Short Track World Championships 2012

The 2012 Short Track World Championships took place from March 9th to 11th, 2012 in Shanghai . The venue was the Shanghai Oriental Sport Mansion . It was the third edition of the title fights in China and the first in Shanghai.

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 33 countries with a total of 143 athletes, 69 women and 74 men, took part in the World Cup.

Participating nations (women / men)
Argentina (0/1) Australia (2/2) Bosnia and Herzegovina (0/1) Bulgaria (5/1) People's Republic of China (1/5) Germany (3/3) France (2/2)	Hong Kong (1/1) Italy (5/3) Japan (5/5) Canada (1/5) Kazakhstan (2/2) Latvia (0/1) New Zealand (0/1)	Netherlands (5/5) North Korea (2/2) Austria (2/0) Poland (1/1) Taiwan (1/1) Russia (5/5) Switzerland (0/1)	Singapore (0/1) Slovakia (1/0) Spain (1/2) South Korea (5/5) Czech Republic (3/0) Turkey (0/2) Ukraine (2/2)	Hungary (2/2) USA (5/5) United Kingdom (2/5) Belarus (5/2)

Time schedule

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

Friday March 9th 2012

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

Saturday March 10, 2012

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

Sunday March 11, 2012

• 1000 m: preliminary, semi-finals, final
• 3000 m: super finals
• 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.	Li Jianrou	60	10 (0)	2 (21)	1 (34)	5 (5)
2.	Valérie Maltais	47	7 (0)	3 (13)	13 (0)	1 (34)
3.	Arianna Fontana	44	2 (21)	9 (0)	7 (2)	2 (21)
4th	Cho Ha-ri	42	11 (0)	1 (34)	16 (0)	4 (8)
5.	Fan Kexin	35	1 (34)	14 (0)	19 (0)	8 (1)
6th	Liu Qiuhong	28	41 (0)	7 (0)	2 (21)	7 (2)
7th	Marie-Ève ​​Drolet	26th	8 (0)	15 (0)	3 (13)	3 (13)
8th.	Lana Gehring	16	3 (13)	5 (0)	11 (0)	6 (3)

Liu Qiuhong received five bonus points.

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Fan Kexin	44,438 s
2.	Arianna Fontana	44,467 s
3.	Lana Gehring	44.815 s
4th	Martina Valcepina	44.816 s
5.	Ayuko Itō	44.774 s
6th	Bernadett Heidum	44.503 s
7th	Valérie Maltais	1: 02.856 min
8th.	Marie-Ève ​​Drolet	45,400 s
9.	Elise Christie	disqualified

Date: March 10, 2012
Rank 1–4 in the final, rank 5–9 in the semifinals.

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Cho Ha-ri	1: 31.283 min
2.	Li Jianrou	1: 31.325 min
3.	Valérie Maltais	1: 31.350 min
4th	Elise Christie	1: 32.518 min
5.	Lana Gehring	1: 30.001 min
6th	Jessica Smith	1: 32.596 min
7th	Liu Qiuhong	1: 30.165 min
8th.	Olga Belyakova	1: 32.621 min

Date: March 10, 2012
Rank 1–4 in the final. Rank 5–8 in the semifinals.

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Li Jianrou	2: 23.217 min
2.	Liu Qiuhong	2: 23.411 min
3.	Marie-Ève ​​Drolet	2: 23.474 min
4th	Olga Belyakova	2: 23.524 min
5.	Jessica Smith	2: 23.588 min
6th	Véronique Pierron	2: 23.796 min
7th	Arianna Fontana	2: 23.818 min
8th.	Yui Sakai	2: 24.735 min

Date: March 9, 2012
Rank 1–8 in the final.

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Valérie Maltais	4: 55.408 min
2.	Arianna Fontana	5: 01.187 min
3.	Marie-Ève ​​Drolet	5: 03.387 min
4th	Cho Ha-ri	5: 03.562 min
5.	Li Jianrou	5: 04.961 min
6th	Lana Gehring	5: 06.292 min
7th	Liu Qiuhong	5: 26.551 min
8th.	Fan Kexin	5: 51.825 min

Date: March 11, 2012
Superfinal of the eight best all-rounders after three routes.

