European Short Track Championships 2008

The 2008 European Short Track Championships took place between January 18th and 20th, 2008 in Ventspils , Latvia . 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 international short track championships to be held in Latvia. The host was the International Skating Union (ISU).

In the women, the Italian Arianna Fontana won ahead of the defending champion Evgenija Radanowa from Bulgaria, in the men’s race, Haralds Silovs from Latvia won ahead of Niels Kerstholt from the Netherlands and the defending champion Nicola Rodigari from Italy. In the relay competition, the British quartet prevailed among the women and the Italian quartet among the men.

Participating Nations

A total of 130 athletes from 25 countries took part in the European Championships, including 71 men and 59 women.

Participating nations (women / men)
Belgium (0/2) Bosnia and Herzegovina (0/1) Bulgaria (4/4) Germany (5/5) France (1/5)	Great Britain (5/5) Israel (2/2) Italy (5/5) Croatia (0/1) Latvia (1/2)	Lithuania (0/1) Netherlands (5/5) Austria (1/1) Poland (5/5) Romania (2/1)	Russia (5/5) Sweden (1/1) Switzerland (0/1) Serbia (1/0) Slovakia (1/4)	Slovenia (1/1) Czech Republic (1/0) Ukraine (3/5) Hungary (5/5) Belarus (5/4)

Time schedule

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

Friday January 18, 2008

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

Saturday 19th January 2008

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

Sunday January 20, 2008

• 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.	Arianna Fontana	89	15 (0)	2 (21)	1 (34)	1 (34)
2.	Evgenia Radanova	58	3 (13)	1 (34)	6 (3)	4 (8)
3.	Nina Yevteeva	47	7 (0)	3 (13)	2 (21)	3 (13)
4th	Erika Huszár	42	2 (21)	18 (0)	8 (0)	2 (21)
5.	Annita van Doorn	39	1 (34)	31 (0)	18 (0)	5 (5)
6th	Kateřina Novotná	22nd	5 (0)	4 (8)	3 (13)	8 (1)
7th	Christin Priebst	10	25 (0)	6 (0)	4 (8)	7 (2)
8th.	Bernadett Heidum	8th	13 (0)	36 (0)	5 (5)	6 (3)

Single routes

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Annita van Doorn	46.072 s
2.	Erika Huszár	46.076 s
3.	Evgenia Radanova	46.115 s
4th	Patrycja Maliszewska	disqualified

Date: January 19, 2008

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Evgenia Radanova	1: 38.046 min
2.	Arianna Fontana	1: 38.059 min
3.	Nina Yevteeva	1: 38.532 min
4th	Kateřina Novotná	1: 38.552 min

Date: January 20, 2008

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Arianna Fontana	2: 28.559 min
2.	Nina Yevteeva	2: 28.990 min
3.	Kateřina Novotná	2: 29.059 min
4th	Christin Priebst	2: 29.110 min
5.	Bernadett Heidum	2: 29.765 min
6th	Evgenia Radanova	2: 30.295 min

Date: January 18, 2008

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Arianna Fontana	5: 43.030 min
2.	Erika Huszár	5: 44.081 min
3.	Nina Yevteeva	5: 44.130 min
4th	Evgenia Radanova	5: 44.398 min
5.	Annita van Doorn	5: 45.178 min
6th	Bernadett Heidum	5: 49.147 min
7th	Christin Priebst	5: 57.046 min
8th.	Kateřina Novotná	6: 09.824 min

Date: January 20, 2008

Season

rank	Surname	time
1.	United Kingdom Sarah Lindsay Elise Christie Joanna Williams Charlotte Gilmartin	4: 23.172 min
2.	Bulgaria Evgenija Radanowa Marina Georgiewa-Nikolowa Daniela Ivanova Gergana Patsowa	4: 23.243 min
3.	Germany Aika Klein Susanne Rudolph Christin Priebst Tina Grassow	4: 23.417 min
4th	Poland Patrycja Maliszewska Karolina Regucka Anna Romanowicz Agnieszka Bawerna	4: 25.857 min
5	Hungary Erika Huszár Rózsa Darázs Bernadett Heidum Andrea Keszler	not at the start

Date: January 18-20, 2008

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.	Haralds Silovs	89	7 (0)	2 (21)	1 (34)	1 (34)
2.	Niels Kerstholt	47	15 (0)	1 (34)	19 (0)	3 (13)
3.	Nicola Rodigari	42	2 (21)	12 (0)	7 (0)	2 (21)
4th	Jon Eley	36	1 (34)	8 (0)	11 (0)	7 (2)
5.	Tyson Heung	21st	3 (13)	7 (0)	13 (0)	4 (8)
6th	Vyacheslav Kurginyan	21st	24 (0)	4 (0)	2 (21)	9 (0)
7th	Ruslan Sakharov	18th	19 (0)	43 (0)	3 (13)	5 (5)
8th.	Gábor Galambos	16	14 (0)	3 (13)	15 (0)	6 (3)

Single routes

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Jon Eley	42.945 s
2.	Nicola Rodigari	43.073 s
3.	Tyson Heung	43.161 s
4th	Bartosz Konopko	43.194 s

Date: January 19, 2008

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Niels Kerstholt	1: 26.625 min
2.	Haralds Silovs	1: 26.659 min
3.	Gábor Galambos	1: 27.192 min
4th	Vyacheslav Kurginyan	did not reach the goal

Date: January 20, 2008

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Haralds Silovs	2: 16.377 min
2.	Vyacheslav Kurginyan	2: 16.471 min
3.	Ruslan Sakharov	2: 16.545 min
4th	Pieter Gysel	2: 16.547 min
5.	Paul Herrmann	2: 16.954 min
6th	Yuri Confortola	3: 05.021 min

Date: January 18, 2008

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Haralds Silovs	5: 03.706 min
2.	Nicola Rodigari	5: 03.762 min
3.	Niels Kerstholt	5: 03.931 min
4th	Tyson Heung	5: 03.964 min
5.	Ruslan Sakharov	5: 04.204 min
6th	Gábor Galambos	5: 10.242 min
7th	Jon Eley	5: 24.596 min
8th	Vyacheslav Kurginyan	not at the start

Date: January 20, 2008

Season

rank	Surname	time
1.	Italy Yuri Confortola Fabio Carta Nicola Rodigari Roberto Serra	6: 57.853 min
2.	United Kingdom Jon Eley Paul Stanley Paul Worth Tom Iveson	6: 58.408 min
3.	France Thibaut Fauconnet Stéphane Périer Maxime Chataignier Jérémy Masson	6: 59.256 min
4th	Russia Ruslan Sakharov Alexander Gertsikow Yevgeny Kosulin Sergei Prankewitsch	6: 59.894 min

Date: January 18-20, 2008

Medal table

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

Web links

• Results of the European Championship 2009
• Official final report with all results and participants (English; PDF; 871 kB)