Olympic Winter Games 2010 / short track

Short track at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games
information
venue	Vancouver
Competition venue	Pacific Coliseum
Nations	23
Athletes	109 (54 , 55 )
date	13.-26. February 2010
decisions	8th
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At the XXI. The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver hosted eight short track competitions. The venue was the Pacific Coliseum , a sports arena east of the city center.

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	People's Republic of China	4th	-	-	4th
2	South Korea	2	4th	2	8th
3	Canada	2	2	1	5
4th	United States	-	2	4th	6th
5	Italy	-	-	1	1

Medalist

Men competitor gold silver bronze 500 m Charles Hamelin Sung Si-bak François-Louis Tremblay 1000 m Lee Jung-su Lee Ho-suk Apolo Anton Ohno 1500 m Lee Jung-su Apolo Anton Ohno John Celski 3000 m relay  Canada Guillaume Bastille Charles Hamelin François Hamelin Olivier Jean François-Louis Tremblay  South Korea Kim Seoung-il Kwak Yoon-gy Lee Ho-suk Lee Jung-su Sung Si-bak  United States John Celski Simon Cho Travis Jayner Jordan Malone Apolo Anton Ohno

Women competitor gold silver bronze 500 m Wang Meng Marianne St-Gelais Arianna Fontana 1000 m Wang Meng Katherine Reutter Park Seung-hi 1500 m Zhou Yang Lee Eun-byul Park Seung-hi 3000 m relay  People's Republic of China Sun Linlin Wang Meng Zhang Hui Zhou Yang  Canada Jessica Gregg Kalyna Roberge Marianne St-Gelais Tania Vicent  United States Allison Baver Kimberly Derrick Alyson Dudek Lana Gehring Katherine Reutter

Results men

500 m

space	country	athlete	Time (s)
1	CAN	Charles Hamelin	40.981
2	COR	Sung Si-bak	41,340
3	CAN	François-Louis Tremblay	46,366
4th	COR	Kwak Yoon-gy	42.123
5	GER	Tyson Heung	42,307
6th	GBR	Jon Eley	42.681
7th	COR	Lee Ho-suk	49.149
8th	United States	Apolo Anton Ohno	41,460
18th	GER	Robert Seifert	42.181

Preliminaries: February 24, 2010, 5:47 pm; Quarter-finals: February 26, 2010, 6:00 p.m.
Semi-finals: February 26, 2010, 6:43 pm; Final: February 26, 2010, 7:14 p.m.

1000 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	COR	Lee Jung-su	1: 23.747 ( OR )
2	COR	Lee Ho-suk	1: 23.801
3	United States	Apolo Anton Ohno	1: 24.128
4th	CAN	Charles Hamelin	1: 24.329
5	CAN	François Hamelin	1: 25.206
6th	CHN	Han Jialiang	1: 32.023
7th	COR	Sung Si-bak	1: 24.245
8th	United States	John Celski	1: 24.621
12	GER	Tyson Heung	1: 25.938
27	GER	Paul Herrmann	1: 26.739

Preliminaries: February 17th, 2010, 5:25 pm; Quarter-finals: February 20, 2010, 6:29 pm;
Semi-finals: February 20, 2010, 7:28 pm; Final: February 20, 2010, 8:05 p.m.

1500 m

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	COR	Lee Jung-su	2: 17.611
2	United States	Apolo Anton Ohno	2: 17.976
3	United States	John Celski	2: 18.053
4th	CAN	Olivier Jean	2: 18.806
5	COR	Sung Si-bak	2: 45.010
6th	CHN	Liang Wenhao	2: 48.192
7th	CAN	Charles Hamelin	2: 18.243
8th	ITA	Nicola Rodigari	2: 18.422
11	GER	Sebastian Praus	2: 20.374
23	GER	Tyson Heung	2: 14.461
32	GER	Paul Herrmann	2: 16.782

Preliminary runs: February 13, 2010, 5:00 p.m.
Semi-finals: February 13, 2010, 6:18 p.m.
Final: February 13, 2010, 7:18 p.m.

The field of participants in the 1500 meter race consisted of 36 athletes from 16 countries. Seven nations, including the Germans, provided three athletes, which corresponded to the maximum number of participants. The short trackers were divided into six preliminary runs with six participants each. Normally the top three athletes advanced to the semifinals; however, athletes who had been hindered by other short trackers were also continued one round. As a result, there were not 18 but 21 athletes in the semifinals. There were three races with seven starters each, of which the best two qualified for the A final and the two following that qualified for the B final. There were five disqualifications during the competition. These athletes were only rated in the classification with the result that they had achieved in the previous run.

