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Short Track Speed Skating Winter Olympic Medal Winners (1992-2022): Complete List by Year, Event & Athlete

Last Updated: February 5, 2026, 9:30 AM EST

Short Track Speed Skating Olympic medal winners showcase explosive speed and tactical racing on a compact ice rink.

Arianna Fontana of Italy claims the all-time record with 11 Olympic medals across five Games, while Viktor Ahn of Russia revolutionized the sport by winning gold across all four disciplines.

South Korea dominates with 53+ total medals, followed by China (37 medals) and Canada (37 medals).

Short track became an official Olympic sport in 1992 at Albertville, France, after appearing as a demonstration event in 1988.

The sport features head-to-head racing where multiple skaters compete simultaneously on a 111-meter track.

Nine distinct events now showcase the discipline: men’s and women’s 500m, 1000m, 1500m, 3000m relay, and mixed team relay.

Complete Short Track Speed Skating Olympic Medal Winners (1992-2022)

Short track speed skating competitions feature four core distances (500m, 1000m, 1500m, relays) contested separately for men and women. Additional events and team events have been added to the Olympic program over time.

Year	Host City	Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Country
1992	Albertville	Men’s 1000m	Kim Ki-hoon	Frederic Blackburn	Ahn Hyun-soo	South Korea
1992	Albertville	Men’s 5000m Relay	South Korea	Canada	Japan	South Korea
1992	Albertville	Women’s 500m	Cathy Turner	Li Yan	Hwang Ok-sil	USA
1992	Albertville	Women’s 3000m Relay	Canada	USA	Unified Team	Canada
1994	Lillehammer	Men’s 500m	Chae Ji-hoon	Nikolai Gulyayev	Cédric Mone	South Korea
1994	Lillehammer	Men’s 1000m	Kim Ki-hoon	Jon Eley	Richard Walters	South Korea
1994	Lillehammer	Men’s 1500m	Kim Ki-hoon	Frederic Blackburn	Ahn Hyun-soo	South Korea
1994	Lillehammer	Men’s 5000m Relay	Italy	South Korea	Australia	Italy
1994	Lillehammer	Women’s 500m	Cathy Turner	Zhang Min	Amy Peterson	USA
1994	Lillehammer	Women’s 1000m	Chun Lee-kyung	Natsuki Takamiya	Katharina Seitz	South Korea
1994	Lillehammer	Women’s 1500m	Kim Choon-hee	Natsuki Takamiya	Elaine Zhuang	South Korea
1994	Lillehammer	Women’s 3000m Relay	South Korea	Canada	USA	South Korea
1998	Nagano	Men’s 500m	Takafumi Nishitani	Frederic Blackburn	Ahn Hyun-soo	Japan
1998	Nagano	Men’s 1000m	Kim Dong-sung	Ahn Hyun-soo	Marc Gagnon	South Korea
1998	Nagano	Men’s 1500m	Ahn Hyun-soo	Kim Dong-sung	Shoji Iwata	South Korea
1998	Nagano	Men’s 5000m Relay	South Korea	Canada	China	South Korea
1998	Nagano	Women’s 500m	Chun Lee-kyung	Yang Yang (S)	Ayuko Sato	South Korea
1998	Nagano	Women’s 1000m	Chun Lee-kyung	Yang Yang (S)	Takako Murakami	South Korea
1998	Nagano	Women’s 1500m	Yang Yang (S)	Chun Lee-kyung	Natsuki Takamiya	China
1998	Nagano	Women’s 3000m Relay	South Korea	China	Japan	South Korea
2002	Salt Lake City	Men’s 500m	Marc Gagnon	Ahn Hyun-soo	Rusty Smith	Canada
2002	Salt Lake City	Men’s 1000m	Steven Bradbury	Ahn Hyun-soo	Kim Dong-sung	Australia
2002	Salt Lake City	Men’s 1500m	Ahn Hyun-soo	Marc Gagnon	Min Hye-kyung	South Korea
2002	Salt Lake City	Men’s 5000m Relay	Canada	South Korea	Italy	Canada
2002	Salt Lake City	Women’s 500m	Yang Yang (A)	Katherine Reutter	Evgeniya Radanova	China
2002	Salt Lake City	Women’s 1000m	Yang Yang (S)	Katherine Reutter	Evgeniya Radanova	China
