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Short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Women's 500 metres

The women's 500 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] Arianna Fontana of Italy won the event, replicating her success in 2018. Suzanne Schulting of the Netherlands took the silver, setting the Olympic record in one of the heats, and Kim Boutin of Canada won the bronze.

Women's 500 metres
at the XXIV Olympic Winter Games
Short track speed skating
VenueCapital Indoor Stadium,
Beijing
Date5 and 7 February
Competitors32 from 15 nations
Winning time42.488
Medalists
1st place, gold medalist(s) Arianna Fontana  Italy
2nd place, silver medalist(s) Suzanne Schulting  Netherlands
3rd place, bronze medalist(s) Kim Boutin  Canada
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The defending champion was Fontana. The silver medalist, Yara van Kerkhof, and the bronze medalist, Boutin, who was also the world record holder, qualified as well. Van Kerkhof, however, was not selected to skate this distance. Schulting was the 2021 World Short Track Speed Skating champion at all distances, including 1500 m. Fontana and Selma Poutsma were the silver and bronze medalists, respectively. Many top athletes did not participate in the championship, however. Fontana was leading the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup at the 500 m distance with four races completed before the Olympics, followed by Boutin and Natalia Maliszewska. Maliszewska was not allowed to compete as she tested positive for COVID-19 shortly after her arrival in Beijing.[2]

Qualification edit

Main article: Short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – 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.[3]

Records edit

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

World record   Kim Boutin (CAN) 41.936 Salt Lake City, United States 3 November 2019
Olympic record   Choi Min-jeong (KOR) 42.422 Gangneung, South Korea 13 February 2018

A new Olympic record was set during the competition.

Date Round Athlete Country Time Record Ref
5 February Heat 4 Suzanne Schulting   Netherlands 42.379 OR [4]

Results edit

Heats edit

Rank Heat Name Country Time[4] Notes
1 1 Selma Poutsma   Netherlands 43.472 Q
2 1 Florence Brunelle   Canada 43.477 Q
3 1 Valentina Aščić   Croatia 44.681
4 1 Tifany Huot-Marchand   France 54.758
1 2 Fan Kexin   China 43.275 Q
2 2 Sofia Prosvirnova   ROC 43.331 Q
3 2 Zsófia Kónya   Hungary 43.905
4 2 Gwendoline Daudet   France 45.515
1 3 Kim Boutin   Canada 42.732 Q
2 3 Petra Jászapáti   Hungary 42.848 Q
3 3 Maame Biney   United States 42.919 q
4 3 Kamila Stormowska   Poland 44.053
1 4 Suzanne Schulting   Netherlands 42.379 Q, OR
2 4 Alyson Charles   Canada 42.991 Q
3 4 Arianna Valcepina   Italy 43.070 q
4 4 Ekaterina Efremenkova   ROC 43.140
1 5 Arianna Fontana   Italy 42.940 Q
2 5 Zhang Yuting   China 43.233 Q
3 5 Michaela Hrůzová   Czech Republic 45.060
4 5 Corinne Stoddard   United States No time
1 6 Choi Min-jeong   South Korea 42.853 Q
2 6 Martina Valcepina   Italy 43.606 Q
3 6 Patrycja Maliszewska   Poland 44.130
4 6 Kathryn Thomson   Great Britain 1:06.594
1 7 Xandra Velzeboer   Netherlands 42.563 Q
2 7 Qu Chunyu   China 42.691 Q
3 7 Sumire Kikuchi   Japan 42.829 q
4 7 Lee Yu-bin   South Korea 43.141
1 8 Kristen Santos   United States 43.579 Q
2 8 Elena Seregina   ROC 43.605 Q
3 8 Hanne Desmet   Belgium 43.702 q
4 8 Nikola Mazur   Poland 43.732

Quarterfinals edit

Rank Heat Name Country Time[5] Notes
1 1 Kim Boutin   Canada 42.391 Q
2 1 Arianna Valcepina   Italy 42.891 Q
3 1 Fan Kexin   China 1:03.594
4 1 Alyson Charles   Canada 1:07.206 ADV
1 Florence Brunelle   Canada PEN
1 2 Petra Jászapáti   Hungary 43.476 Q
2 2 Elena Seregina   ROC 43.712 Q
3 2 Maame Biney   United States 46.099
4 2 Selma Poutsma   Netherlands 1:07.285
2 Xandra Velzeboer   Netherlands PEN
1 3 Arianna Fontana   Italy 42.635 Q
2 3 Hanne Desmet   Belgium 42.991 Q
3 3 Zhang Yuting   China 54.211 ADV
4 3 Choi Min-jeong   South Korea 1:04.939
3 Sofia Prosvirnova   ROC PEN
1 4 Suzanne Schulting   Netherlands 42.922 Q
2 4 Qu Chunyu   China 43.029 Q
3 4 Sumire Kikuchi   Japan 56.092
4 Kristen Santos   United States PEN
4 Martina Valcepina   Italy PEN

Semifinals edit

Rank Heat Name Country Time[6] Notes
1 1 Arianna Fontana   Italy 42.387 QA
2 1 Kim Boutin   Canada 42.664 QA
3 1 Elena Seregina   ROC 42.685 QB
4 1 Alyson Charles   Canada 42.829 QB
5 1 Arianna Valcepina   Italy 44.044
1 2 Suzanne Schulting   Netherlands 42.475 QA
2 2 Zhang Yuting   China 43.196 QA
3 2 Petra Jászapáti   Hungary 43.198 QB
4 2 Hanne Desmet   Belgium 55.304 ADVA
2 Qu Chunyu   China PEN

Finals edit

Final B edit

Rank Name Country Time Notes
6 Elena Seregina   ROC 42.972
7 Petra Jászapáti   Hungary 43.004
8 Alyson Charles   Canada 43.273

Final A edit

Rank Name Country Time[7] Notes
  Arianna Fontana   Italy 42.488
  Suzanne Schulting   Netherlands 42.559
  Kim Boutin   Canada 42.724
4 Zhang Yuting   China 42.803
5 Hanne Desmet   Belgium 42.941

References edit

  1. ^ "Beijing 2022 Olympic Winter Games Competition Schedule Version 9" (PDF). New.inews.gtimg.com. Retrieved 7 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Kolejny zwrot akcji! Natalia Maliszewska nie została dopuszczona do startu" (in Polish). Retrieved 6 February 2022.
  3. ^ "Qualification Systems for XXIV Olympic Winter Games, Beijing 2022 Short Track Speed Skating" (PDF). International Skating Union. Retrieved 31 October 2021.
  4. ^ a b Heats results, Olympics.com
  5. ^ Quarterfinals results
  6. ^ Semifinals results
  7. ^ Finals results
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