The Latvian Haralds Silovs , the first athlete to compete in two different sports on one day, created a novelty in Olympic history . After finishing 20th over 5000 meters in speed skating in the Richmond Olympic Oval at 12 noon local time , he started the short track a good four hours later. His Dutch trainer Jeroen Otten said: “This double start is the ideal combination for him.” This also brought Silovs into the focus of the media and explained that he did not expect this attention for himself. The Latvian, who was the first speed skater to represent his country in 74 years, also said: “It's a little crazy. But who knows if I'll ever get this chance again in my life. "

Apolo Anton Ohno (here as Olympic champion 2006) won the silver medal

The South Koreans demonstrated their superiority as a team in the first short track run of the Olympic Winter Games and were the only three teams to make it to the semi-finals. Both the reigning all -around world champion Lee Ho-suk and his teammates Lee Jung-su and Sung Si-bak qualified first or second in their preliminary round. Lee Jung-su even set a new Olympic record with 2: 12.380 min. Two of the three Germans were eliminated, only Sebastian Praus made it to the next round. He benefited from the disqualification of the American Jordan Malone . In the semifinals, Praus took seventh and last place for a long time, and this time too he benefited from a fall just before the finish line. As a result, he improved to third position, but this was not enough for qualification for the A final. In contrast, all three South Koreans moved into this; Lee Jung-su set the Olympic record for the second time. In addition to the entire South Korean team, two Americans - including the two-time Olympic champion Apolo Anton Ohno - advanced to the final, as well as a Chinese and Olivier Jean from Canada. Jean was continued in the semifinals due to disability by another runner.

Before the A final, the B final was on the program. This was won by the Canadian Charles Hamelin , who was satisfied with his competition and now wanted to concentrate on the next race, the 1000 meters. Last in the B-final was the German Sebastian Praus, who finished eleventh overall and only just missed his best Olympic result, tenth place. He was "absolutely satisfied" with that. A B final is currently the best for a German short tracker, medal dreams are unrealistic. The A-final went off without any major surprises: shortly before the end, the three South Koreans had moved away from the rest of the field and it seemed as if there would be a triple victory. Lee Ho-suk tried to overtake his team-mate Sung Si-bak 30 meters from the finish. However, this ended with both athletes falling and no longer playing a role in the medal award. Lee Ho-suk was subsequently disqualified and was relegated from the top ten. At the front, the third South Korean Lee Jung-su won the gold medal, replacing his compatriot Ahn Hyun-soo as Olympic champion.

Behind Lee Jung-su, Apolo Anton Ohno won the silver medal. For him this was the sixth Olympic medal (two gold, two silver and two bronze medals), so he had won precious metals more often than any of his compatriots before. Ohno said he had prepared himself better than ever for these Olympics and that he was in very good shape. At the same time he explained: “Our sport lives from this: lots of contact, lots of struggle. It was really tight today and I benefited. ”Behind Ohno, Olivier Jean finished fourth as the best Canadian; Sung Si-bak secured at least fifth place after the fall. A total of 11,000 spectators had seen the competition, due to the overtaking maneuvers and falls, some of which were described as spectacular, the race was given a positive result overall.

5000 m relay

space	country	athlete	Time (min)
1	CAN	Charles Hamelin François Hamelin Olivier Jean François-Louis Tremblay Guillaume Bastille	6: 44.224
2	COR	Kwak Yoon-gy Lee Ho-suk Lee Jung-su Sung Si-bak Kim Seoung-il	6: 44.446
3	United States	John Celski Travis Jayner Jordan Malone Apolo Anton Ohno Simon Cho	6: 44.498
4th	CHN	Han Jialiang Liu Xianwei Ma Yunfeng Song Weilong	6: 44.630
5	FRA	Maxime Chataignier Thibaut Fauconnet Jérémy Masson Jean-Charles Mattei Benjamin Macé	6: 51.566
6th	GBR	Anthony Douglas Jon Eley Jack Whelbourne Paul Worth	6: 50.045
7th	GER	Paul Herrmann Tyson Heung Sebastian Praus Robert Seifert	6: 50.119
	ITA	Nicolas Bean Yuri Confortola Claudio Rinaldi Nicola Rodigari	DSQ

Semi-finals: February 17, 2010, 6:32 p.m.
Final: February 26, 2010, 7:51 p.m.

