| Event: | Short track speed skating |
| Games: | 2014 Winter |
| Venue: | Iceberg Skating Palace Sochi, Russia |
| Dates: | 10–21 February |
| Num Events: | 8 |
| Competitors: | 116 |
| Nations: | 25 |
| Prev: | 2010 |
| Next: | 2018 |
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.[1]
The following is the competition schedule for all eight events.[2] Completed events that include the event finals are shown in bold.
All times are (UTC+4).
| Date | Time | Event |
|---|---|---|
| 10 February | 13:45 | Women's 3000 metre relay |
| Women's 500 metres | ||
| Men's 1500 metres | ||
| 13 February | 14:00 | Men's 5000 metre relay |
| Men's 1000 metres | ||
| Women's 500 metres | ||
| 15 February | 14:00 | Women's 1500 metres |
| Men's 1000 metres | ||
| 18 February | 13:30 | Women's 1000 metres |
| Men's 500 metres | ||
| Women's 3000 metre relay | ||
| 21 February | 20:30 | Women's 1000 metres |
| Men's 500 metres | ||
| Men's 5000 metre relay |
| 500 metres | 41.312 | 41.516 | 41.617 | ||||
| 1000 metres | 1:25.325 | 1:25.399 | 1:25.611 | ||||
| 1500 metres | 2:14.985 | 2:15.055 | 2:15.062 | ||||
| 5000 metres relay | 6:42.100 OR | 6:42.371 | 6:48.341 |
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.[3] 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.[4]
| 500 metres | 45.263 | 51.250 | 54.207 | ||||
| 1000 metres | 1:30.761 | 1:30.811 | 1:31.027 | ||||
| 1500 metres | 2:19.140 | 2:19.239 | 2:19.416 | ||||
| 3000 metre relay | 4:09.498 | Marie-Ève Drolet Jessica Hewitt Valérie Maltais Marianne St-Gelais | 4:10.641 | Arianna Fontana Lucia Peretti Martina Valcepina Elena Viviani | 4:14.014 |
Viktor Ahn became the first short track speedskater to win all four Olympic golds (500m, 1000m, 1500m, 5000m relay). He also became the short track speedskater with the most Olympic gold medals, with 6, winning 3 golds in 2014, and 3 in 2006 (for South Korea). With his 4 medals from 2006 and 4 from 2014, he tied Apolo Anton Ohno with the most Olympic short track medals, at 8.[5] [6]
See main article: Short track speed skating at the 2014 Winter Olympics – Qualification. A total quota of 120 athletes were allowed to compete at the Games (60 men and 60 women). 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.[7] 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.[8]
A total of 116 athletes from 25 nations participated (the numbers of athletes are shown in parentheses). 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.[9]