2002	Salt Lake City	Women’s 1500m	Zhou Yang	Evelina Trutaeva	Katherine Reutter	China
2002	Salt Lake City	Women’s 3000m Relay	South Korea	Canada	China	South Korea
2006	Turin	Men’s 500m	Ahn Hyun-soo	Apolo Anton Ohno	Li Jiajun	South Korea
2006	Turin	Men’s 1000m	Ahn Hyun-soo	Lee Jung-seul	Apolo Anton Ohno	South Korea
2006	Turin	Men’s 1500m	Ahn Hyun-soo	Apolo Anton Ohno	Lee Jung-seul	South Korea
2006	Turin	Men’s 5000m Relay	South Korea	Canada	China	South Korea
2006	Turin	Women’s 500m	Jin Sun-yu	Yin Xiaohui	Evgeniya Radanova	South Korea
2006	Turin	Women’s 1000m	Jin Sun-yu	Zhou Yang	Evgeniya Radanova	South Korea
2006	Turin	Women’s 1500m	Jin Sun-yu	Zhou Yang	Ione Rexhepi	South Korea
2006	Turin	Women’s 3000m Relay	South Korea	China	Italy	South Korea
2010	Vancouver	Men’s 500m	Charles Hamelin	Sung Si-baek	Apolo Anton Ohno	Canada
2010	Vancouver	Men’s 1000m	Lee Jung-seul	Apolo Anton Ohno	Charles Hamelin	South Korea
2010	Vancouver	Men’s 1500m	Lee Jung-seul	Sung Si-baek	Apolo Anton Ohno	South Korea
2010	Vancouver	Men’s 5000m Relay	Canada	South Korea	USA	Canada
2010	Vancouver	Women’s 500m	Wang Meng	Katherine Reutter	Alyona Lemesheva	China
2010	Vancouver	Women’s 1000m	Wang Meng	Zhou Yang	Alyona Lemesheva	China
2010	Vancouver	Women’s 1500m	Zhou Yang	Wang Meng	Alyona Lemesheva	China
2010	Vancouver	Women’s 3000m Relay	South Korea	USA	China	South Korea
2014	Sochi	Men’s 500m	Viktor Ahn	Lee Ho-suk	Sjinkie Knegt	Russia
2014	Sochi	Men’s 1000m	Victor Ahn	Lee Ho-suk	Cedric Cellucci	Russia
2014	Sochi	Men’s 1500m	Victor Ahn	Sjinkie Knegt	Olivier Jean	Russia
2014	Sochi	Men’s 5000m Relay	USA	South Korea	Canada	USA
2014	Sochi	Women’s 500m	Li Jianrou	Arianna Fontana	Guo Xinyuan	China
2014	Sochi	Women’s 1000m	Park Seung-hi	Li Jianrou	Arianna Fontana	South Korea
2014	Sochi	Women’s 1500m	Zhou Yang	Arianna Fontana	Katherine Reutter	China
2014	Sochi	Women’s 3000m Relay	South Korea	Italy	Canada	South Korea
2018	PyeongChang	Men’s 500m	Ding Yang	Wu Dajing	Son Kwang-bum	China
2018	PyeongChang	Men’s 1000m	Samuel Girard	Shaoang Liu	Mauro Marin	Canada
2018	PyeongChang	Men’s 1500m	Hwang Dae-heon	Samuel Girard	Sjinkie Knegt	South Korea
2018	PyeongChang	Men’s 3000m Relay	South Korea	Italy	Canada	South Korea
2018	PyeongChang	Men’s Relay	South Korea	Canada	Japan	South Korea
2018	PyeongChang	Women’s 500m	Erin Jackson	Chloe Kim	Martina Valcepina	USA
2018	PyeongChang	Women’s 1000m	Suzanne Schulting	Zhou Yang	Arianna Fontana	Netherlands
2018	PyeongChang	Women’s 1500m	Kim Boutin	Arianna Fontana	Yara Van Kerkhof	Canada
2018	PyeongChang	Women’s 3000m Relay	Japan	South Korea	Canada	Japan
2018	PyeongChang	Mixed Team Relay	Japan	South Korea	Canada	Japan
2022	Beijing	Men’s 500m	Ding Yang	Wu Dajing	Steven Dubois	China
2022	Beijing	Men’s 1000m	Steven Dubois	Li Wenlong	Shaoang Liu	Canada
2022	Beijing	Men’s 1500m	Shaoang Liu	Erin Jackson	Sam Girard	Hungary
2022	Beijing	Men’s 3000m Relay	Italy	Canada	China	Italy
2022	Beijing	Men’s Relay	ROC	USA	Canada	ROC
2022	Beijing	Women’s 500m	Arianna Fontana	Suzanne Schulting	Erin Jackson	Italy
2022	Beijing	Women’s 1000m	Suzanne Schulting	Erin Jackson	Yara Van Kerkhof	Netherlands
2022	Beijing	Women’s 1500m	Suzanne Schulting	Arianna Fontana	Yara Van Kerkhof	Netherlands
2022	Beijing	Women’s 3000m Relay	Netherlands	Canada	Italy	Netherlands
2022	Beijing	Mixed Team Relay	Netherlands	Italy	Australia	Netherlands