Women

500 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	CHN	Wang Meng	43.048
2	CAN	Marianne St-Gelais	43.707
3	ITA	Arianna Fontana	43,804
4th	CAN	Jessica Gregg	44.204
5	CHN	Zhou Yang	44.725
6th	CAN	Kalyna Roberge	44.824
7th	United States	Katherine Reutter	44.846
8th	COR	Lee Eun-byul	44.860

Preliminaries: February 13, 2010, 5:42 pm; Quarter-finals: February 17, 2010, 5:00 p.m.
Semi-finals: February 17, 2010, 6:10 pm; Final: February 17, 2010, 7:07 p.m.

32 athletes from 17 countries qualified for the 500 meter race. As in all other individual races, the maximum number of starters from one country was three and was used by five nations. Since this was the shortest and therefore also the fastest race, four instead of six athletes ran against each other in order to largely avoid falls or disabilities. Due to the small number of participants per run, there were four rounds: The eight preliminary runs on February 13 were followed four days later by the quarter and semi-finals and finally the A and B finals. There were three disqualifications during the competition. These athletes were only rated in the ranking with the result that they had achieved in the previous run.

Before the competition, the reigning Olympic champion Wang Meng from China was the favorite; The US trade magazine Sports Illustrated also gave her the gold medal rank. Wang's teammate Zhou Yang and the Canadians were also given more opportunities . The South Koreans were rated weaker, as were the Europeans. Germany sent Aika Klein, an athlete. As expected, however, she had no chance in her run against the previously much more successful Cho Ha-ri and Katherine Reutter , especially since she had a tactical disadvantage with the outer starting position. Nevertheless, she was satisfied with her competition: “In order to advance I would have had to [...] have run the German record. The other routes suit me better, I'm very optimistic. ”On the other hand, Wang Meng already improved the eight-year-old Olympic record of her compatriot Yang Yang (A) ; three other athletes also ran faster than Yang's old record. Of the highly rated Chinese women, only Zhao Nannan dropped out, who fell in the middle of the last heat and finished the race 15 seconds behind. The Chinese team initially protested against this. However, the referees ruled that Zhao fell without interference. The only disqualification was pronounced in the seventh run against the Bulgarian Marina Georgijewa-Nikolova , who had caused two false starts.

The winner's podium after the 500 meter final

In the quarter-finals, Wang Meng set another Olympic record. The Canadians showed the greatest team unity, as three of them qualified for the semi-finals. An unusual situation arose in the second quarter-finals when the competition had to be restarted in the first corner after a collision between the British Sarah Lindsay and the Canadian Jessica Gregg . On the second attempt, Lindsay and Gregg fought again in the starting lap, for the second time they both fell and restarted. However, only three runners competed after Lindsay was disqualified. The Brit felt that she was being treated unfairly: “I feel like I didn't even get a chance to compete in my race. [...] We both collided and she fell. It is not my fault if she is more clumsy than me. ”The second British woman, Elise Christie , also saw herself at a disadvantage from the jury after her departure because she was handicapped by a South Korean woman . Criticisms of the referees spread quickly, particularly in the British media.

There were no disqualifications in the semifinals. The fastest time was again Wang Meng, who broke the Olympic record for the third time and was the first athlete to run under 43 seconds at the Olympics. The record was improved by more than a second within a few days. The old best time in 2010 would not even have been enough to reach the finals. The second Chinese Zhou Yang, on the other hand, did not advance to the finals and placed third in her run behind the 19-year-old Italian Arianna Fontana , who made it into an Olympic A final for the first time in her career. In addition to her and Wang Meng, two Canadians also managed to do this: Marianne St-Gelais , who turned 20 that day, and Jessica Gregg, who was involved in the quarter-final fall. The third Canadian Kalyna Roberge was eliminated and ran in the B final. There she took second place behind Zhou Yang and thus secured sixth place overall.

The final began with another fall of Gregg, who this time clashed with Fontana. After the race, she explained that it was only that one moment when she turned into a corner when she lost her concentration a bit. The second attempt to hold the competition also failed due to a false start. The third start finally succeeded. Wang Meng took over the top position and ran the race from the front with a clear gap on her pursuers. With a time of 43.048 s, she won the competition, with more than six tenths of a second ahead of the silver medalist St-Gelais. In the B final, there was just under one and a half tenths between the first and the last runner. Commenting on her competition, Wang said, “For the last two laps I have felt my legs shaking. I think that when you're so close to what you've always wanted, that's normal. ”The second-placed St-Gelais was also happy:“ Besides a gold medal, silver is the best gift I could have. Second place on my 20th birthday, that fits. ”. The bronze medal was won by Fontana, who was on the Olympic podium for the second time.

