Short track speed skating at the 1994 Winter Olympics

The 1994 Winter Olympic Games Short Track results

Contents

Men's events

500m

Medal Athlete Time
Gold  Chae Ji-Hun
South Korea (KOR)		 43.45
Silver  Mirko Vuillermin
Italy (ITA)		 43.47
Bronze  Nicky Gooch
Great Britain (GBR)		 43.68

1,000m

Medal Athlete Time
Gold  Kim Ki-hoon
South Korea (KOR)[1]		 1:34.57
Silver  Chae Ji-hoon
South Korea (KOR)[1]		 1:34.92
Bronze  Marc Gagnon
Canada (CAN)		 1:33.03 (B Final)

This unique race was one of the most unusual in the short history of short track speed skating. The bronze medal was won by an athlete that was not even in the final race. Derrick Campbell of Canada was obstructed by the Briton Nicky Gooch, who was disqualified. Campbell got up and thought he finished the race, and was celebrating his bronze medal with a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reporter live on television when he discovered he hadn't completed the race. He had miscounted and left the track one lap short of the finish line, and was classified as a non-finisher. This meant that Marc Gagnon was a surprise bronze medalist, even though he wasn't even in the A final.

5,000 m (4 × 1250 m) relay

Medal Team Time
Gold  Italy (ITA) (Maurizio Carnino, Orazio Fagone, Hugo Herrnhof, Mirko Vuillermin) 7:11.74
Silver  United States (USA) (Randy Bartz, John Coyle, Eric Flaim, Andy Gabel)
Bronze  Australia (AUS) (Steven Bradbury, Kieran Hansen, Andrew Murtha, Richard Nizielski)

The relay result was Australia's first Winter Olympics medal. With 21 of 45 laps to go, a Canadian crashed into the side, and was out of contention. With 12 laps to go, Italian Mirko Vuillermin accelerated away, creating a gap such that Australia was unlikely to win gold. Until the last change, it seemed that Australia might win silver. Nizielski was the final skater, and said later that "At the last change [American] Eric Flaim got a good push-away and he stepped underneath my feet and stopped me. I thought, well I'm not going to fight him for this. I didn't want to let the team down. And I was very aware that I had taken a fall in Albertville. I just wanted to get through and get the medal." Team member Steven Bradbury went on to win Australia's first winter gold in 2002.

Women's events

500m

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Cathy Turner (USA) 45.98
Silver Zhang Yanmei (CHN) 46.44
Bronze Amy Peterson (USA) 46.76

1,000m

Medal Athlete Time
Gold Chun Lee-Kyung (KOR) 1:36.87
Silver Nathalie Lambert (CAN) 1:36.97
Bronze Kim So-Hee (KOR) 1:37.09

3,000m (4x750m) relay

Medal Team Time
Gold South Korea (Chun Lee-Kyung, Kim So-Hee, Kim Yoon-Mi, Won Hye-Kyung / Kim Ryang-Hee*) 4:26.64
Silver Canada (Christine Boudrias, Isabelle Charest, Sylvie Daigle, Nathalie Lambert / Angela Cutrone*)
Bronze United States (Karen Cashman, Amy Peterson, Cathy Turner, Nikki Ziegelmeyer / Shana Sundstrom*)

* Skaters who did not compete in the event and were therefore not awarded medals with the rest of the team at the tournament.

External links

Results and times at Sports-reference.com

References

  1. ^ a b "WINTER GAMES '94: Lillehammer". Daily Pennsylvanian. http://www.dailypennsylvanian.com/home/index.cfm?event=displayArticlePrinterFriendly&uStory_id=2d15db97-5fcd-4420-9923-9f00805f45b3. Retrieved 2008-11-26. 
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