Short Track World Championships 2010

The 2010 Short Track World Championships took place from March 19 to 21, 2010 in the Bulgarian capital Sofia . It was the second time since the 2000 World Championships that the title fights were held in Sofia.

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 34 countries with a total of 143 athletes, 67 women and 76 men, took part in the World Cup.

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

Time schedule

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

Friday March 19, 2010

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

Saturday March 20, 2010

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

Sunday March 21, 2010

• 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.	Park Seung-hi	73	5 (0)	9 (0)	1 (34)	1 (34)
2.	Wang Meng	68	1 (34)	1 (34)	7 (0)	9 (0)
3.	Cho Ha-ri	55	9 (0)	2 (21)	3 (13)	2 (21)
4th	Lee Eun-byul	34	17 (0)	25 (0)	2 (21)	3 (13)
5.	Kalyna Roberge	31	2 (21)	14 (0)	5 (5)	5 (5)
6th	Katherine Reutter	29	6 (0)	3 (13)	4 (8)	4 (8)
7th	Marianne St-Gelais	15th	3 (13)	16 (0)	19 (0)	7 (2)
8th.	Elise Christie	11	21 (0)	4 (8)	12 (0)	6 (3)

Park Seung-hi got five bonus points.

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Wang Meng	43.619 s
2.	Kalyna Roberge	43.679 s
3.	Marianne St-Gelais	43.747 s
4th	Jessica Gregg	44.066 s
5.	Park Seung-hi	43.512 s
6th	Katherine Reutter	43,957 s
7th	Arianna Fontana	45.295 s
8th.	Sun Linlin	44.113 s

Date: March 20, 2010
Rank 1–4 in the final, Rank 5–8 in the semi-finals.

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Wang Meng	1: 31.603 min
2.	Cho Ha-ri	1: 31.695 min
3.	Katherine Reutter	1: 31.747 min
4th	Elise Christie	1: 32.993 min
5.	Jessica Gregg	1: 31.176 min
6th	Stephanie Bouvier	1: 31.214 min
7th	Sarah Lindsay	1: 32.286 min
8th.	Zhou Yang	DNF
9.	Park Seung-hi	DSQ

Date: March 21, 2010
Rank 1–4 in the final, Rank 5–9 in the semi-finals.

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Park Seung-hi	2: 21.570 min
2.	Lee Eun-byul	2: 21.665 min
3.	Cho Ha-ri	2: 21.821 min
4th	Katherine Reutter	2: 22.225 min
5.	Kalyna Roberge	2: 22.347 min
6th	Jorien ter Mors	2: 26.096 min

Date: March 19, 2010
Rank 1–6 in the final.

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Park Seung-hi	5: 04.070 min
2.	Cho Ha-ri	5: 04.188 min
3.	Lee Eun-byul	5: 04.262 min
4th	Katherine Reutter	5: 04.401 min
5.	Kalyna Roberge	5: 04.837 min
6th	Elise Christie	5: 05.419 min
7th	Marianne St-Gelais	5: 06.264 min
8th.	Jessica Gregg	5: 21.714 min
9.	Wang Meng	5: 38.663 min

Date: March 21, 2010
Superfinal of the eight best all-rounders after three courses. Nine runners competed because of a tie.

3000 meter relay

rank	Surname	time
1.	South Korea Kim Min-jung Cho Ha-ri Lee Eun-byul Park Seung-hi	4: 08.356 min
2.	Canada Tania Vicent Kalyna Roberge Jessica Gregg Marianne St-Gelais	4: 09.310 min
3.	United States Katherine Reutter, Alyson Dudek, Kimberly Derrick Lana Gehring	4: 14.231 min
4th	People's Republic of China Wang Meng Sun Linlin Zhang Hui Liu Qiuhong	DNS

Date: March 19-21, 2010
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	86	5 (5)	1 (34)	3 (13)	1 (34)
2.	Kwak Yoon-gy	76	31 (0)	2 (21)	1 (34)	2 (21)
3.	Liang Wenhao	47	1 (34)	4 (8)	7 (0)	5 (5)
4th	John Celski	39	9 (0)	3 (13)	4 (8)	3 (13)
5.	François Hamelin	24	2 (21)	13 (0)	13 (0)	6 (3)
6th	Sung Si-bak	21st	8 (0)	8 (0)	2 (21)	DNS
7th	Charles Hamelin	16	4 (8)	9 (0)	18 (0)	4 (8)
8th.	François-Louis Tremblay	15th	3 (13)	14 (0)	17 (0)	7 (2)

John Celski received five additional points.

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Liang Wenhao	41,383 s
2.	François Hamelin	41,456 s
3.	François-Louis Tremblay	41.526 s
4th	Charles Hamelin	41.558 s
5.	Lee Ho-suk	41.650 s
6th	Haralds Silovs	42,599 s

Date: March 20, 2010
Rank 1–6 in the final.

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Lee Ho-suk	1: 34.198 min
2.	Kwak Yoon-gy	1: 34.231 min
3.	John Celski	1: 34.290 min
4th	Liang Wenhao	1: 34.349 min
5.	Thibaut Fauconnet	1: 29.048 min
6th	Maxime Chataigner	1: 41.801 min
7th	Han Jialiang	1: 29.336 min
8th.	Sung Si-bak	DNF

Date: March 21, 2010
Rank 1–4 in the final, Rank 5–8 in the semifinals.

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Kwak Yoon-gy	2: 24.316 min
2.	Sung Si-bak	2: 24.373 min
3.	Lee Ho-suk	2: 24.459 min
4th	John Celski	2: 24.570 min
5.	Thibaut Fauconnet	2: 24.739 min
6th	Travis Jayner	2: 25.762 min

Date: March 19, 2010
Rank 1–6 in the final.

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Lee Ho-suk
2.	Kwak Yoon-gy
3.	John Celski
4th	Charles Hamelin
5.	Liang Wenhao
6th	François Hamelin
7th	François-Louis Tremblay
8th.	Sung Si-bak	DNS

Date: March 21, 2010
Superfinal of the eight best all-rounders after three courses. Official end times are not available because the automatic timekeeping did not work.

5000 meter relay

rank	Surname	time
1.	South Korea Kim Seoung-il Lee Jung-su Kwak Yoon-gy Lee Ho-suk	6: 44.821 min
2.	United States John Celski Simon Cho Travis Jayner Jordan Malone	6: 47.331 min
3.	Germany Tyson Heung Paul Herrmann Robert Seifert Sebastian Praus	6: 48.288 min
4th	People's Republic of China Han Jialiang Liang Wenhao Liu Xianwei Ma Yunfeng	7: 02.237 min

Date: March 20-21, 2010
4 seasons in the finals.

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	South Korea	9	7th	4th	20th
2	People's Republic of China	3	1	1	5
3	Canada	-	3	2	5
4th	United States	-	1	4th	5
5	Germany	-	-	1	1
total		12	12	12	36

Web links

• Final report with all results and participants (English; PDF; 1.3 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LIST OF COMPETITORS. (PDF; 1.3 MB) Retrieved November 15, 2011 (English).