Olympic Winter Games 2018 / Short Track - 1000 m (men)

1000 m short track of the men of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games
winner	Samuel Girard
Competitions
500 m	Women	Men
1000 m	Women	Men
1500 m	Women	Men
Season	Women	Men

The short track competition for the men's 1000 meters at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang was held on February 13, 2018 and February 17, 2018 in the Gangneung Ice Arena and consisted of six heats and three semi-finals as well as an A and B final. A total of 32 starters from 14 nations took part in the competition.

The Canadian Samuel Girard won the gold medal after finishing second in the world championships over the 1500 meters in 2016 and 2017. John-Henry Krueger from the USA won the silver medal and Seo Yi-ra from South Korea the bronze medal. Neither from Germany, Austria, Switzerland or Liechtenstein was a participant at the start.

Records

World record	Hwang Dae-heon ( South Korea )	1: 20.875 min	Salt Lake City	February 26, 2010
Olympic record	Lee Jung-su ( South Korea )	1: 23.747 min	Vancouver	February 13, 2010

In the preliminary runs, the Canadian Charles Hamelin set a new Olympic record with a time of 1: 23.407 minutes. The Chinese Wu Dajing and the French Sébastien Lepape , who started in the same run as Hamelin, also beat the previous Olympic record.

Results

Prelims

In the Olympic competition, a total of eight preliminary runs were carried out, in each of which four athletes competed. The two fastest qualified for the quarter-finals and are marked in green. If a starter has been rated as ADV (advanced) by the jury and has been promoted to the next round, the starter is marked in blue. The starts marked in red are those that have been disqualified by the jury.

Forward 1

rank	athlete	nation	time
1	John-Henry Krueger	United States	1: 25.913 min
2	Farrell Treacy	Great Britain	1: 26.762 min
3	Ryosuke Sakazume	Japan	DNF
-	Shaoang Liu	Hungary	DSQ

Forward 2

rank	athlete	nation	time
1	Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	1: 23.971 min
2	Kazuki Yoshinaga	Japan	1: 24.030 min
3	Charle Cournoyer	Canada	1: 24.051 min
4th	Daan Breeuwsma	Netherlands	1: 24.429 min

Forward 3

rank	athlete	nation	time
1	Samuel Girard	Canada	1: 23.894 min
2	Semyon Jelistratov	Olympic athletes from Russia	1: 23.979 min
3	Keita Watanabe	Japan	1: 24.078 min
4th	Nurbergen Shumaghasiev	Kazakhstan	1: 24.271 min

Forward 4

rank	athlete	nation	time
1	Sjinkie Knegt	Netherlands	1: 23.823 min
2	Thibaut Fauconnet	France	1: 24.381 min
3	Roberts Zvejnieks	Latvia	1: 26.408 min
-	Ren Ziwei	People's Republic of China	DSQ

Forward 5

rank	athlete	nation	time
1	Charles Hamelin	Canada	1: 23.407 min OR
2	Wu Dajing	People's Republic of China	1: 23.463 min
3	Sébastien Lepape	France	1: 23.489 min
4th	Alexander Shulginov	Olympic athletes from Russia	1: 31.133 min

Forward 6

rank	athlete	nation	time
1	Itzhak de Laat	Netherlands	1: 24.639 min
2	Seo Yi-ra	South Korea	1: 24.734 min
3	Tommaso Dotti	Italy	1: 25.369 min
-	Han Tianyu	People's Republic of China	DSQ

Forward 7

rank	athlete	nation	time
1	Hwang Dae-heon	South Korea	1: 24.457 min
2	Yuri Confortola	Italy	1: 25.297 min
3	Josh Cheetham	Great Britain	1: 26.223 min
-	Vladislav Bykanov	Israel	DSQ

Forward 8

rank	athlete	nation	time
1	Shaolin Sándor Liu	Hungary	1: 31.547 min
2	Roberto Puķītis	Latvia	1: 31.635 min
3	John Celski	United States	1: 31.812 min
-	Pavel Sitnikov	Olympic athletes from Russia	DSQ

Quarter finals

A total of four quarter-finals were held at the Olympic competition. Due to the jury's decisions in favor of Roberts Zvejnieks and Ryōsuke Sakazume , 5 starters took part in the third and fourth quarter-finals and four starters took part in the first two quarter-finals. The two fastest qualified for the semi-finals and are marked in green. If a starter has been rated as ADV (advanced) by the jury and has been promoted to the next round, the starter is marked in blue. The starters marked in red are those who have been disqualified by the jury.

