2025–26 ISU Short Track World Tour

The 2025–26 ISU Short Track World Tour was a series of four short track speed skating events, organised by the International Skating Union (ISU). It was the second edition of the ISU Short Track World Tour. It started on 9 October 2025 and ended on 30 November 2025. Performance at the 2025–26 World Tour determined qualification for short track speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics.

Discipline Men

Overall

William Dandjinou

500 m

William Dandjinou

1000 m

Pietro Sighel

Quick facts Discipline, Overall ...

2025–26 ISU Short Track World Tour
Discipline	Men	Women
Overall	William Dandjinou	Courtney Sarault
500 m	William Dandjinou	Xandra Velzeboer
1000 m	Pietro Sighel	Courtney Sarault
1500 m	William Dandjinou	Kim Gil-li
Relay	South Korea	Netherlands
2000 m Mixed	Netherlands
Competition
Edition	2nd	2nd
Locations	4	4
Individual	12	12
Relay/Team	4	4
Mixed	4	4
←2024–25 2026–27→

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Events calendar

ISU communication 2717 designated the following events as World Tour Competitions:

More information Event, City ...

Event	City	Date
1	Montreal^[1]	9–12 October 2025
2	Montreal	16–19 October 2025
3	Gdańsk	20–23 November 2025
4	Dordrecht^[2]	27–30 November 2025

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Format

Each event consists of a qualifying session and a main session. The qualifying session is held on the first two days and the morning of the third day. The main session is held on the third and fourth days. World Tour Points are awarded for performance in the main session only.

The qualifying session may consist of preliminaries, heats and quarterfinals, depending on the number of registered competitors per distance. The main session may consist of a repechage, quarterfinals, semifinals and finals.

More information Event format, Qualifying session ...

Event format		Qualifying session	Main session
Event format		Qualifying session	Day 3	Day 4
Men	500 m	H	R, QF, SF, F
	1000 m	H		R, QF, SF, F
	1500 m	QF	R, SF, F
	5000 m relay	QF	SF	F
Women	500 m	H		R, QF, SF, F
	1000 m	H	R, QF, SF, F
	1500 m	QF		R, SF, F
	3000 m relay		SF, F
Mixed	2000 m relay	QF	SF	F

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Entry rules

Maximum number of competitors

Each ISU member country may register up to a maximum of 6 men and 6 women per event. Each ISU member determines its own selection procedure. For team USA, national qualifiers are held from 11-14 September 2025.^[3] Team Canada is selected based on performance in the previous season.^[4] A maximum of three competitors per country can participate in any individual distance.

Qualifying times

All competitors must have achieved a qualifying time over 500 meters at an official ISU event after July 1st, 2023. Competitors must achieve a time of 45.04 seconds (men) or 47.21 seconds (women) if they are their country´s sole representative. Competitors from ISU member countries that register more than one competitor per category must meet a qualifying time of 43.46 seconds (men) or 45.56 seconds (women).

More information Qualifying times in seconds over 500 meter, ISU members with only one competitor ...


	Qualifying times in seconds over 500 meter
	ISU members with only one competitor	ISU members with more than one competitor
men	45.04	43.46
women	47.21	45.56

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Points and classifications

Skaters and teams score points per distance in each of the four events.

World Tour rankings

The World Tour ranking per distance is established by the sum of the best three scores of each competitor. An overall individual ranking is established by the best nine scores of each skater across all individual distances.The winner is awarded the Crystal Globe for best short-track speed skater of the World Tour. An overall World Team Classification is computed by adding all individual results from all categories plus three times the score in each team event. The winning team is awarded the Crystal Globe for best short-track team of the World Tour.

Special Olympic Qualification Classifications

The Olympic Qualification Classification uses the points awarded for the World Ranking. In each race, the highest placed skater of a country earns points for the first olympic quota place of that country. The country´s second placed skater earns points for the second quota place of that country and the country´s third placed skater earns points for the third quota place of that country. The best three of four results count to determine quota place allocation for the 2026 Winter Olympics.

More information World Tour Points, World Ranking and Olympic Classification points ...


