Short-track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

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Metallic silver skates with golden blades in a glass case with the right skate being slightly elevated. There is a burgundy curtain behind the skates. The blades are much longer than the actual boot of the skates.

The skates Apolo Anton Ohno wore at the 2002 Winter Olympics are preserved in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History.

For the long track speed skating events, see Speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics was held from 13 to 23 February. Eight events were contested at Salt Lake Ice Center (normally called Delta Center). Two new events were added for these games, with the men's and women's 1500 metres making debuts.<ref name=OfficialReport>Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="SR">Template:Cite web</ref>

Medal summary

Medal table

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China led the overall table with seven medals, while Evgenia Radanova's two medals for Bulgaria were their first in the sport.

Men's events

500 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	41.802	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	41.994	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	42.027
1000 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:29.109	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:30.160	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:30.563
1500 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:18.541	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:18.731	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:18.806
5000 metre relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC Jonathan Guilmette Marc Gagnon François-Louis Tremblay Mathieu Turcotte Éric Bédard	6:51.579	Template:FlagIOC Nicola Franceschina Nicola Rodigari Fabio Carta Maurizio Carnino Michele Antonioli	6:56.327	Template:FlagIOC Li Jiajun Feng Kai Guo Wei Li Ye An Yulong	6:59.633

Women's events

500 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	44.187	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	44.252	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	44.272
1000 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:36.391	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:36.427	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	1:37.008
1500 metres Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:31.581	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:31.610	Template:FlagIOCmedalist	2:31.723
3000 metre relay Template:DetailsLink	Template:FlagIOC Choi Eun-kyung Choi Min-kyung Park Hye-won Joo Min-jin	4:12.793	Template:FlagIOC Yang Yang (A) Yang Yang (S) Sun Dandan Wang Chunlu	4:13.326	Template:FlagIOC Isabelle Charest Alanna Kraus Amélie Goulet-Nadon Marie-Ève Drolet Tania Vicent	4:15.738

Records

Two world records and fifteen Olympic records were set in Salt Lake City.<ref name=OfficialReport/>

Event	Date	Round	Team	Time	OR	WR
Men's 500 metres	23 February	Heat 7	Template:FlagIOCathlete	42.326	OR
	23 February	Quarterfinal 3	Template:FlagIOCathlete	41.806	OR
	23 February	A Final	Template:FlagIOCathlete	41.802	OR
Men's 1000 metres	13 February	Heat 7	Template:FlagIOCathlete	1:28.183	OR
Men's 1000 metres	16 February	Quarterfinal 3	Template:FlagIOCathlete	1:27.185	OR
Men's 1500 metres	13 February	Heat 5	Template:FlagIOCathlete	2:18.846	OR
Men's 1500 metres	16 February	Semifinal 1	Template:FlagIOCathlete	2:15.942	OR
Men's 5000 metre relay	13 February	Heat 1	Template:FlagIOC Éric Bédard Marc Gagnon François-Louis Tremblay Mathieu Turcotte	6:45.455	OR
Women's 500 metres	16 February	Heat 3	Template:FlagIOCathlete	44.723	OR
Women's 500 metres	16 February	Semifinal 1	Template:FlagIOCathlete	44.118	OR
Women's 1000 metres	23 February	Quarterfinal 1	Template:FlagIOCathlete	1:31.235	OR
Women's 1500 metres	13 February	Heat 1	Template:FlagIOCathlete	2:26.943	OR
Women's 1500 metres	13 February	Semifinal 2	Template:FlagIOCathlete	2:21.069	OR	WR
Women's 3000 metre relay	13 February	Heat 1	Template:FlagIOC Choi Eun-kyung Choi Min-kyung Park Hye-won Joo Min-jin	4:14.977	OR
Women's 3000 metre relay	13 February	A Final	Template:FlagIOC Choi Eun-kyung Choi Min-kyung Park Hye-won Joo Min-jin	4:12.793	OR	WR

Participating NOCs

Twenty-six nations competed in the short track events at Salt Lake City. Belarus, the Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Israel, Romania and Slovakia made their short track debuts.

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References

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