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2002 Winter Olympic Games Short track speed skating:

500m Men:

MedalAthleteTime
Gold Marc Gagnon (CAN)41.802
Silver Jonathan Guilmette (CAN)41.994
Bronze Rusty Smith (USA)42.027


1000m Men:

MedalAthleteTime
Gold Steven Bradbury (AUS)1:29.109
Silver Apolo Anton Ohno (USA)1:30.160
Bronze Mathieu Turcotte (CAN)1:30.563

Bradbury was way behind in 5th place, but all the other finalists collided and fell while turning the last corner. He crossed the line first to win Australia's first Olympic winter gold medal. Favorite Ohno, who led before getting hit, suffered a cut in his thigh in the fall but scrambled across the ice to cross the line second. Ohno's infringements of rules, by cross-tracking against China's Li Jiajun , blocking the way of Korea's Ahn Hyun-su with his arm and thus starting the mayhem, and diving across the line with his legs in the air, were ignored by the judges. Turcotte, felled at the same time, likewise recovered to take third.


1500m Men:

MedalAthleteTime
Gold Apolo Anton Ohno (USA)2:18.541
Silver Li Jiajun (CHN)2:18.731
Bronze Marc Gagnon (CAN)2:18.806

Ohno played infamous Hollywood Action to rob the gold medal from Korea's Kim Dong-sung , who had finished first without any actual infringement in rule, as the judges have decided.


5,000m Relay Men:

MedalAthleteTime
Gold Canada ( Eric Bedard , Marc Gagnon, Jonathan Guilmette , François-Louis Tremblay , Mathieu Turcotte )6:51.579
Silver Italy ( Michele Antonioli , Maurizio Carnino , Fabio Carta , Nicola Franceshcina , Nicola Rodigari )6:56.327
Bronze China ( Li Jiajun , An Yulong , Li Ye , Feng Kai , Guo Wei 6:59.633


500 m Women:

MedalAthleteTime
Gold Yang Yang (A) (CHN)44.187
Silver Evgenia Radanova (BUL)44.252
Bronze Wang Chunlu (CHN)44.272

Yang Yang (A) - the A is to distinguish from Yang Yang (S) - won the People's Republic of China's first Olympic winter gold medal.


1000m Women:

MedalAthleteTime
Gold Yang Yang (A) (CHN)1:36.391
Silver Ko Gi-Hyun (KOR)1:36.427
Bronze Yang Yang (S) (CHN)1:42.320


1500 m Women:

MedalAthleteTime
Gold Ko Gi-Hyun (KOR)2:31.581
Silver Choi Eun-Kyung (KOR)2:31.610
Bronze Evgenia Radanova (BUL)2:31.793

Choi set a new World Record in the semis, but compatriot Ko beat her to win the inaugural Olympic 1500 m.


3,000m Relay Women:

MedalAthleteTime
Gold South Korea ( Choi Min-Kyung , Joo Min-Jin , Park Hye-Won , Choi Eun-Kyung )4:12.793
Silver China ( Yang Yang (A) , Yang Yang (S) , Wang Chunlu , Sun Dandan )4:13.236
Bronze Canada ( Isabelle Charest , Marie-Eve Drolet , Amelie Goulet-Nadon , Alanna Kraus , Tania Vicent )4:15.738

With this win, Korea defended their title in this event for the third time running.

2002 Winter Olympics Speed skating

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