Olympic Winter Games 2018 / Short Track - 500 m (women)

500 m short track of the women of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games
Winner	Arianna Fontana
Competitions
500 m	Women	Men
1000 m	Women	Men
1500 m	Women	Men
Season	Women	Men

500 m short track for women at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games .

The 500 m in the women's short track took place on February 10 and 13, 2018 in the Gangneung Ice Arena . The Italian Arianna Fontana became Olympic champion. Yara van Kerkhof from the Netherlands won silver and the bronze medal went to Kim Boutin from Canada. A new Olympic record was set four times.

Records

Olympic record	Elise Christie ( Great Britain )	42.872 s	February 10, 2018
	Choi Min-jeong ( South Korea )	42.870 s
	Elise Christie ( Great Britain )	42.703 s	February 13, 2018
	Choi Min-jeong ( South Korea )	42,422 s

Results

Q - next round qualification

ADV - Advanced

Prelims

rank	Run	Athlete	country	time	Remarks
1	1	Kim Boutin	Canada	43.634 s	Q
2	1	Natalia Maliszewska	Poland	43.725 s	Q
3	1	Lana Gehring	United States	43.825 s
4th	1	Lucia Peretti	Italy	43.994 s
1	2	Arianna Fontana	Italy	43.214 s	Q
2	2	Andrea Keszler	Hungary	43.274 s	Q
3	2	Kathryn Thomson	Great Britain	1: 08.896 min
4th	2	Suzanne Schulting	Netherlands	DNF
1	3	Sofia Proswirnova	Olympic athletes from Russia	43.376 s	Q
2	3	Yara van Kerkhof	Netherlands	43.430 s	Q
3	3	Bianca Walter	Germany	43,541 s
4th	3	Sumire Kikuchi	Japan	44.838 s
1	4th	Elise Christie	Great Britain	42.872 s	Q, OR
2	4th	Qu Chunyu	People's Republic of China	42,971 s	Q
3	4th	Shim Suk-hee	South Korea	43.048 s
4th	4th	Véronique Pierron	France	43.148 s
1	5	Fan Kexin	People's Republic of China	43,350 s	Q
2	5	Maame Biney	United States	43.665 s	Q
3	5	Kim A-lang	South Korea	43.724 s
4th	5	Anastasija Krestova	Kazakhstan	43,821 s
1	6th	Martina Valcepina	Italy	43.698 s	Q
2	6th	Han Yutong	People's Republic of China	43,719 s	Q
3	6th	Tifany Huot-Marchand	France	44.659 s
	6th	Jamie MacDonald	Canada		PEN
1	7th	Marianne St-Gelais	Canada	43.437 s	Q
2	7th	Anna Seidel	Germany	43.742 s	Q
3	7th	Lara van Ruijven	Netherlands	43.771 s
4th	7th	Magdalena Warakomska	Poland	44,311 s
1	8th	Choi Min-jeong	South Korea	42.870 s	Q, OR
2	8th	Petra Jászapáti	Hungary	55.670 s	Q
3	8th	Emina Malagitsch	Olympic athletes from Russia	56.830 s
4th	8th	Charlotte Gilmartin	Great Britain	DNF

Quarter finals

rank	Run	Athlete	country	Time (s)	Remarks
1	1	Arianna Fontana	Italy	43.128	Q
2	1	Yara van Kerkhof	Netherlands	43.197	Q
3	1	Natalia Maliszewska	Poland	43,384
	1	Marianne St-Gelais	Canada		DSQ
1	2	Elise Christie	Great Britain	42.703	Q, OR
2	2	Kim Boutin	Canada	42.789	Q
3	2	Andrea Keszler	Hungary	43.053
4th	2	Anna Seidel	Germany	44.325
1	3	Sofia Proswirnova	Olympic athletes from Russia	43,466	Q
2	3	Fan Kexin	People's Republic of China	43,485	Q
3	3	Han Yutong	People's Republic of China	43.627
4th	3	Maame Biney	United States	44.772
1	4th	Qu Chunyu	People's Republic of China	42,954	Q
2	4th	Choi Min-jeong	South Korea	42,996	Q
3	4th	Martina Valcepina	Italy	43.023
4th	4th	Petra Jászapáti	Hungary	43,043

Semifinals

QA - Qualification for the A final

QB - Qualification for the B final

rank	Run	Athlete	country	Time (s)	Remarks
1	1	Choi Min-jeong	South Korea	42,422	QA, OR
2	1	Arianna Fontana	Italy	42.635	QA
3	1	Sofia Proswirnova	Olympic athletes from Russia	43.219	QB
	1	Fan Kexin	People's Republic of China		DSQ
1	2	Yara van Kerkhof	Netherlands	43.182	QA
2	2	Elise Christie	Great Britain	43.184	QA
3	2	Kim Boutin	Canada	43.234	ADV
	2	Qu Chunyu	People's Republic of China		DSQ

final

The B final was not played because only Sofja Proswirnowa qualified for it.

rank	Athlete	country	time	Remarks
1	Arianna Fontana	Italy	42,569 s
2	Yara van Kerkhof	Netherlands	43.256 s
3	Kim Boutin	Canada	43,881 s
4th	Elise Christie	Great Britain	1: 23.063
	Choi Min-jeong	South Korea		DSQ

Web links

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