Youth Olympic Winter Games 2012 / Shorttrack

At the 2012 Winter Youth Olympic Games in Innsbruck , five short track competitions took place from January 18th to 21st . The venue was the Innsbruck Olympic Hall .

Boys

500 m

space	country	athlete	Best time
1	COR	Yoon Su-min	42.417 s
2	COR	Lim Hyo-jun	42,482 s
3	CHN	Xu Hongzhi	42.637 s
4th	United States	Thomas Insuk Hong	42.782 s
5	JPN	Kei Saito	43,000 s
6th	RUS	Denis Airapetjan	45.026 s

Date: January 19th

Participants from German-speaking countries: Dominic Andermann finished 12th with a best time of 47.751 s.
 

1000 m

space	country	athlete	time
1	COR	Lim Hyo-jun	1: 29.284 min
2	COR	Yoon Su-min	1: 29.428 min
3	CHN	Xu Hongzhi	1: 29.576 min
4th	JPN	Kei Saito	1: 29.689 min
5	ITA	Milan Grugni	1: 33.183 min
6th	FRA	Yoann Martinez	1: 33.564 min

Date: January 18th

Participants from German-speaking countries: Dominic Andermann finished 14th with a best time of 1: 38.822 min.
 

girl

500 m

Xu Aili (China) and Shim Suk-hee (South Korea) from left to right

Sarah Warren (USA), Anna Gamorina (RUS) and Sumire Kikuchi (JP) from right to left

space	country	sportswoman	Best time
1	COR	Shim Suk-hee	44.122 s
2	CHN	Xu Aili	44.593 s
3	ITA	Nicole Martinelli	46.390 s
4th	United States	Sarah Warren	47.033 s
5	JPN	Sumire Kikuchi	46,200 s
6th	NED	Aafke Soet	46.980 s

Date: January 19th

Participants from German-speaking countries:

 Elisabeth Witt finished 14th with a best time of 49.737 s. Melanie Brantner took 15th place with a best time of 51.150 s.
 

1000 m

Shim Suk-hee (South Korea) and Xu Aili (China)

space	country	sportswoman	time
1	COR	Shim Suk-hee	1: 31.661 min
2	CHN	Xu Aili	1: 33.351 min
3	JPN	Sumire Kikuchi	1: 34.254 min
4th	ITA	Nicole Martinelli	1: 36.620 min
5	ITA	Arianna Sighel	1: 37.609 min
6th	KAZ	Daria Goncharova	1: 36.487 min

Date: January 18th

Participants from German-speaking countries: Elisabeth Witt finished 10th with a best time of 1: 39.667 min. Melanie Brantner finished 13th with a best time of 1: 46.275 min.
 
 

Season

space	athlete	time
1	Park Jung-hyun Lu Xiucheng Xu Aili Jack Burrows	4: 21.656 min
2	Qu Chunyu Xu Hongzhi Marija Dolgopolowa Aydin Djemal	4: 21.277 min
3	Shim Suk-hee Yoann Martinez Melanie Brantner Denis Airapetjan	4: 21.668 min
4th	Elisabeth Witt Thomas Insuk Hong Sumire Kikuchi Chang Yin-Cheng	4: 23.141 min
5	Nicole Martinelli Milan Grugni Timea Tóth Tamás Farkas	4: 28.026 min
6th	Sarah Warren Kei Saito Lin Yu-Tzu Josse Antonissen	4: 30.383 min

Date: January 21st
There are two boys and two girls in each relay. The athletes can also belong to different nations.

Other teams with participants from German-speaking countries: Darja Goncharova , Yoon Su-min , Arianna Sighel and Dominic Andermann took 8th place after being punished in the final.
    

Web links

• Schedule as well as start and result lists