Short Track World Championships 2011

The 2011 Short Track World Championships took place in Sheffield from March 11-13, 2011 . The venue was the Motorpoint Arena. It was the sixth edition of the title fights in Great Britain and the second in Sheffield, previously the 2000 World Championships took place here.

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 145 athletes, 68 women and 77 men, took part in the World Cup.

Participating nations (women / men)
Argentina (0/1) Australia (1/1) Bosnia and Herzegovina (0/1) Bulgaria (2/2) People's Republic of China (5/5) Taiwan (1/1) Germany (3/5)	France (0/5) Great Britain (2/5) Hong Kong (1/1) Israel (0/1) Italy (5/3) Japan (5/3) Canada (5/5)	Kazakhstan (0/1) Croatia (2/2) Latvia (0/1) New Zealand (0/1) Netherlands (4/5) Austria (1/0) Poland (4/4)	Romania (2/1) Russia (5/2) Slovakia (1/2) Spain (2/2) South Korea (5/5) Czech Republic (1/0) Turkey (0/1)	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 11, 2011

• 1500 m: preliminary, semi-finals, final

Saturday March 12, 2011

• 500 m: preliminary run, quarter-finals, semi-finals, final
• Season: semifinals

Sunday March 13, 2011

• 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.	Cho Ha-ri	81	14 (0)	1 (34)	3 (13)	1 (34)
2.	Katherine Reutter	68	6 (0)	3 (13)	1 (34)	2 (21)
3.	Arianna Fontana	57	2 (21)	2 (21)	4 (8)	7 (2)
4th	Fan Kexin	35	1 (34)	8 (0)	10 (0)	8 (1)
5.	Liu Qiuhong	26th	3 (13)	12 (0)	13 (0)	3 (13)
6th	Park Seung-hi	26th	5 (0)	6 (0)	2 (21)	5 (5)
7th	Li Jianrou	21st	4 (8)	43 (0)	5 (5)	4 (8)
8th.	Yang Shin-young	6th	19 (0)	9 (0)	6 (3)	6 (3)

Arianna Fontana received five additional points.

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Fan Kexin	44.620 s
2.	Arianna Fontana	44.687 s
3.	Liu Qiuhong	44.784 s
4th	Li Jianrou	44,879 s
5.	Park Seung-hi	45.190 s
6th	Katherine Reutter	45.181 s
7th	Marianne St-Gelais	1: 13.133 min
8th.	Marie-Ève ​​Drolet	45.473 s

Date: March 12, 2011
Rank 1–4 in the final, Rank 5–8 in the semifinals.

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Cho Ha-ri	1: 38.895 min
2.	Arianna Fontana	1: 40.306 min
3.	Katherine Reutter	2: 23.268 min
4th	Elise Christie	1: 33.191 min
5.	Lana Gehring	1: 35.703 min
6th	Park Seung-hi	1: 34.300 min
7th	Marianne St-Gelais	1: 36.163 min
8th.	Fan Kexin	disqualified

Date: March 13, 2011
Rank 1–3 in the final. Li Jianrou reached the final but was demoted . Rank 4–8 in the semifinals.

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Katherine Reutter	2: 33.978 min
2.	Park Seung-hi	2: 34.218 min
3.	Cho Ha-ri	2: 34.336 min
4th	Arianna Fontana	2: 34.424 min
5.	Li Jianrou	2: 34.486 min
6th	Yang Shin-young	2: 35.418 min

Date: March 12, 2011
Rank 1–6 in the final.

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Cho Ha-ri	5: 13.353 min
2.	Katherine Reutter	5: 13.677 min
3.	Liu Qiuhong	5: 17.206 min
4th	Li Jianrou	5: 17.730 min
5.	Park Seung-hi	5: 20.163 min
6th	Yang Shin-young	5: 23.957 min
7th	Arianna Fontana	5: 27.601 min
8th.	Fan Kexin	5: 29.497 min

Date: March 13, 2011
Superfinal of the eight best all-rounders after three routes.

