Short Track Speed Skating Discussion | Qualification to Winter Olympic Games Milano Cortina 2026 Road to Milano Cortina 2026

[heywoodu 15,997]

1 hour ago, erw said:

The national team trials to determine South Korea’s short track representatives for the Milan Olympics are currently underway. This week features three races (500m / 1000m / 1500m), followed by another three races next week (500m / 1000m / 1500m). The combined points from all six races will decide who earns a spot on the Olympic team, and a major shake-up in the men’s lineup is expected. In the first week, Rim Jong Un—winner of three gold medals at the 2025 World Junior Championships—claimed victory in the 1500m, while Shin Dongmin—also a triple gold medalist from the 2024 Junior Worlds—won the 500m. Hwang Daehon, the 2022 Olympic gold medalist in the 1500m, finished second in both races and is on track to make his return to the national team. At this rate, it seems unlikely that we’ll see familiar names like Park Jiwon or Kim Gunwoo at the Olympics.

Wow, the final selection is already made now?

 

Interesting, keep up updates please! I assume Kim Gilli will be on her way, normally?

[NearPup 3,480]

7 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Wow, the final selection is already made now?

 

Interesting, keep up updates please! I assume Kim Gilli will be on her way, normally?

IIRC this is how early Korea always does Olympic selections for short track. It's actually a small part of why Ahn Hyun-soo / Viktor An went from to , he didn't have a chance to qualify for the 2010 Olympics because of an injury he suffered in 2008.

Edited April 8 by NearPup

[Josh 11,494]

13 hours ago, erw said:

The national team trials to determine South Korea’s short track representatives for the Milan Olympics are currently underway. This week features three races (500m / 1000m / 1500m), followed by another three races next week (500m / 1000m / 1500m). The combined points from all six races will decide who earns a spot on the Olympic team, and a major shake-up in the men’s lineup is expected. In the first week, Rim Jong Un—winner of three gold medals at the 2025 World Junior Championships—claimed victory in the 1500m, while Shin Dongmin—also a triple gold medalist from the 2024 Junior Worlds—won the 500m. Hwang Daehon, the 2022 Olympic gold medalist in the 1500m, finished second in both races and is on track to make his return to the national team. At this rate, it seems unlikely that we’ll see familiar names like Park Jiwon or Kim Gunwoo at the Olympics.

Is there a livestream link for the event?

 

Edit: Never mind, found it 

 

Edited April 8 by Josh

[erw 85]

The Results of Korean  National Short Track Trials – Week 1
 

– 1st 3 Games Summary –

The Korean National Short Track Trials for the next Olympic team consist of 6 races in total:

• Two races each for 1500m, 500m, and 1000m.

Each race awards points as follows:

• 🥇 1st place: 34 points

• 🥈 2nd place: 21 points

• 🥉 3rd place: 13 points

• 4th: 8 pts | 5th: 5 pts | 6th: 3 pts | 7th: 2 pts | 8th: 1 pt

 

 

For the first three races (1500-500-1000) the representative results were (From 1st to 4 or 5th, who could receive meaningful points)

 

(Maybe the name translation could not be exact

 

1) Men's trial

 

1500m

1	0	Rim Jong-Un	Nowon High School	2	purple	02:25.599
2	0	Hwang Dae-heon	Gangwon Province Office		white	02:26.141
3	0	Jang Seong-woo	Hwaseong City Hall		main	02:26.258
4	0	Shin Dong-min	Korea University	1	red	02:26.348

 

500m

1	0	Shin Dong-min	Korea University	1	white	00:40.677
2	0	Hwang Dae-heon	Gangwon  Province Office		blue	00:40.767
3	0	Lee Jeong-min	Seongnam City Hall		purple	00:40.946
4	0	Jang Seong-woo	Hwaseong City Hall		red	00:40.976
5	0	Lee Jun-seo	Seongnam City Hall		yellow	00:42.347

 

1000m

Final
1	0	Kim Tae-sung	Hwaseong City Hall		purple	01:24.791
2	0	Rim Jong-un	Nowon High School	2	white	01:24.895
3	0	Park Jang-hyuk	Sports Toto Ice Skating Team		yellow	01:25.025
4	0	Park Ji-won	Seoul City Hall		red	01:25.081
5	0	Lee Seon-ho	Dankook University	3	blue	01:25.153

 

 

Total ranking

Rim Jong-Un 임종언 55

Hwang Dae-Heon 황대헌 42

Shin Dong-Min 신동민 42

Kim Tae-Sung 김태성 34

Jang Seong-Woo 장성우 21

Park Jang-Hyuk 박장혁 13

Lee Jeong-Min 이정민 13

Lee Jun-Seo 이준서 8

Park Ji-Won 박지원 8

and many players acquiring 1~5 points..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[erw 85]

2) Women's trial

Choi Min-Jeong has been automatically designated as a national team member, as she is the only Korean gold medalist at the most recent World Championships.

