |
2014 Sochi |
Charles Hamelin![]() |
Han Tianyu![]() |
Viktor Ahn![]() |
2018 PyeongChang |
Lim Hyo-jun![]() |
Sjinkie Knegt![]() |
Semion Elistratov![]() |
- Medals:
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
2 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
4 | ![]() | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
5 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
6 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
5000 metre relay
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
1992 Albertville |
![]() Kim Ki-hoon Lee Joon-Ho Mo Ji-Soo Song Jae-Kun |
![]() Frédéric Blackburn Laurent Daignault Michel Daignault Sylvain Gagnon Mark Lackie |
![]() Yuichi Akasaka Tatsuyoshi Ishihara Toshinobu Kawai Tsutomu Kawasaki |
1994 Lillehammer |
![]() Maurizio Carnino Orazio Fagone Hugo Herrnhof Mirko Vuillermin |
![]() Randy Bartz John Coyle Eric Flaim Andrew Gabel |
![]() Steven Bradbury Kieran Hansen Andrew Murtha Richard Nizielski |
1998 Nagano |
![]() Éric Bédard Derrick Campbell François Drolet Marc Gagnon |
![]() Chae Ji-Hoon Lee Jun-Hwan Lee Ho-Eung Kim Dong-Sung |
![]() Li Jiajun Feng Kai Yuan Ye An Yulong |
2002 Salt Lake City |
![]() Éric Bédard Marc Gagnon Jonathan Guilmette François-Louis Tremblay Mathieu Turcotte |
![]() Michele Antonioli Maurizio Carnino Fabio Carta Nicola Franceschina Nicola Rodigari |
![]() An Yulong Feng Kai Guo Wei Li Jiajun Li Ye |
2006 Turin |
![]() Ahn Hyun-Soo Lee Ho-Suk Oh Se-Jong Seo Ho-Jin Song Suk-Woo |
![]() Éric Bédard Jonathan Guilmette Charles Hamelin François-Louis Tremblay Mathieu Turcotte |
![]() Alex Izykowski J. P. Kepka Apolo Anton Ohno Rusty Smith |
2010 Vancouver |
![]() Charles Hamelin François Hamelin Olivier Jean François-Louis Tremblay Guillaume Bastille |
![]() Kwak Yoon-Gy Lee Ho-Suk Lee Jung-Su Sung Si-Bak Kim Seoung-Il |
![]() J. R. Celski Travis Jayner Jordan Malone Apolo Anton Ohno Simon Cho |
2014 Sochi |
![]() Viktor Ahn Semion Elistratov Vladimir Grigorev Ruslan Zakharov |
![]() Eddy Alvarez J. R. Celski Christopher Creveling Jordan Malone |
![]() Chen Dequan Han Tianyu Shi Jingnan Wu Dajing |
2018 PyeongChang |
![]() Shaoang Liu Sándor Liu Shaolin Viktor Knoch Csaba Burján |
![]() Wu Dajing Han Tianyu Chen Dequan Xu Hongzhi Ren Ziwei |
![]() Samuel Girard Charles Hamelin Charle Cournoyer Pascal Dion |
- Medals:
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
4 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | |
6 | ![]() | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
7 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 |
8 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Women
500 metres
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
1992 Albertville |
Cathy Turner![]() |
Li Yan![]() |
Hwang Ok-Sil![]() |
1994 Lillehammer |
Cathy Turner![]() |
Zhang Yanmei![]() |
Amy Peterson![]() |
1998 Nagano |
Annie Perreault![]() |
Yang Yang (S)![]() |
Chun Lee-Kyung![]() |
2002 Salt Lake City |
Yang Yang (A)![]() |
Evgenia Radanova![]() |
Wang Chunlu![]() |
2006 Turin |
Wang Meng![]() |
Evgenia Radanova![]() |
Anouk Leblanc-Boucher![]() |
2010 Vancouver |
Wang Meng![]() |
Marianne St-Gelais![]() |
Arianna Fontana![]() |
2014 Sochi |
Li Jianrou![]() |
Arianna Fontana![]() |
Park Seung-Hi![]() |
2018 PyeongChang |
Arianna Fontana![]() |
Yara van Kerkhof![]() |
Kim Boutin![]() |
- Medals:
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 4 | 3 | 1 | 8 |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
4 | ![]() | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
5 | ![]() | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
6 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
7 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
8 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
1000 metres
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
1994 Lillehammer |
Chun Lee-kyung![]() |
Nathalie Lambert![]() |
Kim So-hui![]() |
1998 Nagano |
Chun Lee-kyung![]() |
Yang Yang (S)![]() |
Won Hye-kyung![]() |
2002 Salt Lake City |
Yang Yang (A)![]() |
Ko Gi-hyun![]() |
