Short Track World Championships 2008

The World Short Track Speed Skating Championships in 2008 were from 7 to 9 March 2008 at the South Korean Gangneung instead. It was only the second time since the 2001 World Championships in Jeonju that the title fights were held in South Korea.

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 31 countries with a total of 132 athletes, 63 women and 69 men, took part in the World Cup.

Participating nations (women / men)
Australia (0/2) Belgium (0/2) Bulgaria (5/0) People's Republic of China (5/5) Chinese Taipei (2/2) Germany (1/2) France / 1/2 )	Great Britain (2/5) Hong Kong (2/0) Israel (1/0) Italy (5/5) Japan (5/5) Canada (5/5) Kazakhstan (2/2)	Croatia (0/2) Latvia (0/1) New Zealand (1/2) Netherlands (2/2) Austria (1/0) Poland (2/2) Romania (1/0)	Russia (4/5) Sweden (1/0) Serbia (0/1) Slovakia (0/2) South Korea (5/5) Czech Republic (1/0) Ukraine (0/3)	Hungary (2/1) USA (5/5) Belarus (2/1)

Time schedule

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

Friday March 7, 2008

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

Saturday March 8, 2008

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

Sunday March 9, 2008

• 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	107	1 (34)	1 (34)	1 (34)	5 (5)
2.	Zhou Yang	76	4 (8)	2 (21)	3 (13)	1 (34)
3.	Yang Shin-young	37	6 (0)	4 (8)	2 (21)	4 (8)
4th	Kalyna Roberge	33	3 (13)	3 (13)	5 (5)	7 (2)
5.	Liu Qiuhong	27	2 (21)	9 (0)	6 (3)	6 (3)
6th	Jung Eun-ju	23	8 (0)	8 (0)	7 (2)	2 (21)
7th	Katherine Reutter	21st	5 (0)	19 (0)	4 (8)	3 (13)

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Wang Meng	43,888 s
2.	Liu Qiuhong	43,973 s
3.	Kalyna Roberge	44.018 s
4th	Zhou Yang	45.324 s
5.	Katherine Reutter	45.980 s
6th	Yang Shin-young	44.916 s
7th	Park Seung-hi	1: 32.028 min
8th.	Jung Eun-ju	44,919 s

Date: March 8th, 2008
Rank 1–4 in the final, Rank 5–8 in the semifinals.

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Wang Meng	1: 32.527 min
2.	Zhou Yang	1: 32.595 min
3.	Kalyna Roberge	1: 32.636 min
4th	Yang Shin-young	1: 32.666 min
5.	Evgenia Radanova	1: 33.121 min
6th	Stephanie Bouvier	1: 33.908 min
7th	Tania Vicent	1: 34.071 min
8th.	Jung Eun-ju	disqualified

Date: March 9, 2008
Rank 1–4 in the final, Rank 5–8 in the semifinals.

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Wang Meng	2: 22.819 min
2.	Yang Shin-young	2: 22.904 min
3.	Zhou Yang	2: 23.191 min
4th	Katherine Reutter	2: 23.212 min
5.	Kalyna Roberge	2: 23.960 min
6th	Liu Qiuhong	2: 25.928 min
7th	Jung Eun-ju	2: 33.236 min

Date: March 7, 2008
Rank 1–7 in the final.

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Zhou Yang	5: 46.063 min
2.	Jung Eun-ju	5: 46.465 min
3.	Katherine Reutter	5: 46.518 min
4th	Yang Shin-young	5: 46.719 min
5.	Wang Meng	5: 47.106 min
6th	Liu Qiuhong	5: 53.138 min
7th	Kalyna Roberge	6: 57.248 min

Date: March 9, 2008
Superfinal of the eight best all-rounders after three routes. Since only seven athletes had scored points by then, only these seven competed in the superfinal.

