Short track team world championships 2005

The 2005 team world championships in the short track took place from March 5th to 6th, 2005 in Chuncheon . South Korea hosted the Team World Championships for the third time after Seoul had hosted twice before .

Teams from eight countries took part. In the women’s category, South Korea won ahead of China and Canada, and in the men’s category Canada prevailed over South Korea and China.

Regulations

There were seven teams for women and eight for men with a maximum of five athletes. The seven and eight teams were divided into two groups. The first team in each group qualified directly for the final, the second and third placed team for the round of hope, the fourth placed team was eliminated. The first two teams in the round of hope also made it to the final, while the third and fourth placed teams were eliminated. The runs of the preliminary round groups and the round of hope were completed on the first day of the competition, the final on the second.

Over 500 m and 1000 m, an athlete from one country competed against each other in four runs. There was only one run over 3000 m, with two athletes from each country. Four runners from one country started in the relay. In each individual race, the first received five points, the second three points, the third two points and the fourth one point. Twice as many points were awarded in the season, ten for the first season, six for the second, four for the third and two for the fourth. No point was awarded in the event of a disqualification. The addition of all points of the athletes of a country decided on the placement.

Results

Women

In the first group of the preliminary round, China prevailed by a clear margin and advanced to the final. Japan and Canada reached the hopes, while France were eliminated. In the second preliminary group, South Korea also clearly prevailed. Italy and Russia had to go through the hopes. Only three teams started in this group, so none of them were eliminated. Canada dominated the hopes and reached the final, followed by Japan. The championship was over for Italy and Russia.

rank	country	Runners	500 m		1000 m		3000 m		3000 m relay		Total points
			Time (s)	Points	Time (min)	Points	Time (min)	Points	Time (min)	Points
A final
1.	South Korea	Yeo Soo-yeon		3	DSQ	0	-	-	4: 16.465	10	43
		Jin Sun-yu	45.169	2	1: 33.085	5	5: 17.751	5
		Choi Eun-kyung	45.525	2	1: 32.667	5	5: 17.761	3
		Kang Yun-mi	45.131	3	1: 35.785	5	-	-
2.	People's Republic of China	Yang Yang (A)	45.125	5	1: 33.884	5	-	-	4: 19.638	6th	35
		Cheng Xiao Lei	45.101	3	1: 34.759	1	DNF	0
		Fu Tianyu	45.334	5	1: 33.587	2	-	-
		Wang Meng	44.927	5	1: 36.110	3	-	-
		Zhu Mi Lei	-	-	-	-	DSQ	0
3.	Canada	Anouk Leblanc-Boucher	45.286	2	1: 33.335	3	-	-	4: 21.606	4th	24
		Amanda Overland	45.064	5	1: 32.761	3	5: 36.256	0
		Alanna Kraus	45.708	1	1: 51.002	1	-	-
		Kalyna Roberge	DSQ	0	-	-	5: 18.095	2
		Tania Vicent	-	-	1: 34.197	3	-	-
4th	Japan	Tanaka Chikage	45,420	1	1: 37.137	2	-	-	4: 23.933	2	17th
		Mika Ozawa	46.428	1	1: 35.160	1	5: 24.817	1
		Yuka Kamino	45.478	3	1: 33.528	2	5: 27.858	0
		Yūkō Kōya	45.653	2	1: 34.311	2	-	-

Men

In the first group of the preliminary round, Canada easily reached the final. Italy and China entered the hopes, France was eliminated. In the second group, South Korea reached the final just as easily. Japan and Great Britain qualified for the Hope Round, while Russia was eliminated. China prevailed in the hope round and reached the final. Japan also made it by a narrow margin, while Italy and Great Britain missed the finals.

rank	country	runner	500 m		1000 m		3000 m		5000 m relay		Total points
			Time (s)	Points	Time (min)	Points	Time (min)	Points	Time (min)	Points
A final
1.	Canada	Mathieu Turcotte	42,046	5	1: 31.602	5	5: 25.072	0	6: 44.450	10	43
		Éric Bédard	43,411	2	-	-	-	-
		Charles Hamelin	DSQ	0	1: 28.690	5	5: 24.506	3
		François-Louis Tremblay	43,300	3	1: 31.920	5	-	-
		Steve Robillard	-	-	1: 29.335	5	-	-
2.	South Korea	Lee Seung-hoon	43.228	1	1: 32.062	2	-	-	6: 44.669	6th	36
		Seo Ho-jin	43.008	5	1: 32.267	3	-	-
		Ahn Hyun-soo	42.617	5	1: 28.838	3	5: 24.494	5
		Lee Jae-kyung	43.291	5			-	-
		Song Kyung-taek	-	-	DSQ	0	5: 24.992	1
3.	People's Republic of China	Li Ye	42,806	2	1: 31.119	2	-	-	7: 06.918	4th	22nd
		Li Jiajun	DSQ	0	1: 31.854	3	5: 37.418	0
		Sui Bao Ku	42.622	3	1: 29.457	3	5: 24.824	2
		Li Haonan	43,604	1	-	-	-	-
		Cui Liang	-	-	1: 32.598	2	-	-
4th	Japan	Satoru Terao	42.177	3	1: 29.632	2	-	-	7: 08.205	2	17th
		Nishitani Takafumi	43.299	3	1: 31.422	1	-	-
		Takahiro Fujimoto	45,605	2	-	-	5: 43.883	0
		Takehiro Kodera	43,571	2	1: 33.374	1	-	-
		Sueyoshi Hayato	-	-	1: 32.303	1	5: 32.529	0

Web links

• Official results