A total quota of 120 athletes were allowed to compete at the Games (60 men and 60 women).

Countries were assigned quotas using the results of the entire 2017–18 World Cup in the autumn of 2017.

Each nation was permitted to enter a maximum of five athletes per gender if it qualified a relay team and three if it did not.

*   Host nation (South Korea)a Skaters who did not participate in the final, but received medals.

They won bronze by default when Canada and China were both disqualified from the medal round (Final A) leaving only two teams to take gold and silver (South Korea and Italy); Netherlands had already won the previous race, the classification round (Final B), in world record time.