Stoddard Closes Out Short Track Season With A Bronze Medal At World Championships

Corinne Stoddard finished off a remarkable 2025-26 season with a Bronze medal at the ISU CNSG Short Track World Championships in Montreal.

Stoddard finished third in the Women’s 1500m, and she and Clayton DeClemente also just missed the podium in two other events at the March 13-15 competition that concluded the global short track season.

Stoddard is coming off a Bronze medal in the 1500m at last month’s Olympic Winter Games Milano Cortina 2026. It was the first Olympic medal for a U.S. women’s short track skater since 2010.

Stoddard repeated the feat in Montreal. She led for portions of the race, then wound up third behind Olympic champion Kim Gilli of South Korea and Xandra Velzeboer of the Netherlands. Stoddard finished the race with a time of 2:31.386, just .383 behind Kim.

Stoddard began the 2025-26 ISU Short Track World Tour last October with three podium finishes in Montreal, carving the path for a career-best season that included eight individual World Tour podium finishes, a second-place finish in the Crystal Globe standings, an Olympic medal and now a World Championships medal.

She nearly captured two other podium finishes this weekend in Montreal, placing fourth in the Women’s 500m with a time of 42.423 seconds and fifth in the 1000m with a time of 1:33.378.

DeClemente, who made his Olympic debut this year, nearly won his first World Championships medal when he finished fourth in the Men’s 1000m. His time of 1:26.669 was just .009 behind third-place finisher Niall Treacy of Great Britain. DeClemente’s finish was the best for a U.S. man in an individual event at the World Championships since J.R. Celski’s Silver medal in the 500m in 2014.

Brandon Kim finished fourth (12th overall) in the Men’s 1500m B Final, and Andrew Heo was just behind him in fifth place.

DeClemente, Noah Troppe, Heo and Kim teamed up for a fourth-place finish in the Men’s 5000m Relay B Final.

Paul D. Bowker has been writing about Olympic and Paralympic sports since 1996, when he was an assistant bureau chief in Atlanta. He is a freelance contributor to USSpeedskating.org on behalf of Red Line Editorial, Inc.