Short track speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics

Short Track Speed Skating at the XVII Olympic Winter Games
Pictogram for speed skating
Venue	Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre
Dates	February 22–26
Competitors	87 from 19 nations

For the long track speed skating events, see Speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics

Short track speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics, was held from 22 February to 26 February. Six events were contested at the Hamar Olympic Amphitheatre. In short track speed skating's second Olympic appearance, two events were added, the 500 metres for the men and the 1000 metres for the women.^[1]

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	4	1	1	6
2	United States	1	1	2	4
3	Italy	1	1	0	2
4	Canada	0	2	1	3
5	China	0	1	0	1
6	Great Britain	0	0	1	1
6	Australia	0	0	1	1
	Total	6	6	6	18

South Korea led the medal table with six, including four golds. The medal for the Australian men's relay team was the country's first in the Winter Olympics. Chun Lee-kyung led the individual medal table, with two gold medals. The top men's medalists were Chae Ji-hoon and Mirko Vuillermin, who won one gold and one silver.

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Chae Ji-hoon South Korea	43.45	Mirko Vuillermin Italy	43.47	Nicky Gooch Great Britain	43.68
1000 metres	Kim Ki-hoon South Korea	1:34.57	Chae Ji-hoon South Korea	1:34.92	Marc Gagnon Canada^{[lower-alpha 1]}	1:33.03
5000 metre relay	Italy (ITA) Maurizio Carnino Orazio Fagone Hugo Herrnhof Mirko Vuillermin	7:11.74	United States (USA) Randy Bartz John Coyle Eric Flaim Andy Gabel	7:13.37	Australia (AUS) Steven Bradbury Kieran Hansen Andrew Murtha Richard Nizielski	7:13.68

↑ Derrick Campbell of Canada was obstructed by the Briton Nicky Gooch, who was disqualified. Campbell got up and thought he finished the race, and was celebrating his bronze medal with a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reporter live on television when he discovered he hadn't completed the race. He had miscounted and left the track one lap short of the finish line, and was classified as a non-finisher. This meant that Marc Gagnon was a surprise bronze medalist, even though he wasn't even in the A final.

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Cathy Turner United States	45.98	Zhang Yanmei China	46.44	Amy Peterson United States	46.76
1000 metres	Chun Lee-kyung South Korea	1:36.87	Nathalie Lambert Canada	1:36.97	Kim So-hee South Korea	1:37.09
3000 metre relay	South Korea (KOR) Chun Lee-kyung Kim So-hee Kim Yun-mi Won Hye-kyung	4:26.64	Canada (CAN) Christine Boudrias Isabelle Charest Sylvie Daigle Nathalie Lambert	4:32.04	United States (USA) Amy Peterson Cathy Turner Nikki Ziegelmeyer Karen Cashman	4:39.34

Participating NOCs

Nineteen nations competed in the short track events at Lillehammer. Bulgaria, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, South Africa, Russia and Sweden made their short track debuts.

Australia (5)
Belgium (4)
Bulgaria (3)
Canada (10)
China (8)
France (5)
Great Britain (3)
Italy (9)
Japan (5)
Kazakhstan (1)

References

↑ "Lillehammer 1994 Official Report - Volume 3" (PDF). Lillehammer Olympic Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1994. Retrieved January 16, 2014.

External links

Sports-Reference 1994 Olympics - Short Track

Short track speed skating at the Winter Olympics

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List of medalists List of Olympic records List of venues

Events at the 1994 Winter Olympics (Lillehammer)

Alpine skiing Biathlon Bobsleigh Cross‑country skiing Figure skating Freestyle skiing Ice hockey Luge Nordic combined Short track speed skating Ski jumping Speed skating

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