Four Continents Short Track Speed Skating Championships

Four Continents Short Track Speed Skating Championships is an annual short-track speed-skating competition. It was established by the International Skating Union in 2019 to allow athletes from outside Europe to compete at the event. Its inaugural event was held in 2020, while its second and third editions were cancelled in 2021 and 2022 due to the coronavirus pandemic.[1] The second edition of the event is expected to be held from 10–12 November 2022 in Salt Lake City, United States of America.

Editions of the games

2020 Four Continents Short Track Speed Skating Championships: Montreal, Canada
2023 Four Continents Short Track Speed Skating Championships: Salt Lake City, United States of America
2024 Four Continents Short Track Speed Skating Championships: Laval, Canada [2]

Medal holders

500 metres

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2020	Hwang Dae-heon South Korea	40.695	Steven Dubois Canada	40.799	Kim Da-gyeom South Korea	40.923
2023[3]	Steven Dubois Canada	40.316	Andrew Heo United States	40.687	Pascal Dion Canada	41.482

1000 metres

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2020	Hwang Dae-heon South Korea	1:27.719	Steven Dubois Canada	1:27.897	Park Ji-won South Korea	1:28.033
2023[4]	Park Ji-won South Korea	1:27.548	Pascal Dion Canada	1:27.592	William Dandjinou Canada	1:27.816

1500 metres

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2020	Hwang Dae-heon South Korea	2:21.140	Steven Dubois Canada	2:21.475	Thomas Hong United States	2:21.627
2023[5]	Park Ji-won South Korea	2:16.409	Hong Kyung-hwan South Korea	2:16.471	Steven Dubois Canada	2:16.702

5000 metre relay

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2020	Korea Hwang Dae-heon Lee June-seo Park Ji-won Kim Da-gyeom	6:58.666	Canada Steven Dubois Charles Hamelin Pascal Dion Cédrik Blais	6:58.892	United States Aaron Tran Thomas Hong Andrew Heo Ryan Pivirotto	6:59.891
2023[6]	China Li Kun Liu Guanyi Song Jiahua Zhong Yuchen	6:54.766	Japan Hayashi Kosei Iwasa Dan Shighiro Kiichi Oshinaga Kazuki	6:56.071	South Korea Lee June-seo Park Ji-won Lim Yong-jin Lee Donghyun	7:12.956

500 metres

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2020	Choi Min-jeong South Korea	43.684	Alyson Charles Canada	43.787	Courtney Sarault Canada	44.007
2023[7]	Shim Suk-hee South Korea	43.273	Kristen Santos-Griswold United States	43.302	Zhang Chutong China	43.503

1000 metres

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2020	Choi Min-jeong South Korea	1:32.712	Courtney Sarault Canada	1:33.014	Kim A-lang South Korea	1:33.108
2023[8]	Courtney Sarault Canada	1:28.615	Gong Li China	1:28.840	Claudia Gagnon Canada	1:28.963

1500 metres

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2020	Choi Min-jeong South Korea	2:41.270	Seo Whi-min South Korea	2:41.367	Maame Biney United States	2:41.417
2023[9]	Courtney Sarault Canada	2:25.614	Kristen Santos-Griswold United States	2:25.708	Choi Min-jeong South Korea	2:25.737

3000 metres

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2020	Korea Choi Min-jeong Kim Ji-yoo Noh Ah-reum Kim A-lang	4:11.404	Canada Courtney Sarault Alyson Charles Claudia Gagnon Danaé Blais	4:12.028	China Li Xuan Guo Yihan Song Yang Xu Aili	4:12.239
2023[10]	South Korea Choi Min-jeong Kim Gili Lee Soyoun Shim Suk-hee	4:04.767	Canada Ann-Sophie Bachand Claudia Gagnon Courtney Sarault Renee Marie Steenge	4:05.049	United States Eunice Lee Julie Lethal Kristen Santos Corinne Stoddard	4:06.964

Mixed event

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
2023[11]	United States Andrew Heo Marcus Howard Kristen Santos Corinne Stoddard	2:38.095	China Gong Li Li Kun Wang Xinran Zhong Yuchen	2:38.244	Canada Steven Dubois Maxime Laoun Courtney Sarault Lea Tessier	2:48.548

Accumulative medal summary


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	12	2	5	19
2	Canada (CAN)	3	9	6	18
3	United States (USA)	1	3	4	8
4	China (CHN)	1	2	2	5
5	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
Totals (5 entries)		17	17	17	51

Sources

2020: Results book
2023: Results book

References

Pavitt, Michael (12 December 2021). "ISU announces cancellation of 2022 Four Continents Short Track Speed Skating Championships". Inside the games. Retrieved 4 November 2022.
"Calendar of events - ISU Four Continents Short Track Speed Skating Championships". ISU. ISU. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
"ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 – Salt Lake City (USA) – Men – 500m". ISU. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
"ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 - Salt Lake City (USA) - Men - 1000m". ISU. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
"ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 – Salt Lake City (USA) – Men – 1500m". ISU. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
"ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 - Salt Lake City (USA) - Men - 5000m relay". ISU. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
"ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 – Salt Lake City (USA) – Women – 500m". ISU. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
"ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 - Salt Lake City (USA) - Women - 1000m". ISU. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
"ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 – Salt Lake City (USA) – Women – 1500m". ISU. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
"ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 - Salt Lake City (USA) - Women - 3000m relay". ISU. Retrieved 13 November 2022.
"ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 - Salt Lake City (USA) - 2000m relay". ISU. Retrieved 13 November 2022.

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[1] Pavitt, Michael (12 December 2021). "ISU announces cancellation of 2022 Four Continents Short Track Speed Skating Championships". Inside the games. Retrieved 4 November 2022.

[2] "Calendar of events - ISU Four Continents Short Track Speed Skating Championships". ISU. ISU. Retrieved 12 December 2022.

[3] "ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 – Salt Lake City (USA) – Men – 500m". ISU. Retrieved 12 November 2022.

[4] "ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 - Salt Lake City (USA) - Men - 1000m". ISU. Retrieved 13 November 2022.

[5] "ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 – Salt Lake City (USA) – Men – 1500m". ISU. Retrieved 12 November 2022.

[6] "ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 - Salt Lake City (USA) - Men - 5000m relay". ISU. Retrieved 13 November 2022.

[7] "ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 – Salt Lake City (USA) – Women – 500m". ISU. Retrieved 12 November 2022.

[8] "ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 - Salt Lake City (USA) - Women - 1000m". ISU. Retrieved 13 November 2022.

[9] "ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 – Salt Lake City (USA) – Women – 1500m". ISU. Retrieved 12 November 2022.

[10] "ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 - Salt Lake City (USA) - Women - 3000m relay". ISU. Retrieved 13 November 2022.

[11] "ISU Four Continents Short Track Championships 2023 - Salt Lake City (USA) - 2000m relay". ISU. Retrieved 13 November 2022.