1000 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	CHN	Wang Meng	1: 29.213
2	United States	Katherine Reutter	1: 29.324
3	COR	Park Seung-hi	1: 29.379
4th	COR	Cho Ha-ri	1: 30.543
5	CAN	Kalyna Roberge	1: 30.736
6th	CAN	Jessica Gregg	1: 30.207
7th	OUT	Tatiana Borodulina	1: 29.663
8th	CHN	Zhou Yang	1: 29.049
16	GER	Aika Klein	1: 51.552
22nd	AUT	Veronika Windisch	1: 32.775

Preliminaries: February 24, 2010, 5:00 p.m.; Quarter-finals: February 26, 2010, 6:14 pm
Semi-finals: February 26, 2010, 6:52 pm; Final: February 13, 2010, 7:24 p.m.

1500 m

space	country	sportswoman	Time (min)
1	CHN	Zhou Yang	2: 16.993
2	COR	Lee Eun-byul	2: 17.849
3	COR	Park Seung-hi	2: 17.927
4th	United States	Katherine Reutter	2: 18.396
5	COR	Cho Ha-ri	2: 18.831
6th	HUN	Erika Huszár	2: 19.251
7th	BUL	Evgenia Radanova	2: 19.411
8th	CAN	Tania Vicent	2: 23.035

Preliminary runs: February 20, 2010, 5:45 p.m.
Semi-finals: February 20, 2010, 6:58 p.m.
Final: February 20, 2010, 7:51 p.m.

3000 m relay

space	country	Sportswomen	Time (min)
1	CHN	Sun Linlin Wang Meng Zhang Hui Zhou Yang	4: 06.610 ( WR )
2	CAN	Jessica Gregg Kalyna Roberge Marianne St-Gelais Tania Vicent	4: 09.137
3	United States	Allison Baver Kimberly Derrick Alyson Dudek Lana Gehring Katherine Reutter	4: 14.081
4th	NED	Liesbeth Mau Asam Jorien ter Mors Annita van Doorn Maaike Vos	4: 16,120
5	HUN	Rózsa Darázs Bernadett Heidum Erika Huszár Andrea Keszler	4: 17.937
6th	ITA	Arianna Fontana Cecilia Maffei Martina Valcepina Katia Zini	4: 18.559
7th	JPN	Ayuko Itō Mika Ozawa Yui Sakai Biba Sakurai	4: 28.745
	COR	Cho Ha-ri Kim Min-jung Lee Eun-byul Park Seung-hi	DSQ

Semi-finals: February 13, 2010, 6:50 p.m.
Final: February 24, 2010, 6:26 p.m.

Web links

• Calendar and results overview of the ISU
• Short track at the 2010 Winter Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Silovs with a double program in one day
2. ↑ ^{a b} South Korean takes gold, Ohno of US wins 6th medal
3. ↑ Praus only missed the 1500m short track final
4. ↑ Lee Jung-Soo wins gold - Praus eleventh
5. ↑ Ohno steals the short track show mainpost.de from greedy Asians on February 14, 2010
6. ↑ Guillaume Bastille only appeared in the semi-finals; Francois Hamelin took his place in the final. Therefore, five Canadians won a gold medal.
7. ↑ Kim Seoung-il only competed in the semi-finals. Lee Jung-su was then used in the final, so that five Koreans received a silver medal.
8. ↑ Simon Cho was replaced by Jordan Malone after the semi-finals. Therefore, five people received a bronze medal.
9. ↑ Benjamin Mace only appeared in the semifinals. Jeremy Masson was then used in the final.
10. ↑ A full rundown on the 86 events and 258 medals up for grabs over the 17 days of the Vancouver Games ( Memento from February 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
11. ↑ Olympia 2010: Fighting! ( Memento from February 18, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
12. ^ Mixed fortunes in Short Track, at the Vancouver Olympics
13. ↑ WINTER OLYMPICS 2010: Sarah Lindsay blasts Canadian rival Jessica Gregg as Briton is disqualified from speed skating
14. ↑ Winter Olympics 2010: British short track skaters denied by judges rulings
15. ^ Sarah Lindsay angry after short track disqualification
16. ↑ Chinese skater tops two Canadians for gold
17. ^ Silver icing on the cake for birthday girl Marianne St-Gelais
18. ↑ Wang Meng is surest thing in short track skating
19. ↑ Canada's St-Gelais wins short-track silver
20. ↑ In the semifinals, Kimberly Derrick ran, in the finals Allison Baver ran in her place, so five athletes received the bronze medal.