Short Track Team World Championships 2009

The Team World Championships in 2009 in the short track speed skating found from 14 to 15 March 2009 in the Dutch town of Heerenveen instead. Heerenveen hosted short track world championships for the first time, but team world championships in the Netherlands took place in 1995 in Zoetermeer and in 2000 in The Hague .

Eight teams took part for women and men, with teams from the same countries for both. In the women’s category, China won ahead of South Korea and the USA, in the men’s South Korea just beat Canada, and the USA won bronze here too.

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 prevailed confidently and reached the A-final, Italy and the USA qualified for the hope round, while the German team slipped into the B-final. In the second round, South Korea prevailed just as easily and advanced to the A-final. Canada and the Netherlands made it to the Hope Round, while Japan only made it to the B final. In the hope round, Canada and the USA reached the A final with the same number of points and a clear lead, while the Netherlands and Italy had to be content with 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.	People's Republic of China	Zhou Yang	45.453	1	1: 30.739	5	5: 02.535	5	4: 13.141	10	46
		Fu Tianyu	44.719	3	-	-	-	-
		Liu Qiuhong	44,451	5	1: 31.986	5	-	-
		Wang Meng	43.851	5	1: 32.711	5	5: 03.738	0
		Zhang Hui	-	-	1: 33.324	2	-	-
2.	South Korea	Yang Shin-young	45.292	3	1: 30.927	3	-	-	4: 13.389	6th	29
		Jung Ba-ra	45.164	2	1: 33.318	3	-	-
		Shin Sae-bom	44.570	2	1: 33.154	3	5: 03.561	0
		Kim Min-jung	44.849	3	1: 32.036	3	5: 03.378	1
3.	United States	Alyson Dudek	45.378	2	-	-	-	-	4: 18.204	4th	24
		Kimberly Derrick	45.479	1	1: 34.503	2	5: 25.529	0
		Katherine Reutter	44.554	3	1: 33.141	5	5: 03.155	3
		Jessica Smith	45.282	1	1: 31.076	2	-	-
		Lana Gehring	-	-	1: 32.858	1	-	-
4th	Canada	Kalyna Roberge	45.211	5	1: 34.577	1	5: 03.221	2	4: 31.042	2	22nd
		Jessica Gregg	44.504	5	1: 31.112	1	-	-
		Anne Maltais	45,481	1	-	-	5: 21.855	0
		Valérie Maltais	45.059	2	1: 40.407	1	-	-
		Jessica Hewitt	-	-	1: 32.381	2	-	-
B final
5.	Italy	Martina Valcepina	46.130	3	-	-	-	-	4: 25.970	10	36
		Katia Zini	46.824	1	1: 34.796	1	-	-
		Cecilia Maffei	46.258	3	1: 37.355	2	5: 30.740	0
		Arianna Fontana	46.110	5	1: 36.437	5	5: 18.688	3
		Lucia Peretti	-	-	1: 35.211	3	-	-
6th	Netherlands	Liesbeth Mau Asam	45,952	5	1: 51.974	1	-	-	4: 26.039	6th	35
		Maaike Vos	46.649	3	1: 36.650	1	-	-
		Annita van Doorn	45.936	5	1: 34.240	5	5: 18.546	5
		Sanne van Kerkhof	46.175	3	-	-	-	-
		Jorien ter Mors	-	-	1: 37.594	1	5: 32.095	0
7th	Germany	Bianca Walter	46.295	2	1: 36.954	2	-	-	4: 34.775	4th	25th
		Christin Priebst	46.680	2	1: 35.112	5	5: 18.810	2
		Susanne Rudolph	49,607	1	1: 37.262	3	-	-
		Aika Klein	46.425	1	1: 34.745	2	5: 18.825	1
		Julia Riedel	-	-	-	-	-	-
8th.	Japan	Ayuko Itō	46,351	1	1: 34.648	3	-	-	4: 39.468	2	25th
		Yui Sakai	46.539	5	1: 36.822	3	-	-
		Hiroko Sadakane	46.703	2	-	-	5: 40.262	0
		Biba Sakurai	46.367	2	1: 35.241	2	-	-
		Mika Ozawa	-	-	1: 36.887	5	5: 19.063	0