World Tour Points		World Ranking and Olympic Classification points
Place	Points	Place	Points	Place	Points	Place	Points
1	100	1	10,000	25	269	49	21
2	80	2	8,500	26	242	50	19
3	70	3	7,225	27	218	51	18
4	60	4	6,141	28	196	52	17
5	50	5	5,220	29	177	53	16
6	44	6	4,437	30	159	54	15
7	40	7	3,771	31	143	55	14
8	36	8	3,206	32	129	56	13
9	32	9	2,725	33	116	57	12
10	28	10	2,316	34	104	58	11
11	24	11	1,969	35	94	59	10
12	20	12	1,673	36	84	60	9
13	18	13	1,422	37	76	61	8
14	16	14	1,209	38	68	62	7
15	14	15	1,028	39	62	63	6
16	12	16	874	40	55	64	5
17	10	17	743	41	50	65	4
18	8	18	631	42	45	66	3
19	6	19	536	43	40	67	2
20	5	20	456	44	36	68 and above	1
21	4	21	410	45	33
22	3	22	369	46	29
23	2	23	332	47	27
24	1	24	299	48	24

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Results

More information Stage, # ...

Stage	#	Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	Second	Third	R.
1	1	11 October	Montréal (Maurice Richard Arena)	1500m	Rim Jong-un	Hwang Dae-heon	Sun Long	^[5]
	2	11 October		500m	William Dandjinou	Pietro Sighel	Steven Dubois	^[6]
	3	12 October		1000m	Pietro Sighel	Rim Jong-un	Liu Shaoang	^[7]
	4	12 October		5000m relay	South Korea	China	Italy	^[8]
2	1	18 October	Montréal (Maurice Richard Arena)	1500m	William Dandjinou	Shogo Miyata	Steven Dubois	^[9]
	2	18 October		500m	William Dandjinou	Liu Shaoang	Sun Long	^[10]
	3	19 October		1000m	William Dandjinou	Steven Dubois	Hwang Dae-heon	^[11]
	4	19 October		5000m relay	Canada	Netherlands	Italy	^[12]
3	1	22 November	Gdansk (Hala Olivia)	1500m	William Dandjinou	Thomas Nadalini	Pietro Sighel	^[13]
	2	22 November		500m	William Dandjinou	Lin Xiaojun	Steven Dubois	^[14]
	3	23 November		1000m	Jens van 't Wout	Pietro Sighel	Steven Dubois	^[15]
	4	23 November		5000m relay	South Korea	China	Italy	^[16]
4	1	29 November	Dordrecht (Sportboulevard)	1500m	William Dandjinou	Félix Roussel	Sun Long	^[17]
	2	29 November		500m	Andrew Heo	William Dandjinou	Félix Pigeon	^[18]
	3	30 November		1000m	Rim Jong-un	Liu Shaoang	Pietro Sighel	^[19]
	4	30 November		5000m relay	Netherlands	China	Italy	^[20]

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Standings

More information Rank, after 16 of 16 events ...

Overall

Rank	after 16 of 16 events	Points
1	William Dandjinou	876
2	Pietro Sighel	664
3	Steven Dubois	590
4	Sun Long	510
5	Liu Shaoang	460

500m

Rank	after 4 of 4 events	Points
1	William Dandjinou	300
2	Pietro Sighel	190
3	Steven Dubois	184
4	Liu Shaoang	152
5	Sun Long	146

1000m

Rank	after 4 of 4 events	Points
1	Pietro Sighel	300
2	Steven Dubois	244
3	Liu Shaoang	232
4	Rim Jong-un	224
5	William Dandjinou	186

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More information Rank, after 4 of 4 events ...

1500m

Rank	after 4 of 4 events	Points
1	William Dandjinou	300
2	Thomas Nadalini	200
3	Shogo Miyata	190
4	Sun Long	180
5	Felix Roussel	164

5000m Relay

Rank	after 4 of 4 events	Points
1	South Korea	250
2	Netherlands	240
3	China	240
4	Italy	210
5	Canada	210

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