Short track team world championships 2007

The 2007 team world championships in the short track took place from March 17th to 18th, 2007 in the Hungarian capital Budapest . After 1993, Budapest hosted the team world championships for the second time.

Eight teams took part for women and men. South Korea, Canada, the USA, Italy and hosts Hungary started for women and men, with the women teams from Japan, China and Russia, while for the men Australia, Germany and the Ukraine completed the field. South Korea won ahead of China and Canada for women and Canada ahead of South Korea and Italy for men.

Regulations

Eight teams with a maximum of five athletes took part in the women and men. The eight teams were divided into two groups. The first team in each group qualified directly for the A final, the second and third placed team for the round of hope and the fourth placed team for the B final. The first two teams in the round of hope also advanced to the A final, while the third and fourth placed teams had to compete in the B final. The runs of the preliminary round groups and the round of hope were completed on the first day of the competition, the A and B finals 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 clearly prevailed and advanced to the A-final, Canada and Japan reached the hope round, while Italy had to make do with the B-final. In the second group, South Korea also clearly prevailed. The teams from the USA and Hungary qualified for the round of hope, Russia had to compete in the B final. In the hope round, the North American teams from Canada and the USA narrowly prevailed and also reached the A final, Japan and Hungary only had the B final.

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	Jin Sun-yu	45,360	5	1: 33.483	5	-	-	4: 18.091	10	56
		Jeon Ji-soo	44.894	5	1: 34.177	5	-	-
		Jung Eun-ju	45.502	5	1: 34.327	5	5: 42.323	5
		Byun Chun-sa	45,462	3	1: 34.261	5	-	-
		Kim Min-jung	-	-	-	-	5: 42.553	3
2.	People's Republic of China	Zhu Mi Lei	45.369	3	1: 34.357	3	disq.	0	4: 18.344	6th	28
		Meng Xiaoxue	45.554	2	1: 34.388	1	5: 44.465	0
		Cheng Xiao Lei	45.584	3	1: 34.409	2	-	-
		Fu Tianyu	45,403	5	1: 34.744	3	-	-
3.	Canada	Annik Plamondon	45.525	2	-	-	-	-	4: 18.396	4th	23
		Amanda Overland	45,416	3	1: 34.191	3	5: 43.010	2
		Anne Maltais	45.596	2	1: 34.729	2	-	-
		Kalyna Roberge	disq.	0	1: 33.671	3	5: 43.311	1
		Nita Avrith	-	-	1: 36.353	1	-	-
4th	United States	Kimberly Derrick	45.756	1	1: 35.968	1	-	-	4: 25.384	2	13
		Katherine Reutter	46.040	1	1: 35.307	1	-	-
		Allison Baver	46.011	1	1: 34.339	2	5: 45.730	0
		Tina Koenig	46.756	2	-	-	6: 16.638	0
		Kim Hyo-young	-	-	1: 34.819	2	-	-
B final
5.	Japan	Biba Sakurai	47.311	5	1: 37.262	5	-	-	4: 22.876	10	49
		Yuka Kamino	46.658	5	1: 37.714	5	5: 40.811	5
		Mika Ozawa	46.628	3	1: 38.096	5	-	-
		Hiroko Sadakane	disq.	0	-	-	-	-
		Yūkō Kōya	-	-	1: 38.967	3	5: 42.038	3
6th	Hungary	Andrea Keszler	47.415	3	1: 40.560	2	-	-	4: 37.458	4th	28
		Bernadett Heidum	disq.	0	1: 49.286	3	5: 52.115	2
		Erika Huszár	46.511	5	1: 38.513	3	5: 52.943	1
		Eliza Novak	50.799	3	1: 48.866	2	-	-
7th	Russia	Ekaterina Gulyayeva	47.504	2	-	-	-	-	4: 26.133	6th	26th
		Valeria Potjomkina	46.730	3	1: 38.537	2	-	-
		Ekaterina Belowa	disq.	0	1: 38.945	5	-	-
		Olga Belyakova	48,067	5	disq.	0	5: 55.550	0
		Olga Maskaikina	-	-	1: 38.938	3	5: 57.452	0
8th.	Italy	Did not run for the B final									0

