European Short Track Championships 2010

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The 2010 European Short Track Championships took place from January 22nd to 24th, 2010 in Dresden . For the second time after the event in Oberstdorf in 1999 , the European Short Track Championships were held in Germany . The host of the European championships was the International Skating Union (ISU), which awarded the championships in June 2007.

A total of four European championship titles were awarded, one each in the all-around and one in the relay to men and women. In order to determine the all-around European champion, the athletes competed over the three distances 500 m, 1000 m and 1500 m. The eight best placed athletes in the all-round competition after these three routes then competed in the 3000 m superfinal. The winners over the individual courses were not crowned European champions, but received “small medals” with the exception of over 3000 m.

European champion in the all-around competition was Kateřina Novotná from the Czech Republic for women and defending champion Nicola Rodigari from Italy for men . The relay competition was won by the German quartet for women and the Italian quartet for men. A total of 4500 spectators (Friday 600, Saturday 1400, Sunday 2500) attended the title fights.

Participating Nations

A total of 126 athletes from 24 countries took part in the European Championships, including 69 men and 57 women.

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

Time schedule

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

Friday January 22, 2010

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

Saturday January 23, 2010

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

Sunday January 24th 2010

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

Results

Women

All-around

• In the columns 500 m, 1000 m, 1500 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), if he is disqualified (DSQ) or if he does not reach the finish (DNF), he will not receive any points for the all-around classification.

rank	Surname	Points	500 m	1000 m	1500 m	3000 m
1.	Kateřina Novotná	89	2. (21)	1. (34)	17. (0)	1. (34)
2.	Arianna Fontana	86	1. (34)	8. (0)	1. (34)	3. (13)
3.	Elise Christie	42	11. (0)	9. (0)	2. (21)	2. (21)
4th	Bernadett Heidum	26th	12. (0)	2. (21)	6. (3)	7. (2)
5.	Evgenia Radanova	21st	17. (0)	5. (5)	3. (13)	6. (3)
6th	Véronique Pierron	18th	9. (0)	3. (13)	16. (0)	5. (5)
7th	Erika Huszár	18th	3. (13)	26. (0)	5. (5)	9. (0)
8th.	Paula Bzura	16	14. (0)	6. (0)	4. (8)	4. (8)

Arianna Fontanat received five additional points.

Single routes

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Arianna Fontana	43,877 s
2.	Kateřina Novotná	43.945 s
3.	Erika Huszár	44.088 s
4th	Susanne Rudolph	44,956 s

Date: January 23, 2010

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Kateřina Novotná	1: 33.897 min
2.	Bernadett Heidum	1: 34.316 min
3.	Véronique Pierron	1: 34.347 min
4th	Jorien ter Mors	1: 34.372 min
5.	Evgenia Radanova	1: 34.816 min

Date: January 24, 2010

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Arianna Fontana	2: 23.946 min
2.	Elise Christie	2: 24.042 min
3.	Evgenia Radanova	2: 24.120 min
4th	Paula Bzura	2: 25.353 min
5.	Erika Huszár	2: 25.768 min
6th	Bernadett Heidum	2: 25.817 min
7th	Martina Valcepina	2: 25.898 min
8th.	Cecilia Maffei	2: 26.407 min

Date: Jan 22, 2010

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Kateřina Novotná
2.	Elise Christie
3.	Arianna Fontana
4th	Paula Bzura
5.	Véronique Pierron
6th	Evgenia Radanova
7th	Bernadett Heidum
8th.	Jorien ter Mors
9.	Erika Huszár
10.	Susanne Rudolph

Date: January 24, 2010
Superfinal of the eight best all-rounders after three distances. Ten runners competed because of a tie.

Season

rank	Surname	time
1.	Germany Aika Klein Julia Riedel Christin Priebst Bianca Walter	4: 15.979 min
2.	Russia Valery Potjomkina Ekaterina Belva Olga Beljakowa Nina Evtejewa	4: 16.516 min
3.	Netherlands Annita van Doorn Maaike Vos Liesbeth Mau Asam Jorien ter Mors	4: 18.263 min
4th	Hungary Erika Huszár Rózsa Darázs Bernadett Heidum Andrea Keszler	4: 22.359 min

Date: January 22-24, 2010

Men

All-around

• In the columns 500 m, 1000 m, 1500 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), if he is disqualified (DSQ) or if he does not reach the finish (DNF), he will not receive any points for the all-around classification.

rank	Surname	Points	500 m	1000 m	1500 m	3000 m
1.	Nicola Rodigari	102	3. (13)	1. (34)	1. (34)	2. (21)
2.	Thibaut Fauconnet	76	4. (0)	2. (21)	2. (21)	1. (34)
3.	Maxime Chataigner	42	1. (34)	6. (0)	11. (0)	4. (8)
4th	Niels Kerstholt	29	14. (0)	3. (13)	3. (13)	6. (3)
5.	Jon Eley	22nd	2. (21)	14. (0)	44. (0)	8. (1)
6th	Yuri Confortola	21st	7. (0)	4. (0)	6. (3)	3. (13)
7th	Paul Herrmann	13	20. (0)	18. (0)	4. (8)	5. (5)
8th.	Sjinkie Knegt	7th	6. (0)	11. (0)	5. (5)	7. (2)

Yuri Confortola received five additional points.

Single routes

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Maxime Chataigner	46.841 s
2.	Jon Eley	46.957 s
3.	Nicola Rodigari	1: 07.883 min
4th	Thibaut Fauconnet	DSQ

Date: January 23, 2010

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Nicola Rodigari	1: 27.815 min
2.	Thibaut Fauconnet	1: 27.929 min
3.	Niels Kerstholt	1: 28.689 min
4th	Yuri Confortola	DSQ

Date: January 24, 2010

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Nicola Rodigari	2: 15.682 min
2.	Thibaut Fauconnet	2: 15.857 min
3.	Niels Kerstholt	2: 15.989 min
4th	Paul Herrmann	2: 16.109 min
5.	Sjinkie Knegt	2: 16.846 min
6th	Yuri Confortola	3: 20.669 min

Date: Jan 22, 2010

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Thibaut Fauconnet
2.	Nicola Rodigari
3.	Yuri Confortola
4th	Maxime Chataigner
5.	Paul Herrmann
6th	Niels Kerstholt
7th	Sjinkie Knegt
8th.	Jon Eley

Date: January 24, 2010
Superfinal of the eight best all-rounders after three courses.

Season

rank	Surname	time
1.	Italy Nicola Rodigari Roberto Serra Nicolas Bean Yuri Confortola	6: 45.195 min
2.	Germany Tyson Heung Paul Herrmann Sebastian Praus Robert Seifert	6: 45.256 min
3.	United Kingdom Anthony Douglas Jack Whelbourne Jon Eley Tom Iveson	6: 47.691 min
4th	France Maxime Chataigner Thibaut Fauconnet Benjamin Macé Jean-Charles Mattei	DSQ

Date: January 22-24, 2010

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Italy	2	1	-	3
2	Germany	1	1	-	2
3	Czech Republic	1	-	-	1
4th	France	-	1	1	2
5	Russia	-	1	-	1
6th	United Kingdom	-	-	2	2
7th	Netherlands	-	-	1	1
total		4th	4th	4th	12

Web links

• Final report with all results and participants (English; PDF; 1.2 MB)
• Reporting of the European Championship races ( Memento from December 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
• Official program booklet (PDF; 4.9 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LIST OF COMPETITORS. (PDF; 1.2 MB) Retrieved November 16, 2011 (English).