ISU World No37 January 2009

INTERNATIONAL SKATING UNION OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER

NO 37 JANUARY 2009

In honour of ISU Past President Olaf Poulsen

ISU COUNCIL The Council has allotted the Olympic Qualifying Figure Skating competition for the 2010 Olympic Winter Games to Deutsche Eislauf Union e.V. which will be held during the Nebelhorn Trophy , September 24-27, 2009 in Oberstdorf (GER).

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Olaf, Allow me to imagine the ISU as a team performing a relay. Also permit me, dear Olaf, to assign to you the role as a Captain of such a relay which started in 1892 and I hope it will be an endless race.

It was not difficult for me to use the expression endless, since as a model we may look at the Olympic Games created in ancient Greece and still going on with the same spirit, although with a variety of innovations as an action to accompany developments in society and of course also in sport.

I feel indeed proud of the above photograph of the day when I succeeded you as President of the International Skating Union.

I would be willing to report the many inputs and advices you kindly ordered to me. It is not possible to proceed in that way, but I wish to quote what you told me and still is the motto that one should respect to permit the relay to perform at best “Do not think that the work will finish a day. You may forget it. The more positively you act, the more dedication and workload become necessary. Don’t go against progress, but protect the high reputation and tradition of the ISU”.

Captain Olaf, you and those forming your teams have been a point of reference in my role as President of the ISU in these years and what we have done, that means all the members of the ISU teams and I, was done in accordance with the ISU inspiration and you may be sure that the message you handed me over will remain, since it contains a vital principle: to develop in line with general progress.

The respect for you as a person and as a sport administrator is so high that it is not needed to add any other word except “the ISU is honoured that you are a great part of its history”.

Ottavio Cinquanta President, International Skating Union

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ISU Figure Skating Technical Delegates for the Olympic Winter Games (OWG) visited Vancouver (CAN) in October to oversee the organization of various rooms/seating as well as the set-up and change-over of the timing deck (Short Track), judges platforms (Figure Skating) and padding systems at the Pacific Coliseum. The first pre-Olympic Sport Event, the Samsung ISU World Cup Short Track was held in the venue in October. ISU OWG Short Track Technical Delegates were in attendance and carried out a successful inspection visit of facilities. In March ISU OWG Speed Skating Technical Delegates will oversee the Essent ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships in the newly constructed Richmond Olympic Oval facility.

Innsbruck (AUT) will host the first Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) in 2012. The International Skating Union will be in charge of the technical aspects of ISU disciplines and also define the qualification criteria.

More information will be made available on www.isu.org and www.innsbruck2012.com/.

See also ISU Communication No. 1535 for Decisions of the ISU Council.

ISU SPORTS DIRECTORATE

The Sports Directorate worked with ISU bodies and stakeholders again this season.

In Figure Skating further to the ISU World Team Trophy inspection visit in Tokyo (JPN), in November, the event format is confirmed.

December saw the first combined Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final for juniors and seniors.

Various logistical issues were evaluated and the new competition format proved highly successful with the public on-site (fully sold out) and off site with higher than expected TV audiences in many countries including Japan where the ratings peaked at over 40%.

Work on Ice Dance and Synchronized Skating development seminars has been on-going.

In Speed Skating work has continued on ensuring quality ice, via testing at World Cup events. In Short Track efforts have focused on the implementation of additional padding standards, the guidelines of which were published in 1512 ISU Communication.

Extensive preparatory work ahead of the Olympic Winter Games 2010 has been also carried out in liaison with VANOC.

ISU NEWS ISU TECHNICAL COMMITTEES Single & Pair Skating

In recent months Members of the Single and Pair Skating Technical Committee have been active preparing for the later part of the season as well as working on site as Referees and Technical Controllers at Senior Grand Prix Events, Junior/Senior Grand Prix Finals and ISU European Figure Skating Championships. The Committee has continued educational initiatives acting as Moderators of the ISU recognized Judges Seminars.

The evaluation of judging continues and dedicated time was lent to studying of Official Assessment Commission Reports and review of DVD’s of each ISU event. The first Technical Committee meeting of the season was held on the occasion of the ISU European Figure Skating Championships 2009 on January 19-25, Helsinki (FIN).

Ice Dance

The Ice Dance Technical Committee has been preparing the implementation of a new format for Ice Dance competitions, beginning with the 2010/11 season, in response to the Resolution of the ISU Ordinary Congress 2008 to reduce the number of competition segments to two. A plan with several possible detailed formats has been presented to the Council for review. The proposal also includes Trial Competitions which would be held in the spring of 2009 to test the ideas and formulate a final recommendation. Details will be forthcoming. On the educational front, International Judges Seminars were held in Ostrava (CZE) and Paris (FRA) and the Committee has worked closely with the Sports Directorate in the planning of a Novice Dance Seminar to be held in Oberstdorf (GER) in the 2009 spring.

Synchronized Skating

The ISU Synchronized Skating Technical Committee will be conducting Official Trial Judging in conjunction with the ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships in Zagreb (CRO) in April. The Committee has announced that two candidates will be sitting the 2009 ISU Judges Examination at this event. More information can be found in ISU Communications 1538 and 1524. Meanwhile Members have provided positive feed back to the Committee following ISU Development initiatives in the early part of the season in the Republic of Korea (moderated by Kathy Hammond, AUS) and Iceland (moderated by Shelly Burnett, CAN). More information about ISU Development funding is available in ISU Communication 1531.

Speed Skating

The international Speed Skating season successfully kicked off with the Essent ISU World Cup series. After Berlin (GER) and Heerenveen (NED), the World Cup circuit moved to Moscow (RUS). The Krylatskoye ice rink had to cancel its December event last season because of construction damages due to heavy snowfall, but the venue has now fully recovered and is ready to host the World Sprint Speed Skating Championships 2009 in January where the Technical Committee will also gather for its first meeting of the season. A new ISU Junior World Cup series was also successfully inaugurated this season in Inzell (GER) in November with more than 80 competitors from 14 countries. The second Competition was equally a success, held in the delightfully wintry conditions of Asker, Norway. The Junior World Cup series continues in the New Year. Meanwhile a course for Starters was organised in

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November in Hamar (NOR) in cooperation with the Norwegian Skating Association.

Participants from 7 countries attended.

Short Track

The Short Track season kicked off in October with the first Samsung ISU World Cup Short Track Events in Salt Lake City (USA) and Vancouver (CAN). The Canadian World Cup event was held in the future Olympic venue the Pacific Coliseum which is undergoing structural improvements ahead of 2010.

