Short track speed skating at the 2018 Winter Olympics

A total quota of 120 athletes were allowed to compete at the Games (60 men and 60 women). Countries were assigned quotas using the results of the entire 2017–18 World Cup in the autumn of 2017. Each nation was permitted to enter a maximum of five athletes per gender if it qualified a relay team and three if it did not. There were a maximum of thirty-two qualifiers for the 500m and 1000m events; thirty-six for the 1500m events; and eight for the relays.[1]

The following was the competition schedule for all eight events.[2] Sessions that included the event finals are shown in bold.

All times are (UTC+9).

Twelve Olympic records (OR) and three world records (WR) were set during the competition.

Event	Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record	Ref
Men's 500 metres	20 February	Heat 1	Wu Dajing	China	40.264	OR	[11]
	22 February	Quarterfinal 2			39.800	OR, WR	[12]
		Final A			39.584	OR, WR	[13]
Men's 1000 metres	13 February	Heat 5	Charles Hamelin	Canada	1:23.407	OR	[14]
Men's 1500 metres	10 February	Final A	Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	2:10.485	OR	[15]
Men's 5000 metre relay	13 February	Semifinal 2	Hwang Dae-heon Kim Do-kyoum Kwak Yoon-gy Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	6:34.510	OR	[16]
	22 February	Final A	Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sándor Liu Viktor Knoch Csaba Burján	Hungary	6:31.971	OR	[17]
Women's 500 metres	10 February	Heat 8	Choi Min-jeong	South Korea	42.870	OR	[18]
	13 February	Quarterfinal 2	Elise Christie	Great Britain	42.703	OR	[19]
		Semifinal 1	Choi Min-jeong	South Korea	42.422	OR	[20]
Women's 3000 metre relay	10 February	Semifinal 2	Fan Kexin Han Yutong Qu Chunyu Zhou Yang	China	4:05.315	OR	[21]
	20 February	Final B	Suzanne Schulting Jorien ter Mors Lara van Ruijven Yara van Kerkhof	Netherlands	4:03.471	OR, WR	[22]

A total of 115 athletes from 22 nations (including the IOC's designation of Olympic Athletes from Russia) were scheduled to participate (the numbers of athletes are shown in parentheses).[23]

• Official Results Book – Short track speed skating