The 1998 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between March 20 and 22, 1998, in Vienna, Austria. The event was hosted by Steffl Arena.

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Overall	Marc Gagnon  Canada		Fabio Carta  Italy		Kim Dong-sung  South Korea
500 m	Feng Kai  China	42.458	Éric Bédard  Canada	42.675	Yuan Ye  China	42.724
1000 m	Marc Gagnon  Canada	1:34.117	Satoru Terao  Japan	1:34.123	Fabio Carta  Italy	1:34.193
1500 m	Marc Gagnon  Canada	2:16.929	Fabio Carta  Italy	2:17.046	Kim Dong-sung  South Korea	2:17.341
3000 m	Kim Dong-sung  South Korea	5:15.007	Michele Antonioli  Italy	5:18.609	Fabio Carta  Italy	5:21.546
5000 m relay	Canada Derrick Campbell Mathieu Turcotte Marc Gagnon François Drolet Éric Bédard	7:01,557	South Korea Kim Dong-sung Chae Ji-hoon Lee Jun-hwan Lee Ho-eung Kim Sun-tae	7:01.738	China Li Jiajun Feng Kai Yuan Ye An Yulong	7:02.455

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Overall	Yang Yang (A)  China		Wang Chunlu  China Chun Lee-kyung  South Korea
500 m	Wang Chunlu  China	45.087	Annie Perreault  Canada	45.180	Marinella Canclini  Italy	45.266
1000 m	Yang Yang (A)  China	1:33.562	Chun Lee-kyung  South Korea	1:33.584	Kim Yun-mi  South Korea	1:34.198
1500 m	Yang Yang (A)  China	2:26.063	Wang Chunlu  China	2:26.347	Evgenia Radanova  Bulgaria	2:26.501
3000 m	Chun Lee-kyung  South Korea	5:19.340	Yang Yang (A)  China	5:20.057	Evgenia Radanova  Bulgaria	5:20.387
3000 m relay	China Wang Chunlu Yang Yang (A) Yang Yang (S) Sun Dandan Qin Na	4:21.122	South Korea Won Hye-kyung Chun Lee-kyung Kim Yun-mi An Sang-mi	4:23.135	United States Sarah Lang Caroline Hallisey Amy Peterson Erin Porter	4:28.251

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	5	2	2	9
2	Canada (CAN)	3	2	0	5
3	South Korea (KOR)	2	3	2	7
4	Italy (ITA)	0	2	3	5
5	Japan (JPN)	0	1	0	1
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	2	2
7	United States (USA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		10	10	10	30

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