Quarter finals 1

rank	athlete	nation	time
1	Seo Yi-ra	South Korea	1: 24.053 min
2	Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	1: 24.095 min
3	Thibaut Fauconnet	France	1: 24.344 min
-	Hwang Dae-heon	South Korea	DSQ

Quarter finals 2

rank	athlete	nation	time
1	Samuel Girard	Canada	1: 24.289 min
2	Yuri Confortola	Italy	1: 24.383 min
3	Itzhak de Laat	Netherlands	1: 24.423 min
-	Kazuki Yoshinaga	Japan	1: 24.649 min

Quarter finals 3

rank	athlete	nation	time
1	Semyon Jelistratov	Olympic athletes from Russia	1: 23.893 min
2	Ryosuke Sakazume	Japan	1: 24.099 min
3	John-Henry Krueger	United States	1: 24.598 min
4th	Farrell Treacy	United Kingdom	1: 25.080 min
-	Sjinkie Knegt	Netherlands	DSQ

Quarter Finals 4

rank	athlete	nation	time
1	Shaolin Sándor Liu	Hungary	1: 24.012 min
2	Charles Hamelin	Canada	1: 24.015 min
3	Roberto Puķītis	Latvia	1: 24.022 min
4th	Roberts Zvejnieks	Latvia	1: 24.306 min
-	Wu Dajing	People's Republic of China	DSQ

Semifinal run

A total of two semi-finals were held at the Olympic competition. While five athletes were at the start in the second semi-final due to the jury's decision in favor of John-Henry Krueger , only four athletes started in the other semi-final. The two fastest qualified for the A final and are marked in green. The starters who have qualified for the B final are marked in light green. If a starter has been rated as ADV (advanced) by the jury and has been promoted to the A-final, the starter is marked in blue. The starters marked in red are those who have been disqualified by the jury.

Semi-final 1

rank	athlete	nation	time
1	Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	1: 26.463 min
2	Shaolin Sándor Liu	Hungary	1: 26.488 min
3	Yuri Confortola	Italy	1: 26.626 min
4th	Semyon Jelistratov	Olympic athletes from Russia	1: 26.773 min

Semi-final 2

rank	athlete	nation	time
1	John-Henry Krueger	United States	1: 24.187 min
2	Seo Yi-ra	South Korea	1: 24.252 min
3	Ryosuke Sakazume	Japan	1: 24.317 min
4th	Samuel Girard	Canada	1: 25.102 min
-	Charles Hamelin	Canada	DSQ

Finals

A B-final and an A-final were held at the Olympic competition. Due to the jury's decision in favor of the Canadian Samuel Girard , the B-final only consisted of 3 and the A-final of 5 starts. If a starter has been disqualified by the jury, it is marked in red.

B final

rank	athlete	nation	time
5	Ryosuke Sakazume	Japan	1: 27.522 min
6th	Semyon Jelistratov	Olympic athletes from Russia	1: 27.621 min
7th	Yuri Confortola	Italy	1: 27.712 min

A final

rank	athlete	nation	time
1	Samuel Girard	Canada	1: 24.650 min
2	John-Henry Krueger	United States	1: 24.864 min
3	Seo Yi-ra	South Korea	1: 31.619 min
4th	Lim Hyo-jun	South Korea	1: 33.312 min
8th	Shaolin Sándor Liu	Hungary	DSQ

Web links

• Results: heats , quarter-finals , semi-finals , finals on shorttrack.sportresult.com