Men

In the first group of the preliminary round Canada prevailed sovereignly and reached the A-final, Italy and Germany moved into the hope round, Ukraine only reached the B-final. In the second preliminary group, South Korea clearly won and qualified for the A-final. The USA and Hungary moved into the hopes, Australia had to make do with the B final. Italy clearly won the round of hope and moved into the A-final with the US team, which left Germany and Hungary just behind.

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	Jean-François Monette	42.501	5	-	-	-	-	7: 01.692	6th	43
		François-Louis Tremblay	41.687	5	1: 28.515	5	-	-
		Olivier Jean	42,601	5	1: 30.076	2	5: 49.550	0
		Charles Hamelin	41,350	5	1: 53.363	2	5: 48.168	5
		Marc-André Monette	-	-	1: 29.630	3	-	-
2.	South Korea	Ahn Hyun-soo	42.916	1	1: 29.530	5	DNF	0	7: 01.486	10	33
		Sung Si-bak	41.760	3	-	-	-	-
		Kim Byeong-jun	42.840	3	disq.	0	-	-
		Song Kyung-taek	41,591	3	1: 29.382	5	DNF	0
		Kim Hyun-kon	-	-	1: 28.616	3	-	-
3.	Italy	Nicola Rodigari	42.613	3	1: 29.455	2	5: 48,400	2	7: 04.630	4th	26th
		Roberto Serra	42,566	1	1: 33.559	3	-	-
		Yuri Confortola	43.051	1	1: 29.675	3	5: 48.293	3
		Fabio Carta	42.706	2	1: 29.886	2	-	-
4th	United States	Anthony Lobello	42.764	2	1: 30.523	1	-	-	7: 17.088	2	18th
		Alex Izykowski	42,552	2	1: 30.094	1	-	-
		Travis Jayner	43.020	2	1: 30.431	1	-	-
		Ryan Bedford	42.856	1	-	-	5: 53.144	0
		Jordan Malone	-	-	1: 29.035	5	5: 48.553	1
B final
5.	Hungary	David Mano Loth	45.333	2	DNF	0	-	-	7: 03.787	6th	41
		Péter Darázs	43.876	5	1: 29.211	2	-	-
		Gábor Galambos	43.616	5	1: 30.024	5		1
		Viktor Knoch	43.176	5	1: 32.009	5		5
6th	Germany	Robert Becker	43.377	3	1: 31.466	2	-	-	7: 03.242	10	31
		Torsten Kroeger	44.159	1	-	-	-	-
		Sebastian Praus	43.966	3	1: 32.045	3		3
		Paul Herrmann	43.214	3	1: 29.190	3		0
		Tyson Heung	-	-	DNF	0	-	-
7th	Australia	Alexander Merriman	43.252	5	1: 28.864	5		0	7: 04.043	4th	30th
		Elliott Shriane	44.133	2	1: 51.001	5	-	-
		Lachlan Hay	44.706	1	1: 30.270	3	-	-
		Ben Southee	44.773	1	1: 32.195	2	-	-
		Jeremy Beck	-	-	-	-		2
8th.	Ukraine	Andriy Kozhukh	45,427	1	-	-	-	-	7: 08.550	2	16
		Oleksiy Koshelenko	44.036	3	1: 32.437	1	-	-
		Serhiy Lifyrenko	44,437	2	1: 51.378	3	-	-
		Dmytro Poltavets	43.860	2	1: 29.369	1		0
		Anton Simon	-	-	1: 33.962	1		0

There are no finishing times for the 3000 m run of the B final.

Web links

• Official results
• Final report of the championship with all results and participants (English; PDF; 481 kB)