Short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres

Men's 1000 metres
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
VenueCapital Indoor Stadium,
Beijing
Date5 and 7 February
Competitors32 from 17 nations
Winning time1:26.768
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ren Ziwei  China
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Li Wenlong  China
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Shaoang Liu  Hungary
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Short track speed skating at the
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The men's 1000 metres competition in short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 5 February (heats) and 7 February (finals), at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing.[1] Ren Ziwei of China won the event, achieving his first individual Olympic gold medal. His teammate, Li Wenlong took the silver – his first Olympic medal, and Shaoang Liu of Hungary won the bronze.

The 2018 champion, Samuel Girard, retired from competitions. The 2018 silver medalist, John-Henry Krueger, qualified for the Olympics but was representing Hungary rather than the United States, which he represented in 2018. The bronze medalist, Seo Yi-ra, was not competing. Shaolin Sándor Liu was the 2021 World Short Track Speed Skating champion at the 1000 m distance. Shaoang Liu and Pietro Sighel were the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Many top athletes did not participate in the championship, however. Pascal Dion was leading the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup at the 1000 m distance with four races completed before the Olympics, followed by Hwang Dae-heon, the world record holder, and Itzhak de Laat.

Qualification

Countries were assigned quotas based on their performance during the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup, with the top 32 athletes (maximum of three per country qualifying quotas. If a NOC declined a quota spot, it was distributed to the next available athlete, only if the maximum quota of 56 athletes per gender was not surpassed.[2]

Records

Prior to this competition, the existing world and Olympic records were as follows.

World record  Hwang Dae-heon (KOR) 1:20.875 Salt Lake City, United States 12 November 2016
Olympic record  Charles Hamelin (CAN) 1:23.407 Gangneung, South Korea 13 February 2018

The following records were set during the competition.

Date Round Athlete Country Time Record Ref
5 February Heat 5 Hwang Dae-heon  South Korea 1:23.042 OR [3]

Results

Heats

Rank Heat Name Country Time[3] Notes
1 1 Park Jang-hyuk  South Korea 1:24.081 Q
2 1 Andrew Heo  United States 1:24.106 Q
3 1 Itzhak de Laat  Netherlands 1:24.332 ADV
4 1 Niall Treacy  Great Britain 1:32.243
1 2 Ren Ziwei  China 1:23.772 Q
2 2 Quentin Fercoq  France 1:23.917 Q
3 2 Jens van 't Wout  Netherlands 1:23.946
4 2 Farrell Treacy  Great Britain 1:24.935
1 3 Wu Dajing  China 1:23.927 Q
2 3 Jordan Pierre-Gilles  Canada 1:24.067 Q
3 3 Semion Elistratov  ROC 1:24.077
4 3 Shogo Miyata  Japan 1:24.367
1 4 Lee June-seo  South Korea 1:24.698 Q
2 4 Pascal Dion  Canada 1:24.771 Q
3 4 Adil Galiakhmetov  Kazakhstan 1:24.855
4 4 Vladislav Bykanov  Israel 1:24.875
1 5 Hwang Dae-heon  South Korea 1:23.042 Q, OR
2 5 Sjinkie Knegt  Netherlands 1:23.097 Q
3 5 Li Wenlong  China 1:23.140 q
4 5 Sébastien Lepape  France 1:26.069
1 6 John-Henry Krueger  Hungary 1:25.236 Q
2 6 Furkan Akar  Turkey 1:25.462 Q
3 6 Kazuki Yoshinaga  Japan 1:25.574 ADV
6 Denis Ayrapetyan  ROC PEN
1 7 Shaolin Sándor Liu  Hungary 1:25.262 Q
2 7 Ryan Pivirotto  United States 1:54.437 Q
3 7 Pietro Sighel  Italy 2:10.039 ADV
7 Stijn Desmet  Belgium PEN
1 8 Shaoang Liu  Hungary 1:23.796 Q
2 8 Brendan Corey  Australia 1:23.908 Q
3 8 Roberts Krūzbergs  Latvia 1:23.979
8 Luca Spechenhauser  Italy PEN