The bulk of building renovations, including removing arena level corner seating to accommodate an international size ice sheet and new power facilities have been completed. As a sport event ahead the upcoming Olympic Winter Games the Technical Committee reviewed a number of pre-Olympic questions and reported positively on this preparation.

In the last week of November Meng Wang (CHN) became the first women to break 43.00 seconds in the 500 meters at the World Cup in Beijing (CHN).The Committee further reported an increasing numbers of participants in the World Cup series, demonstrating that the new World Cup format adopted 2 years ago has achieved one of its goals of having more participants in the events worldwide.

MR. OLAF POULSEN

Mr. Olaf Poulsen died on 27 September 2008, in Oslo, Norway at the age of 88. At the time of his passing he was ISU Honorary President, a role to which he was elected at the 48th Ordinary ISU Congress held in Boston USA, in 1994. Mr. Olaf Poulsen became a member of the board of the Norges Skøyteforbund (NSF) in 1966 and was elected NSF Vice President in 1968 and President in 1969, a position he held until 1973. He was an elected ISU Office Holder for the greater part of four decades, firstly as a Council Member (1971-1977), as ISU Vice President (1977-1980) and as ISU President (1980 -1994), before being named Honorary President in 1994. He was also a Member of the International Olympic Committee between 1992 and 1994. Mr. Olaf Poulsen was honored with the Norwegian Skating Association’s highest award, “Gullmerket”. The ISU pays tribute to Mr. Olaf Poulsen’s devoted service to the ISU and ice skating sports, and asks Members to remember him with affection.

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in each discipline competed for the Grand Prix titles.

two bronze medals on the circuit and were alternates for the Final.

The ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series produced some outstanding performances this season with new faces making a breakthrough.

Jeremy Abbott (USA) celebrated a major break-through this year on the Grand Prix.

The 23-year-old won his first gold medal at the Cup of China and then took title in the Final with a new personal best score of 237.72 points. Takahiko Kozuka (JPN) was another newcomer in the Final after earning his first medals on the Grand Prix, a gold and a silver, before claiming another silver in Korea. He posted a new personal best of 230.78 points in France.World bronze medallist Johnny Weir (USA) qualified with two silver medals for the Final and stood for the first time on the podium in this event. Brian Joubert (FRA), Tomas Verner (CZE) and Patrick Chan (CAN) also qualified for the Final. Joubert withdrew before the Free Skating, due to injury. Alban PrĂŠaubert (FRA) and Evan Lysacek (USA) both earned

Reigning World Champion Mao Asada (JPN) started the season with a silver and a gold medal in her Grand Prix events and then recaptured the title in the Final.

Two-time and defending Grand Prix Final Champion Yu-Na Kim (KOR) was edged out this time and got the silver, but had won her two Grand Prix competitions earlier this year. Asada’s seasons best is at 191.13 points, achieved at the NHK Trophy, while Kim established a seasons best of 193.45 at Skate America. World silver medallist Carolina Kostner (ITA) came back to the podium in the Final with her second consecutive bronze medal. She had won the Cup of Russia en route to Korea. Joannie Rochette (CAN), Yukari Nakano (JPN) and Miki Ando (JPN) also competed in the Final after medalling in their Grand Prix events.

Reigning World Junior Champion Rachael Flatt (USA) successfully debuted at the senior level with a silver medal at the Cup of Russia.

40 Men, 41 Ladies, 30 Pairs and 33 Ice Dance couples from 27 ISU Members competed in the Grand Prix of Figure Skating this year. The series began in October in Everett (USA) before moving on to Ottawa (CAN), followed by Beijing (CHN), Paris (FRA), Moscow (RUS) and Tokyo (JPN). The Grand Prix season concluded in December with the first combined SBS ISU Grand Prix and Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Goyang (KOR), where the top six skaters and couples (senior) and the top eight ranked junior skaters and couples

Isabelle Delobel and Olivier Schoenfelder (FRA)

Reigning World Champions Isabelle Delobel/Olivier Schoenfelder (FRA) started successfully into the season by winning each event they entered: they struck gold in their two Grand Prix events and, for the first time, in the Final. In Korea, the French couple achieved a new seasons best of 187.64 points, the highest score in Ice Dance this season so far. Oksana Domnina/Maxim Shabalin (RUS) celebrated a comeback after missing the 2008 World Championships due to his knee injury.

The team collected a gold and a silver on the circuit and finished second to Delobel/Schoenfelder in the Final. The bronze medal went Meryl Davis/Charlie White (USA), who had qualified for the first time after earning a gold and a bronze in their Grand Prix competitions.

Federica Faiella/Massimo Scali (ITA), Tanith Belbin/Benjamin Agosto (USA) and Jana Khokhlova/Sergei Novitski (RUS) also qualified for the Final, but the American and the Russian couple both were forced to withdraw. Agosto suffered a back injury while Novitski was affected by a stomach upset. Nathalie Pechalat/Fabian Bourzat (FRA) were alternates for the Final after winning a bronze and a silver medal in their events. World Junior silver medallists Vanessa Crone/Paul Poirier (CAN) left a strong impression with a silver medal and a fourth-place finish in their first senior year.

Sinead Kerr/John Kerr (GBR) became the

2009 ISU CHAMPIONSHIPS FIGURE SKATING ISU European Figure Skating Championships

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Venue: Helsinki (FIN) Dates: 19 - 25 January

2008 European Champions

Ladies: Carolina Kostner (ITA) Men: Tomas Verner (CZE) Pairs: Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy (GER) Ice Dance: Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin (RUS)

ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships Venue: Vancouver, BC (CAN) Dates: 2 - 8 February

2008 Four Continents Champions

Ladies : Mao Asada (JPN) Men : Daisuke Takahashi (JPN) Pairs : Qing Pang / Jian Tong (CHN) Ice Dance : Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir (CAN)

ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships Venue: Sofia (BUL) Dates: February 23 - March 1

2008 World Junior Champions

Ladies: Rachael Flatt (USA) Men: Adam Rippon (USA) Pairs: Ksenia Krasilnikova / Konstantin Bezmaternikh (RUS) Ice Dance: Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates (USA)

ISU World Figure Skating Championships Venue: Los Angeles, CA (USA) Dates: 23 - 29 March

2008 World Champions

Ladies: Mao Asada (JPN) Men: Jeffrey Buttle (CAN) Pairs: Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy (GER) Ice Dance: Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder (FRA)

ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships Venue: Zagreb (CRO) Dates: 3 – 4 April

2008 World Champions Team: Team Finland 1

Jeremy Abbott (USA)

first skaters from Great Britain to medal in the ISU Grand Prix of Figure skating when they claimed two bronze medals.