Men

In the first group of the preliminary round, South Korea prevailed just ahead of the USA. South Korea moved into the A-final, the USA and Japan reached the round of hope, Germany had to start in the B-final. In the second group of the preliminary round, China qualified for the A-final, the narrowly beaten Canadian team and Italy reached the hope round, while the Netherlands had to go to the B-final. In the Hope Round, Canada and the USA made it into the A-final with a clear lead, Japan and Italy could only go to the B-final.

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.	South Korea	Sung Si-bak	42,429	5	1: 26.738	3	-	-	6: 50.014	10	36
		Lee Jung-su	43,490	2	1: 28.569	1	5: 05.705	5
		Lee Ho-suk	42.107	2	1: 28.789	3	5: 15.069	0
		Kwak Yoon-gy	42.207	2	1: 28.377	3	-	-
2.	Canada	François Hamelin	42,519	3	1: 28.274	5	-	-	6: 50.216	6th	34
		Olivier Jean	153.849	1	1: 28.687	1	-	-
		François-Louis Tremblay	41,991	5	1: 29.096	2	-	-
		Charles Hamelin	41.892	5	1: 26.501	5	5: 15.219	0
		Marc-Andre Monette	-	-	-	-	5: 09.810	1
3.	United States	Travis Jayner	42.760	2	1: 28.451	2	-	-	disq.	0	27
		Apolo Anton Ohno	42.816	5	1: 28.298	5	5: 06.886	3
		John Celski	42.153	1	1: 28.424	5	5: 15.110	0
		Jordan Malone	43.028	1	1: 28.357	3	-	-
4th	People's Republic of China	Yang Jin	43.356	1	-	-	5: 08.837	2	6: 58.051	4th	21st
		Song Weilong	43,446	3	disq.	0	-	-
		Sui Baoku	42,046	3	1: 28.393	2	5: 57.243	0
		Han Jialiang	42.032	3	1: 28.589	2	-	-
		Liu Xianwei	-	-	1: 29.851	1	-	-
B final
5.	Japan	Satoshi Sakashita	43,487	5	disq.	0	-	-	7: 00.620	4th	34
		Takahiro Fujimoto	42.983	5	1: 30.339	5	-	-
		Yuzo Takamido	43.226	2	1: 29.561	5		1
		Yuma Sakurai	44.680	2	-	-	-	-
		Fumihiko Kakubari	-	-	1: 28.831	5		0
6th	Germany	Paul Herrmann	43,522	3	1: 29.606	3		0	7: 00.353	10	32
		Sebastian Praus	43.697	3	1: 29.512	2		3
		Tyson Heung	42.983	3	1: 29.150	3	-	-
		Robert Seifert	58.206	1	-	-	-	-
		Robert Becker	-	-	1: 30.750	1	-	-
7th	Italy	Roberto Serra	43.784	1	1: 29.968	1	-	-	7: 09.336	2	30th
		Claudio Rinaldi	disq.	0	1: 30.635	2	-	-
		Yuri Confortola	42.955	5	2: 15.385	2		2
		Nicola Rodigari	43.215	5	1: 29.283	5		5
8th.	Netherlands	Freek van der Wart	43.749	2	1: 29.374	3	-	-	7: 00.495	6th	22nd
		Daan Breeuwsma	43,962	2	-	-		0
		Niels Kerstholt	58.444	1	1: 30.620	3	-	-
		Sjinkie Knegt	43.458	3	disq.	0	-	-
		Rudy Koen	-	-	1: 29.817	2		0

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

Web links

• Official results
• Final report of the championship with all results and participants (English; PDF; 1.3 MB)