Short-track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Women's 1000 metres explained

Event:	Women's 1000 metres
Games:	2022 Winter
Venue:	Capital Indoor Stadium, Beijing
Date:	9 and 11 February
Competitors:	32
Nations:	14
Win Value:	1:28.391
Gold:	Suzanne Schulting
Goldnoc:	NED
Silver:	Choi Min-jeong
Silvernoc:	KOR
Bronze:	Hanne Desmet
Bronzenoc:	BEL
Prev:	2018
Next:	2026

The women's 1000 metres competition in short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics was held on 9 February (heats) and 11 February (finals), at the Capital Indoor Stadium in Beijing.^[1] Suzanne Schulting of the Netherlands won the gold medal and thereby successfully defended her 2018 title. In the semifinal, Schulting set the new world record. Choi Min-jeong won the silver medal, and Hanne Desmet of Belgium the bronze. Desmet's medal was the first ever Belgian medal in short track speed skating and only the seventh Belgian medal at the Winter Olympics.

The 2018 silver medalist, Kim Boutin, and the bronze medalist, Arianna Fontana, qualified as well. Schulting was the 2021 World Short Track Speed Skating champion at all distances, including 1500 m. Desmet and Courtney Sarault were the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Many top athletes did not participate in the championship, however. Schulting was also 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 Kristen Santos and Choi Min-jeong.

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.

The following records were set during the competition.

Date	Round	Athlete	Country	Time	Record	Ref
9 February	Heat 2			1:27.292
11 February	Quarterfinal 1			1:26.514

Results

Heats

Rank	Heat	Time^[3]	Notes
1	1	1:28.053	Q
2	1	1:28.115	Q
3	1	1:28.290	q
4	1	1:30.037
1	2	1:27.292	Q, OR
2	2	1:27.401	Q
3	2	1:27.528	q
4	2	1:28.465
1	3	1:30.342	Q
2	3	1:30.454	Q
3	3	1:31.734
4	3	No time
1	4	1:30.066	Q
2	4	1:30.154	Q
3	4	1:56.438
	4		PEN
1	5	1:27.859	Q
2	5	1:27.862	Q
3	5	1:27.910	q
4	5	No time
1	6	1:27.798	Q
2	6	1:27.836	Q
3	6	1:28.680
4	6	1:28.764
1	7	1:29.610	Q
2	7	1:29.734	Q
3	7	1:29.863	ADV
	7		PEN
1	8	1:28.237	Q
2	8	1:28.392	Q
3	8	1:28.471
4	8	1:28.567

Quarterfinals

Rank	Heat	Time^[4]	Notes
1	1	1:26.514	Q, WR
2	1	1:26.592	Q
3	1	1:27.912	q
4	1	1:28.355
5	1	1:31.638
1	2	1:29.120	Q
2	2	1:29.225	Q
3	2	1:29.434
4	2	1:30.021
5	2	1:48.908
1	3	1:29.324	Q
2	3	1:29.388	Q
3	3	1:29.450
4	3	1:29.755
5	3	1:37.170
1	4	1:28.393	Q
2	4	1:28.722	Q
3	4	1:28.786	q
4	4	1:29.077
5	4	1:30.161

Semifinals

Rank	Heat	Time^[5]	Notes
1	1	1:28.108	QA
2	1	1:28.166	QA
3	1	1:28.170	QB
4	1	1:28.806	QB
5	1	1:28.827	QB
1	2	1:26.783	QA
2	2	1:26.811	QA
3	2	1:26.850	QA
4	2	1:27.626	QB
5	2	1:27.777	QB

Finals

Final B

Rank	Name	Country	Time	Notes
5			1:29.668
6			1:29.739
7			1:29.845
8			1:30.249
9			1:30.736

Final A

Rank	Time^[6]	Notes
	1:28.391
	1:28.443
	1:28.928
4	1:42.745
		PEN

Notes and References

Web site: Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 9. PDF. New.inews.gtimg.com. 7 February 2022.
Web site: Qualification Systems for XXIV Olympic Winter Games, Beijing 2022 Short Track Speed Skating. International Skating Union. 31 October 2021.
https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/static/owg2022/pdf/OWG2022/STK/OWG2022_STK_C73A_STKW1000M-------------HEAT--------.pdf Heats results
https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/static/owg2022/pdf/OWG2022/STK/OWG2022_STK_C73A_STKW1000M-------------QFNL--------.pdf Quarterfinals results
https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/static/owg2022/pdf/OWG2022/STK/OWG2022_STK_C73A_STKW1000M-------------SFNL--------.pdf Semifinals results
https://olympics.com/beijing-2022/olympic-games/static/owg2022/pdf/OWG2022/STK/OWG2022_STK_C73A_STKW1000M-------------FNL---------.pdf Finals results