Yang Yang (S)![]() |
2006 Turin |
Jin Sun-yu![]() |
Wang Meng![]() |
Yang Yang (A)![]() |
2010 Vancouver |
Wang Meng![]() |
Katherine Reutter![]() |
Park Seung-hi![]() |
2014 Sochi |
Park Seung-hi![]() |
Fan Kexin![]() |
Shim Suk-hee![]() |
2018 PyeongChang |
Suzanne Schulting![]() |
Kim Boutin![]() |
Arianna Fontana![]() |
- Medals:
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 4 | 1 | 4 | 9 |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
4 | ![]() | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
5 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
6 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
1500 metres
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
2002 Salt Lake City |
Ko Gi-hyun![]() |
Choi Eun-kyung![]() |
Evgenia Radanova![]() |
2006 Turin |
Jin Sun-yu![]() |
Choi Eun-kyung![]() |
Wang Meng![]() |
2010 Vancouver |
Zhou Yang![]() |
Lee Eun-byul![]() |
Park Seung-hi![]() |
2014 Sochi |
Zhou Yang![]() |
Shim Suk-hee![]() |
Arianna Fontana![]() |
2018 PyeongChang |
Choi Min-jeong![]() |
Li Jinyu![]() |
Kim Boutin![]() |
- Medals:
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 3 | 4 | 1 | 8 |
2 | ![]() | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
3 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
3000 metre relay
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
1992 Albertville |
![]() Angela Cutrone Sylvie Daigle Nathalie Lambert Annie Perreault |
![]() Darcie Dohnal Amy Peterson Cathy Turner Nikki Ziegelmeyer |
![]() Yuliya Allagulova Natalya Isakova Viktoriya Taranina Yuliya Vlasova |
1994 Lillehammer |
![]() Chun Lee-kyung Kim So-hui Kim Yoon-mi Won Hye-kyung |
![]() Christine Boudrias Isabelle Charest Sylvie Daigle Nathalie Lambert |
![]() Karen Cashman Amy Peterson Cathy Turner Nikki Ziegelmeyer |
1998 Nagano |
![]() Chun Lee-kyung Won Hye-kyung An Sang-mi Kim Yun-mi |
![]() Sun Dandan Wang Chunlu Yang Yang (A) Yang Yang (S) |
![]() Christine Boudrias Isabelle Charest Annie Perreault Tania Vicent |
2002 Salt Lake City |
![]() Choi Eun-kyung Choi Min-kyung Joo Min-jin Park Hye-won |
![]() Sun Dandan Wang Chunlu Yang Yang (A) Yang Yang (S) |
![]() Isabelle Charest Marie-Ève Drolet Amélie Goulet-Nadon Alanna Kraus Tania Vicent |
2006 Turin |
![]() Byun Chun-sa Choi Eun-kyung Jeon Da-hye Jin Sun-yu Kang Yun-mi |
![]() Alanna Kraus Anouk Leblanc-Boucher Amanda Overland Kalyna Roberge Tania Vicent |
![]() Marta Capurso Arianna Fontana Katia Zini Mara Zini |
2010 Vancouver |
![]() Sun Linlin Wang Meng Zhang Hui Zhou Yang |
![]() Jessica Gregg Kalyna Roberge Marianne St-Gelais Tania Vicent |
![]() Allison Baver Alyson Dudek Lana Gehring Katherine Reutter Kimberly Derrick |
2014 Sochi |
![]() Shim Suk-hee Park Seung-hi Cho Ha-ri Kim A-lang Kong Sang-jeong |
![]() Marie-Ève Drolet Jessica Hewitt Valérie Maltais Marianne St-Gelais |
![]() Arianna Fontana Lucia Peretti Martina Valcepina Elena Viviani |
2018 PyeongChang |
![]() Shim Suk-hee Choi Min-jeong Kim Ye-jin Kim A-lang Lee Yu-bin |
![]() Arianna Fontana Lucia Peretti Cecilia Maffei Martina Valcepina |
![]() Suzanne Schulting Yara van Kerkhof Lara van Ruijven Jorien ter Mors |
- Medals:
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ![]() | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
2 | ![]() | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
3 | ![]() | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
4 | ![]() | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
![]() | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
6 | ![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
![]() | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Statistics
At 31 years and 191 days, Vladimir Grigorev became the oldest man to win a short track Olympic medal, winning silver at the 1000m event, at the 2014 Olympics on 15 February 2014.[6] On 21 February 2014, he won the gold in the 5000m relay, upping the oldest male shorttrack athlete record for both medals and gold medals.[7]
Athlete medal leaders
Include athletes with at least four medals of any colour.
