Short track team world championships 2008

The 2008 team world championships in the short track took place from March 15 to 16, 2008 in Harbin, China. Harbin was the first Chinese venue for short track team world championships, but individual world championships were held in Beijing in 1993 and 2005 in China.

Eight teams took part for women and men. Of these, seven competed for both women and men, while Bulgaria only competed for women and the UK only for men. In the women's race, China won ahead of South Korea and Canada; in the men's event, the team from the USA prevailed ahead of Canada and South Korea.

Regulations

Eight teams with a maximum of five athletes took part in the women and men. The eight teams were divided into two groups. The first team in each group qualified directly for the A final, the second and third placed team for the round of hope and the fourth placed team for the B final. The first two teams in the round of hope also advanced to the A final, while the third and fourth placed teams had to compete in the B final. The runs of the preliminary round groups and the round of hope were completed on the first day of the competition, the A and B finals on the second.

Over 500 m and 1000 m, an athlete from one country competed against each other in four runs. There was only one run over 3000 m, with two athletes from each country. Four runners from one country started in the relay. In each individual race, the first received five points, the second three points, the third two points and the fourth one point. Twice as many points were awarded in the season, ten for the first season, six for the second, four for the third and two for the fourth. No point was awarded in the event of a disqualification. The addition of all points of the athletes of a country decided on the placement.

Results

Women

In the first group of the preliminary round, China prevailed sovereignly and reached the A-final, Canada and Italy qualified for the hope round, while the Japanese team narrowly slipped into the B-final. In the second round, South Korea prevailed just as easily and advanced to the A-final. The US and Bulgaria made it to the hopes, while Russia only made it to the B-final. In the hope round, the USA and Canada moved into the A-final with a clear lead, Italy and Bulgaria had to be content with the B-final.

rank	country	Runners	500 m		1000 m		3000 m		3000 m relay		Total points
			Time (s)	Points	Time (min)	Points	Time (min)	Points	Time (min)	Points
A final
1.	People's Republic of China	Wang Meng	43.514	5	1: 31.923	5	disq.	0	4: 10.814	10	45
		Zhao Nannan	62,541	1	1: 32.512	2	-	-
		Liu Qiuhong	44.580	5	1: 32.309	2	-	-
		Fu Tianyu	44.819	5	-	-	-	-
		Zhou Yang	-	-	1: 29.716	5	5: 17.750	5
2.	South Korea	Kim Min-jung	44.559	3	1: 32.198	3	5: 18.700	1	4: 11,188	6th	35
		Park Seung-hi	44.786	5	-	-	-	-
		Yang Shin-young	44.721	2	1: 32.027	5	-	-
		Shin Sae-bom	45.085	2	1: 32.317	5	-	-
		Jung Eun-ju	-	-	1: 29.951	3	disq.	0
3.	Canada	Kalyna Roberge	44.666	2	1: 32.280	3	5: 17.961	3	4: 13.252	4th	27
		Tania Vicent	44.965	3	1: 38.738	1	-	-
		Jessica Gregg	44.638	3	-	-	-	-
		Anne Maltais	45.033	3	1: 33.034	1	-	-
		Amanda Overland	-	-	1: 31.232	2	5: 18.127	2
4th	United States	Lana Gehring	45,959	1	-	-	-	-	4: 17,124	2	14th
		Allison Baver	45.135	2	1: 32.444	2	-	-
		Katherine Reutter	46.120	1	1: 32.396	3	5: 25.768	0
		Kimberly Derrick	46.069	1	1: 32.942	1	5: 29.969	0
		Carly Wilson	-	-	2: 03.761	1	-	-
B final
5.	Italy	Marta Capurso	45.249	3	1: 36.874	3	-	-	4: 21.057	6th	37.5
		Arianna Fontana	44.560	5	1: 38.491	5	5: 25.881	3
		Katia Zini	45.154	3	1: 34.172	5	5: 25.916	1.5
		Martina Valcepina	45.721	2	-	-	-	-
		Lucia Peretti	-	-	1: 35.362	1	-	-
6th	Bulgaria	Gergana Patsowa	45.965	1	2: 07.748	1	6: 01.284	0	4: 20.487	10	34
		Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	44.711	3	1: 35.272	2	-	-
		Evgenia Radanova	44.663	5	1: 36.584	5	5: 25.657	5
		Daniela Ivanova	44.948	1	1: 36.192	1	-	-
7th	Japan	Yuka Kamino	45.333	2	1: 36.802	3	-	-	4: 21.107	4th	29.5
		Biba Sakurai	46.280	2	-	-	5: 26.670	0
		Ayuko Itō	45.156	2	1: 37.338	2	-	-
		Yui Sakai	45.297	5	1: 34.925	3	-	-
		Mika Ozawa	-	-	1: 35.103	5	5: 25.916	1.5
8th.	Russia	Ekaterina Belowa	44.873	5	1: 35.041	2	-	-	4: 32.638	2	20th
		Olga Maskaikina	47.048	1	1: 37.406	1	-	-
		Olga Belyakova	45,598	1	1: 35.149	3	5: 38.234	0
		Valeria Potjomkina	45.523	3	1: 38.804	2	-	-
		Nina Yevteeva	-	-	-	-	5: 28.463	0

