Samuel Girard yelled and signaled No. 1 with both index fingers as he crossed the finish line first. Just behind him, John-Henry Krueger spread his arms in a can-you-believe-it gesture.
The Canadian and the American claimed gold and silver in the men’s 1,000-meter short track Saturday at Gangneung, upsetting the powerful South Koreans.
Girard and Krueger raced to celebrate with their coaches on the sideline. Krueger sank to his knees on the ice, head in hands, still stunned at winning the first US speedskating medal of the PyeongChang Olympics.
‘‘There were so many thoughts rushing through my head,’’ Krueger said.
World champion Seo Yira of the host nation earned bronze.
Seo and teammate Lim Hyo-jun, who earlier won the 1,500, were taken out in the turn approaching the last lap by Liu Shaolin Sandor of Hungary. Seo got up and kept going, but he was too far behind to catch the leaders. Girard and Krueger sprinted to the finish, with the Canadian keeping his lead.
In the women’s 1,500 final, Choi Min-jeong won the host nation’s second short-track gold in front of President Moon Jae-in.
Li Jinyu of China took silver and Kim Boutin of Canada earned bronze to go with her same colored medal in the 500.
Americans Maame Biney, Lana Gehring and Jessica Kooreman were eliminated in the heats of the 1,500.
Cross-country relay — Marit Bjoergen crossed the finish line, thrust her ski poles in the air and was promptly mobbed by teammates.
She’d done it.
No Winter Olympian in history can say they have more medals than the 37-year-old Norwegian cross-country skier.
Bjoergen helped the Norwegian women win the 4 x 5-kilometer cross-country relay at PyeongChang to take home her 13th career medal, tying her with Norwegian biathlete Ole Einar Bjoerndalen for the most Winter Games medals.
She can take over sole possession with a medal in either the final two women’s events — the team sprint relay or the 50-kilometer mass start. The 44-year-old Bjoerndalen participated in six Olympics but did not make this year’s team.
‘‘She is an absolute legend,’’ American rival Jessica Diggins said. ‘‘It’s really, really cool to see her race every single time. She just skis with absolute control.’’
Sweden finished a close second and a team of Russians were third.
Women’s skeleton — Lizzy Yarnold picked the perfect time to end a three-year winless streak, and extended Britain’s dominance in the process.
Yarnold won her second consecutive Olympic women’s skeleton gold medal, leaving no doubt by setting a track record in the fourth and final heat to beat Germany’s Jacqueline Loelling by nearly a half-second.
Yarnold’s time was 3 minutes, 27.28 seconds. Loelling finished in 3:27.73, and Britain’s Laura Deas was third in 3:27.90.
The US struggled, with four-time Olympian Katie Uhlaender finishing 13th and Kendall Wesenberg — who had trouble figuring out Curve 2 and lost tons of time in that process — ending her first Olympics in 17th.
Wesenberg was weeping afterward, disappointed by her showing. When she talked about her cheering party, with her family and about 10 friends going wild in the stands, she cheered up immediately.
‘‘I have great support back home and it’s so cool to have them here,’’ Wesenberg said.
Ski jumping — After missing the podium a week ago, defending Olympic champion Kamil Stoch came up big on the large hill.
The 30-year-old Polish ski jumper had leaps of 135 and 136.5 meters for 285.7 points to win gold on the large hill.
Normal hill gold medalist Andreas Wellinger of Germany took the silver and Norway’s Robert Johansson won bronze.
Stoch, who won both the normal and large hill golds in Sochi, had to settle for fourth on the normal hill.
Biathlon — After two silver medals, Slovakia’s Anastasiya Kuzmina finally found gold.
Kuzmina hit 19 of 20 targets and won the women’s 12.5-kilometer mass start by 18.8 seconds over silver medalist Darya Domracheva from Belarus. Norway’s Tiril Eckhoff won the bronze medal.
Germany’s Laura Dahlmeier was the favorite in the event and a two-time Olympic champion already, but she struggled with two misses and finished in 16th place.
The hardest part of Kuzmina’s night seemed to be trying to unravel the Slovakian flag in her arms as she was skiing toward the finish line.
Kuzmina has accounted for all three of Slovakia’s medals in the PyeongChang Games.
Freestyle skiing — Sarah Hoefflin led a Swiss gold and silver effort in the women’s slopestyle event.
She scored a 91.20 on her last run to take the gold from her countrywoman, Mathilde Gremaud. Maggie Voisin of the United States was fourth.