3000 meter relay

rank	Surname	time
1.	People's Republic of China Liu Qiuhong Fan Kexin Li Jianrou Kong Xue	4: 16.303 min
2.	United States Lana Gehring Jessica Smith Emily Scott Tamara Frederick	4: 17.223 min
3.	South Korea Cho Ha-ri Lee Eun-byul Choi Jung-won Son Soo-min	4: 17.240 min
4th	Canada Valérie Maltais Marie-Ève ​​Drolet Caroline Truchon Marianne St-Gelais	4: 22.414 min

Date: March 9th and 11th, 2012
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.	Kwak Yoon-gy	102	3 (13)	1 (34)	2 (21)	1 (34)
2.	Noh Jinkyu	76	12 (0)	2 (21)	1 (34)	2 (21)
3.	Olivier Jean	52	1 (34)	23 (0)	5 (5)	4 (8)
4th	Charles Hamelin	42	2 (21)	3 (13)	4 (8)	9 (0)
5.	Sin da-woon	26th	22 (0)	14 (0)	3 (13)	3 (13)
6th	Sjinkie Knegt	11	5 (5)	10 (0)	6 (3)	6 (3)
7th	Robert Seifert	10	4 (8)	19 (0)	23 (0)	7 (2)
8th.	Vladimir Grigoryev	7th	16 (0)	18 (0)	7 (2)	5 (5)

Olivier Jean received five additional points.

500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Olivier Jean	41.077 s
2.	Charles Hamelin	41.186 s
3.	Kwak Yoon-gy	41,479 s
4th	Robert Seifert	41,574 s
5.	Sjinkie Knegt	59.578 s
6th	Guillaume Bastille	41.664 s
7th	Gong Qiuwen	41,483 s
8th.	Jordan Malone	41.532 s
9.	Liang Wenhao	42.023 s
10.	Simon Cho	disqualified
11.	Niels Kerstholt	disqualified

Date: March 10, 2012
Rank 1–5 in the final, Rank 6–11 in the semifinals.

1000 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Kwak Yoon-gy	1: 27.772 min
2.	Noh Jinkyu	1: 34.463 min
3.	Charles Hamelin	1: 55.181 min
4th	Gong Qiuwen	disqualified
5.	Thibaut Fauconnet	1: 24.837 min
6th	Guillaume Bastille	1: 29.597 min
7th	Chen Dequan	1: 25.054 min
8th.	Daisuke Uemure	1: 29.668 min
9.	Niels Kerstholt	1: 29.835 min

Date: March 11, 2012
Rank 1–4 in the final, Rank 5–9 in the semifinals.

Gong Qiuwen was disqualified in the final due to a handicap of Noh Jinkyu and Charles Hamelin.

1500 meters

rank	Surname	time
1.	Noh Jinkyu	2: 15.661 min
2.	Kwak Yoon-gy	2: 15.755 min
3.	Sin da-woon	2: 15.861 min
4th	Charles Hamelin	2: 15.944 min
5.	Olivier Jean	2: 16.373 min
6th	Sjinkie Knegt	2: 16.471 min
7th	Vladimir Grigoryev	2: 17.876 min

Date: March 9, 2012
Rank 1–7 in the final.

3000 meters superfinal

rank	Surname	time
1.	Kwak Yoon-gy	4: 40.401 min
2.	Noh Jinkyu	4: 40.407 min
3.	Sin Da Woon	4: 41,000 min
4th	Olivier Jean	4: 45.673 min
5.	Vladimir Grigoryev	4: 59.579 min
6th	Sjinkie Knegt	5: 16.870 min
7th	Robert Seifert	5: 57.835 min
8th.	Charles Hamelin	not at the start

Date: March 11, 2012
Superfinal of the eight best all-rounders after three routes.

Charles Hamelin was allowed to start, but did not take part in the 1,000 meter final due to a fall.

5000 meter relay

rank	Surname	time
1.	Canada Olivier Jean François-Louis Tremblay Liam McFarlane Guillaume Bastille	6: 42.570 min
2.	Netherlands Sjinkie Knegt Niels Kerstholt Daan Breeuwsma Freek van der Wart	6: 42.626 min
3.	South Korea Noh Jin-kyu Kwak Yoon-gy Sin Da-woon Lee Ho-suk	6: 42.629 min
4th	Japan Yuzo Takamido Daisuke Uemura Keita Watanabe Satoshi Sakashita	6: 44.586 min

Date: March 10th and 11th, 2012
4 seasons in the finals.

Medal table

rank	nation	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	South Korea	5	4th	5	14th
2	People's Republic of China	4th	2	-	6th
3	Canada	3	2	5	10
4th	Italy	-	2	1	3
5	United States	-	1	1	2
6th	Netherlands	-	1	-	1
total		12	12	12	36

Web links

• Final report with all results and participants (English; PDF file; 1.38 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World Short Track Speed ​​Skating Championships (PDF file; 1.4 MB). ISU . March 11, 2012, accessed March 11, 2011.