Short track speed skating at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Short track speed skating was a demonstration sport at the 1988 Winter Olympic Games. Those competition events took place at the Max Bell Arena in Calgary. This was the only time in the history of Olympic Games that the short track venue was shared with curling.

Medal table

Rank	Country	First	Second	Third	Total
1	Netherlands	2	2	1	5
2	Great Britain	2	0	0	2
2	South Korea	2	0	0	2
4	Canada	1	6	3	10
5	Italy	1	1	2	4
6	Japan	1	1	1	3
7	China	1	0	2	3
8	France	0	0	1	1

Men's events

500 m

Final A

February 23, 1988

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	Wilfred O'Reilly	Great Britain	44.80
2	Mario Vincent	Canada	45.15
3	Tatsuyoshi Ishihara	Japan	45.37
4	Robert Dubreuil	Canada	45.38

Final B

Rank	Name	Country	Time
5	Michel Daignault	Canada	45.10
6	Orazio Fagone	Italy	46.35
7	Kim Ki-hoon	South Korea	48.82
8	Toshinobu Kawai	Japan	49.12

1000 m

Final A

February 24, 1988

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	Wilf O'Reilly	Great Britain	1:33.44
2	Michel Daignault	Canada	1:33.66
3	Marc Bella	France	1:34.45
4	Tatsuyoshi Ishihara	Japan	1:35.72
5	Louis Grenier	Canada	1:37.17
6	Roberto Peretti	Italy	1:48.33
7	Lee Joon-ho	South Korea	DQ

Final B

Rank	Name	Country	Time
8	Kim Ki-hoon	South Korea	1:37.20
9	R Suyten	Netherlands	1:37.52
10	D Claeys	Belgium	1:38.10
11	Orazio Fagone	Italy	1:38.35
12	T Kawasaki	Japan	1:38.40

1500 m

Final A

February 22, 1988

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	Kim Ki-hoon	South Korea	2:26.68
2	Louis Grenier	Canada	2:26.99
3	Orazio Fagone	Italy	2:27.16
4	Roberto Peretti	Italy	2:27.24
5	Mario Vincent	Canada	2:27.34
6	Michel Daignault	Canada	2:28.15

Final B

Rank	Name	Country	Time
7	Lee Joon-ho	South Korea	2:38.19
8	Tatsuyoshi Ishihara	Japan	2:38.65
9	Y Akasaka	Japan	2:38.88
10	Kawai Toshinobu	Japan	2:39.93
11	T Kawasaki	Japan	2:43.67
12	P Moore	United States	2:51.21

3000 m

Final

February 25, 1988

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	Lee Joon-ho	South Korea	5:21.63
2	Charles Veldhoven	Netherlands	5:22.39
3	Michel Daignault	Canada	5:30.68
4	Peter Van der Velde	Netherlands	5:31.07
5	Mario Vincent	Canada	5:31.15
6	Mo Ji-soo	South Korea	5:32.24
7	Tatsuyoshi Ishihara	Japan	5:32.70
8	Jaco Bos	Netherlands	5:36.16

5000 m relay

Final

February 25, 1988

Rank	Country	Name	Time
1	Netherlands	Charles Veldhoven Peter van der Velde Jaco Mos Richard Suyten	7:29.05
2	Italy	Roberto Peretti Enrico Peretti Orazio Fagone Hugo Herrnhof	7:30.39
3	Canada	Louis Grenier Robert Dubreuil Mario Vincent Michel Daignault	7:35.47
4	United States	Andy Gabel Patrick Moore Brian Arseneau David Besteman	7:47.59
5	Japan	Y Akasaka T Kawai T Kawasaki Tatsuyoshi Ishihara
6	Great Britain	R Blair W O'Reilly I Ellis S Horsepool

Women's events

500 m

Final A

February 22, 1988

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	Monique Velzeboer	Netherlands	48.28
2	Eden Donatelli	Canada	48.34
3	Li Yan	China	48.84
4	Sylvie Daigle	Canada	49.64

Final B

Rank	Name	Country	Time
5	Yumiko Yamada	Japan	49.57
6	Scoilla Maria Christina	Italy	49.75
7	Velzeboer ,S	Netherlands	DNF
7	Shishii,E	Japan	DNF

1000 m

Final A

February 25, 1988

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	Li Yan	China	1:39.00
2	Sylvie Daigle	Canada	1:41.15
3	Monique Velzeboer	Netherlands	1:43.10
4	Jing Qiao	China	1:46.38
5	Maryse Perreault	Canada	2:25.50
6	Jinyan Li	China	DQ

Final B

RANK	Name	Country	Time
7	E.Donatelli	Canada	1:40.06
8	M.R.Candido	Italy	1:40.21
9	N.Lambert	Canada	1:40.49
10	W.Troizkaja	Soviet Union	1:41.47
11	V.Barizza	France	1:43.12
12	Y.Yamada	Japan	DNF

1500 m

Final A

February 23, 1988

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	Sylvie Daigle	Canada	2:37.61
2	Monique Velzeboer	Netherlands	2:37.77
3	Li Yan	China	2:37.92

Final B

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3000 m

February 24, 1988

Rank	Name	Country	Time
1	Eiko Shishii	Japan	5:25.44
2	Sylvie Daigle	Canada	5:25.82
3	Maria Rosa Candido	Italy	5:25.89

3000 m relay

February 24, 1988

Rank	Country	Name	Time
1	Italy	Maria Rosa Candido Gabriella Monteduro Barbara Mussio Maria Cristina Sciolla	4:45.88
2	Japan	Hiromi Takeuchi Eiko Shishii Yumiko Yamada Nobuko Yamada	4:46.91
3	Canada	Susan Auch Nathalie Lambert Eden Donatelli Marye Perreault	4:49.77

External links

• Olympic Review - March 1988