3000 meter relay

rank	Surname	time
1.	People's Republic of China Fan Kexin Li Jianrou Zhang Hui Liu Qiuhong	4: 16.295 min
2.	Netherlands Jorien ter Mors Sanne van Kerkhof Yara van Kerkhof Annita van Doorn	4: 17.725 min
3.	Canada Valérie Maltais Marie-Ève ​​Drolet Jessica Hewitt Marianne St-Gelais	4: 18.043 min
4th	South Korea Hwang Hyunsun Cho Ha-ri Yang Shin-young Park Seung-hi	4: 39.789 min

Date: March 12-13, 2011
4 seasons in the final.

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.	Noh Jinkyu	102	23 (0)	1 (34)	1 (34)	1 (34)
2.	Charles Hamelin	50	9 (0)	2 (21)	2 (21)	4 (8)
3.	Liang Wenhao	47	3 (13)	3 (13)	13 (0)	2 (21)
4th	Simon Cho	44	1 (34)	17 (0)	5 (5)	9 (0)
5.	Jeff Simon	26th	28 (0)	6 (0)	3 (13)	3 (13)
6th	Olivier Jean	23	2 (21)	7 (0)	10 (0)	7 (2)
7th	Liu Xianwei	13	4 (8)	19 (0)	8 (0)	5 (5)
8th.	François Hamelin	11	7 (0)	4 (8)	11 (0)	6 (3)

Simon Cho received five additional points.

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Simon Cho	42,307 s
2.	Olivier Jean	42,429 s
3.	Liang Wenhao	42.493 s
4th	Liu Xianwei	42,523 s
5.	Niels Kerstholt	58,500 s
6th	Jon Eley	1: 11.002 min
7th	François Hamelin	1: 13.490 min
8th.	Thibaut Fauconnet	44.516 s
9.	Charles Hamelin	disqualified

Date: March 12, 2011
Rank 1–5 in the final, Rank 6–9 in the semi-finals.

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Noh Jinkyu	1: 28.552 min
2.	Charles Hamelin	1: 28.663 min
3.	Liang Wenhao	1: 29.203 min
4th	François Hamelin	1: 29.459 min
5.	Maxime Chataigner	1: 27.758 min
6th	Jeff Simon	1: 28.706 min
7th	Olivier Jean	1: 27.786 min
8th.	Niels Kerstholt	1: 28.838 min
9.	Song Weilong	1: 27.874 min

Date: March 13, 2011
Rank 1–4 in the final, Rank 5–9 in the semifinals.

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Noh Jinkyu	2: 18.291 min
2.	Charles Hamelin	2: 18.676 min
3.	Jeff Simon	2: 18.725 min
4th	Song Weilong	2: 19.675 min
5.	Simon Cho	2: 20.702 min
6th	To Cheon-ho	2: 22.314 min
7th	Lee Ho-suk	2: 24.285 min

Date: March 12, 2011
Rank 1–7 in the final.

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Noh Jinkyu	4: 51.638 min
2.	Liang Wenhao	4: 51.877 min
3.	Jeff Simon	4: 52.181 min
4th	Charles Hamelin	4: 52.406 min
5.	Liu Xianwei	4: 53.698 min
6th	François Hamelin	4: 54.485 min
7th	Olivier Jean	4: 55.198 min
8th.	Song Weilong	5: 15.131 min

Date: March 13, 2011
Superfinal of the eight best all-rounders after three routes.

5000 meter relay

rank	Surname	time
1.	Canada Charles Hamelin Michael Gilday Olivier Jean François Hamelin	6: 52.731 min
2.	Germany Robert Becker Paul Herrmann Robert Seifert Christoph Milz	6: 54.693 min
3.	United States Kyle Carr Jeff Simon Travis Jayner Anthony Lobello	7: 01.659 min
4th	South Korea Kim Byeong-jun Lee Ho-suk Noh Jin-kyu Um Cheon-ho	disqualified

Date: March 12-13, 2011
4 seasons in the final.

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	South Korea	7th	1	1	9
2	United States	2	2	4th	8th
3	People's Republic of China	2	1	5	8th
4th	Canada	1	4th	1	6th
5	Italy	-	2	1	3
6th	Germany	-	1	-	1
	Netherlands	-	1	-	1
total		12	12	12	36

Web links

• Final report with all results and participants (English; PDF; 3.1 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ LIST OF COMPETITORS. (PDF; 3.1 MB) Retrieved November 8, 2011 (English).