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PYEONGCHANG2018: Suzanne Schulting of the Netherlands won gold in the Olympic women’s 1,000 meters short track speed skating ahead of Canada’s Kim Boutin.

For Boutin, the silver medal was a welcome step up from her bronzes in the 500 and 1,500 meters.

Italy’s Arianna Fontana, who won gold in the 500 meters, took bronze in the final during which two South Korean favorites, Shim Sukhee and Choi Minjeong, crashed.

Fontana took her eighth Olympic Short Track medal in total equaled Apolo Anton Ohno (USA) and Viktor An (KOR, RUS) as the most decorated Short Track speed skaters in history.

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How Viktor Ahn won the 500m Short track Olympic Gold

My favourite gold medal win at the Sochi Olympics!

Started off terribly

Trailed everybody

China's Liang Wenhao crashed after 2 laps

Viktor Ahn, known for his strategy to follow the leaders, then sprint using an outside passing lane (or occasionally an inside passing lane if the opportunity arises) with only two or three laps to go started to pounce

He unleashed his Usain Bolt and passed China's Wu Dajing at the start of the final lap to first place

First with 41.312. Wu of china finishes 2nd with 41.516. Canada's Charle Cournoyer gets the bronze.

What Olympic golds are made of! I could watch this all day!

Gold.

This is Ahn's first Olympic gold for the 500m. An event that has been elusive to him but finally over now. He becomes the first athlete to win gold in all four short track events in Olympic Winter Games history (men’s 500m, 1000m, 1500m, 5000m relay) at 28, also one of the oldest athletes competing. 

His 8 medals in total matches the record of US skater Apolo Anton Ohno, making them the most decorated speed skaters of all time. But Viktor Ahn has 6 golds in all of his 8 while Ohno has only 2 golds. Many including Ohno considers Ahn the best short track skater in history. 

Ohno on this 500m performance:

''It was Ahn's clinic on how to short track speedskate tonight. He wrote a textbook,'' 

The king of Sochi and best short track skater in the world!

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"Viktor is as close to perfecting the sport as you humanly possibly can. We always try and imitate him because that's as good as it gets."           -American short track skater, Eddy Alvarez

"The best way to pay tribute to my hero (Viktor Ahn) is to go beyond him."  -Liang Wenhao of China

"He's got 8 medals. 6 gold. Perhaps the best ever to put short track speed skates on." -Apolo Ohno, short track star

The best Short track speed skater in the world! Viktor Ahn won 4 medals for Russia in this Sochi Olympics. 3 of them gold. Three. First athlete to medal in all events (500m, 1000m,1500m, 5000m relay) and he did it twice. Twice. He just won 2 gold medals in a span of one hour now! He has a total of 8 olympic medals and 6 of them in gold.  South Korea, kicking themselves again and harder right now. South Korean Skating Union getting that well deserved backlash. You wronged him, left him out and now he's throwing out gold medals for Russia. Sochi 2014 Winter Games ‪

8 Olympics medals. 6 golds. And he wasn't even on the 2010 Vancouver Olympics. 

Redemption. Legend.

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