Short Track Team World Championships 2011

The 2011 team world championships in the short track took place from March 19-20, 2011 in the Polish city of Warsaw . Warsaw hosted the team world championships for the first time, but in 2003 the individual world championships were held there .

South Korea won both titles. In the women's category, the South Korean team narrowly beat China and the United States, with a one-point advantage over China. In the men's race, it also won ahead of China and Canada. The teams from Poland and Turkey took part in the team world championship for the first time, but each missed the A final.

Regulations

Eight teams with a maximum of five athletes took part for 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 ahead of South Korea, Japan and Russia, in the second group Canada prevailed ahead of the USA, Italy and Poland. China and Canada thus reached the A final. South Korea, Japan, the USA and Italy started in the Hope Round, with South Korea and the USA prevailing and reaching the A-final, while Japan and Italy had to make do with the B-final. Russia and Poland also started there.

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	Kim Dam Min	45.270	1	1: 33.160	2	-	-	4: 21.350	4th	35
		Park Seung-hi	44.945	3	1: 32.289	5	6: 12.750	3
		Cho Ha-ri	45.202	2	1: 34.782	5	6: 12.922	2
		Hwang Hyunsun	46.456	5	1: 34.510	3	-	-
2.	People's Republic of China	Li Jianrou	45.074	3	1: 35.012	2	6: 14.044	1	4: 21.186	10	34
		Xiao Han	45,449	2	1: 33.213	1	6: 14.126	0
		Liu Qiuhong	44.769	5	1: 34.371	5	-	-
		Fan Kexin	53.737	3	1: 32.438	2	-	-
3.	United States	Katherine Reutter	44,958	5	1: 32.557	5	6: 12.608	5	4: 21.188	6th	29
		Alyson Dudek	45.895	1	1: 35.096	1	-	-
		Lana Gehring	45.267	1	1: 34.540	2	-	-
		Jessica Smith	54.139	2	1: 32.601	1	6: 15.439	0
4th	Canada	Caroline Truchon	45.184	2	-	-	-	-	4: 21.543	2	22nd
		Marianne St-Gelais	44.739	5	1: 32.406	3	-	-
		Marie-Ève ​​Drolet	45,201	3	1: 34.960	1	6: 14.292	0
		Jessica Hewitt	disq.	0	1: 33.130	3	-	-
		Valérie Maltais	-	-	1: 34.902	3	6: 24.682	0
B final
5.	Italy	Elena Viviani	62.961	2	1: 37.678	2	-	-	4: 38.831	4th	37
		Martina Valcepina	45.795	5	1: 35.360	3	6: 40.341	0
		Arianna Valcepina	46.392	3	-	-	-	-
		Arianna Fontana	44,957	5	1: 37.582	5	5: 54.648	5
		Cecilia Maffei	-	-	1: 40.093	3	-	-
6th	Japan	Yui Sakai	disq.	0	1: 51.299	1	-	-	4: 23.299	10	35
		Yasuko Sakashita	46.319	2	-	-	5: 57.882	0
		Sayuri Shimizu	46.021	5	1: 37.712	2	-	-
		Ayuko Itō	45.034	3	1: 36.934	5	-	-
		Biba Sakurai	-	-	1: 40.007	5	5: 54.713	2
7th	Russia	Nina Yevteeva	46.443	5	1: 37.642	3	6: 26.792	0	4: 23.445	6th	34
		Olga Belyakova	45,801	3	1: 35.094	5	5: 54.711	3
		Natalija Plugina	46,492	2	1: 40.281	2	-	-
		Valeria Potjomkina	45.086	2	1: 37.355	3	-	-
8th.	Poland	Agnieszka Bawerna	47.717	3	1: 40.873	1	-	-	4: 52.614	2	14th
		Magdalena Szwajlik	46.473	1	1: 40.150	2	6: 37.795	0
		Agnieszka Tawrel	76.866	1	1: 39.070	1	-	-
		Anna Romanowicz	46.448	1	-	-	-	-
		Paula Bzura	-	-	2: 23.771	1	5: 57.524	1

Men

In the first group of the preliminary round, South Korea prevailed ahead of Canada, Turkey and Russia, in the second, China won ahead of the USA, Japan and Poland. South Korea and China thus reached the A final. Canada, Turkey, the USA and Japan started in the hopes, with Canada and Japan prevailing and reaching the A-final, while the USA and Turkey had to make do with the B-final. Russia and Poland also started there.