Quarterfinals

Rank Heat Name Country Time[4] Notes
1 1 Andrew Heo  United States 1:24.603 Q
2 1 Wu Dajing  China 1:33.302 Q
3 1 Park Jang-hyuk  South Korea No time ADV
1 Pietro Sighel  Italy PEN
1 Jordan Pierre-Gilles  Canada PEN
1 2 Lee June-seo  South Korea 1:23.682 Q
2 2 Shaoang Liu  Hungary 1:23.940 Q
3 2 Quentin Fercoq  France 1:24.411
4 2 Pascal Dion  Canada No time
2 Kazuki Yoshinaga  Japan PEN
1 3 Furkan Akar  Turkey 1:25.490 Q
2 3 Ren Ziwei  China 1:34.211 Q
3 3 Itzhak de Laat  Netherlands 1:42.490 ADV
3 John-Henry Krueger  Hungary PEN
3 Brendan Corey  Australia PEN
1 4 Hwang Dae-heon  South Korea 1:24.693 Q
2 4 Li Wenlong  China 1:30.550 Q
3 4 Shaolin Sándor Liu  Hungary 1:55.248 ADV
4 4 Ryan Pivirotto  United States 2:08.364
4 Sjinkie Knegt  Netherlands YC

Semifinals

Rank Heat Name Country Time[5] Notes
1 1 Ren Ziwei  China 1:26.576 QA
2 1 Li Wenlong  China 1:26.722 QA
3 1 Furkan Akar  Turkey 1:27.102 QB
1 Hwang Dae-heon  South Korea PEN
1 Park Jang-hyuk  South Korea DNS
1 2 Shaolin Sándor Liu  Hungary 1:23.567 QA
2 2 Wu Dajing  China 1:23.928 QA
3 2 Andrew Heo  United States 1:24.023 QB
4 2 Itzhak de Laat  Netherlands 1:24.229 QB
5 2 Shaoang Liu  Hungary 1:35.384 ADVA
2 Lee June-seo  South Korea PEN

Finals

Final B

Rank Name Country Time Notes
5 Itzhak de Laat  Netherlands 1:35.925
6 Furkan Akar  Turkey 1:36.052
7 Andrew Heo  United States 1:36.140

Final A

Rank Name Country Time[6] Notes
1st place, gold medalist(s) Ren Ziwei  China 1:26.768
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Li Wenlong  China 1:29.917
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Shaoang Liu  Hungary 1:35.693
4 Wu Dajing  China 1:42.937
Shaolin Sándor Liu  Hungary YC

Concerns and controversies

Two Korean competitors were penalized during the semifinals and Shaolin Sándor Liu of Hungary at the conclusion of the A final. Two skaters from China advanced to the A final as a result of the penalties during the semifinals.[7][8]

Both the Korean team and Hungarian teams filed a protest against the penalty and yellow card decisions and the ISU (International Skating Union) posted a statement regarding these protests.[9] Based on the ISU General Regulations, Rule 123, paragraphs 4 and 5, the Referee confirmed that the protests are being rejected. More specifically,

  • A protest from the Korean team inquiring for the reasons for the penalty during the 1000 m semi-final of HWANG Daeheon. As announced on the video screen in the arena, the Skater got a penalty for an “illegal late pass causing contact”.
  • A protest from the Hungarian team against the yellow card for LIU Shaolin Sandor in the 1000 m Final A. As announced on the video screen in the arena, the Skater received a yellow card for two penalties in the same race. The first penalty: “in the straight lane change from inside to out causing contact” and the second penalty was for an “arm block at the finish”.

The Korean Sport & Olympic Committee did not accept this statement however and later filed an official appeal with the Court of Arbitration for Sport over the disqualification of two of the South Korean athletes from the event's semifinals.[7]

References

  1. ^ "Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 9" (PDF). New.inews.gtimg.com. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Qualification Systems for XXIV Olympic Winter Games, Beijing 2022 Short Track Speed Skating" (PDF). International Skating Union. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Heats results" (PDF). Olympics.com. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  4. ^ Quarterfinals results
  5. ^ Semifinals results
  6. ^ Finals results
  7. ^ a b Houston, Michael (8 February 2022). "South Korea to appeal to CAS over short track refereeing at Beijing 2022". www.insidethegames.biz. Dunsar Media Ltd. Retrieved 8 February 2022.
  8. ^ https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/static/owg2022/pdf/OWG2022/STK/OWG2022_STK_C73A_STKM1000M-------------SFNL--------.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  9. ^ "The ISU Short Track Speed Skating Chief Referee received two protests during the Beijing 2022 Short Track Speed Skating events of February 7". Isu.org. Retrieved 8 February 2022.