Four couples had achieved 24 points in the series, but only two of them proceeded to the Final.

Qing Pang/Jian Tong (CHN) improved with each competition on the Grand Prix, starting with a bronze in China and a gold in Japan before winning the Grand Prix Final for the first time. Dan Zhang/Hao Zhang (CHN) were the runner-ups. They came with two gold medals from their Grand Prix events to Korea. Reigning World Champions Aliona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy (GER) also won their two competitions but had to settle for the bronze in the Final. Yuko Kawaguchi/ Alexander Smirnov qualified for the second time for the Final while Tatiana Volosozhar/ Stanislav Morozov (UKR) and Maria Mukhortova/Maxim Trankov (RUS) made it for the first time. It was a competitive Grand Prix season for the Pairs. Keauna McLaughlin/Rockne Brubaker (USA) and Jessica DubĂŠ/Bryce Davison (CAN) were edged out from the Final by a tie-breaker.

ISU JUNIOR GRAND PRIX OF FIGURE SKATING The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating entered its 12th season in the 2008/2009 season and provided an opportunity for 121 junior men, 173 junior ladies, 35 pairs and 72 dance teams coming from 57 ISU members an opportunity to compete and to progress. The new ISU Members Singapore and Ireland were represented for the first time.

The junior circuit started in Courchevel (FRA) in late August, went on to Meran (ITA), Mexico City, Ostrava (CZE), Madrid (ESP), Gomel (BLR), Cape Town (RSA) and ended in Sheffield (GBR) in October.

Spain, Belarus and South Africa hosted a Junior Grand Prix event for the first time.

FIGURE SKATING Final. Michal Brezina (CZE), who started the season with two clear victories on the junior circuit, was unable to compete in the Final due to a knee injury.

The USA dominated in the Junior Ladies and was represented with five entries in the Final. Becky Bereswill (USA) earned the gold in what was her first appearance in the Final, while Alexe Gilles (USA) took the bronze after finishing off the podium last year. 13-year-old Yukiko Fujisawa (JPN) won a silver and a gold on the circuit and took home the silver from Korea. The other qualifiers were Kristine Musademba (USA), Kanako Murakami (JPN), Amanda Dobbs (USA), Angela Maxwell (USA) and Diane Szmiett (CAN).

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Pair skating was concentrated in four events in Mexico, Czech Republic, Belarus and Great Britain. Russia was the leading country in this discipline and qualified five couples for the Final. World junior silver medallists Lubov Iliushechkina/Nodari Maisuradze (RUS) competed on the junior circuit for the first time and won their two events and added another gold medal in Goyang to their collection. World Junior Champions Ksenia Krasilnikova/Konstantin Bezmaternykh (RUS) earned the bronze medal in the Final, while Yue Zhang/Lei Wang (CHN) were the silver medallists.

Anastasia Martiusheva/ Alexei Rogonov (RUS), Sabina Imaikina/Andrei Novoselov (RUS), Ksenia Ozerova/Alexander Enbert (RUS), Narumi Takahashi/Mervin Tran (JPN) and Marissa Castelli/Simon Shnapir (USA) all qualified for the Final for the first time.

Yuko Kawaguchi and Alexander Smirnov (RUS)

For the first time, the Junior Final and the Senior Final took place together in Goyang (KOR). The junior skaters appreciated the opportunity to watch and learn from the top senior level skaters.

Florent Amodio (FRA) emerged as a new star after medalling in his two Grand Prix events and taking the gold in his first Grand Prix Final. Richard Dornbush (USA) qualified for the first time with two victories on the

circuit and went on to claim the bronze in Goyang. Armin Mahbanoozadeh (USA), a bronze medallist in the 2007/08 Final, improved on last season and earned the silver this time. Denis Ten (KAZ) became the first figure skater from Kazakhstan to win a Junior Grand Prix event and to compete in the Final, where he was ranked fifth. Ivan Bariev (RUS), Alexander Johnson (USA), Elladj BaldĂŠ (CAN) and Artur Gachinski (RUS) also competed in the

Eight couples from four ISU Members qualified for the Final in the Ice Dance event with the USA and Russia being the leading nations. Madison Chock/Greg Zuerlein (USA) and Madison Hubbell/ Keiffer Hubbell (USA) occupied the two top spots on the podium in the Final. Both had competed in the Final before. Chock/ Zuerlein were ranked fifth in 2007 while Hubbell/Hubbell were champions in 2006 but missed the junior circuit last season.

Ekaterina Riazanova/Jonathan Guerreiro (RUS) claimed the bronze medal in their second Final. The other couples were Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (USA), Alisa Agafonova/Dmitri Dun (UKR), Kharis Ralph/ Asher Hill (CAN), Ekaterina Pushkash/ Dmitri Kiselev (RUS) and Marina Antipova/ Artem Kudashev (RUS), who replaced the injured Piper Gilles/Zachary Donohue (USA) in Korea.

SPEED SKATING SHORT TRACK After the North American and Asian competitions of the Samsung ISU World Cup Short Track series, China and Korea dominate the ladies and men’s distance and relay rankings.

The first of six events in the Samsung ISU World Cup Short Track series got off to a fast start in Salt Lake City (USA) at the Utah Olympic Oval where the Korean team won an impressive 13 medals. The Chinese team earned 7 medals and even clocked in a World Record time of 4:07.179 (to be ratified) on the Ladies 3000m Relay, while the Canadian team earned 6 medals and the United States took 4 medals.

The following week-end the world’s best short track skaters got their first taste of the newly renovated 2010 Olympic Winter Games venue, the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada.

Korean and Canadian teams both had a good

2009 ISU CHAMPIONSHIPS SHORT TRACK ISU World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships Venue: Sherbrooke (CAN) Dates: 9 - 11 January

2008 World Junior Champions Ladies: Ah-Reum Noh (KOR) Men: Yun-Jae Kim (KOR)

weekend of racing with the Korean team leaving Vancouver with 11 medals, while the Canadian team, taking advantage of skating on home ice captured 8 medals. The other medals throughout the weekend went to China with 6 medals, the United States with 4 medals, and Great Britain with one.

China was back in form for the third event held on home ice in Beijing in November, making a distinguished 12 medal sweep.

