Short track world cup

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The ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup (officially: ISU World Cup Short Track ) is the highest discharged over the winter series of competitions in short track speed skating . The races have been organized by the ISU since 1997 , and there have been both men's and women's competitions from the start. In addition, there has been no overall World Cup since 2006/07, but only discipline World Cups over five courses.

stretch

The Short Track World Cup is held over three different individual distances, each with the same number of competitions. There is also a relay and the team competition.

Individual disciplines

Short track World Cup in 2004

There are three different distances for both women and men. These are the 500 meters, the 1000 meters and the 1500 meters. Since the lengths of the routes do not differ as clearly as in speed skating , specialists have worked out the sprint and the longer routes, but almost all athletes start on all three distances.
In contrast to major events ( European championships , world championships ), there is no 3000 m race in the World Cup, and an all-round competition (all-around competition ) has been dispensed with since 2006/07 , in which the results of all courses are added up. This was also considered the overall World Cup, so that today only the winners in the discipline World Cups are determined.
Up to and including the 2005/06 season , six World Cup races were held per distance, followed by eight.

Relay and team

An American short track relay at a World Cup in 2007

The relay competitions are the only short track discipline that is held differently for men and women. Here the men run over 5000 meters, while the distance for the women is only 3000 meters. Relay competitions also have their own World Cup ranking, which only includes six races, as the old rhythm according to which a race in a World Cup is held was retained.

In the team competition, the points of the two best participants in a country are added up per race. The points from the total of five races are added up again so that a final result is obtained. The relays are only calculated once, as only one relay per country starts. The same applies to the team World Cup as to the relays, here too only six competitions are held per season. Like all other competitions, the team competition is segregated by gender.

organization

The Short Track World Cup has been held annually at six locations since it was first held, with only two exceptions in the 2001/02 and 2005/06 seasons, when there were only five or even four World Cup stations due to the Winter Olympics. The major events, i.e. World Championships and Olympic Games, are not included in the World Cup ratings. At a World Cup station there are usually five races, three individual routes, one of which alternates between two, and the relay competition. A nation may call a maximum of six athletes to a World Cup.

Venues

At the venues, the same consideration is almost always given to the three continents with the most success in the short track, normally two of the six World Cups each take place in (East) Asia, Europe and North America, the order is not fixed, only the two formed European World Cups never open the season. While the World Cups in North America take place almost every season in Canada and the United States , there have already been ten different European venues. Germany hosted a World Cup for the first time in the 2010/11 season . In Asia, China has had at least one World Cup race every season, with South Korea and Japan alternating. Twice it happened that a country hosted two World Cups, once in China and once in Canada. In addition, both European World Cups were canceled in the 2009/10 season due to the Olympic Games , and both American World Cups in the 2005/06 season and in the 2001/02 season for the same reason.

Point system

The point system has changed several times since the first World Cup. At the beginning there were only 25 points for the winner, from the 2002/03 season then 50 and from the 2005/06 season 100 points. Until then, however, it remained the same that the number of points decreased backwards by one point per place, this only changed from the 2007/08 season, since the point system that is still valid today is used in the World Cup ranking.

Distribution of points

Distribution of points since the 2007/2008 season
placement 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th 16 17th 18th 19th 20th 21st 22nd
Points 1000 800 640 512 410 328 262 210 168 134 107 86 69 55 44 35 28 27 26th 25th 24 23
 
placement 23 24 25th 26th 27 28 29 30th 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44
Points 22nd 21st 20th 19th 18th 17th 16 15th 14th 13 12 11 10 9 8th 7th 6th 5 4th 3 2 1

This way the winner will be rewarded particularly strongly. In the past, if an athlete won three races and did not start the others, he had poor chances in the overall World Cup; today he would place well in front.

Deletion results

Unlike other World Cup are at the short track speed skating void results . Up to the 2005/06 season only four races at the end of the season were rated in the respective World Cups, so that the World Cup status at the end of the season did not match the actual number of points several times. The overall overall ranking changed five times, in the 1998/99 season the best in points, Amy Peterson , even fell back to sixth place, and in the following seasons the overall result in some World Cups also changed. Since there have been eight races in each discipline World Cup in the season, six of them are counted, so that there are not as many deviations as before.

Rule changes

In addition to the changes to the point system, other regulatory reforms were often carried out. One of the most obvious took place before the 2006/07 season. In addition to changes in the schedule, it was also decided to cancel the all-around competition, and B-finals were now taking place in addition to the A-finals. There were also eight competitions per individual discipline from there.

Before and after that, the rules were reformed several times, but this more often affected the point system.

Most successful athletes

Apolo Anton Ohno , three-time overall World Cup winner

Since there are discipline world cups in the short track, it is difficult to speak of a most successful athlete in the world cup. While Apolo Anton Ohno won three overall World Cups and six individual World Cups for the men, Yang Yang (A) is one of the most successful athletes for the women . She won the overall overall world cup four times and seven individual world cups. In the women’s World Cup, almost exclusively Chinese and South Koreans triumph, in the men’s case, the Americans through Ohno and the Canadians and Italians are added to these nations.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ ISU history . However, the results of the first World Cup season are not mentioned on the ISU website.
  2. a b c ISU World Cup rules (pages 86/87)
  3. World Cup calendar for the 2005/06 season
  4. World Cup calendar of the 2001/02 season ( memento of the original from October 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / ww2.isu.org
  5. ↑ Points system on vancouvershorttrack2008.com/ ( Memento of the original from November 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.vancouvershorttrack2008.com
  6. Information on the 2006/07 rule change on the DESG website