Most Decorated Short Track Skaters in Olympic History

Athlete	Country	500m	1000m	1500m	Relay	Total	Span
Arianna Fontana	Italy	2G, 3S, 1B	1S, 1B	2S, 2B	1G, 1B	11	2006-2022
Viktor Ahn	Russia	1G, 1B	1G, 1B	1G, 1B	1G, 1B	8	1998-2014
Apolo Anton Ohno	USA	2G, 1S, 2B	2S, 1B	1S	—	8	2002-2010
Lee Jung-seul	South Korea	—	1G, 1S	1G, 1S	2G	5	2006-2010
Zhou Yang	China	—	1G, 1S	1G, 1S, 1B	1G, 1B	6	2006-2014
Charles Hamelin	Canada	1G, 2S	—	—	1G, 2S	6	2010-2018
Samuel Girard	Canada	—	1G, 1S	1S	1G, 1S, 1B	5	2018-2022
Jin Sun-yu	South Korea	1G	1G	1G	1G	4	2006
Ahn Hyun-soo	South Korea	2G, 1S	1G, 2S	1G, 1S	1G, 1B	8	1998-2006
Wang Meng	China	—	1G, 1S	1G, 1S	—	3	2010
Li Jianrou	China	3G	—	—	—	3	2010-2014
Suzanne Schulting	Netherlands	1G, 1S	2G	1G, 1B	1G, 1S	7	2018-2022

Short Track Speed Skating Medals by Country (All-Time)

Country	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Notable Athletes
South Korea	26	14	13	53	Kim Ki-hoon, Ahn Hyun-soo, Lee Jung-seul
China	12	13	12	37	Yang Yang (A), Yang Yang (S), Zhou Yang
Canada	10	14	13	37	Charles Hamelin, Samuel Girard, Marc Gagnon
Italy	8	7	4	19	Arianna Fontana, Maurizio Marchei
Netherlands	6	5	3	14	Suzanne Schulting
USA	4	7	9	20	Apolo Anton Ohno, Cathy Turner, Erin Jackson
Russia	5	2	5	12	Viktor Ahn, Ilya Kuznetsov
Japan	3	2	6	11	Takafumi Nishitani
Australia	1	0	0	1	Steven Bradbury
Hungary	1	0	2	3	Shaoang Liu
Unified Team	0	1	0	1	—
Great Britain	0	0	0	0	—

Short Track Speed Skating Events & Medal Distribution (1992-2022)

Event	First Year	Gold Medals Awarded	South Korea Golds	China Golds	Canada Golds
Men’s 500m	1992	8	2	2	1
Men’s 1000m	1992	8	2	1	1
Men’s 1500m	1994	7	3	1	1
Men’s Relay (3000m/5000m)	1992	8	4	0	2
Women’s 500m	1992	8	2	3	0
Women’s 1000m	1994	7	2	2	1
Women’s 1500m	1994	7	0	2	1
Women’s Relay (3000m)	1992	8	5	0	1
Mixed Team Relay	2018	3	1	0	0
TOTAL	—	64	21	11	8

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Kim Yoon-Mi (South Korea): 13 years old, Women’s 3000m Relay gold, 1994 (youngest Winter Olympic gold medalist ever)
Tania Vicent (Canada): 13 years old, Women’s 3000m Relay bronze, 1994
Lim Hyo-jun (South Korea): 16 years old, Men’s 500m gold, 2018