Men

In the first group of the preliminary round, South Korea clearly prevailed and moved into the A-final, the USA and Italy reached the hope round, Japan had to start in the B-final. In the second preliminary group, Canada qualified for the A-final, China reached the hope round. The British team also qualified, while Russia only slipped into the B final tied on points. In the Hope Round, China and the USA moved into the A-final with a clear lead, Italy and Great Britain only had the B-final.

rank	country	runner	500 m		1000 m		3000 m		5000 m relay		Total points
			Time (s)	Points	Time (min)	Points	Time (min)	Points	Time (min)	Points
A final
1.	United States	JP Kepka	42.770	5	-	-	-	-	6: 50.907	10	38
		Jeff Simon	46.548	2	1: 26.904	3	4: 54.852	0
		Apolo Anton Ohno	42.677	5	1: 25.771	5	4: 53.564	2
		Jordan Malone	71.703	2	1: 26.762	3	-	-
		Charles Leveille	-	-	1: 26.043	1	-	-
2.	Canada	François Hamelin	43.035	3	-	-	-	-	6: 50.966	6th	32
		Charles Hamelin	41,392	5	1: 25.794	3	4: 53.704	1
		Jean-François Monette	42.871	3	1: 27.264	1	-	-
		Steve Robillard	42,552	3	1: 26.885	1	-	-
		Marc-André Monette	-	-	1: 25.700	3	4: 53.385	3
3.	South Korea	Sung Si-bak	disq.	0	1: 26.846	5	-	-	6: 51.080	2	30th
		Kwak Yoon-gy	disq.	0	-	-	-	-
		Song Kyung-taek	49,959	1	1: 26.681	5	-	-
		Lee Ho-suk	42.213	5	1: 25.479	5	disq.	0
		Lee Seung-hoon	-	-	1: 26.104	2	4: 53.368	5
4th	People's Republic of China	Han Jialiang	58,347	2	1: 26.820	2	-	-	6: 51,000	4th	18th
		Song Weilong	42,341	3	1: 27.137	1	-	-
		Sui Bao Ku	43,411	2	1: 27.107	2	disq.	0
		Li Ye	disq.	0	1: 25.826	2	-	-
		Zhang Zhiqiang	-	-	-	-	4: 53.742	0
B final
5.	Japan	Yuzo Takamido	48.636	1	-	-	5: 32.407	0	6: 53.372	10	41
		Satoru Terao	42.028	5	1: 27.875	5	-	-
		Jumpei Yoshizawa	42.455	3	1: 27.386	5	-	-
		Takahiro Fujimoto	42,344	5	1: 28.791	2	-	-
		Shinichi Tagami	-	-	1: 30.071	2	4: 55.521	3
6th	Italy	Fabio Carta	42.786	2	-	-	-	-	disq.	0	30th
		Yuri Confortola	42,472	2	1: 28.612	5	4: 55.732	2
		Nicola Rodigari	42.365	5	1: 27.897	3	4: 55.361	5
		Roberto Serra	42.464	3	1: 30.676	1	-	-
		Claudio Rinaldi	-	-	1: 27.750	2	-	-
7th	Russia	Sergei Prankevich	42.103	3	1: 28.217	2	-	-	6: 55.675	6th	25th
		Vyacheslav Kurginian	49.663	1	1: 28.783	3	4: 56.941	0
		Yevgeny Kosulin	42.523	2	1: 29.965	3	-	-
		Semen Yelistratov	42,700	1	-	-	-	-
		Ruslan Sakharov	-	-	1: 27.678	3	4: 56.051	1
8th.	United Kingdom	Jon Eley	41.847	5	1: 29.864	5	-	-	7: 06.833	4th	23
		Paul Stanley	42,348	3	1: 30.270	1	-	-
		Anthony Douglas	44.647	1	1: 29.010	1	5: 34.633	0
		Paul Worth	42,590	2	1: 30.258	1	5: 15.665	0

Web links

• Official results
• Final report of the championship with all results and participants (English; PDF; 504 kB)