After three weekends of competition, the 2025 Short Track World Tour will come to a close Nov. 27-30.

Held in Dordrecht, Netherlands, the four-day event will mark the final chance for athletes to secure Olympic quota spots for their countries.

For skaters, this year's World Tour brings even more pressure than usual. Not only does it serve as the primary way to earn qualifying points for the upcoming Winter Olympics, as per usual, but the circuit also has been shortened from six events to four in order to conclude before the Games arrive in February, meaning each race carries more weight than in seasons past. 

Heading into the final weekend of competition, Canada still leads nearly every category. William Dandjinou and Courtney Sarault lead the overall men's and women's competitions, respectively. Dandjinou, the reigning Crystal Globe champion, extended his already-sizable lead to 140 points with two first-place finishes at World Tour No. 3. Up to this point, he has won every individual A Final he has entered this season.

Steven Dubois defended his third-place ranking last weekend, skating to bronze in both the men's 500m and 1000m. Canada also has been dominant in the relay competitions, though after failing to make the final in either the men's or the women's relay at World Tour No. 3 in Gdansk, Poland, both gendered relay teams fell: men's from 1st to 5th, and women's from 2nd to 3rd. The country still leads the mixed relay competition, having earned bronze in Gdansk. 

American Corinne Stoddard still stands as Sarault's biggest threat, landing just 80 points behind her. In 2nd-place overall, Stoddard is the top-ranked American, boasting a No. 2 ranking in the 500m, No. 3 in the 1000m, and No. 4 in the 1500m. Through the first three stops, she reached the podium in six of her nine races (1 silver, 5 bronze). 

With three-straight wins in the women's 500m — four including her gold at the 2025 Short Track World Championships — the Netherlands' Xandra Velzeboer sits in 3rd. The 24-year-old has won six of her last nine races in the distance on the World Tour level. As she competes in front of her home Dutch crowd this weekend, she is poised to sweep the event.

Kristen Santos-Griswold, who last season won the United States' third-ever Crystal Globe, sits in 7th overall.

On the men's side, upcoming Olympic host Italy has two strong contenders vying for the top spots in the men's competition: Pietro Sighel (No. 2) and Thomas Nadalini (No. 6). Both finished on the podium behind Dandjinou in the 1500m in Gdansk, and while Dandjinou crashed out of the 1000m quarterfinals, Sighel claimed silver.

Longtime short track juggernaut South Korea also made a push to the top in Gdansk, earning its second gold in the men's relay, its first in the mixed relay, and three medals in the individual women's events. Choi Min-Jeong skated to silver in the 1500m and bronze in the 500m, protecting her overall 4th-place ranking, and Kim Gil-Li's 1500m gold bumped her from 6th overall to 5th. The country now leads the men's relay and sits in 2nd in the women's and mixed relays.

The International Olympic Committee will award each eligible country its designated number of quota spots, based on the performances of each country’s athletes, on or before Dec. 12, 2025. At that point, countries may nominate athletes to their respective Olympic rosters.

Each country may secure a maximum of five quota spots per gender if the country qualifies a relay team. If a country fails to qualify a relay team, the maximum number of quota spots the country can receive per gender is three. 

The eight highest-ranked relay teams in each gender qualify for the Olympics. Countries allocated at least two quota spots per gender will qualify for the mixed relay event, with a maximum of 12 teams qualifying for the Olympics.

American skaters may qualify for the Olympic team in two ways on the World Tour:

• Earning a medal in any individual distance at the 2025-2026 ISU World Tour Competitions
• Securing two top-20 finishes in any individual distance at the 2025-2026 ISU World Tour Competitions

Should more U.S. skaters satisfy the above criteria than the awarded quota spots allow, a tiebreak process will ensue.

US Speedskating is expected to announce its official Olympic roster Dec. 13.

After two qualification days Nov. 27 and 28, the final rounds of the competition begin Saturday, Nov. 29 at 7:35 a.m. ET and conclude Nov. 30.

All events from Days 3 and 4 are available to watch on mobile, tablet and connected TV devices via Peacock.