Oldest Medalists:

Tania Vicent (Canada): 34 years old, Women’s 3000m Relay silver, 2010
Cathy Turner (USA): 33 years old, Women’s 500m medals, 1992-1994
Charles Hamelin (Canada): 30+ years, competed across 4 Olympics

Most Olympic Appearances:

Charles Hamelin (Canada): 4 Olympics (2010, 2014, 2018, 2022)
Arianna Fontana (Italy): 5 Olympics (2006, 2010, 2014, 2018, 2022)
Apolo Anton Ohno (USA): 3 Olympics (2002, 2006, 2010)

Sport Milestones:

First Olympic event: 1992 Albertville (four events, 2 men’s, 2 women’s)
Total events now: Nine individual events plus team relays
Mixed relay introduced: 2018 PyeongChang (team competition)
Viktor Ahn first to win gold in all four disciplines

FAQs

Who is the most decorated short track speed skater in Olympic history?

Arianna Fontana of Italy holds the record with 11 Olympic medals across five Winter Games (2006-2022), including 2 golds, 4 silvers, and 5 bronzes. She competed in multiple events and relays, establishing herself as one of the sport’s most versatile athletes. Viktor Ahn of Russia and Apolo Anton Ohno of the USA each earned 8 medals, but Fontana surpassed both with her longevity and consistency across multiple Olympics.

Which country dominates short track speed skating at the Olympics?

South Korea leads with 53+ total medals (26 golds, 14 silvers, 13 bronzes) since the sport became official in 1992. They’ve won medals at every Olympic Games and established dominance particularly in men’s events and team relays. China follows with 37 medals (12 golds), and Canada also has 37 medals (10 golds). South Korea’s success reflects systematic training programs and cultural emphasis on winter sports.

Who won short track speed skating at the 2022 Beijing Olympics?

Men: Ding Yang (China, 500m), Steven Dubois (Canada, 1000m), Shaoang Liu (Hungary, 1500m), Italy (3000m relay). Women: Arianna Fontana (Italy, 500m), Suzanne Schulting (Netherlands, 1000m/1500m), Netherlands (3000m relay). Schulting became the first woman to win four medals at a single short track Olympics, breaking records in all four events.

What events are in Olympic short track speed skating?

Nine individual events are contested: Men’s and Women’s 500m, 1000m, 1500m, plus Men’s and Women’s 3000m relay (women) and 5000m relay (men). Mixed team relays were added in 2018. Each event tests different racing strategies: the 500m emphasizes explosive power, the 1000m rewards speed and positioning, the 1500m demands endurance, and relays showcase teamwork and strategy.

When did short track speed skating become an official Olympic sport?

Short track speed skating became an official Olympic sport in 1992 at the Albertville Winter Olympics in France. Before 1992, it appeared as a demonstration sport at the 1988 Calgary Olympics, but results weren’t counted toward official Olympic statistics. The sport has been featured at every Winter Olympics since 1992, with the event program expanding from 4 to 9+ individual events.

Why is South Korea so dominant in short track speed skating?

South Korea’s dominance stems from several factors: systematic national training programs, cultural emphasis on winter sports achievement, consistent funding and coaching development, and early investment in the sport after it became official in 1992. The country has produced multiple generations of elite skaters and prioritizes short track as a medal-winning discipline at the Olympics, resulting in sustained excellence across decades.

What makes short track different from long track speed skating?

Short track is held on a 111-meter oval with multiple skaters racing head-to-head simultaneously, emphasizing tactical positioning and agility. Long track occurs on a 400-meter oval with skaters racing individually against the clock, focusing on consistent pacing and explosive power. Short track involves more contact, crashes, and strategic maneuvering. Long track rewards pure speed over a longer distance. Both are Olympic disciplines but appeal to different skating styles.

Has any short track skater won gold in all four disciplines?

Yes. Viktor Ahn of Russia became the first short track skater to win gold medals in all four disciplines (500m, 1000m, 1500m, and relay), achieving this feat across his Olympic career (1998-2014). He won 6 gold medals overall, more than any other male short track skater. His versatility across all distances remains unmatched in the sport’s Olympic history and demonstrates exceptional technical mastery.