3000 meter relay

rank	Surname	time
1.	South Korea Kim Min-jung Park Seung-hi Jung Eun-ju Yang Shin-young	4: 16.261 min
2.	Canada Anne Maltais Jessica Gregg Tania Vicent Amanda Overland	4: 20.254 min
3.	People's Republic of China Wang Meng Zhou Yang Fu Tianyu Liu Qiuhong	4: 23.022 min
4th	Italy Marta Capurso Arianna Fontana Lucia Peretti Katia Zini	4: 24.832 min

Date: March 7th to 9th, 2008
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.	Apolo Anton Ohno	68	1 (34)	2 (21)	7 (0)	3 (13)
2.	Lee Ho-suk	63	16 (0)	1 (34)	2 (21)	4 (8)
3.	Song Kyung-taek	62	3 (13)	3 (13)	1 (34)	7 (2)
4th	Lee Seung-hoon	42	47 (0)	21 (0)	4 (8)	1 (34)
5.	Charles Ryan Leveille	34	12 (0)	43 (0)	3 (13)	2 (21)
6th	Charles Hamelin	34	2 (21)	4 (8)	49 ()	5 (5)
7th	Jeff Simon	11	4 (8)	5 (0)	22 (0)	6 (3)
8th.	Zhang Zhiqiang	6th	27 (0)	6 (0)	5 (5)	8 (1)

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Apolo Anton Ohno	42,568 s
2.	Charles Hamelin	42.625 s
3.	Song Kyung-taek	42.632 s
4th	Jeff Simon	42.906 s
5.	Satoru Terao	42,360 s
6th	Thibaut Fauconnet	42,339 s
7th	François Hamelin	42.651 s
8th.	Wim de Deyne	42.669 s

Date: March 8th, 2008
Rank 1–4 in the final, Rank 5–8 in the semifinals.

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Lee Ho-suk	1: 26.462 min
2.	Apolo Anton Ohno	1: 26.528 min
3.	Song Kyung-taek	1: 26.615 min
4th	Charles Hamelin	1: 26.833 min
5.	Jeff Simon	1: 28.164 min
6th	Zhang Zhiqiang	1: 29.256 min
7th	Marc-André Monette	1: 29.506 min
8th.	Song Weilong	1: 28.841 min

Date: March 9, 2008
Rank 1–4 in the final, Rank 5–8 in the semifinals.

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Song Kyung-taek	2: 18.916 min
2.	Lee Ho-suk	2: 18.971 min
3.	Charles Ryan Leveille	2: 19.066 min
4th	Lee Seung-hoon	2: 19.127 min
5.	Zhang Zhiqiang	2: 19.561 min
6th	Marc-André Monette	2: 19.952 min
7th	Apolo Anton Ohno	disqualified

Date: March 7, 2008
Rank 1–7 in the final.

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Lee Seung-hoon	4: 53.620 min
2.	Charles Ryan Leveille	4: 54.732 min
3.	Apolo Anton Ohno	5: 00.838 min
4th	Lee Ho-suk	5: 00.939 min
5.	Charles Hamelin	5: 01.867 min
6th	Jeff Simon	5: 03.634 min
7th	Song Kyung-taek	5: 04.307 min
8th.	Zhang Zhiqiang	5: 13.181 min

Date: March 9, 2008
Superfinal of the eight best all-rounders after three courses.

5000 meter relay

rank	Surname	time
1.	South Korea Song Kyung-taek Lee Ho-suk Lee Seung-hoon Sung Si-bak	6: 51.148 min
2.	Canada François Hamelin Steve Robillard Marc-André Monette Jean-François Monette	6: 52.318 min
3.	United Kingdom Jon Eley Paul Worth Paul Stanley Tom Iveson	6: 56.765 min
4th	United States Charles Ryan Leveille Jeff Simon Jordan Malone Apolo Anton Ohno	6: 59.069 min
5.	Russia Yevgeny Kosulin Vyacheslav Kurginjan Alexander Gertsikow Sergei Prankewitsch	7: 10.426 min

Date: March 8th to 9th, 2008
5 seasons in the finals.

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	South Korea	5	4th	4th	13
2	People's Republic of China	5	3	2	10
3	United States	2	2	3	7th
4th	Canada	-	3	2	5
5	United Kingdom	-	-	1	1
total		12	12	12	36

Web links

• Final report with all results and participants (English; PDF; 818 kB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LIST OF COMPETITORS. (PDF; 818 kB) Accessed January 1, 2012 (English).