Short track World Cup 2008/09

World Cup 2008/09
	Men's	Ladies
winner
500 meter world cup	François-Louis Tremblay	Wang Meng
1000 meter world cup	Ho-Suk Lee	Wang Meng
1500 meter world cup	Sung Si-bak	Zhou Yang (short tracker)
Relay World Cup	Canada	People's Republic of China
Nations ranking	South Korea	People's Republic of China
Competitions
Venues	6th	6th
Individual competitions	24	24
Team competitions	6th	6th
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The Short Track World Cup 2008/09 ran from October 17, 2008 to February 15, 2009 and was held in six countries. The highlights of the season were the 2009 European Championships in Turin , the 2009 World Championships in Vienna and the 2009 World Team Championships in Heerenveen .

Venues

This season the venues were spread over three continents, on each of which two World Cups were held. Salt Lake City and Vancouver in North America; Beijing and Nagano in Asia; Sofia and Dresden in Europe.

Salt Lake City Vancouver Beijing Nagano Sofia Dresden

Venues for the 2008/09 season

Ladies

World Cup overview

date	place	discipline	Winner	Second	third
October 17-19, 2008	Salt Lake City	500 m	Wang Meng	Liu Qiuhong	Jessica Gregg
		1000 m	Wang Meng	Shin Sae-bom	Kimberly Derrick
		1500 m	Zhou Yang (short tracker)	Jung Ba-ra	Yang Shin-young
		1500 m	Shin Sae-bom	Zhou Yang (short tracker)	Sun Linlin
		3000 m relay	People's Republic of China Wang Meng Liu Qiuhong Zhang Hui Zhou Yang	South Korea Shin Sae-bom Yang Shin-young Kim Min-jung Jung Eun-ju	Canada Anne Maltais Marianne St-Gelais Jessica Gregg Jessica Hewitt
		team	People's Republic of China	South Korea	United States
October 24-26, 2008	Vancouver	500 m	Wang Meng	Marianne St.-Gelais	Yang Shin-young
		1000 m	Wang Meng	Liu Qiuhong	Yang Shin-young
		1000 m	Shin Sae-bom	Zhou Yang (short tracker)	Allison Baver
		1500 m	Zhou Yang (short tracker)	Jung Eun-ju	Shin Sae-bom
		3000 m relay	People's Republic of China Wang Meng Liu Qiuhong Zhang Hui Zhou Yang	South Korea Shin Sae-bom Park Seung-hi Kim Min-jung Jung Eun-ju	Canada Valérie Maltais Marie-Andrée Mendes-Campeau Jessica Gregg Jessica Hewitt
		team	People's Republic of China	South Korea	United States
November 28-30, 2008	Beijing	500 m	Wang Meng	Liu Qiuhong	Tatiana Borodulina
		500 m	Liu Qiuhong	Fu Tianyu	Zhao Nannan
		1000 m	Wang Meng	Zhou Yang (short tracker)	Shin Sae-bom
		1500 m	Jung Eun-ju	Zhou Yang (short tracker)	Allison Baver
		3000 m relay	People's Republic of China Wang Meng Liu Qiuhong Zhang Hui Zhou Yang	South Korea Shin Sae-bom Park Seung-hi Kim Min-jung Jung Eun-ju	Italy Arianna Fontana Cecilia Maffei Katia Zini Lucia Peretti
		team	People's Republic of China	South Korea	United States
December 5-7, 2008	Nagano	500 m	Wang Meng	Liu Qiuhong	Fu Tianyu
		1000 m	Wang Meng	Liu Qiuhong	Yang Shin-young
		1500 m	Kim Min-jung	Shin Sae-bom	Allison Baver
		1500 m	Shin Sae-bom	Katherine Reutter	Kim Min-jung
		3000 m relay	People's Republic of China Wang Meng Liu Qiuhong Zhang Hui Zhou Yang	South Korea Shin Sae-bom Park Seung-hi Kim Min-jung Yang Shin-young	Canada Anne Maltais Kalyna Roberge Jessica Gregg Jessica Hewitt
		team	People's Republic of China	South Korea	United States
January 16 to January 18, 2009 European Short Track Championships 2009 in Turin
February 6th to 8th, 2009	Sofia	500 m	Jessica Gregg	Arianna Fontana	Meng Xiaoxue
		1000 m	Wang Meng	Liu Qiuhong	Kalyna Roberge
		1000 m	Kim Min-Jung	Liu Qiuhong	Kimberly Derrick
		1500 m	Jung Eun-ju	Katherine Reutter	Zhou Yang (short tracker)
		3000 m relay	Canada Anne Maltais Kalyna Roberge Jessica Gregg Jessica Hewitt	Italy Arianna Fontana Cecilia Maffei Martina Valcepina Lucia Peretti	United States Katherine Reutter Kimberly Derrick Lana Gehring Jessica Smith
		team	People's Republic of China	Canada	South Korea
February 13-15, 2009	Dresden	500 m	Tatiana Borodulina	Fu Tianyu	Arianna Fontana
		500 m	Tatiana Borodulina	Arianna Fontana	Evgenia Radanova
		1000 m	Kimberly Derrick	Katherine Reutter	Jung Eun-ju
		1500 m	Kim Min-jung	Katherine Reutter	Jung Eun-ju
		3000 m relay	United States Katherine Reutter Kimberly Derrick Lana Gehring Jessica Smith	Italy Arianna Fontana Cecilia Maffei Martina Valcepina Katia Zini	South Korea Shin Sae-bom Park Seung-hi Kim Min-jung Jung Eun-ju
		team	United States	South Korea	Italy
March 6th to March 8th, 2009 Short Track World Championships 2009 in Vienna
March 14th and 15th, 2009 Short Track Team World Championships 2009 in Heerenveen