In winning the first 500 meter event, Meng Wang of China also set a new world record in the distance 42.609 (to be ratified); a record that she previously held. The Korean and Canadian teams showed their competitive form with the Korean team earning 8 medals, while the Canadian team earned 6 medals.

The other teams to leave Beijing with medals were the United States (2 medals), Australia (1 medal), and Italy (1 medal). The World Cup events leading up to the new year ended on a strong note in the first week of December in Nagano Japan with a total of 13 medals for

ISU European Short Track Speed Skating Championships Venue: Torino (ITA) Dates: 16 - 18 January

2008 European Champions

Korea, 8 medals for China. The Canadian team remained strong winning 6 medals for a second consecutive weekend. United States (2 medals) and France (1 medal) also took podium spots.

The two remaining Samsung ISU World Cup Short Track events in the New Year will clinch the distance winners. As it stands after four of six events in the series in the Ladies Meng Wang (CHN) leads both the 500m and 1000m distances while her team mate Yang Zhou tops the 1500m distance. China is also ahead on the Ladies Relay (followed by Korea and Canada) and Ladies Team (followed by Republic of Korea and USA). For the Men, Korea is in front, leading the Men’s Team ranking (followed by Canada and USA) with Korean athletes Si-Bak Sung, Yoon-Gy Kwak and Jung-Su Lee also topping the 500m, 1000m and 1500m distances respectively. The Men’s Relay sees Canada ahead (followed by USA and Korea).Short Trackers move to Europe in the New Year for the two remaining events in Sofia (BUL) and Dresden (GER) in February.

2008 World Champions Ladies: Meng Wang (CHN) Men: Apolo Anton Ohno (USA)

ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Team Championships

Ladies: Arianna Fontana (ITA) Men: Haralds Silovs (LAT)

Venue: Heerenveen (NED) Dates: 14 - 15 March

ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships

2008 World Team Champions

Venue: Vienna (AUT) Dates: 6 - 8 March

Charles Hamelin (CAN), Ye Li (CHN), Tom Iveson (GBR) and Yoon-gy Kwak (KOR)

Ladies: China Men: USA

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Katherine Reutter (USA) and Kalyna Roberge (CAN)

2009 ISU CHAMPIONSHIPS SPEED SKATING Essent ISU European Speed Skating Championships Venue: Heerenveen (NED) Dates: 9 - 11 January

2008 European Champions Ladies: Ireen Wüst (NED) Men: Sven Kramer (NED

Essent ISU World Sprint Speed Skating Championships Venue: Moscow (RUS) Dates: 17 - 18 January

2008 World Sprint Champions Ladies: Jenny Wolf (GER) Men: Kyou-Hyuk Lee (KOR)

Essent ISU World Allround Speed Skating Championships Venue: Hamar (NOR) Dates: 7 - 8 February

2008 World Champions

Ladies: Paulien van Deutekom (NED) Men: Sven Kramer (NED)

ISU World Junior Speed Skating Championships Venue: Zakopane (POL) Dates: 20 - 22 February

2008 World Junior Champions Ladies: Marrit Leenstra (NED) Men: Jan Blokhuijsen (NED) Team Pursuit Ladies: Netherlands Team Pursuit Men: Netherlands

Essent ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships Venue: Richmond (CAN) Dates: 12 - 15 March

2008 World Single Distances Champions Ladies: 500 meters: Jenny Wolf (GER) 1000 meters: Anni Friesinger (GER) 1500 meters: Anni Friesinger (GER) 3000 meters: Kristina Groves (CAN) 5000 meters: Martina Sábliková (CZE) Team Pursuit: Netherlands Men: 500 meters: Jeremy Wotherspoon (CAN) 1000 meters: Shani Davis (USA) 1500 meters: Denny Morrison (CAN) 5000 meters: Sven Kramer (NED) 10000 meters: Sven Kramer (NED) Team Pursuit: Netherlands

SPEED SKATING SPEED SKATING Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating The Essent ISU World Cup season for 2008/2009 consists of nine events of which five took place before the end of 2008.

They were held in Berlin (GER), Heerenveen (NED), Moscow (RUS), Changchun (CHN) and Nagano (JPN).

On the 500m ladies, Jenny Wolf (GER) was the strongest skater. She lost one race to Beixing Wang (CHN), who finished second the other races in Europe, but Wang did not skate in Asia, so Sang-Hwa Lee (KOR), who finished third each time in Europe, finished in second place all Asian races. In the last race there was a surprise winner, debutant Jing Yu from China topped the podium after Jenny Wolf fell. All the other races, Wolf won improving track records whenever she could. Wolf leads with 685 points, Sang-Hwa Lee is second with 590. Annette Gerritsen and Margot Boer from the Netherlands follow both with 370 points. Wolf also leads the 100 meter after two victories.

On the 500m men, competition is stiff. In the 8 races so far we saw 6 different winners.

Keiichiro Nagashima (JPN) won the first race in Berlin and also took the first race in Nagano. Also Joji Kato (JPN) had two wins, in the European World Cups, where he fell both weekends in the first race to come back and win in the second. But the most constant skater is Fengtong Yu (CHN) who missed the podium only in the first race and is in the lead with 606 points. Nagashima is second with 547, then follows Kyou-Hyuk Lee (KOR) with 461 before Kato and Mika Poutala (FIN) who did not win a single race. Dmitrij Lobkov (RUS) and Pekka Koskela (FIN) took the other 500s but left some points at other occasions.

Japanese sprinter Yuya Oikawa won both 100m races and leads, with Fengtong Yu and

On the 1000 meter, Canada reigns. Kristina Groves leads with 430 points, followed by Nesbitt with 380 and Rempel with 361.

Nesbitt won 3 out of 6 races, was absent in Changchun, and finished second behind Jennifer Rodriguez (USA) the first race in Nagano. Kristina Groves and Laurine van Riessen (NED) both won a 1000m in Changchun. Anni Friesinger (GER) and Cindy Klassen (CAN) have not been competing due to knee surgery.

Kristina Groves also leads on the 1500m after two victories and a bronze. In Moscow Claudia Pechstein (GER) became the oldestever world cup winner. Groves has 270 points, second is Daniela Anschütz-Thoms (GER) with 200 points, third Christine Nesbitt with 195.

