European Short Track Championships 2012

The 2012 European Short Track Championships took place from January 27 to 29, 2012 in Mladá Boleslav , Czech Republic . This was the first time that the continental title fights took place in the Czech Republic.

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.

In the women's all-around competition , Arianna Fontana defended her title from last year. She won confidently in front of Jorien ter Mors and Martina Valcepina . In the men's category , Sjinkie Knegt won the all- around title for the first time. He prevailed over Niels Kerstholt and Thibaut Fauconnet . In the relay competitions the Dutch quartets defended their previous year's titles.

Participating Nations

A total of 143 athletes from 26 countries took part in the European Championships, including 83 men and 60 women.

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

Time schedule

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

Friday January 27, 2012

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

Saturday 26th January 2012

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

Sunday 29th January 2012

• 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	107	1. (34)	21. (0)	1. (34)	1. (34)
2.	Jorien ter Mors	76	4. (8)	1. (34)	2. (21)	2. (21)
3.	Martina Valcepina	43	2. (21)	4. (8)	3. (13)	8. (1)
4th	Bernadett Heidum	29	6. (0)	2. (21)	18. (0)	4. (8)
5.	Olga Belyakova	21st	9. (0)	7. (0)	4. (8)	3. (13)
6th	Véronique Pierron	18th	16. (0)	3. (13)	9. (0)	5. (5)
7th	Andrea Keszler	16	3. (13)	8. (0)	10. (0)	6. (3)
8th.	Veronika Windisch	7th	23. (0)	13. (0)	5. (5)	7. (2)

Arianna Fontanat received five additional points.

Single routes

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Arianna Fontana	43.725 s
2.	Martina Valcepina	43.801 s
3.	Andrea Keszler	1: 01.011 min
4th	Jorien ter Mors	disqualified

Date: January 28, 2012

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Jorien ter Mors	1: 30.544 min
2.	Bernadett Heidum	1: 30.646 min
3.	Véronique Pierron	1: 30.708 min
4th	Martina Valcepina	1: 32.653 min

Date: January 29, 2012

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Arianna Fontana	2: 28.082 min
2.	Jorien ter Mors	2: 28.576 min
3.	Martina Valcepina	2: 28.812 min
4th	Olga Belyakova	2: 28.890 min
5.	Veronika Windisch	2: 34.334 min
6th	Kateřina Novotná	2: 56.139 min
7th	Elise Christie	3: 22.128 min

Date: January 27, 2012

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Arianna Fontana	5: 14.367 min
2.	Jorien ter Mors	5: 14.379 min
3.	Olga Belyakova	5: 14.989 min
4th	Bernadett Heidum	5: 15,100 min
5.	Véronique Pierron	5: 15.162 min
6th	Andrea Keszler	5: 17.066 min
7th	Veronika Windisch	5: 18.457 min
8th.	Martina Valcepina	5: 25.994 min

Date: January 29, 2012

Season

rank	Surname	time
1.	Netherlands Annita van Doorn Sanne van Kerkhof Yara van Kerkhof Jorien ter Mors	4: 15.392 min
2.	Italy Arianna Fontana Cecilia Maffei Arianna Valcepina Martina Valcepina	4: 15.406 min
3.	Hungary Patricia Tóth Andrea Keszler Bernadett Heidum Szandra Lajtos	4: 16.867 min
4th	Germany Elisa Lenke Julia Riedel Christin Priebst Bianca Walter	4: 16.983 min

Date: January 27-29, 2012

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.	Sjinkie Knegt	63	11. (0)	2. (21)	1. (34)	4. (8)
2.	Niels Kerstholt	47	7. (0)	8. (0)	3. (13)	1. (34)
3.	Thibaut Fauconnet	47	51. (0)	1. (34)	17. (0)	3. (13)
4th	Semyon Jelistratov	42	25. (0)	10. (0)	2. (21)	2. (21)
5.	Vladimir Grigoryev	39	1. (34)	12. (0)	10. (0)	5. (5)
6th	Jack Whelbourne	30th	2. (21)	5. (0)	7. (2)	7. (2)
7th	Yevgeny Kosulin	24	19. (0)	3. (13)	4. (8)	6. (3)
8th.	Jon Eley	16	3. (13)	50. (0)	6. (3)	DNS (0)

Jack Whelbourne got five bonus points.

Single routes

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Vladimir Grigoryev	41.798 s
2.	Jack Whelbourne	42.828 s
3.	Jon Eley	42,970 s
4th	Robert Seifert	1: 05.247 min

Date: January 28, 2012

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Thibaut Fauconnet	1: 28.431 min
2.	Sjinkie Knegt	1: 28.472 min
3.	Yevgeny Kosulin	1: 28.751 min
4th	Paul Herrmann	1: 29.088 min
5.	Jack Whelbourne	disqualified

Date: January 29, 2012

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Sjinkie Knegt	2: 15.303 min
2.	Semyon Jelistratov	2: 15.428 min
3.	Niels Kerstholt	2: 15.578 min
4th	Yevgeny Kosulin	2: 15.599 min
5.	Vladislav Bikanov	2: 15.836 min
6th	Jon Eley	2: 16.045 min
7th	Jack Whelbourne	2: 25.007 min
8th.	Maxime Chataigner	2: 55.098 min

Date: January 27, 2012

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Niels Kerstholt	4: 42.417 min
2.	Semyon Jelistratov	4: 47.811 min
3.	Thibaut Fauconnet	4: 51.971 min
4th	Sjinkie Knegt	4: 53.149 min
5.	Vladimir Grigoryev	4: 53.771 min
6th	Yevgeny Kosulin	4: 58.220 min
7th	Jack Whelbourne	5: 02.946 min
8th.	Jon Eley	not at the start

Date: January 29, 2012

Season

rank	Surname	time
1.	Netherlands Freek van der Wart Niels Kerstholt Sjinkie Knegt Daan Breeuwsma	6: 46.675 min
2.	Russia Vladimir Grigoryev Semyon Yelistratov Yevgeny Kosulin Vyacheslav Kurginian	6: 47.864 min
3.	Germany Robert Becker Paul Herrmann Torsten Kröger Robert Seifert	6: 55.952 min
4th	United Kingdom Richard Shoebridge Jack Whelbourne Ian Upcott Paul Stanley	disqualified

Date: January 27-29, 2012

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Netherlands	3	2		5
2	Italy	1	1	1	3
3	Russia	-	1	-	1
4th	Germany	-	-	1	1
	France	-	-	1	1
	Hungary	-	-	1	1
total		4th	4th	4th	12

Web links

• Official final report with all results and participants (English; PDF; 7.4 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LIST OF COMPETITORS. (PDF; 7.4 MB) Retrieved January 30, 2012 (English).