World Cup status women

500 m rank Surname Points 1  Wang Meng 4010 2  Liu Qiuhong 3810 3  Tatiana Borodulina 3808 4th  Fu Tianyu 3776 5  Arianna Fontana 2798 6th  Jessica Gregg 2463 7th  Evgenia Radanova 1876 8th  Yang Shin-young 1777	1000 m rank Surname Points 1  Wang Meng 5000 2  Liu Qiuhong 3712 3  Kimberly Derrick 3109 4th  Shin Sae-bom 3007 5  Zhou Yang (short tracker) 2010 6th  Katherine Reutter 1978 7th  Jung Eun-ju 1740 8th  Zhang Hui 1720	1500 m rank Surname Points 1  Zhou Yang (short tracker) 4650 2  Shin Sae-bom 4178 3  Kim Min-jung 3890 4th  Jung Eun-ju 3866 5  Katherine Reutter 3502 6th  Allison Baver 3042 7th  Kimberly Derrick 1746 8th  Mika Ozawa 1508	3000 m relay rank team Points 1  People's Republic of China 4000 2  South Korea 3200 3  Canada 2920 4th  United States 2664 5  Italy 2650 6th  Hungary 1460 7th  Netherlands 1364 8th  Japan 1342
team rank team Points 1  People's Republic of China 3000 2  South Korea 2400 3  United States 1920 4th  Canada 1536 5  Italy 1082 6th  Bulgaria 0872 7th  Russia 0763 8th  Japan 0606  Netherlands 0606

