European Short Track Championships 2003

The 2003 European Short Track Championships took place from January 17th to 19th, 2003 in Saint Petersburg . Russia hosted the continental title fights for the first time. 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. The host was the International Skating Union (ISU).

Evgenia Radanova dominated the women’s competitions. She won the fourth all-around title in a row and also won all four individual distances. Stéphanie Bouvier won silver and Nina Evtejewa won bronze . For the men, there was an Italian triple success in the all-around competition. Fabio Carta won ahead of Michele Antonioli and Nicola Franceschina . The season finals were not very exciting. In the women’s category, Italy won clearly ahead of Russia and the Netherlands, and in the men’s category, Italy also won with a clear lead over Great Britain and France.

Participating Nations

A total of 117 athletes from 24 countries took part in the European Championships, including 72 men and 45 women.

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

Time schedule

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

Friday January 17, 2003

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

Saturday January 18, 2003

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

Sunday January 19, 2003

• 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	136	1 (34)	1 (34)	1 (34)	1 (34)
2.	Stephanie Bouvier	55	3 (13)	15 (0)	2 (21)	2 (21)
3.	Nina Yevteeva	32	12 (0)	3 (13)	3 (13)	4 (8)
4th	Tatiana Borodulina	29	2 (21)	4 (8)	10 (0)	8 (0)
5.	Marta Capurso	28	14 (0)	2 (21)	5 (5)	7 (2)
6th	Yvonne Kunze	21st	6 (0)	5 (0)	4 (8)	3 (13)
7th	Marina Tretyakova	11	4 (8)	12 (0)	12 (0)	6 (3)
8th.	Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	8th	8 (0)	14 (0)	6 (3)	5 (5)

Single routes

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Evgenia Radanova	45.086 s
2.	Tatiana Borodulina	45.154 s
3.	Stephanie Bouvier	49.435 s
4th	Marina Tretyakova	1: 00.024 min

Date: January 18, 2003

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Evgenia Radanova	1: 43.993 min
2.	Marta Capurso	1: 44.483 min
3.	Nina Yevteeva	1: 44.495 min
4th	Tatiana Borodulina	1: 44.978 min

Date: January 19, 2003

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Evgenia Radanova	2: 34.835 min
2.	Stephanie Bouvier	2: 35.468 min
3.	Nina Yevteeva	2: 35.594 min
4th	Yvonne Kunze	2: 35.595 min
5.	Marta Capurso	2: 36.016 min
6th	Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	2: 36.189 min
6th	Myrtille Gollin	2: 39.601 min

Date: January 17, 2003

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Evgenia Radanova	5: 30.153 min
2.	Stephanie Bouvier	5: 30.302 min
3.	Yvonne Kunze	5: 30.325 min
4th	Nina Yevteeva	5: 36.146 min
5.	Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	5: 36.829 min
6th	Marina Tretyakova	5: 42.078 min
7th	Marta Capurso	6: 48.397 min
8th.	Tatiana Borodulina	disqualified

Date: January 19, 2003

Season

rank	Surname	time
1.	Italy Katia Zini Catia Borrello Evelina Rodigari Marta Capurso	4: 22.180 min
2.	Russia Natalia Dmitriewa Nina Evtejewa Tatiana Borodulina Marina Tretyakova	4: 32.262 min
3.	Netherlands Melanie de Lange Marielle Lootsma Anouk Wiegers Maureen de Lange	4: 37.737 min
4th	Bulgaria Anna Krastewa Daniela Vlaewja Evgenija Radanowa Marina Georgiewa-Nikolowa	disqualified

Date: January 17-19, 2003

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.	Fabio Carta	115	1 (34)	3 (13)	1 (34)	1 (34)
2.	Michele Antonioli	69	3 (13)	1 (34)	2 (21)	8 (1)
3.	Nicola Franceschina	48	8 (1)	2 (21)	3 (13)	3 (13)
4th	Pieter Gysel	42	2 (21)	17 (0)	10 (0)	2 (21)
5.	Sebastian Praus	18th	21 (0)	5 (5)	5 (5)	4 (8)
6th	Arian neighbor	13	6 (0)	15 (0)	4 (8)	5 (5)
7th	Jean-Charles Mattei	11	24 (0)	4 (8)	17 (0)	6 (3)
8th.	Wim de Deyne	10	4 (8)	21 (0)	18 (0)	7 (2)

Single routes

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Fabio Carta	42.699 s
2.	Pieter Gysel	43.240 s
3.	Michele Antonioli	43.286 s
4th	Wim de Deyne	43,471 s
5.	Volodymir Grigoriev	43,599 s

Date: January 18, 2003

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Michele Antonioli	1: 30.928 min
2.	Nicola Franceschina	1: 30.937 min
3.	Fabio Carta	1: 31.035 min
4th	Jean-Charles Mattei	1: 31.079 min
5.	Sebastian Praus	1: 31.097 min

Date: January 19, 2003

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Fabio Carta	2: 23.950 min
2.	Michele Antonioli	2: 23.999 min
3.	Nicola Franceschina	2: 24.055 min
4th	Arian neighbor	2: 24.966 min
5.	Sebastian Praus	2: 30.805 min
6th	Tom Iveson	disqualified
7th	Cees Juffermans	disqualified

Date: January 17, 2003

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Fabio Carta	5: 09.330 min
2.	Pieter Gysel	5: 15.708 min
3.	Nicola Franceschina	5: 16.114 min
4th	Sebastian Praus	5: 16.126 min
5.	Arian neighbor	5: 16.128 min
6th	Jean-Charles Mattei	5: 16.582 min
7th	Wim de Deyne	5: 16.682 min
8th.	Michele Antonioli	5: 22.539 min

Date: January 19, 2003

Season

rank	Surname	time
1.	Italy Fabio Carta Nicola Franceschina Michele Ponti Nicola Rodigari	7: 00.303 min
2.	United Kingdom Leon Flack Tom Iveson Jon Eley Paul Stanley	7: 10.708 min
3.	France Guillaume Mathieu Thibaut Fauconnet Jean-Charles Mattei Julien Morelle	7: 13.842 min
4th	Slovakia Matúš Užák Tomas Greschner Peter Jelen Matúš Michalik	7: 15.462 min

Date: January 17-19, 2003

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Italy	3	1	1	5
2	Bulgaria	1	-	-	1
3	France	-	1	1	2
	Russia	-	1	1	2
5	United Kingdom	-	1	-	1
6th	Netherlands	-	-	1	1
total		4th	4th	4th	12

Web links

• Results on www.isu.org (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entries. Retrieved April 15, 2012 .