Martina Sáblíková (CZE) leads the ladies’ long distance. She won the first race and was second in the others, which were won

by Renate Groenewold (NED) and Claudia Pechstein. Martina Sáblíková has 260 points, Claudia Pechstein 210 and Daniela AnschützThoms 175. The Dutch allround skaters Paulien van Deutekom and Ireen Wüst both had some troubles in the first half of the season and are looking forward to a stronger second part as they still are world champion and vice world champion.

Kristina Groves (CAN)

Kang-Seok Lee (KOR) follow both with 150 points.

Shani Davis (USA) was the strongest in the 1000m. He won three of the six races and finished on every podium, to have a lead of 530 points on this distance. Kyou-Hyuk Lee is second in the rankings, with 342 points and also one win. Dutch Stefan Groothuis and Simon Kuipers also won a race but let go of the last World Cup where Denny Morrison (CAN) managed to take over the third place overall with 320 points.

Dutch Mark Tuitert is on top of the 1500m with 210 points although he did not win a single race. Håvard Bøkko (NOR) follows very closely with 205 points, after winning

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Havard Bokko (NOR)

the race in Moscow. Dutch world allround champion Sven Kramer and Shani Davis both won a race but did not skate in Moscow.

Erben Wennemars stands third with 190 points. Olympic champion Enrico Fabris only made the podium once.

Bob de Jong (NED) secured the lead in the long distance World Cup rankings by winning the 10,000m in Moscow, where his 210 points are just enough to lead over Håvard Bøkko (NOR) who has 205 as he finished twice in second position. It is close, as Sven Kramer (NED) won the two 5000m races and has 200 points, then follow Enrico Fabris with 190 and Carl Verheijen with 185.

The Dutch teams won the Team Pursuit competitions in Heerenveen, both the men’s and ladies events. The Dutch ladies also won in Berlin and lead with 200 points. But as the Dutch men fell in Berlin, where Canada won, Canada has 160 points, followed by USA with

125 and Japan with 120. The German ladies are second with 150, Canada and USA have 130 points. There is one race to go in Erfurt.

The remaining Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating races will take place in Kolomna (RUS), Erfurt (GER) and Heerenveen (NED) before the series comes to a conclusion in Salt Lake City (USA) in March.

ISU Junior World Cup History was made in Inzell (GER) during the last weekend of November with the first of a new series of International Skating Union competitions, called the ISU Junior World Cup Speed Skating, which has been formed to develop the branch.

The series gives young speed skaters a platform at top international junior level providing additional challenges and nurturing competitive spirit as athletes move towards

senior level. In the ISU Junior World Cup series the participants are either A or B juniors, which means that they are in the last four years of being eligible to participate at junior level (aged 15-19 years). They skate all in one division, and the program includes 500m, 1000m, 1500m and 3000m as well as the Team Pursuit for both men and ladies.

For the men the 3000m is at times replaced by the 5000m. The ladies skate 6 laps in the Team Pursuit and the Men skate 8 laps. The event is supported by ISU’s Development Program. Prize money will be awarded for the three best skaters or teams in the final overall classification of each distance/event.

Skaters can earn points through the World Cups, in Inzell (GER), Asker (NOR), Collalbo (ITA) and at the Final on February 28 – March 1 in Groningen (NED). They can also earn points at the ISU World Junior Speed Skating Championships 2009, on February 20-22 in Zakopane (POL).

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Change: Conclusions drawn from the profile of a series of blood or urine samples may be used to establish an Anti-Doping Rule violation (Article 3.2).

Impact: It is not just “positive” tests that can result in a sanction, but also other evidence of athletes taking prohibited substances.

Change: Except for anabolic steroids, hormones (e.g. EPO) and stimulants, hormone antagonists and modulators, all substances on the Prohibited List are “specified” (Article 4.2.2).

Impact: This means that if an athlete tests positive for a “specified” substance, the sanction is not always automatically two (2) years, but may be less if, for example, the athlete can show it was taken by mistake with no intention to enhance performance.

Change:Whenthereisnotapositiveresultforasample butthereissomethingthatneedsmoreinvestigation, this is called an “Atypical finding” (Article 7.3).

Impact: You may see a result for a sample you gave in testing which has an “Atypical finding”.

This doesn’t mean it is positive but it must be investigated to see whether it will become positive or not. Examples are findings for: – substances for which the athlete might have a TUE (e.g. salbutamol taken for asthma).

– findings such as elevated T/E ratios where the athlete’s levels of certain steroids are higher than is usual, but further testing can show whether this is natural to the athlete or the result of taking prohibited substances.

Change: If an A sample is positive for steroids, hormones or certain stimulants the athlete is automatically suspended (Article 7.5), even though the B sample has not yet been tested.

Impact: An athlete can’t compete while the respective positive test is being investigated.

Subm o sin

From January 1, 2009 whereabouts must be submitted on ADAMS. https://adams.wada-ama.org

The new World Anti-Doping Code (and International Standard for Testing and International Standard for TUEs) are valid from January 1, 2009. Below are the main points which affect you as athletes.

Change: Article 2.4 of the Code says that any combination of three missed tests and/or filing failures within an eighteen month period… shall constitute an anti-doping violation. The sanction for this is ineligibility of “… at a minimum one (1) year and at a maximum two (2) years based on the athletes degree of fault.” (Article 10.3.3).

Impact: Athletes must make sure they send whereabouts on time and that they are accurate or they risk long sanctions.

Instructions in various languages at: http://www.wada-ama.org/en/dynamic.ch2?pageCategory.id=479 Whereabouts can be entered by your Federation if necessary.

If you have problems or questions, contact Becky Cairns at the ISU Secretariat for help/passwords etc. (cairns@isu.ch) or: ADAMS Helpdesk Phone numbers North America: 1 866 922 3267 International: 1 800 922 23267

2.

24/7 + 1 hour New International Standard for Testing (Article 11.3.1) says athletes must provide: −− Residential, training, competition and other info for every day (as they do now); PLUS −− For each day, one specific location and one specific 60 minute time-slotwheretheathletewillbeavailablefortesting(between 6am and 11pm) but athletes can still be tested at any time.

Remember: It is not enough to provide just 1 hour of whereabouts. It is not enough to provide your general all day whereabouts. You must provide both.

