Short Track World Championships 2009

The 2009 Short Track World Championships took place from March 6th to 8th, 2009 in the Austrian capital Vienna . It was the second time after the 1998 World Championships that the title fights were held in Vienna.

A total of twelve competitions were held. There was an all-around event for women and men as well as individual races over 500 m, 1000 m and 1500 m. The eight best placed runners in the all-round competition after these three routes also competed over 3000 m. In addition, there were relay competitions, over 3000 m for women and 5000 m for men. The results achieved over the four individual routes flowed into the all-around competition. The first place in an individual race got 34 points, the second 21, the third 13, the fourth eight, the fifth five, the sixth three, the seventh two and the eighth one. However, points were only awarded if the runner reached the final. No points were awarded in the event of a disqualification. The addition of the points scored by a runner resulted in the final ranking in the all-around event.

Participating Nations

A total of 32 countries with a total of 144 athletes, 67 women and 77 men, took part in the World Cup.

Participating nations (women / men)
Australia (2/2) Belgium (0/2) Bosnia and Herzegovina (0/1) Bulgaria (1/2) People's Republic of China (5/5) Chinese Taipei (1/2) Germany (2/5)	France (2/1) Great Britain (2/5) Hong Kong (2/0) India (0/1) Israel (0/1) Italy (5/5) Japan (5/5)	Canada (5/5) Kazakhstan (1/2) Croatia (0/2) Latvia (1/2) New Zealand (1/2) Netherlands (5/2) Austria (1/2)	Poland (2/2) Russia (2/1) Sweden (1/0) Slovakia (1/2) Slovenia (2/0) South Korea (5/5) Czech Republic (1/2)	Ukraine (0/2) Hungary (5/2) USA (5/5) Belarus (2/2)

Time schedule

The schedule was designed in parallel for women and men as follows.

Friday March 6, 2009

• 1500 m: preliminary, semi-finals, final
• Season: Semi-Finals (Women)

Saturday March 7th 2009

• 500 m: preliminary run, quarter-finals, semi-finals, final
• Season: Semi-Finals (Men)

Sunday March 8, 2009

• 1000 m: preliminary, semi-finals, final
• 3000 m: Superfinal
• Season: Finale

Results

Women

All-around

• In the columns 1500 m, 500 m, 1000 m and 3000 m it is first indicated which position the athlete achieved, followed by in brackets how many points he received for it.

rank	Surname	Points	500 m	1000 m	1500 m	3000 m
1.	Wang Meng	81	1 (34)	1 (34)	7 (0)	4 (8)
2.	Kim Min-jung	76	11 (0)	2 (21)	1 (34)	2 (21)
3.	Zhou Yang	63	4 (8)	4 (0)	2 (21)	1 (34)
4th	Shin Sae-bom	39	9 (0)	3 (13)	3 (13)	3 (13)
5.	Liu Qiuhong	31	2 (21)	6 (0)	5 (5)	5 (5)
6th	Jessica Gregg	16	3 (13)	8 (0)	17 (0)	6 (3)
7th	Katherine Reutter	8th	13 (0)	5 (0)	4 (8)	8 (0)

Wang Meng received five bonus points.

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Wang Meng	43.182 s
2.	Liu Qiuhong	43.358 s
3.	Jessica Gregg	43.437 s
4th	Zhou Yang	44.098 s
5.	Kateřina Novotná	44.908 s
6th	Sarah Lindsay	45.199 s
7th	Kimberly Derrick	49.274 s
8th.	Erika Huszár	DSQ

Date: March 7th, 2009
Rank 1–4 in the final, Rank 5–8 in the semifinals.

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Wang Meng	1: 29.878 min
2.	Kim Min-jung	1: 29.988 min
3.	Shin Sae-bom	1: 30.901 min
4th	Zhou Yang	DSQ
5.	Katherine Reutter	1: 30.111 min
6th	Liu Qiuhong	1: 31.682 min
7th	Arianna Fontana	1: 31.890 min
8th.	Jessica Gregg	1: 30.718 min
9.	Kimberly Derrick	1: 32.098 min
10.	Wang Xinyue	1: 33.314 min

Date: March 8, 2009
Rank 1–4 in the final, rank 5–10 in the semifinals.

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Kim Min-jung	2: 21.432 min
2.	Zhou Yang	2: 21.935 min
3.	Shin Sae-bom	2: 22.012 min
4th	Katherine Reutter	2: 34.815 min
5.	Liu Qiuhong	2: 42.269 min
6th	Jung Eun-ju	DSQ
7th	Wang Meng	DSQ

Date: March 6, 2009
Rank 1–7 in the final.

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Zhou Yang	4: 58.955 min
2.	Kim Min-jung	4: 59.332 min
3.	Shin Sae-bom	4: 59.935 min
4th	Wang Meng	5: 08.972 min
5.	Liu Qiuhong	5: 12.689 min
6th	Jessica Gregg	5: 24.063 min
7th	Katherine Reutter	DSQ

Date: March 8th, 2009
Superfinal of the eight best all-rounders after three courses. Since only seven athletes had scored points by then, only these seven competed in the superfinal.

