2025–26 ISU Short Track World Tour
| 2025–26 ISU Short Track World Tour | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Discipline | Men | Women | |
| Overall | . | . | |
| 500 m | . | . | |
| 1000 m | . | . | |
| 1500 m | . | . | |
| Relay | . | . | |
| 2000 m Mixed | . | ||
| Competition | |||
| Edition | 2nd | 2nd | |
| Locations | 4 | 4 | |
| Individual | 12 | 12 | |
| Relay/Team | 4 | 4 | |
| Mixed | 4 | 4 | |
The 2025–26 ISU Short Track World Tour is a series of four short track speed skating events, organised by the International Skating Union (ISU). It is the second edition of the ISU Short Track World Tour. It starts on 9 October 2025 and ends on 30 November 2025. Performance at the 2025–26 World Tour determines qualification for short track speed skating at the 2026 Winter Olympics.
Events calendar
[edit]ISU communication 2717 designated the following events as World Tour Competitions:
| 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 |
Format
[edit]Each event consists of a qualifying session and a main session. The qualifying session is held on the first day. The main session is held on the second and third day. 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.
| Event format | Qualifying session | Main session | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | ||
| 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 |
Entry rules
[edit]Maximum number of competitors
[edit]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
[edit]All competitors must have achieved a qualifying time over 500 meters at an official ISU event after July 1st, 2023. A competitor who is the country´s sole representative in his or her category must have achieved a time of 45.04 seconds (men) or 47.21 seconds (women). For ISU member countries that register more than one competitor per category, the qualifying times of 43.46 seconds (men) or 45.56 seconds (women) apply.
| 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 |
Points and classifications
[edit]Skaters and teams score points per distance in each of the four events.
World Tour rankings
[edit]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
[edit]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.
| 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 | |||
External link
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "ISU Short Track World Tour". Speed Skating Canada. Retrieved 2025-08-16.
- ^ "ISU World Tour 4 shorttrack | Dordrecht". teamnl.org (in Dutch). Retrieved 2025-08-16.
- ^ "2026 US Championships Short Track & World Tour Qualifier". www.usspeedskating.org. Retrieved 2025-08-18.
- ^ Brouillette, Alain (2025-06-26). "Speed Skating Canada announces National and NextGen short track teams for 2025-26 season". Speed Skating Canada. Retrieved 2025-08-18.