Short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics – Qualification
The following is about the qualification rules and the quota allocation for the short track speed skating at the 2022 Winter Olympics. Qualification rules A total quota of 112 athletes are allowed to compete at the Games (56 men and 56 women). Countries are assigned quotas based on their performance during the 2021–22 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup. Each nation is permitted to enter a maximum of four athletes per gender if it qualified a relay team and three if it did not. If, in a specific gender, the NOC has qualified eight individual starting places (i.e. 3 in the 500m, 3 in the 1000m, 2 in the 1500m) then they are allowed a maximum of five. Hosts China are guaranteed a quota of one entry per race for a total of eight athletes. There are a maximum of thirty-two qualifiers for the 500m and 1000m events; thirty-six for the 1500m events; eight for the men's and women's relays; and twelve for the mixed relay. Additional quota's for the mixed team relay If there are not twelve NOCs with both two male and two female quotas, and if the maximum allocation limit of 112 has not been reached,