ERZURUM – Today, January 30th, the short track speed skating competition came to an end with the finals of the relay and the 1,000m. Women’s 1,000m final The women’s 1,000m final was an Asian clash with two Koreans, two Chinese and one Japanese skater. Xue Kong crashed into the safety mats while Marie […]
ERZURUM – Yesterday, January 28th, we witnessed an All-Asian podium in the men’s and women’s 1,500 m. Today, a more ‘international’ podum could be witnessed. Final Women’s 500m In the women’s final the audience witnessed a thrilling race where Canadian Valérie Lambert wriggled herself between the Asian short track powers and captured a silver […]
Women’s final ERZURUM – The finals of the women’s 1,500 m were traditionally an Asian affair. Three Korean and two Chinese skaters fought hard for the gold. It was Korean Eun Byul LEE who claimed the gold in a thrilling finale beating compatriot Ba Ra Jung and leaving the bronze o Chinese Jianrou Li. […]
ERZURUM – The Short Track test event which took place in Erzurum has ended. At the event, which was held in the ice hockey arena in the Palandöken district, a total of 51 athletes took part: Men’s Individual:1-Viktor Knoch (Hungary)2-Bence Beres (Hungary)3-Assen Pandov (Bulgaria)4-Milos Vigas (Slovakia)5-Bence Olah (Hungary)Women’s Individual:1-Szandra Lajtos (Hungary)2-Andrea Keszler (Hungary)3-Veronika Denes […]
The level of athletes competing in the Winter Universiade Short Track Competition is always very high. This was the case again in Harbin, China. A number of those athletes continued their ‘medal collection’ when they traveled to the ISU 2009 World Championship Short Track in Vienna, Austria. An overview: Zhou Yang (CHN)At the 2009 Winter […]
Medal Podium Men’s Relay Chinese skaters dominated the short track medal podiums today. In the Women’s 1,000m, the Women’s 3,000m Relay and the Men’s 5,000m Relay the gold medals went to host China. Canadians, Koreans and also a Russian skater mounted on the podium. Women’s 3,000m Relay1. China – 04:18.676(ZHOU YANG, SUN LINLIN, MENG […]
Women’s 3,000mKorean domination in the women’s 3,000m short track competition as two of the three medals went to Korean skaters Choi Jung Won (gold) and Kim Hye Kyung (bronze). Chinese skater Liu Qiuhong managed to wriggle herself in between and took the silver. Once again an all-Asian medal podium for short track. 1. CHOI […]
