During the 19 days of competition at the 2022 Beijing Olympics, 38 records were set, most notably the two world records of the Dutch female athlete and the Swedish male athlete.
In addition, there are 17 new Olympic records set for short-distance speed skating with 7 Olympic records, speed skating with 10 Olympic records and 19 new records, of which 8 new records have been set for sliding in the saddle, rear-wheel skating with 7 and sliding on the slide with 4.
Dutch athlete Suzanne Schulting set a series of short-distance figure skating records (Short track Speed Skating). On February 9, the 8th day of the Olympics, in the qualifying round of the 1,000m event, she and Korean athlete Choi MinJeong took turns breaking the Olympic record. In the first qualifying round, Choi MinJeong broke the Olympic record with a time of 1 minute 28.053 seconds 0.718 seconds faster than the old Olympic record, but in the second qualifying round, Suzanne Schulting broke Choi MinJeong's newly set record with a time of 1 minute 27.292 seconds 0.761 seconds faster.
On February 11, the 10th day of the Games, in the quarter-finals of the 1,000m event in the same event, Suzanne Schulting once again excellently broke the Olympic and world record that had existed for nearly 10 years with a time of 1 minute 26.514 seconds and won the Gold Medal in the final round later, the old world record belonged to Korean athlete Shim Suk Hee with a time of 1 minute 26.661 second set on October 21, 2012 in province province, Canada.
In addition, in the 4th qualifying round 500m event, she achieved a time of 42.379 seconds, breaking the Olympic record set by Korean athlete Choi MinJeong at PyeongChang 2018 with a time of 42.422 seconds. But unfortunately, in the final round, she could not maintain her best results, so she had to regretfully receive a Silver Medal, the Italian athlete Montana won a Gold Medal.
Nils Van De Poel broke the Olympic record for speed skating (Speed Skating).
Also on the 10th day of competition in the 10,000m speed skating event, 25-year-old Swedish athlete Nils Van De Poel successfully defeated 12 other opponents and broke his own world record, setting a new Olympic record with a time of 12 minutes 30.74 seconds faster than the old record of 2.21 seconds set at Heerenveen on February 14, 2021 and 9.03 seconds faster than the Olympic record set by Canadian athlete Ted- Jan Bloemen at PyeongChang 2018.
In addition, he also set an additional Olympic record and won another Gold Medal for the Swedish team in the 5,000m event with a time of 6 minutes 88.84 seconds, far behind his own world record by 7.28 seconds but still enough for him to break the Olympic record. Dutch athlete Patrick Roest also broke the Olympic record with a time of 6 minutes and 29.31 seconds but had to regretfully receive a Silver Medal, the Norwegian athlete with a time of 6 minutes and 29.88 seconds won a Bronze Medal.
The 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics ended with the overall victory belonging to the Norwegian sports delegation with 16 Gold Medals, also the sports delegation that won the most Gold Medals in history in a winter Games.
