Short Track World Championships 2001

The 2001 Short Track World Championships took place from March 29 to 31, 2001 in Jeonju , South Korea . The host was the International Skating Union (ISU).

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.

Results

Women

All-around

rank	Surname
1.	Yang Yang (A)
2.	Wang Chunlu
3.	Evgenia Radanova
4th	Yang Yang (S)
5.	Tania Vicent
6th	Marie-Eve Drolet
7th	Alanna Kraus
8th.	Katia Zini

500 meters

rank	Surname
1.	Wang Chunlu
2.	Yang Yang (A)
3.	Yang Yang (S)
4th	Evgenia Radanova
5.	Chikage Tanaka
6th	Alanna Kraus
7th	Katia Zini
8th.	Olga Danilov

1000 meters

rank	Surname
1.	Yang Yang (A)
2.	Wang Chunlu
3.	Yang Yang (S)
4th	Evgenia Radanova
5.	Tania Vicent
6th	Choi Eun-Kyung
7th	Alanna Kraus
8th.	Katia Zini

1500 meters

rank	Surname
1.	Yang Yang (A)
2.	Evgenia Radanova
3.	Marie-Eve Drolet
4th	Tania Vicent
5.	Wang Chunlu
6th	Yang Yang (S)
7th	Alanna Kraus
8th.	Choi Eun-Kyung

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname
1.	Yang Yang (A)
2.	Wang Chunlu
3.	Evgenia Radanova
4th	Yang Yang (S)
5.	Tania Vicent

3000 meter relay

rank	Surname
1.	People's Republic of China
2.	South Korea
3.	Bulgaria
4th	Japan
5.	United States
6th	Italy
7th	Netherlands
8th.	Canada

Men

All-around

rank	Surname
1.	Li Jiajun
2.	Apolo Anton Ohno
3.	Marc Gagnon
4th	Jonathan Guilmette
5.	Ryong Min
6th	Satoru Terao

500 meters

rank	Surname
1.	Li Jiajun
2.	Jonathan Guilmette
3.	Maurizio Carnino
4th	Marc Gagnon
5.	Yugo Shinohara
6th	Daniel Weinstein
7th	Rusty Smith
8th.	Eric Bedard

1000 meters

rank	Surname
1.	Li Jiajun
2.	Apolo Anton Ohno
3.	Ryong Min
4th	Rusty Smith
5.	Lee Seung-jae
6th	Takafumi Nishitani
7th	To Jung-Hyun
8th.	Satoru Terao

1500 meters

rank	Surname
1.	Marc Gagnon
2.	Ryong Min
3.	Satoru Terao
4th	Apolo Anton Ohno
5.	Lee Seung-jae
6th	Li Jiajun
7th	Nicholas Gooch
8th.	Kai Feng

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname
1.	Apolo Anton Ohno
2.	Marc Gagnon
3.	Jonathan Guilmette
4th	Satoru Terao
5.	Rusty Smith
6th	Ryong Min
7th	Maurizio Carnino

5000 meter relay

rank	Surname
1.	United States
2.	Canada
3.	People's Republic of China
4th	Italy
5.	Japan
6th	United Kingdom
7th	Netherlands
8th.	South Korea

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	People's Republic of China	9	4th	3	16
2	United States	2	2	-	4th
3	Canada	1	3	3	7th
4th	South Korea	-	2	1	3
5	Bulgaria	-	1	3	4th
6th	Italy	-	-	1	1
6th	Japan	-	-	1	1
total		12	12	12	36

Web links

• Results overview at www.isu.org (English)
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