Therefore, in this selection trial:

• Only the 1st and 2nd place finishers will qualify for the individual events.

• The 3rd and 4th place finishers will be selected as relay-only athletes.

Other rules are same.

 

1500

Final
1	0	Noh Do-hee	Hwaseong city		red	02:34.486
2	0	Kim Gilli	Seongnam City		white	02:34.516
3	0	Kim Hye-bin	Hwaseong city		black	02:34.699
4	0	Shim Suk-hee	Seoul City		blue	02:34.777

...

 

 

500M

1	0	Kim Gilli	Seongnam City		white	00:44.268
2	0	Choi Ji-hyun	Jeonbuk Province		Yellow	00:44.357
3	0	Lee So-yeon	Sports Toto Ice Skating Team		purple	00:44.365
4	0	Kim Ji-yu	Goyang City		red	00:44.450
5	0	Kim Geon-hee	Seongnam City		blue	00:44.537

 

1000M

Final
1	0	Kim Gilli	Seongnam City		white	01:30.977
2	0	Noh Do-hee	Hwaseong city		Yellow	01:31.080
3	0	Shim Suk-hee	Seoul City		Blue	01:31.122
4	0	Lee So-yeon	Sports Toto Ice Skating Team		Purple	01:31.218
5	0	Kim Ji-yu	Goyang City		red	01:31.333

 

 

Total point

 

Kim Gilli 김길리 89 (Maybe an absolute pick...)

Noh Do-Hee 노도희 55 

Choi Ji-Hyeon 최지현 29

Shim Suk-Hee 심석희 21

Lee So-yeon  이소연 21

Kim Ji-Yu 김지유 13

Kim Hye-Bin 김혜빈 13

Kim Geon-Hee 김건희 8

Others <3 

Edited April 9 by erw

[erw 85]

Final National Selection of  short track was finished

 

 

Women's top 5

1. Minjeong Choi : automatic selection 25' WCh

2. Gilli Kim 

3. Do-Hee Noh

(Relay only)

4. So Yeon Lee

5. Suk Hee Shim

 

(Reseve member 6~8th)

6. Whi-Min Seo 7. Ji-Hyun Choi 8. Ah-Reum Noh

 

Men's top 5

1. Jong-Eon Lim (2025 JWCh 3Gold)

2. Dae Heon Hwang

3. Dong Min Shin (2024 JWCh 3 Gold)

(Relay only)

4. Jun Seo Lee

5. Jeong Min Lee

 

(Reserve member 6~8th)

6. Tae-Sung Kim, 7. Kyung-Hwan Hong, 8. Gun-Woo Kim

 

 

Jang Sung-Woo 9th and Park Ji-Won 11th... both failed to make national team

Edited April 13 by erw

[Kerkun 51]

From today's ISU Communication 2717:

Quote

15. Special Olympic Qualifying Classification

For each of the Distances, 500 meters Women and Men, 1000 meters Women and Men, 1500 meters Women and Men, 3000 meters Relay for Women, 5000 meters Relay for Men and 2000 meters Relays for Mixed Teams, the Special Olympic Qualifying Classifications (SOQC) will be established in accordance with Rule 284, paragraph 4. The World Ranking point system (starting from 10,000 points down to 1 point) will be used to establish the Special Olympic Qualifying Classifications (SOQC).

 

 

[NearPup 3,480]

2 hours ago, Kerkun said:

From today's ISU Communication 2717:

 

 

Seems like basically the same system as in 2022.

 

That said, I think  Montreal hosting two of the four competitions is news.

[evil betty 65]

On 6/10/2025 at 3:19 PM, Kerkun said:

From today's ISU Communication 2717:

 

 

very important information, thank you for catching that. I tried a simulation with World Tour points and you can't qualify enough athletes in each discipline anyway so it i guess you would have to use the ranking points.

[copravolley 498]

Arianna Fontana is preparing for the another season in a row alone with her husband in Canada and the USA, apart from the rest of the Italian team. I only hope she will still want to compete in the mixed relay in next season World Cup and at the Olympics (she competed in the women's relay last season, but not in the mixed relay) and I think that she can do a some training with the rest of the team during the season. With Fontana in the mixed relay our chances of even winning gold will increase significantly.

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/DPHWXzAkeBM/

Edited September 30 by copravolley