European Short Track Championships 2007

The 2007 European Short Track Championships took place from January 19-21, 2007 in Sheffield , UK . A total of four European championship titles were awarded, one each in the all-around competition and one in the relay for women and men. It was the first continental title fights to take place in Great Britain. The host was the International Skating Union (ISU).

In the all-around competition, the defending champions won each time, Ewgenija Radanowa from Bulgaria for women and Nicola Rodigari from Italy for men . In the relay competitions, the German quartet was able to prevail twice, with the women before Italy and the Netherlands, with the men before Hungary and Great Britain.

Participating Nations

A total of 123 athletes from 24 countries took part in the European Championships, including 69 men and 54 women.

Participating nations (women / men)
Belgium (1/3) Bulgaria (5/2) Denmark (0/1) Germany (5/5) France (2/5)	Great Britain (5/5) Israel (2/2) Italy (5/5) Croatia (0/1) Latvia (1/1)	Netherlands (5/5) Austria (1/1) Poland (5/5) Romania (2/1) Russia (5/5)	Sweden (1/2) Switzerland (0/1) Serbia (1/1) Slovakia (0/5) Slovenia (1/0)	Czech Republic (1/1) Ukraine (0/5) Hungary (5/5) Belarus (1/2)

Time schedule

The schedule was designed in parallel for women and men as follows.

Friday January 19, 2007

• 1500 m: preliminary, semi-finals, final
• Season: forward

Saturday 20th January 2007

• 500 m: preliminary run, quarter-finals, semi-finals, final
• Season: semifinals

Sunday January 21, 2007

• 1000 m: preliminary, semi-finals, final
• 3000 m: Superfinal
• Season: Finale

Results

Women

All-around

• In the columns 1500 m, 500 m, 1000 m and 3000 m it is first indicated which position the athlete achieved, followed by in brackets how many points he received for it.
• Every athlete who has reached a final receives points there for his placement, from 34 points for first place to one point for eighth place. If an athlete does not compete (DNS), is disqualified (DSQ) or does not reach the finish (DNF), he will not receive any points for the all-round competition.

rank	Surname	Points	500 m	1000 m	1500 m	3000 m
1.	Evgenia Radanova	102	1 (34)	1 (34)	13 (0)	1 (34)
2.	Stephanie Bouvier	68	5 (0)	3 (13)	1 (34)	2 (21)
3.	Katia Zini	39	9 (0)	5 (5)	2 (21)	3 (13)
4th	Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	34	4 (8)	2 (21)	16 (0)	5 (5)
5.	Sarah Lindsay	24	2 (21)	8 (0)	19 (0)	6 (3)
6th	Annita van Doorn	19th	17 (0)	4 (8)	6 (3)	4 (8)
7th	Arianna Fontana	17th	6 (0)	6 (3)	3 (13)	8 (1)
8th.	Ekaterina Belowa	15th	3 (13)	11 (0)	18 (0)	7 (2)

Single routes

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Evgenia Radanova	44.595 s
2.	Sarah Lindsay	44.690 s
3.	Ekaterina Belowa	44.713 s
4th	Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	44.837 s

Date: January 20, 2007

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Evgenia Radanova	1: 33.235 min
2.	Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	1: 33.360 min
3.	Stephanie Bouvier	1: 34.026 min
4th	Annita van Doorn	1: 34.347 min
5.	Katia Zini	1: 34.436 min
6th	Arianna Fontana	1: 38.473 min

Date: January 21, 2007

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Stephanie Bouvier	2: 28.915 min
2.	Katia Zini	2: 28.962 min
3.	Arianna Fontana	2: 28.977 min
4th	Kateřina Novotná	2: 29.021 min
5.	Bernadett Heidum	2: 29.169 min
6th	Annita van Doorn	2: 29.365 min

Date: January 19, 2007

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Evgenia Radanova	5: 26.155 min
2.	Stephanie Bouvier	5: 26.505 min
3.	Katia Zini	5: 27.294 min
4th	Annita van Doorn	5: 27.507 min
5.	Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	5: 27.774 min
6th	Sarah Lindsay	5: 27.944 min
7th	Ekaterina Belowa	5: 28.426 min
8th.	Arianna Fontana	5: 56.981 min

