Short track team world championships 2010

The 2010 team world championships in the short track took place from March 27 to 28, 2010 in the Italian city of Bormio . After 1998, Bormio hosted the team world championships for the second time. In both the women's and men's competitions, South Korea prevailed over Canada, while bronze went to Italy for women and China for men. Teams from nine countries took part in the competitions.

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 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, South Korea prevailed confidently and reached the A-final. Japan and Hungary had to go into the hopes in second and third place respectively, while Great Britain only reached the B final. In the second preliminary group only three teams competed. Canada made it through to the A-final, while Italy and Germany made it through to the hopes. Japan won clearly there, the fight for second place was exciting. Italy finally followed Japan into the A final by a narrow margin, while Germany and Hungary reached 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	Lee Eun-byul	44.896	5	1: 31.492	5	5: 45.408	0	4: 06,809	10	45
		Park Seung-hi	43.773	5	1: 31.791	5	5: 45.537	0
		Cho Ha-ri	43.695	3	1: 30.610	5	-	-
		Kim Min-jung	44,593	2	1: 31.171	5	-	-
2.	Canada	Kalyna Roberge	73.963	2	1: 31.608	3	5: 45.292	1	4: 09.178	6th	35
		Tania Vicent	44.358	1	-	-	-	-
		Jessica Gregg	43,605	5	1: 32.543	3	-	-
		Marianne St-Gelais	43.945	5	1: 31.265	3	-	-
		Valérie Maltais	-	-	1: 31.071	3	5: 26.764	3
3.	Italy	Martina Valcepina	disq.	0	1: 31.901	2	-	-	4: 14.147	2	21st
		Elena Viviani	44,336	2	-	-	-	-
		Katia Zini	44.989	2	1: 31.292	2	5: 46.303	0
		Cecilia Maffei	44.425	3	1: 31.953	2	5: 26.634	5
		Lucia Peretti	-	-	1: 32.792	1	-	-
4th	Japan	Ayuko Itō	45.069	3	1: 32.635	2	-	-	4: 14.125	4th	19th
		Yui Sakai	43,936	3	1: 32.181	1	-	-
		Biba Sakurai	45.127	1	-	-	5: 46.013	0
		Hiroko Sadakane	44.659	1	1: 31.983	1	-	-
		Mika Ozawa	-	-	1: 31.359	1	5: 28.557	2
B final
5.	Hungary	Rózsa Darázs	44,862	3	1: 35.341	5	5: 34.683	3	4: 18.077	4th	42
		Andrea Keszler	44.491	3	1: 33.405	3	-	-
		Erika Huszár	44.930	5	1: 35.227	5	5: 44.566	1
		Bernadett Heidum	45.672	5	1: 34.767	5	-	-
		Szandra Lajtos	-	-	-	-	-	-
6th	United Kingdom	Sarah Lindsay	44.144	5	1: 35.295	3	-	-	4: 17.997	6th	37
		Elise Christie	44.367	5	1: 33.262	5	5: 34.681	5
		Charlotte Gilmartin	45.186	2	1: 38.995	2	5: 45.240	0
		Alex Whelbourne	45,802	2	1: 39.803	2	-	-
7th	Germany	Julia Riedel	62.110	2	1: 34.922	2	5: 34.746	2	4: 16.322	10	30th
		Christin Priebst	45.391	2	1: 35,400	3	5: 45.985	0
		Susanne Rudolph	45.037	3	disq.	0	-	-
		Bianca Walter	45.716	3	1: 34.941	3	-	-

Men

In the first group of the preliminary round, South Korea prevailed confidently and reached the A-final. China and France moved into the hopes, Japan had to make do with fourth in the B final. In the second group of the preliminary round Canada won clearly and moved into the A-final, Italy and Germany reached the hope round and Great Britain only reached the B-final. In the Hope Round, China and Italy reached the A-final tied, while Germany and France also reached the B-final tied.

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	Lee Ho-suk	41,581	3	disq.	0	-	-	6: 40.888	10	38
		Kwak Yoon-gy	41,399	3	1: 27.084	5	-	-
		Kim Seoung-il	41,487	1	1: 25.160	3	4: 45.291	5
		Lee Jung-su	41,592	3	1: 23.807	5	4: 55.889	0
2.	Canada	François Hamelin	41,388	5	1: 25.305	2	-	-	6: 41.028	6th	36
		Charles Hamelin	40.827	5	1: 26.375	5	5: 01.235	0
		François-Louis Tremblay	41.221	3	1: 24.096	2	-	-
		Olivier Jean	41.513	5	1: 28.107	1	-	-
		Guillaume Bastille	-	-	-	-	4: 46.929	2
3.	People's Republic of China	Wang Hong Yang	disq.	0	-	-	-	-	6: 42.840	2	24
		Han Jialiang	41.660	2	1: 26.780	3	5: 11.713	0
		Liang Wenhao	41,063	5	1: 25.103	5	-	-
		Ma Yunfeng	42.457	1	1: 24.299	1	-	-
		Liu Xianwei	-	-	1: 27.909	2	4: 46.410	3
4th	Italy	Nicolas Bean	41.977	2	1: 23.949	3	5: 03.486	0	6: 42.124	4th	21st
		Claudio Rinaldi	41.989	1	-	-	-	-
		Yuri Confortola	41.354	2	1: 27.275	3	4: 52.597	1
		Nicola Rodigari	42,305	2	1: 25.368	1	-	-
		Tommaso Dotti	-	-	1: 28.004	2	-	-
B final
5.	Germany	Paul Herrmann	42,439	1	1: 30.584	3	-	-	6: 49,152	10	35
		Tyson Heung	41,399	3	1: 30.362	3	-	-
		Robert Seifert	41.254	5	1: 45.807	2	-	-
		Robert Becker	42.652	5	-	-	4: 56.689	0
		Sebastian Praus	-	-	1: 29.284	2	4: 54.988	1
6th	France	Maxime chat signer	41.672	3	disq.	0	-	-	7: 15.193	2	29
		Thibaut Fauconnet	41,385	5	1: 28.980	5	4: 54.585	5
		Benjamin Macé	42.834	1	1: 30.758	2	-	-
		Jeremy Masson	42.772	3	-	-	-	-
		Jean-Charles Mattei	-	-	1: 30.532	1	4: 54.929	2
7th	Japan	Yuma Sakurai	42.154	2	1: 30.473	2	4: 54.657	3	6: 56.479	4th	28
		Hiroaki Sato	43,331	1	-	-	5: 23.065	0
		Junji Itō	41.356	3	1: 30.456	5	-	-
		Takahiro Fujimoto	57.891	2	1: 29.254	3	-	-
		Yuzo Takamido	-	-	1: 29.355	3	-	-
8th.	United Kingdom	Jon Eley	41,570	5	1: 30.157	5	-	-	6: 50.309	6th	27
		Paul Worth	42,468	2	1: 29.903	1	-	-
		Ian Upcott	42.123	2	1: 30.769	1	5: 09.240	0
		Jack Whelbourne	disq.	0	1: 27.116	5	4: 56.602	0

Web links

• Official results
• Final report of the championship with all results and participants (English; PDF; 920 kB)