2016 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships

The 2016 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place from 11 to 13 March 2016 in Seoul, South Korea. They were the 41st World Short Track Speed Skating Championships.[1]

2016 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships
Venue	Mokdong Stadium, Seoul, South Korea
Dates	11–13 March
from 34 nations
Medalist men
Han Tianyu  CHN Charles Hamelin  CAN Sándor Liu Shaolin  HUN
Medalist women
Choi Min-jeong  KOR Marianne St-Gelais  CAN Elise Christie  GBR

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (South Korea)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	4	1	2	7
2	South Korea (KOR)*	3	1	2	6
3	Canada (CAN)	2	6	1	9
4	Hungary (HUN)	1	1	2	4
5	Great Britain (GBR)	0	1	2	3
6	Russia (RUS)	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 nations)		10	10	10	30

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Overall[2]	Han Tianyu  China	68 pts	Charles Hamelin  Canada	48 pts	Sándor Liu Shaolin  Hungary	41 pts
500 m[3]	Sándor Liu Shaolin  Hungary	41.485	Wu Dajing  China	41.550	Liu Shaoang  Hungary	41.994
1000 m[4]	Charles Hamelin  Canada	1:24.436	Samuel Girard  Canada	1:24.787	Wu Dajing  China	1:24.868
1500 m[5]	Han Tianyu  China	2:17.355	Liu Shaoang  Hungary	2:17.470	Park Se-yeong  South Korea	2:17.582
5000 m relay[6]	China Shi Jingnan Wu Dajing Han Tianyu Xu Hongzhi	7:05.539	Canada Charle Cournoyer Alexander Fathoullin Samuel Girard Charles Hamelin	7:05.622	South Korea Kwak Yoon-Gy Seo Yi-ra Park Ji-won Park Se-yeong Kim Joon-chun	7:05.652

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Overall[7]	Choi Min-jeong  South Korea	66 pts	Marianne St-Gelais  Canada	63 pts	Elise Christie  Great Britain	47 pts
500 m[8]	Fan Kexin  China	43.258	Marianne St-Gelais  Canada	43.317	Qu Chunyu  China	43.389
1000 m[9]	Choi Min-jeong  South Korea	1:31.903	Elise Christie  Great Britain	1:31.980	Kasandra Bradette  Canada	1:32.607
1500 m[10]	Marianne St-Gelais  Canada	2:36.844	Choi Min-jeong  South Korea	2:37.073	Elise Christie  Great Britain	2:37.123
3000 m relay[11]	South Korea Noh Do-hee Shim Suk-hee Choi Min-jeong Lee Eun-byul Kim A-lang	4:19.545	Canada Marianne St-Gelais Valérie Maltais Audrey Phaneuf Kasandra Bradette Namasthée Harris-Gauthier	4:20.193	Russia Sofia Prosvirnova Ekaterina Efremenkova Emina Malagich Evgeniya Zakharova	4:24.945

References

1. South Korea to Host 2016 World Short Track Champs
2. Men's overall results
3. Men's 500 m results
4. Men's 1000 m results
5. Men's 1500 m results
6. Men's 5000 m relay results
7. Women's overall results
8. Women's 500 m results
9. Women's 1000 m results
10. Women's 1500 m results
11. Women's 3000 m relay results

External links

• ISU website
• Results book