Date: January 21, 2007

Season

rank	Surname	time
1.	Germany Susanne Rudolph Tina Grassow Christin Priebst Julia Riedel	4: 26.940 min
2.	Italy Katia Zini Arianna Fontana Cecilia Maffei Marta Capurso	4: 37.427 min
3.	Netherlands Annita van Doorn Maaike Vos Jorien ter Mors Ellen Wiegers	4: 40.141 min
4th	Hungary Erika Huszár Szandra Lajtos Bernadett Heidum Andrea Keszler	disqualified

Date: January 19-21, 2007

Men

All-around

• In the columns 1500 m, 500 m, 1000 m and 3000 m it is first indicated which position the athlete achieved, followed by in brackets how many points he received for it.
• Every athlete who has reached a final receives points there for his placement, from 34 points for first place to one point for eighth place. If an athlete does not compete (DNS), is disqualified (DSQ) or does not reach the finish (DNF), he will not receive any points for the all-round competition.

rank	Surname	Points	500 m	1000 m	1500 m	3000 m
1.	Nicola Rodigari	102	2 (21)	1 (34)	1 (34)	3 (13)
2.	Pieter Gysel	50	4 (8)	11 (0)	4 (8)	1 (34)
3.	Yuri Confortola	47	11 (0)	2 (21)	5 (5)	2 (21)
4th	Thibaut Fauconnet	42	1 (34)	10 (0)	17 (0)	4 (8)
5.	Viktor Knoch	24	10 (0)	6 (0)	2 (21)	6 (3)
6th	Niels Kerstholt	18th	8 (0)	14 (0)	3 (13)	5 (5)
7th	Denis Bellotti	17th	9 (0)	3 (13)	6 (3)	8 (1)
8th.	Gábor Galambos	15th	3 (13)	38 (0)	11 (0)	7 (2)

Single routes

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Thibaut Fauconnet	42.864 s
2.	Nicola Rodigari	42.910 s
3.	Gábor Galambos	42,946 s
4th	Pieter Gysel	43.028 s

Date: January 20, 2007

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Nicola Rodigari	1: 27.518 min
2.	Yuri Confortola	1: 27.524 min
3.	Denis Bellotti	1: 27.584 min
4th	Tyson Heung	1: 28.487 min
5	Haralds Silovs	disqualified

Date: January 21, 2007

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Nicola Rodigari	2: 17.297 min
2.	Viktor Knoch	2: 17.377 min
3.	Niels Kerstholt	2: 17.427 min
4th	Pieter Gysel	2: 17.579 min
5.	Yuri Confortola	2: 17.759 min
6th	Denis Bellotti	2: 18.985 min
7th	Maxime chat signer	2: 19.493 min

Date: January 19, 2007

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Pieter Gysel	4: 50.819 min
2.	Yuri Confortola	4: 50.831 min
3.	Nicola Rodigari	4: 51.073 min
4th	Thibaut Fauconnet	4: 51.075 min
5.	Niels Kerstholt	4: 51.367 min
6th	Viktor Knoch	4: 51.389 min
7th	Gábor Galambos	4: 52.005 min
8th.	Denis Bellotti	4: 56.086 min

Date: January 21, 2007

Season

rank	Surname	time
1.	Germany Sebastian Praus Robert Becker Paul Herrmann Tyson Heung	7: 03.185 min
2.	Hungary Peter Darazs Gábor Galambos Viktor Knoch Marton Tamus	7: 05.326 min
3.	United Kingdom Jon Eley Paul Stanley Paul Worth Tom Iveson	7: 09.182 min
4th	France Thibaut Fauconnet Jean-Charles Mattei Maxime Chataignier Jérémy Masson	disqualified

Date: January 19-21, 2007

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Germany	2	-	-	2
2	Italy	1	1	2	4th
3	Bulgaria	1	-	-	1
4th	Belgium	-	1	-	1
	France	-	1	-	1
	Hungary	-	1	-	1
7th	Netherlands	-	-	1	1
	United Kingdom	-	-	1	1
total		4th	4th	4th	12

Web links

• Results overview on www.isu.org
• Official final report with all results and participants (English; PDF; 407 kB)