Whereaboutsdeadlines April, May and June 2009 before April 1, 2009

Keep this information handy

DEADLINES

April, May and June before April 1, 2009 https://www.adams.wada-ama.org ADAMS Helpdesk Phone numbers North America: 1 866 922 3267 International: 1 800 922 23267 Forgotten password/questions? cairns@isu.ch

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FIGURE SKATING Grand Prix of Figure Skating – overall standings after six of six events

Ladies

12

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25

Yu-Na Kim Joannie Rochette Mao Asada Carolina Kostner Yukari Nakano Miki Ando Fumie Suguri Rachael Flatt Alissa Czisny Laura Lepisto Caroline Zhang Ashley Wagner Akiko Suzuki Susanna Pöykiö Beatrisa Liang Alena Leonova Mirai Nagasu Candice Didier Katrina Hacker Cynthia Phaneuf Kimmie Meissner Elena Glebova Binshu Xu Sarah Meier Mira Leung

HomeSense Skate America Skate Canada

Cup of China

Trophée Total Eric Bompard Cup of Russia NHK Trophy Points

KOR 1st 1st CAN 1st 1st JPN 2nd 1st ITA 4th 1st JPN 2nd 3rd JPN 3rd 2nd JPN 2nd 3rd USA 4th 2nd USA 3rd 4th FIN 3rd 5th USA 5th 3rd USA 4th 4th JPN 2nd FIN 6th 5th USA 6th 5th RUS 7th 5th USA 5th 8th FRA 4th USA 8th 6th CAN 8th 7th USA 8th 8th EST 6th CHN 6th SUI 6th CAN 7th

Men

HomeSense Skate America Skate Canada Cup of China

1

Patrick Chan

CAN

2

Takahiko Kozuka

3

Johnny Weir

4

Brian Joubert

FRA

5

Jeremy Abbott

USA

6

Tomas Verner

CZE

7

Alban Preaubert

FRA

8

Evan Lysacek

USA

9

Yannick Ponsero

FRA

30 30 28 24 24 24 24 22 20 18 18 18 13 12 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 5 5 4

1st

30

JPN

1st

2nd

28

USA

2nd

3rd

4th

2nd

24

1st

4th

24

3rd

2nd

24

3rd

22

3rd

3rd

22

4th

3rd

20

2nd

6th

18

4th

4th

10 Stephen Carriere

USA

11 Kevin Reynolds

CAN

12 Ryan Bradley

USA

13 Nobunari Oda

JPN

14 Shawn Sawyer

CAN

15 Brandon Mroz

USA

16 Adam Rippon

USA

17 Artem Borodulin

RUS

18 Sergei Voronov

RUS

19 Jialiang Wu

CHN

20 Adrian Schultheiss

SWE

21 Vaughn Chipeur

CAN

22 Takahito Mura

JPN

23 Kristoffer Berntsson

SWE

24 Yasuharu Nanri

JPN

25 Alexander Uspenski

RUS

5th

7th 1st

18 17 15

5th

14

7th

11

5th

8th

5th

4th

6th 6th

Final - Ladies

Total Points

1 2 3 4 5 6

188.55 186.35 168.01 166.36 161.93 158.25

Mao Asada Yu-Na Kim Carolina Kostner Joannie Rochette Yukari Nakano Miki Ando

7th

8th

7th

7th

5th 8th

5th

8th

8th

8th

6th

JPN KOR ITA CAN JPN JPN

Total Points

Final - Pairs 1 Qing Pang / Jian Tong 2 Dan Zhang / Hao Zhang 3 Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy 4 Tatiana Volosozhar / Stanislav Morozov 5 Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Smirnov 6 Maria Mukhortova / Maxim Trankov

CHN CHN GER UKR RUS RUS

191.49 188.22 185.09 175.83 167.45 153.16

* Withdrawn

SBS ISU JUNIOR GRAND PRIX 10 – 14 December,

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1st

2nd

SBS ISU GRAND PRIX 10 – 14 December

Trophée Total Eric Bompard Cup of Russia NHK Trophy Points

1st

The top six skaters/ couples

10 9 9 8 8 7 7 6 6 5

Final - Ladies 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Becky Bereswill Yukiko Fujisawa Alexe Gilles Kanako Murakami Angela Maxwell Kristine Musademba Amanda Dobbs Diane Szmiett

Total

Points

USA JPN USA JPN USA USA USA CAN

Final - Pairs

1 Lubov Iliushechkina / Nodari Maisuradze 2 Yue Zhang / Lei Wang 3 Ksenia Krasilnikova / Konstantin Bezmaternikh 4 Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov 5 Sabina Imaikina / Andrei Novoselov 6 Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir 7 Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran WD* Ksenia Ozerova / Alexander Enbert * Withdrawn

146.69 145.92 144.49 141.63 131.75 122.86 117.07 113.25 Total Points

RUS 149.38 CHN 137.92 RUS 137.22 RUS 137.03 RUS 134.91 USA 126.40 JPN 106.04 RUS

in each category qualified for the Grand Prix Final

Pairs

OF FIGURE SKATING FINAL Goyang City, Republic of Korea

HomeSense Cup Trophée Total Skate America Skate Canada of China Eric Bompard Cup of Russia NHK Trophy Points

1 Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy

GER 1st

2 Dan Zhang / Hao Zhang

CHN

3 Yuko Kawaguchi / Alexander Smirnov RUS

Total Points

Final - Men 1 2 3 4 5

Jeremy Abbott Takahiko Kozuka Johnny Weir Tomas Verner Patrick Chan WD* Brian Joubert

USA JPN USA CZE CAN FRA

Final - Ice Dance

237.72 224.63 215.50 206.65 205.16

Total Points

4 Qing Pang / Jian Tong

1st

30

1st

1st

30

1st

2nd

28

CHN

3rd

5 Tatiana Volosozhar Stanislav Morozov UKR

2nd

6 Maria Mukhortova Maxim Trankov

RUS 3rd

7 Keauna McLaughlin / Rockne Brubaker

1st

3rd

26 24

2nd

24

USA 2nd

3rd

24

8 Jessica Dube / Bryce Davison

CAN

2nd

3rd

24

9 Rena Inoue / John Baldwin

USA 5th

2nd

20

10 Meagan Duhamel / Craig Buntin

CAN 4th

11 Mylene Brodeur / John Mattatall

CAN

4th

12 Tiffany Vise / Derek Trent

USA

5th

13 Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig

USA

14 Huibo Dong / Yiming Wu

CHN

15 Lubov Iliushechkina Nodari Maisuradze

RUS

3rd

20

6th

14

5th

4th 4th 4th

9 9 9

1 Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder FRA 156.10

16 Stacey Kemp / David King

GBR

2 Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin 3 Meryl Davis / Charlie White 4 Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali WD* Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto WD* Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski

