2008 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Overall*	Apolo Anton Ohno  United States	68 points	Lee Ho-suk  South Korea	63 points	Song Kyung-taek  South Korea	62 points
500 m	Apolo Anton Ohno  United States	42.568	Charles Hamelin  Canada	42.625	Song Kyung-taek  South Korea	42.632
1000 m	Lee Ho-suk  South Korea	1:26.462	Apolo Anton Ohno  United States	1:26.528	Song Kyung-taek  South Korea	1:26.615
1500 m	Song Kyung-taek  South Korea	2:18.916	Lee Ho-suk  South Korea	2:18.971	Charles Leveille  United States	2:19.066
5000 m relay	South Korea Lee Ho-suk Lee Seung-hoon Song Kyung-taek Sung Si-bak Kwak Yoon-gy	6:51.148	Canada François Hamelin Jean-François Monette Marc-André Monette Steve Robillard Charles Hamelin	6:52.318	Great Britain Jon Eley Tom Iveson Paul Stanley Paul Worth	6:56.765

* First place is awarded 34 points, second is awarded 21 points, third is awarded 13 points, fourth is awarded 8 points, fifth is awarded 5 points, sixth is awarded 3 points, seventh is awarded 2 points and eighth is awarded 1 point in the finals of each individual race to determine the overall world champion. The relays do not count for the overall classification.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Overall*	Wang Meng  China	107 points	Zhou Yang  China	76 points	Yang Shin-young  South Korea	37 points
500 m	Wang Meng  China	43.888	Liu Qiuhong  China	43.973	Kalyna Roberge  Canada	44.018
1000 m	Wang Meng  China	1:32.527	Zhou Yang  China	1:32.595	Kalyna Roberge  Canada	1:32.636
1500 m	Wang Meng  China	2:22.819	Yang Shin-young  South Korea	2:22.904	Zhou Yang  China	2:23.191
3000 m relay	South Korea Jung Eun-ju Kim Min-jung Park Seung-hi Yang Shin-young Shin Sae-bom	4:16.261	Canada Jessica Gregg Anne Maltais Amanda Overland Tania Vicent Kalyna Roberge	4:20.254	China Fu Tianyu Liu Qiuhong Wang Meng Zhou Yang Meng Xiaoxue	4:23.022

* First place is awarded 34 points, second is awarded 21 points, third is awarded 13 points, fourth is awarded 8 points, fifth is awarded 5 points, sixth is awarded 3 points, seventh is awarded 2 points, and eighth is awarded 1 point in the finals of each individual race to determine the overall world champion. The relays do not count for the overall classification.