Men's

World Cup overview

date	place	discipline	winner	Second	third
October 17-19, 2008	Salt Lake City	500 m	Sung Si-bak	Charles Hamelin	François-Louis Tremblay
		1000 m	Kwak Yoon-gy	Lee Ho-suk	Lee Jung-su
		1500 m	Sung Si-bak	Charles Hamelin	Jeff Simon
		1500 m	Lee Jung-su	Lee Ho-suk	Apolo Anton Ohno
		5000 m relay	South Korea Sung Si-bak Lee Jung-su Lee Ho-suk Kwak Yoon-gy	United States Apolo Anton Ohno Jeff Simon Anthony Lobello Travis Jayner	Canada François-Louis Tremblay Charles Hamelin Olivier Jean Remi Beaulieu-Tinker
		team	South Korea	Canada	United States
October 24-26, 2008	Vancouver	500 m	Lee Ho-suk	François-Louis Tremblay	Kwak Yoon-gy
		1000 m	Charles Hamelin	Anthony Lobello	François Hamelin
		1000 m	Lee Jung-su	Michael Gilday	Remi Beaulieu-Tinker
		1500 m	Lee Jung-su	Sung Si-bak	Jeff Simon
		5000 m relay	United States Apolo Anton Ohno Jeff Simon Anthony Lobello John Celski	Canada François-Louis Tremblay Charles Hamelin François Hamelin Remi Beaulieu-Tinker	United Kingdom Oliver Horsepool Paul Worth Jon Eley Paul Stanley
		team	South Korea	Canada	United States
November 28-30, 2008	Beijing	500 m	Charles Hamelin	François-Louis Tremblay	Wang Hong Yang
		500 m	Olivier Jean	Sung Si-bak	Sui Bao Ku
		1000 m	Lee Ho-suk	Kwak Yoon-gy	Charles Hamelin
		1500 m	Sung Si-bak	Olivier Jean	Jin-hwan Park
		5000 m relay	United States Apolo Anton Ohno Jeff Simon Anthony Lobello Charles Leveille	Canada Michael Gilday Charles Hamelin François Hamelin Olivier Jean	People's Republic of China Han Jialiang Song Weilong Li Ye Sui Bao Ku
		team	Canada	South Korea	People's Republic of China
December 5-7, 2008	Nagano	500 m	Sung Si-bak	Han Jialiang	Thibaut Fauconnet
		1000 m	Lee Ho-suk	Kwak Yoon-gy	Charles Hamelin
		1500 m	Lee Jung-su	Sung Si-bak	François-Louis Tremblay
		1500 m	Lee Ho-suk	Charles Hamelin	Olivier Jean
		5000 m relay	Canada François-Louis Tremblay Charles Hamelin François Hamelin Olivier Jean	South Korea Sung Si-bak Lee Jung-su Lee Ho-suk Kwak Yoon-gy	People's Republic of China Han Jialiang Song Weilong Li Ye Sui Bao Ku
		team	South Korea	Canada	People's Republic of China
January 16 to January 18, 2009 European Short Track Championships 2009 in Turin
February 6th to 8th, 2009	Sofia	500 m	François-Louis Tremblay	Jon Eley	Jeff Simon
		1000 m	Kwak Yoon-gy	Lee Jung-su	François-Louis Tremblay
		1000 m	Lee Ho-suk	Jordan Malone	Lee Jung-su
		1500 m	Lee Ho-suk	Sung Si-bak	Charles Hamelin
		5000 m relay	Canada François-Louis Tremblay Charles Hamelin François Hamelin Olivier Jean	People's Republic of China Han Jialiang Song Weilong Liu Xianwei Sui Bao Ku	Germany Sebastian Praus Tyson Heung Paul Herrmann Robert Becker
		team	South Korea	Canada	United States
February 13-15, 2009	Dresden	500 m	Lee Ho-suk	Kwak Yoon-gy	Nicola Rodigari
		500 m	Anthony Lobello	Jon Eley	Satoshi Sakashita
		1000 m	Lee Ho-suk	John Celski	Yuri Confortola
		1500 m	John Celski	Yuri Confortola	Remi Beaulieu-Tinker
		5000 m relay	People's Republic of China Han Jialiang Song Weilong Liu Xianwei Sui Bao Ku	South Korea Park Jin-hwan Lee Jung-su Lee Ho-suk Kwak Yoon-gy	Germany Sebastian Praus Tyson Heung Paul Herrmann Robert Becker
		team	South Korea	United States	Italy
March 6th to March 8th, 2009 Short Track World Championships 2009 in Vienna
March 14th and 15th, 2009 Short Track Team World Championships 2009 in Heerenveen

World Cup status men

500 m rank Surname Points 1  François-Louis Tremblay 3568 2  Sung Si-bak 3480 3  Jon Eley 2558 4th  Kwak Yoon-gy 2159 5  Lee Ho-suk 2055 6th  Thibaut Fauconnet 1860 7th  Anthony Lobello 1824 8th  Charles Hamelin 1800	1000 m rank Surname Points 1  Lee Ho-suk 5010 2  Kwak Yoon-gy 4118 3  Lee Jung-su 3080 4th  Charles Hamelin 2448 5  Apolo Anton Ohno 1812 6th  Anthony Lobello 1670 7th  John Celski 1566 8th  François-Louis Tremblay 1480	1500 m rank Surname Points 1  Sung Si-bak 4400 2  Lee Jung-su 3984 3  Lee Ho-suk 2800 4th  Charles Hamelin 2240 5  Jin-hwan Park 2221 6th  John Celski 2009 7th  Sui Bao Ku 1814 8th  Olivier Jean 1751	5000 m relay rank team Points 1  Canada 3600 2  United States 3210 3  South Korea 3112 4th  People's Republic of China 3080 5  Germany 2120 6th  United Kingdom 1624 7th  Japan 1500 8th  Italy 1292
team rank team Points 1  South Korea 2800 2  Canada 2600 3  United States 1792 4th  People's Republic of China 1562 5  Japan 1332 6th  Italy 0918 7th  Germany 0640 8th  United Kingdom 0598

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