Short-track speed skating at the 1998 Winter Olympics – Men's 1000 metres

The first round was held on 17 February. There were eight heats, with the top two finishers moving on to the quarterfinals.^[1]

Heat 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Chae Ji-hoon	South Korea	1:35.240	Q
2	Satoru Terao	Japan	1:35.323	Q
3	Yevhen Yakovlev	Ukraine	1:36.005
4	Ludovic Mathieu	France	1:36.076

Heat 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Naoya Tamura	Japan	1:31.168	Q
2	Fabio Carta	Italy	1:31.315	Q
3	Arian Nachbar	Germany	1:32.493
4	Maciej Pryczek	Poland	1:33.555

Heat 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Martin Johansson	Sweden	1:31.515	Q
2	Andy Gabel	United States	1:31.672	Q
3	Feng Kai	China	1:31.724
4	Yun Chol	North Korea	1:33.133

Heat 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Lee Jun-hwan	South Korea	1:32.879	Q
2	Éric Bédard	Canada	1:32.975	Q
3	Steven Bradbury	Australia	1:33.108

Heat 5

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	François Drolet	Canada	1:32.949	Q
2	Kim Dong-sung	South Korea	1:33.039	Q
3	Nicky Gooch	Great Britain	1:33.638

Heat 6

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Matt Jasper	Great Britain	1:32.709	Q
2	An Yulong	China	1:32.731	Q
3	Dave Versteeg	Netherlands	1:32.748
4	Boldyn Sansarbileg	Mongolia	1:39.913

Heat 7

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Hitoshi Uematsu	Japan	1:30.466	Q
2	Marc Gagnon	Canada	1:30.476	Q
3	Bruno Loscos	France	1:30.805
4	Scott Koons	United States	1:31.110

Heat 8

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Rusty Smith	United States	1:33.326	Q
2	Li Jiajun	China	1:34.023	Q
3	Han Sang-guk	North Korea	1:34.220
–	Michele Antonioli	Italy	DSQ

The quarterfinals were held on 17 February. The top two finishers in each of the four quarterfinals advanced to the semifinals.^[1] In quarterfinal 1, Canada's Marc Gagnon was disqualified, and South Korea's Lee Jun-hwan was advanced. In quarterfinal 4, Japan's Hiotshi Uematsu was disqualified, and USA's Andy Gabel was advanced.

Quarterfinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Satoru Terao	Japan	1:29.398	Q OR
2	Matt Jasper	Great Britain	1:31.798	Q
3	Lee Jun-hwan	South Korea	1:38.115	ADV
–	Marc Gagnon	Canada	DSQ

Quarterfinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Fabio Carta	Italy	1:32.358	Q
2	Kim Dong-sung	South Korea	1:32.423	Q
3	François Drolet	Canada	1:32.513
4	Martin Johansson	Sweden	1:33.047

Quarterfinal 3

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Naoya Tamura	Japan	1:29.509	Q
2	Éric Bédard	Canada	1:29.622	Q
3	An Yulong	China	1:29.784
4	Rusty Smith	United States	1:39.775

Quarterfinal 4

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Li Jiajun	China	1:34.510	Q
2	Chae Ji-hoon	South Korea	1:34.902	Q
3	Andy Gabel	United States	1:35.641	ADV
–	Hitoshi Uematsu	Japan	DSQ

The semifinals were held on 16 February. The top two finishers in each of the two semifinals qualified for the A final, while the third and fourth place skaters advanced to the B Final.^[1]

Semifinal 1

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Andy Gabel	United States	1:32.985	QA
2	Éric Bédard	Canada	1:36.233	QA
3	Fabio Carta	Italy	1:39.402	QB
4	Naoya Tamura	Japan	1:42.908	QB
–	Chae Ji-hoon	South Korea	DSQ

Semifinal 2

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
1	Kim Dong-sung	South Korea	1:32.036	QA
2	Li Jiajun	China	1:32.183	QA
3	Matt Jasper	Great Britain	1:32.549	QB
4	Lee Jun-hwan	South Korea	1:32.634	QB
5	Satoru Terao	Japan	1:32.636

The four qualifying skaters competed in Final A, while four others raced for 5th place in Final B.^[1]

Final A

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
	Kim Dong-sung	South Korea	1:32.375
	Li Jiajun	China	1:32.428
	Éric Bédard	Canada	1:32.661
4	Andy Gabel	United States	1:33.518

Final B

Rank	Athlete	Country	Time	Notes
5	Naoya Tamura	Japan	1:32.927
6	Fabio Carta	Italy	1:33.015
7	Lee Jun-hwan	South Korea	1:33.131
8	Matt Jasper	Great Britain	1:34.285