The 2005 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 9 and 11 March 2005 in Beijing, China. The World Championships are organised by the ISU which also run world cups and championships in speed skating and figure skating.

Results

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Overall*	Ahn Hyun-soo  South Korea	89 points	Apolo Anton Ohno  United States	68 points	François-Louis Tremblay  Canada	60 points
500 m	François-Louis Tremblay  Canada	42.106	Charles Hamelin  Canada	42.135	Ahn Hyun-soo  South Korea	42.185
1000 m	Apolo Anton Ohno  United States	1:30.066	Ahn Hyun-soo  South Korea	1:30.206	Li Jiajun  China	1:30.641
1500 m	Ahn Hyun-soo  South Korea	2:14.396	François-Louis Tremblay  Canada	2:14.992	Lee Seung-hoon  South Korea	2:15.244
5000 m relay	Canada Charles Hamelin Steve Robillard François-Louis Tremblay Mathieu Turcotte	6:39.990	South Korea Ahn Hyun-soo Lee Seung-hoon Seo Ho-jin Song Kyung-taek Lee Jae-kyung	6:40.020	United States Shani Davis Alex Izykowski Jordan Malone Apolo Anton Ohno	6:52.072

* First place is awarded 34 points, second is awarded 21 points, third is awarded 13 points, fourth is awarded 8 points, fifth is awarded 5 points, sixth is awarded 3 points, seventh is awarded 2 points, and eighth is awarded 1 point in the finals of each individual race to determine the overall world champion. The relays do not count for the overall classification.

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Overall*	Jin Sun-yu  South Korea	76 points	Choi Eun-kyung  South Korea	63 points	Kang Yun-mi  South Korea	60 points
500 m	Yang Yang  China	45.038	Wang Meng  China	45.129	Fu Tianyu  China	45.232
1000 m	Choi Eun-kyung  South Korea	1:31.085	Jin Sun-yu  South Korea	1:31.232	Wang Meng  China	1:31.343
1500 m	Jin Sun-yu  South Korea	2:20.461	Kang Yun-mi  South Korea	2:20.743	Wang Meng  China	2:20.876
3000 m relay†	Canada Alanna Kraus Chantale Sévigny Kalyna Roberge Tania Vicent Amanda Overland	4:20.767	China Cheng Xiaolei Fu Tianyu Wang Meng Yang Yang	4:30.654	France Stéphanie Bouvier Choi Min-kyung Myrtille Gollin Celine Lecompere	4:24.974

^† In the final of the Women's 3000 m relay, the South Korean and Japanese teams were disqualified, thus the French team was awarded the bronze medal from its time in the heats.

* First place is awarded 34 points, second is awarded 21 points, third is awarded 13 points, fourth is awarded 8 points, fifth is awarded 5 points, sixth is awarded 3 points, seventh is awarded 2 points, and eighth is awarded 1 point in the finals of each individual race to determine the overall world champion. The relays do not count for the overall classification.

Medal table

  *   Host nation (China)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	5	5	3	13
2	Canada	3	2	1	6
3	China*	1	2	4	7
4	United States	1	1	1	3
5	France	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)		10	10	10	30