1997 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships

The 1997 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between March 29 and 30, 1997, in Nagano, Japan, one year before the 1998 Winter Olympics. The event was hosted in White Ring.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Overall	Kim Dong-sung South Korea		Marc Gagnon Canada		Satoru Terao Japan Derrick Campbell Canada
500 m	Derrick Campbell Canada	43.424	Kim Dong-sung South Korea	43.557	Satoru Terao Japan	43.697
1000 m	Kim Dong-sung South Korea	1:35.187	Lee Jun-hwan South Korea	1:35.303	Feng Kai China	1:50.706
1500 m	Marc Gagnon Canada	2:21.322	Orazio Fagone Italy	2:21.617	Mirko Vuillermin Italy	2:22.063
3000 m	Kim Dong-sung South Korea	5:14.057	Satoru Terao Japan	5:14.353	Marc Gagnon Canada	5:14.484
5000 m relay	South Korea Kim Dong-sung Lee Ho-eung Kim Sun-tae Lee Jun-hwan	7:00.042	Canada Jonathan Guilmette Derrick Campbell Marc Gagnon Éric Bédard François Drolet	7:07.206	Italy Orazio Fagone Nicola Franceschina Mirko Vuillermin Fabio Carta Michele Antonioli	7:09.028

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Overall	Chun Lee-kyung South Korea Yang Yang (A) China				Won Hye-kyung South Korea
500 m	Yang Yang (A) China	45.946	Isabelle Charest Canada	52.050	Marinella Canclini Italy	54.374
1000 m	Yang Yang (A) China	1:35.394	Won Hye-kyung South Korea	1:35.461	Chun Lee-kyung South Korea	1:35.463
1500 m	Chun Lee-kyung South Korea	2:29.426	Won Hye-kyung South Korea	2:29.554	Yang Yang (S) China	2:30.467
3000 m	Chun Lee-kyung South Korea	5:44.161	Won Hye-kyung South Korea	5:44.261	Yang Yang (A) China	5:44.358
3000 m relay	Canada Nathalie Lambert Isabelle Charest Christine Boudrias Annie Perreault	4:21.232	South Korea Won Hye-kyung Chun Lee-kyung An Sang-mi Kim Yoon-mi	4:21.362	Japan Ayako Tsubaki Ikue Teshigawara Chikage Tanaka Nobuko Yamada	4:21.606

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	7	6	2	15
2	Canada (CAN)	3	3	2	8
3	China (CHN)	3	0	3	6
4	Italy (ITA)	0	1	3	4
	Japan (JPN)	0	1	3	4
Totals (5 entries)		13	11	13	37

External links

• ISU Results