17 Yue Zhang / Lei Wang

CHN

18 Ksenia Ozerova / Alexander Enbert

RUS

19 Maria Sergejeva / Ilja Glebov

EST

20 Adeline Canac / Maximin Coia

FRA

21 Monica Pisotta / Michael Stewart

CAN

6th

5

22 Caitlin Yankowskas John Coughlin

USA 6th

5

23 Rachel Kirkland / Eric Radford

CAN

5

24 Laura Magitteri / Ondrej Hotarek

ITA

RUS 152.95 USA 148.04 ITA 145.12 USA RUS

OF FIGURE SKATING FINAL Goyang City, Republic of Korea

Final - Men 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

Florent Amodio Armin Mahbanoozadeh Richard Dornbush Ivan Bariev Denis Ten Alexander Johnson Elladj Balde Artur Gachinski

7 Alisa Agafonova / Dmitri Dun 8 Marina Antipova / Artem Kudashev

5th

6th

6th 6th

7 7 5

5

HomeSense Cup Trophée Cup of Russia Total Skate America Skate Canada of China Eric Bompard Bosco Sport NHK Trophy Points

1 Isabelle Delobel / Olivier Schoenfelder FRA 1st

1st

ITA

4 Jana Khokhlova / Sergei Novitski

RUS

5 Meryl Davis / Charlie White

USA

6 Tanith Belbin / Benjamin Agosto

USA 2nd

7 Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat

FRA

3rd

8 Vanessa Crone / Paul Poirier

CAN

2nd

4th

22

9 Sinead Kerr / John Kerr

GBR 3rd

3rd

22

10 Emily Samuelson / Evan Bates

USA 4th

11 Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte

ITA

12 Kristina Gorshkova / Vitali Butikov

RUS

4th

5th

16

13 Ekaterina Bobrova Dmitri Soloviev

RUS

6th

4th

14

14 Pernelle Carron / Matthieu Jost

FRA 5th

15 Kimberly Navarro Brent Bommentre

USA

USA 131.15 USA 124.68 RUS 124.30 USA 120.60 RUS 120.35 CAN 120.09

16 Alexandra Zaretski / Roman Zaretski

ISR

7th

5th

11

17 Anna Zadorozhniuk / Sergei Verbillo

UKR

5th

8th

10

18 Ekaterina Rubleva / Ivan Shefer

RUS 6th

19 Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

CAN

20 Katherine Copely / Deividas Stagniunas

LTU 8th

21 Jennifer Wester / Daniil Barantsev

USA

UKR 119.38 RUS 111.43

22 Kristin Fraser / Igor Lukanin 23 Jane Summersett / Todd Gilles

199.58 193.48 183.93 180.65 180.34 178.40 170.34 168.68

Total Points

1st

2nd

1st

28 28

3rd

1st

26

1st

3rd

26

2nd

26

4th

2nd

3rd

4th

5th

5th

6th

7th

6th

7th

24

20 18

14 12

9 9

6th

8

7th

8th

7

AZE

6th

5

USA 7th

4

24 Anastasia Platonova / Alexander Grachev RUS 25 Xiaoyang Yu / Chen Wang

2nd

30

3 Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali Total Points

FRA USA USA RUS KAZ USA CAN RUS

Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell Ekaterina Riazanova / Jonathan Guerreiro Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani Ekaterina Pushkash / Dmitri Kiselev Kharis Ralph / Asher Hill

5th

9 7

RUS

1 2 3 4 5 6

5th

2 Oksana Domnina / Maxim Shabalin

Final - Ice Dance

Ice Dance

4th

14

CHN

7th

4

8th

3

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FIGURE SKATING

SPEED SKATING

JUNIOR GRAND PRIX OF FIGURE SKATING

ESSENT ISU WORLD CUP SPEED SKATING – overall standings after five of nine

Overall standings after eight of eight events The top eight skaters/ couples in each category qualified for the Junior Grand Prix Final

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Ladies

Total Points

1 Kristine Musademba

USA

30

2 Yukiko Fujisawa

JPN

28

3 Alexe Gilles

USA

28

4 Kanako Murakami

JPN

26

5 Amanda Dobbs

USA

26

6 Becky Bereswill

USA

26

7 Angela Maxwell

USA

24

8 Diane Szmiett

CAN

24

Men

Total Points

1 Richard Dornbush

USA

30

2 Michal Brezina

CZE

30

3 Armin Mahbanoozadeh

USA

28

4 Alexander Johnson

USA

26

5 Florent Amodio

FRA

26

6 Ivan Bariev

RUS

26

7 Denis Ten

KAZ

24

8 Elladj Balde

CAN

24

Ladies 500m

Total Points

Ladies 1000 m

Total Points

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

685 590 370 370 356 340 277 268 266 215

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

430 380 361 300 259 220 194 178 160 159

Men 500m

Total Points

Men 1000 m

Total Points

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

606 547 461 445 415 361 360 283 224 211

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

530 342 320 295 280 228 213 202 199 166

Jenny Wolf Sang-Hwa Lee Annette Gerritsen Margot Boer Sayuri Yoshii Beixing Wang Tomomi Okazaki Aihua Xing Sayuri Osuga Yekaterina Malysheva

Fengtong Yu Keiichiro Nagashima Kyou-Hyuk Lee Joji Kato Mika Poutala Dmitry Lobkov Pekka Koskela Kang-Seok Lee Zhongqi Zhang Yuya Oikawa

GER KOR NED NED JPN CHN JPN CHN JPN RUS

CHN JPN KOR JPN FIN RUS FIN KOR CHN JPN

Kristina Groves Christine Nesbitt Shannon Rempel Laurine Van Riessen Monique Angermüller Jennifer Rodriguez Yekaterina Lobysheva Sayuri Yoshii Jing Yu Annette Gerritsen

Shani Davis Kyou-Hyuk Lee Denny Morrison Stefan Groothuis Simon Kuipers Tae-Bum Mo Jong-Woo Lee Keiichiro Nagashima Pekka Koskela Mark Tuitert

CAN CAN CAN NED GER USA RUS JPN CHN NED

USA KOR CAN NED NED KOR KOR JPN FIN NED

SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING SAMSUNG ISU WORLD CUP SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING – standings after

Pairs

Total Points

1 Lubov Iliushechkina / Nodari Maisuradze RUS 30 2 Anastasia Martiusheva / Alexei Rogonov RUS 26 3 Sabina Imaikina / Andrei Novoselov