3000 meter relay

rank	Surname	time
1.	People's Republic of China Wang Meng Zhou Yang Zhang Hui Liu Qiuhong	4: 10.531 min
2.	South Korea Kim Min-jung Jung Ba-ra Shin Sae-bom Yang Shin-young	4: 11.837 min
3.	Canada Valérie Maltais Kalyna Roberge Jessica Gregg Jessica Hewitt	4: 12.506 min
4th	United States Katherine Reutter Alyson Dudek Kimberly Derrick Jessica Smith	4: 12.572 min

Date: March 6-8, 2009
4 seasons in the finals.

Men

All-around

• In the columns 1500 m, 500 m, 1000 m and 3000 m it is first indicated which position the athlete achieved, followed by in brackets how many points he received for it.

rank	Surname	Points	500 m	1000 m	1500 m	3000 m
1.	Lee Ho-suk	89	13 (0)	1 (34)	1 (34)	2 (21)
2.	John Celski	65	16 (0)	3 (13)	3 (13)	1 (34)
3.	Charles Hamelin	47	1 (34)	15 (0)	19 (0)	3 (13)
4th	Kwak Yoon-gy	47	2 (21)	4 (0)	2 (21)	5 (5)
5.	Apolo Anton Ohno	37	6 (0)	2 (21)	4 (8)	4 (8)
6th	Olivier Jean	15th	3 (13)	5 (0)	20 (0)	7 (2)
7th	François-Louis Tremblay	11	4 (8)	6 (0)	9 (0)	6 (3)
8th.	Sui Bao Ku	6th	19 (0)	16 (0)	5 (5)	8 (1)

John Celski received five additional points.

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Charles Hamelin	41.680 s
2.	Kwak Yoon-gy	41.739 s
3.	Olivier Jean	41.855 s
4th	François-Louis Tremblay	42.164 s
5.	han Jialiang	DSQ

Date: March 7th, 2009
Rank 1–5 in the final.

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Lee Ho-suk	1: 33.060 min
2.	Apolo Anton Ohno	1: 33.262 min
3.	John Celski	1: 33.478 min
4th	Kwak Yoon-gy	DSQ
5.	Olivier Jean	1: 26.409 min
6th	François-Louis Tremblay	1: 26.404 min
7th	Sjinkie Knegt	1: 26.439 min
8th.	Nicola Rodigari	1: 27.880 min
9.	Sung Si-bak	1: 26.751 min
10.	Jeff Simon	1: 34.674 min

Date: March 8, 2009
Rank 1–4 in the final, rank 5–10 in the semifinals.

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Lee Ho-suk	2: 20.967 min
2.	Kwak Yoon-gy	2: 21.078 min
3.	John Celski	2: 21.133 min
4th	Apolo Anton Ohno	2: 21.321 min
5.	Sui Bao Ku	2: 21.338 min
6th	Yuzo Takamido	2: 22.187 min
7th	Jeff Simon	2: 43.489 min
8th.	Sung Si-bak	DSQ

Date: March 6, 2009
Rank 1–8 in the final.

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	John Celski	4: 48.444 min
2.	Lee Ho-suk	4: 50.144 min
3.	Charles Hamelin	4: 50.833 min
4th	Apolo Anton Ohno	4: 57.104 min
5.	Kwak Yoon-gy	4: 58.670 min
6th	François-Louis Tremblay	4: 59.723 min
7th	Olivier Jean	5: 01.258 min
8th.	Sui Bao Ku	5: 02.246 min

Date: March 8, 2009
Superfinal of the eight best all-rounders after three routes.

5000 meter relay

rank	Surname	time
1.	United States John Celski Ryan Bedford Jordan Malone Apolo Anton Ohno	6: 51.400 min
2.	People's Republic of China Han Jialiang Song Weilong Liu Xianwei Sui Bao Ku	6: 51.957 min
3.	Japan Takahiro Fujimoto Fumihiko Kakubari Satoshi Sakashita Yuzo Takamido	6: 52.433 min
4th	Germany Tyson Heung Paul Herrmann Torsten Kröger Sebastian Praus	6: 58.365 min
5.	Italy Nicola Rodigari Yuri Confortola Claudio Rinaldi Roberto Serra	DSQ

Date: March 7th to 8th, 2009
5 seasons in the finals.

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	People's Republic of China	5	3	1	9
2	South Korea	4th	7th	3	14th
3	United States	2	2	2	6th
4th	Canada	1	-	5	6th
5	Japan	-	-	1	1
total		12	12	12	36

Web links

• Final report with all results and participants (English; PDF; 4.8 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LIST OF COMPETITORS. (PDF; 4.8 MB) Retrieved November 21, 2011 (English).