Short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Men's 5000 metre relay

Men's 5000 metre relay at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Short track speed skating
Venue	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing
Date	11 and 16 February
Competitors	34 from 8 nations
Teams	8
Winning time	6:41.257
Medalists
Charles Hamelin Steven Dubois Pascal Dion Jordan Pierre-Gilles Maxime Laoun  Canada Lee June-seo Kim Dong-wook Hwang Dae-heon Kwak Yoon-gy Park Jang-hyuk  South Korea Pietro Sighel Yuri Confortola Tommaso Dotti Andrea Cassinelli  Italy
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Short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Qualification
500 m	men		women
1000 m	men		women
1500 m	men		women
2000 m relay		mixed
3000 m relay			women
5000 m relay	men
v t e

The men's 5000 metre relay competition in short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 11 February (semifinals) and 16 February (finals), at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing.^[1] The Canadian team won gold, with South Korea winning silver and Italy the bronze.^[2][3][4][5]

The defending champion were Hungary, with China and Canada being second and third in 2018. The Netherlands were the 2021 World Short Track Speed Skating champion, Hungary and Italy were the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Many top athletes did not participate in the championship, however. Canada were leading the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup with four races completed before the Olympics, followed by South Korea and Hungary.

Qualification

The top with the top 8 countries qualified a relay through the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup, including host nation China.^[6]

Records

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

World record	Hungary Csaba Burján Cole Krueger Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sándor Liu	6:28.625	Calgary, Canada	4 November 2018
Olympic record	Hungary Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sándor Liu Viktor Knoch Csaba Burján	6:31.971	Gangneung, South Korea	22 February 2018

Results

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Country	Athletes	Time[7]	Notes
1	1	Canada	Charles Hamelin Maxime Laoun Steven Dubois Pascal Dion	6:38.752	QA
2	1	Italy	Pietro Sighel Yuri Confortola Tommaso Dotti Andrea Cassinelli	6:38.899	QA
3	1	Japan	Kazuki Yoshinaga Shogo Miyata Kota Kikuchi Katsunori Koike	6:40.446	QB
4	1	China	Wu Dajing Ren Ziwei Sun Long Li Wenlong	6:51.040	ADVA
1	2	South Korea	Lee June-seo Kim Dong-wook Hwang Dae-heon Kwak Yoon-gy	6:37.879	QA
2	2	ROC	Semen Elistratov Konstantin Ivliev Pavel Sitnikov Denis Ayrapetyan	6:37.925	QA
3	2	Netherlands	Itzhak de Laat Sjinkie Knegt Sven Roes Jens van 't Wout	6:37.927	QB
4	2	Hungary	Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sándor Liu John-Henry Krueger Bence Nógrádi	6:45.172	QB

Finals

Final B

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time	Notes
6	Hungary	Shaoang Liu Shaolin Sándor Liu John-Henry Krueger Bence Nógrádi	6:39.713
7	Netherlands	Itzhak de Laat Sjinkie Knegt Sven Roes Jens van 't Wout	6:39.780
8	Japan	Kazuki Yoshinaga Shogo Miyata Kota Kikuchi Katsunori Koike	6:40.545

Final A

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time[8]	Notes
	Canada	Charles Hamelin Steven Dubois Jordan Pierre-Gilles Pascal Dion	6:41.257
	South Korea	Lee June-seo Hwang Dae-heon Kwak Yoon-gy Park Jang-hyuk	6:41.679
	Italy	Pietro Sighel Yuri Confortola Tommaso Dotti Andrea Cassinelli	6:43.431
4	ROC	Semen Elistratov Konstantin Ivliev Pavel Sitnikov Denis Ayrapetyan	6:43.440
5	China	Wu Dajing Ren Ziwei Sun Long Li Wenlong	6:51.654

Controversy

During the semifinals of the event, the Chinese team fell with 10 laps to go. There was no obvious obstruction on the Chinese skater, but they were advanced to the A final, with no team disqualified during the race. The Chinese team were advanced, even though they finished last in the race and there was no impeding action on the team.^[9]

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