European Short Track Championships 2011

The 2011 European Short Track Championships took place from January 14 to 16, 2011 in the Dutch town of Heerenveen .

After The Hague in 2001 and Zoetermeer in 2004 , a Dutch city has organized the continental competitions for the third time. 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.

Participating Nations

A total of 131 athletes from 22 countries took part in the European Championships, including 77 men and 54 women. The two reigning champions in the all-around competition - the Italian Nicola Rodigari and the Czech Kateřina Novotná - competed again. With the Latvian Haralds Silovs and Arianna Fontana from Italy, two former European champions also competed in the all-around competition. The German team, which won the women's relay at the 2010 home European championships in Dresden , consisted of five men and four women, three and two of whom started in the all-around competition. The other athletes only took part in the relay competition.

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

Time schedule

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

Friday January 14th 2011

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

Saturday 15th January 2011

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

Sunday January 16, 2011

• 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.	Arianna Fontana	115	4. (8)	1. (34)	1. (34)	1. (34)
2.	Bernadett Heidum	42	3. (13)	2. (21)	7. (0)	4. (8)
3.	Martina Valcepina	39	1. (34)	17. (0)	8. (0)	5. (5)
4th	Kateřina Novotná	37	9. (0)	4. (8)	4. (8)	2. (21)
5.	Veronika Windisch	34	11. (0)	19. (0)	2. (21)	3. (13)
6th	Patrycja Maliszewska	23	2. (21)	11. (0)	14. (0)	7. (2)
7th	Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	16	7. (0)	3. (13)	12. (0)	6. (3)
8th.	Erika Huszar	14th	10. (0)	10. (0)	3. (13)	8. (1)

Arianna Fontanat got five additional points in the 3000 m superfinal.

Single routes

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Martina Valcepina	45.457 s
2.	Patrycja Maliszewska	45.550 s
3.	Bernadett Heidum	45.623 s
4th	Arianna Fontana	1: 14.525 min

Date: January 15, 2011

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Arianna Fontana	1: 35.209 min
2.	Bernadett Heidum	1: 35.356 min
3.	Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	1: 35.528 min
4th	Kateřina Novotná	1: 35.684 min

Date: January 16, 2011

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Arianna Fontana	2: 29.292 min
2.	Veronika Windisch	2: 29.610 min
3.	Erika Huszar	2: 29.941 min
4th	Kateřina Novotná	2: 31.999 min
5.	Jorien ter Mors	3: 05.866 min
6th	Elise Christie	disq.

Date: January 14, 2011

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Arianna Fontana	5: 15.742 min
2.	Kateřina Novotná	5: 19.114 min
3.	Veronika Windisch	5: 19.585 min
4th	Bernadett Heidum	5: 19.668 min
5.	Martina Valcepina	5: 21.937 min
6th	Marina Georgieva-Nikolova	5: 23.218 min
7th	Patrycja Maliszewska	5: 25.361 min
8th.	Erika Huszar	5: 35.767 min

Date: January 16, 2011

Season

rank	Surname	time
1.	Netherlands Annita van Doorn Sanne van Kerkhof Yara van Kerkhof Jorien ter Mors	4: 19.253 min
2.	Hungary Erika Huszár Rózsa Darázs Bernadett Heidum Szandra Lajtos	4: 19.284 min
3.	Italy Arianna Fontana Elena Viviani Lucia Peretti Martina Valcepina	4: 20.473 min
4th	Germany Elisa Lenke Julia Riedel Christin Priebst Bianca Walter	4: 21.885 min

Date: January 14-16, 2011

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.	Thibaut Fauconnet	136	1. (34)	1. (34)	1. (34)	1. (34)
2.	Haralds Silovs	50	3. (13)	2. (21)	4. (8)	4. (8)
3.	Sjinkie Knegt	47	4. (8)	11. (0)	2. (21)	3. (13)
4th	Ruslan Sakharov	42	7. (0)	4. (8)	3. (13)	2. (21)
5.	Jack Whelbourne	39	2. (21)	3. (13)	9. (0)	5. (5)
6th	Semyon Jelistratov	9	17. (0)	7. (2)	5. (5)	7. (2)
7th	Bartosz Konopko	6th	9. (0)	DNS (0)	6. (3)	6. (3)
8th.	Niels Kerstholt	3	11. (0)	8. (1)	7. (2)	DNS (0)

Sjinkie Knegt got five additional points in the 3000 m superfinal.

Single routes

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Thibaut Fauconnet	42.235 s
2.	Jack Whelbourne	42,369 s
3.	Haralds Silovs	42.376 s
4th	Sjinkie Knegt	42.506 s

Date: January 15, 2011

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Thibaut Fauconnet	1: 26.888 min
2.	Haralds Silovs	1: 26.942 min
3.	Jack Whelbourne	1: 27.301 min
4th	Ruslan Sakharov	1: 53.610 min

Date: January 16, 2011

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Thibaut Fauconnet	2: 16.681 min
2.	Sjinkie Knegt	2: 16.733 min
3.	Ruslan Sakharov	2: 16.921 min
4th	Haralds Silovs	2: 17.829 min
5.	Semyon Jelistratov	2: 18.149 min
6th	Bartosz Konopko	2: 19.238 min

Date: January 14, 2011

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Thibaut Fauconnet	4: 50.275 min
2.	Ruslan Sakharov	4: 50.303 min
3.	Sjinkie Knegt	4: 50.426 min
4th	Haralds Silovs	4: 50.553 min
5.	Jack Whelbourne	4: 51.364 min
6th	Bartosz Konopko	5: 35.059 min
7th	Semyon Jelistratov	5: 40.700 min

Date: January 16, 2011

Season

rank	Surname	time
1.	Netherlands Freek van der Wart Niels Kerstholt Sjinkie Knegt Daan Breeuwsma	6: 54.608 min
2.	Russia Vladimir Grigoryev Semyon Yelistratov Yevgeny Kosulin Sergei Prankewitsch	6: 54.726 min
3.	United Kingdom Anthony Douglas Jack Whelbourne Jon Eley Paul Stanley	6: 56.025 min
4th	Germany Robert Becker Paul Herrmann Torsten Kröger Robert Seifert	6: 56.848 min

Date: January 14-16, 2011

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Netherlands	2	-	1	3
2	Italy	1	-	2	3
3	France	1	-	-	1
4th	Hungary	-	2	-	2
5	Latvia	-	1	-	1
	Russia	-	1	-	1
7th	Great Britain	-	-	1	1
total		4th	4th	4th	12

Web links

• Matthias Opatz: EM preview: Hot days in Heerenveen ( memento from November 30, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) on shorttrack.wordpress.com. Released January 11, 2011. Accessed January 16, 2011.
• List of all starters with helmet numbers (PDF; 86 kB) on shorttrack.files.wordpress.com. Retrieved January 16, 2011.
• Official final report with all results and participants (English; PDF; 753 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LIST OF COMPETITORS. (PDF; 753 kB) Retrieved November 15, 2011 (English).