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Athlete | Nation | Olympics | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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Ahn Hyun-Soo Viktor Ahn |
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2002–2006 2014 |
6 | 0 | 2 | 8 |
Apolo Anton Ohno | ![]() |
2002–2010 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
Arianna Fontana | ![]() |
2006–2018 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 |
Wang Meng | ![]() |
2006–2010 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
Chun Lee-Kyung | ![]() |
1994–1998 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Charles Hamelin | ![]() |
2006–2018 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
Marc Gagnon | ![]() |
1994–2002 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 |
Yang Yang (A) | ![]() |
1998–2006 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
François-Louis Tremblay | ![]() |
2002–2010 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
Park Seung-hi | ![]() |
2010–2014 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
Lee Ho-Suk | ![]() |
2006–2014 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 5 |
Yang Yang (S) | ![]() |
1994–2002 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
Li Jiajun | ![]() |
1998–2006 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Choi Eun-Kyung | ![]() |
2002–2006 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
Éric Bédard | ![]() |
1998–2006 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Cathy Turner | ![]() |
1992–1998 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Shim Suk-hee | ![]() |
2014–2018 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
Wu Dajing | ![]() |
2014–2018 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Tania Vicent | ![]() |
1998–2010 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Medals per year
- Key
- Numbers in bold indicate the highest medal count at that year's Olympic Games.
Nation | 24–88 | 92 | 94 | 98 | 02 | 06 | 10 | 14 | 18 | Total |
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– | 1 | – | 1 | – | – | – | – | 2 | |
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– | – | – | 2 | 1 | – | – | – | 3 | |
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3 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 33 | |
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1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 33 | |
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– | 1 | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | |
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– | – | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 1 | |
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– | 2 | – | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 11 | |
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1 | – | 2 | – | – | – | – | – | 3 | |
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– | – | – | – | – | – | 1 | 4 | 5 | |
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– | – | – | – | – | – | 5 | 5 | ||
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3 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 6 | 48 | |
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2 | 4 | – | 3 | 3 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 20 |
References
- General
- 1992–2002: "Short Track Skating > Past Results > Major Events". International Skating Union. Archived from the original on 2008-10-19. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
- Men's: 500m 1000m 1500m 5000m relay
- Women's: 500m 1000m 1500m 3000m relay
- 2006: "2006 Winter Olympic Games Final Medal Winners". Slam! Olympics. 2006. Archived from the original on 2013-01-15. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
- "Results database". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
- Specific
- "Skating". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 2008-12-17. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
- "Skating > Short track speed skating". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
- "Short-track Speed Skating History". CBC Sports. Archived from the original on 2011-07-11. Retrieved 2009-01-08.
- Kelley, Jim (1998-02-17). "Turner out to clear her name". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 2009-01-27.
- "Athlete profile: Kim Yoon-Mi". Sports Illustrated. 1998-02-03. Archived from the original on 2011-06-22.
- Beth Harris (15 February 2014). "Viktor Ahn wins 1st Olympic gold and 2nd short track medal for his adopted Russia". Yahoo! Sports. Associated Press. Archived from the original on 17 March 2014.
- ESPN (21 February 2014). "Results Fri, Feb 21". Sochi 2014 Olympics. ESPN Winter Olympics. Retrieved 2014-02-21.
External links
- Short Track Speed Skating - Olympics at Sports-reference.com
- Olympic Review and Revue Olympique. LA84 Foundation