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Short track speed skating at the 2002 Winter Olympics

2002 Winter Olympic Games Short track speed skating:

500 m Men:

1. Gagnon (CAN)
2. Guilmette (CAN)
3. Smith (USA)

1000 m Men:

1. Steven Bradbury (AUS)
2. Apolo Anton Ohno (USA)
3. Mathieu Turcotte (CAN)

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 Canada

1. Italy
2. China

500 m Women:

1. Yang Yang (A) (CHN)
2. Yevgenia Radanova (BUL)
3. Yang Yang (A) (CHN)
4. Ko Gi-Hyun (KOR)
5. Ko Gi-Hyun (KOR)
6. Choi Eun-Kyung (KOR)
7. South Korea
8. China
9. Canada

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