RUS 26

4 Ksenia Krasilnikova / Konstantin Bezmaternikh RUS 24 5 Ksenia Ozerova / Alexander Enbert

RUS 24

6 Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran

JPN 20

7 Yue Zhang / Lei Wang

CHN 18

8 Marissa Castelli / Simon Shnapir

USA 18

Ice Dance

Total Points

1 Madison Hubbell / Keiffer Hubbell

USA 30

2 Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein

USA 30

3 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

USA 28

4 Ekaterina Riazanova / Jonathan Guerreiro RUS 28 5 Piper Gilles / Zachary Donohue

USA 28

6 Alisa Agafonova / Dmitri Dun

UKR 28

7 Kharis Ralph / Asher Hill

CAN 26

8 Ekaterina Pushkash / Dmitri Kiselev

RUS 22

Ladies 500 m

Total Points

Ladies 1000 m

Total Points

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4000 3810 2464 2070 1691 1463 882 876 826 817

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4000 2440 2112 1600 1384 1280 1071 916 840 840

Men 500 m

Total Points

Men 1000 m

Total Points

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

2968 2568 1800 1422 1216 1144 1055 1035 957 949

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

3112 3010 2280 1812 1655 1640 1070 1010 902 882

Meng Wang Qiuhong Liu Tian Yu Fu Tatiana Borodulina Shin-Young Yang Jessica Gregg Seung-Hi Park Katerina Novotna Evgenia Radanova Marianne St-Gelais

Si-Bak Sung Francois-Louis Tremblay Charles Hamelin Jialiang Han Thibaut Fauconnet Francois Hamelin Ho-Suk Lee Olivier Jean Hong Yang Wang Yoon-Gy Kwak

CHN CHN CHN AUS KOR CAN KOR CZE BUL CAN

KOR CAN CAN CHN FRA CAN KOR CAN CHN KOR

Meng Wang Sae-Bom Shin Qiuhong Liu Yang Zhou Hui Zhang Shin-Young Yang Kimberly Derrick Katherine Reutter Kalyna Roberge Ba-Ra Jung

Yoon-Gy Kwak Ho-Suk Lee Charles Hamelin Apolo Anton Ohno Anthony Lobello Jung-Su Lee Ye Li Michael Gilday Francois Hamelin Takahiro Fujimoto

CHN KOR CHN CHN CHN KOR USA USA CAN KOR

KOR KOR CAN USA USA KOR CHN CAN CAN JPN

events

Ladies 1500m

Total Points

Ladies 3000/5000 m

Total Points

Total Points

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

270 200 195 160 142 133 123 87 80 76

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

260 210 175 160 145 138 123 110 110 78

1 2 3 4 5

Men 5000/10000m

Total Points

Total Points

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

210 205 200 190 185 136 106 105 85 78

1 2 3 4 5

Kristina Groves Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Christine Nesbitt Claudia Pechstein Shannon Rempel Brittany Schussler Laurine Van Riessen Marrit Leenstra Elma de Vries Ireen Wüst

CAN GER CAN GER CAN CAN NED NED NED NED

Men 1500 m

Points

1 Mark Tuitert 2 Håvard Bøkko 3 Erben Wennemars

NED NOR NED

210 205 190

4 5 6 7 8 9 10

USA NED NED NED ITA USA RUS

150 147 144 124 124 104 100

Shani Davis Simon Kuipers Stefan Groothuis Sven Kramer Enrico Fabris Trevor Marsicano Yevgeny Lalenkov

Martina Sablikova Claudia Pechstein Daniela Anschütz-Thoms Kristina Groves Renate Groenewold Stephanie Beckert Clara Hughes Masako Hozumi Diane Valkenburg Maren Haugli

Bob de Jong Håvard Bøkko Sven Kramer Enrico Fabris Carl Verheijen Ted-Jan Bloemen Øystein Grødum Chad Hedrick Roger Schneider Hiroki Hirako

CZE GER GER CAN NED GER CAN JPN NED NOR

NED NOR NED ITA NED NED NOR USA SUI JPN

Ladies Team Pursuit Netherlands Germany Canada USA Republic of Korea

200 150 130 130 110

Men Team Pursuit Canada USA Japan Sweden Netherlands

160 125 120 102 100

four of six events

Ladies 1500m

Total Points

Ladies Relay

Total Points

Ladies Team

Total Points

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4045 3768 2714 2548 2404 1902 1234 1050 1011 800

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4000 3200 2432 1640 1562 1364 956 937 737 698

1 2 3 4 5

China Republic of Korea USA Canada Italy

4000 3200 2560 2048 1250

6 7 8 9 10

Russia Japan Bulgaria Netherlands Germany

1091 1016 979 868 653

Men 1500 m

Total Points

Men Relay

Total Points

Men Team

Total Points

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

3774 3600 1800 1751 1600 1483 1334 1162 1156 982

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

3240 3128 2446 1858 1388 1312 1176 1137 942 831

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

3800 3400 2304 2202 1742 1128 968 732 716 637

Yang Zhou Sae-Bom Shin Allison Baver Eun-Ju Jung Min-Jung Kim Katherine Reutter Kimberly Derrick Linlin Sun Mika Ozawa Ba-Ra Jung

Jung-Su Lee Si-Bak Sung Ho-Suk Lee Olivier Jean Charles Hamelin Jin-Hwan Park Jeff Simon Yuzo Takamido Bao Ku Sui J.R. Celski

CHN KOR USA KOR KOR USA USA CHN JPN KOR

KOR KOR KOR CAN CAN KOR USA JPN CHN USA

China Republic of Korea Canada Italy USA Netherlands Japan Hungary Germany Bulgaria

Canada USA Republic of Korea China Great Britain Germany Japan Italy Russia Netherlands

Republic of Korea Canada USA China Japan Italy Germany Great Britain Russia France

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PAST MASTER

SCOTT HAMILTON (USA) Born 1958 World Figure Skating Championships: Gold Medal 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1984 Olympic Winter Games: Gold Medal 1984 Scott Hamilton came into the public eye in 1980 when he took a podium spot at the US Figure Skating Championships. The result gave him a place on the 1980 USA Olympic team where he was to carry the American Flag at the Lake Placid, New York, Olympic Winter Games opening ceremony. His winning streak was to start from the very following season when he won the 1981 World Figure Skating Championships Men’s title in Hartford, USA. He remained unbeaten as World Champion for the following four years picking up the Olympic title in the 1984 Olympic Winter Games which took place in a Socialist country for the first and only time in Sarajevo. Scott Hamilton went on to have a successful professional career beginning in April 1984.