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	Noh Jin-kyu	42.497	2	1: 26.760	5	5: 51.356	5	6: 57.672	6th	38
		Kim Byeong-jun	43.798	3	1: 27.789	3	-	-
		Lee Ho-suk	42.674	3	1: 29.353	5	-	-
		To Cheon-ho	43,250	1	1: 30.150	2	-	-
		Kim Cheol-min	-	-	-	-	5: 54.411	3
2.	People's Republic of China	Gong Qiuwen	42,467	3	-	-	-	-	6: 54.861	10	35
		Liang Wenhao	42,552	5	1: 29.828	2	-	-
		Yang Jin	42.698	2	1: 27.785	5	-	-
		Liu Xianwei	43,073	2	1: 51.575	2	5: 52.066	1
		Song Weilong	-	-	1: 30.124	3	5: 52.196	0
3.	Canada	François Hamelin	42,382	5	1: 29.640	3	5: 55.327	0	7: 15.933	2	28
		Guillaume Blais Dufour	disq.	0	-	-	-	-
		Olivier Jean	42.636	5	1: 28.335	1	-	-
		Charles Hamelin	42,601	5	1: 29.967	5	5: 51.446	2
		Michael Gilday	-	-	disq.	0	-	-
4th	Japan	Takahiro Fujimoto	42.731	1	1: 30.957	1	-	-	7: 00.680	4th	18th
		Yuma Sakurai	44,309	2	-	-	6: 01.845	0
		Ryosuke Sakazume	43,080	1	1: 29.970	1	-	-
		Daisuke Uemura	42,980	3	1: 27.912	2	-	-
		Yuzo Takamido	-	-	1: 28,100	3	5: 53.722	0
B final
5.	United States	Jeff Simon	42.219	5	1: 31.006	5	4: 55.381	2	7: 14.234	10	52
		Kyle Carr	43,446	5	1: 41.908	5	5: 10.668	0
		Travis Jayner	43.119	5	1: 32.097	5	-	-
		Simon Cho	42.644	5	1: 29.769	5	-	-
6th	Russia	Yevgeny Kosulin	42.961	3	1: 31.211	3	-	-	7: 15.153	6th	31
		Sergei Prankevich	42,520	2	1: 42.104	2	4: 53.803	3
		Pavel Ribakov	43.750	2	1: 32.551	2	-	-
		Ruslan Sakharov	disq.	0	1: 29.834	3	4: 53.493	5
7th	Poland	Dariusz Kulesza	43.094	2	1: 31.569	2	-	-	7: 15.290	4th	25th
		Bartosz Konopko	42.224	3	1: 42,000	3	-	-
		Adam Filipowicz	43.140	3	1: 32.526	3	-	-
		Jakub Jaworski	-	-	1: 29.926	2	4: 55.930	1
		Rafal Piorecki	43,940	2	-	-	5: 12.052	0
8th.	Turkey	Muekerrem top	46.620	1	1: 34.877	1	5: 17.015	0	7: 33.515	2	12
		Selim Tanrikulu	43.849	3	1: 44.699	1	5: 47.101	0
		Serdar Iltir	46.288	1	1: 35.283	1	-	-
		Inan Eren	47,427	1	1: 38.038	1	-	-

Web links

• Official results
• Final report of the championship with all results and participants (English; PDF; 9.5 MB)