Short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics


Short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics was held at the Iceberg Skating Palace in Sochi, Russia. The eight events took place between 10–21 February 2014.

Competition schedule

The following is the competition schedule for all eight events. Completed events that include the event finals are shown in bold.
All times are.
DateTimeEvent
10 February13:45Women's 3000 metre relay
10 February13:45Women's 500 metres
10 February13:45Men's 1500 metres
13 February14:00Men's 5000 metre relay
13 February14:00Men's 1000 metres
13 February14:00Women's 500 metres
15 February14:00Women's 1500 metres
15 February14:00Men's 1000 metres
18 February13:30Women's 1000 metres
18 February13:30Men's 500 metres
18 February13:30Women's 3000 metre relay
21 February20:30Women's 1000 metres
21 February20:30Men's 500 metres
21 February20:30Men's 5000 metre relay

Medal summary

Medal table

Men's events

At 31 years and 191 days, Vladimir Grigorev became the oldest man to win a short track Olympic medal, winning silver at the 1000m event. On 21 February 2014, he won the gold in the 5000m relay, upping the oldest short track male athlete record for both medals and gold medals.

Women's events

Qualification

A total quota of 120 athletes were allowed to compete at the Games. Countries were assigned quotas using a combination of the four special Olympic Qualification classification that were held at two World cups in November 2013. A nation may have entered a maximum of five athletes per gender if it had qualified a relay team and three if it does not. Hosts Russia were guaranteed the full quota of 10 athletes. For the 500m, and 1000m there were 32 qualifiers, for the 1500m 36 qualifiers, and the relay 8. The ISU released quotas on 22 November 2013.

Participating nations

A total of 116 athletes from 25 nations participated. Two nations, Chinese Taipei and Lithuania made their Olympic debuts in the sport, while Hong Kong qualified its first male athlete at the Winter Olympics in this event.
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