ISU World No44 May 2011

INTERNATIONAL SKATING UNION OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER

INSIDE • ISU NEWS • Season Review • RESULTS

NO 44 MAY 2011

ISU COUNCIL What I am going to tackle in this message is not only connected to ice skating, but would probably prove to be relevant for many other sports. It is something related to a new approach that could be taken into consideration, in particular for what one can define as measurable sports.

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Today there are a couple of headaches affecting the sporting world. The first is the financial spiral that is making sport increasingly more expensive not only for amateurs but also for professionals. The second is that the top level performances are proving to be more and more challenging to achieve, let alone beat which creates a motivational gap, especially for those involved with or competing in individual sports.

If we refer to the current world records or to the highest scores obtained in subjectively judged sports like diving, gymnastics and figure skating, it is not difficult to realize that the majority of the athletes competing in those disciplines would have a very slim chance to achieve the highest score and therefore a place on the podium is unattainable for them.

The explosion of the top results is due not only to the progress in sport, that of course we cannot impede, but also to the enticing prize money available that stimulates the interest of the best athletes. The effect is that too many good athletes not in possession of skills to achieve the highest ranks are quitting, which in turn affects many national federations and consequently national and international activities are suffering. This had caused a down trend in the number of participants, at least as far as the standard athlete is concerned.

Before it is too late, a wise approach would be to develop sport activities explaining to the participants that competitions should also be seen as a moment of confrontation of an athlete with his/her own best performance. In a few words, athletes should be educated to compete for the sake of improving, of course without forgetting the motivation to be among the best. However, as a minimum, one should be concentrated on becoming a better athlete and push his/her self to deliver a better performance every time.

The result of this orientation might be a renaissance of the value of the national and even local competitions and sports, especially the competitive ones, could indeed prove to be one of the most important educational activities, especially for young people.

We are conscious that what is explained above, is more difficult to be undertaken in certain sport activities that are not precisely measurable, like for example basket ball, rugby, soccer, water polo, mainly the team sports. These however, we have to admit, can offer to the athlete other motivations, that are linked more to the characteristic of the team sport. The very nature of team sports provide motivation and encouragement on the field of play from a group of athletes competing to achieve the same goals, something that is not found in individual sports. Therefore team sports attract and fortunately help a lot with the recruitment of new participants.

The ISU Council met in Helsinki (FIN) from April 8-10 on the occasion of the ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships 2011.

The Council agreed to grant full ISU Membership to the Figure Skating Branch of the Singapore Ice Skating Association and provisional ISU Membership for the Speed Skating Branch. Based on input from the Ice Sports Federation of Andorra, it was decided to suspend their ISU membership for the Speed Skating Branch.

The Council members were also pleased to acknowledge the decision of the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee confirming the inclusion of the Figure Skating Team event into the program of the Olympic Winter Games of Sochi 2014. The provisional allotment for the Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating and the ISU World Cup Short Track 2011/12 season were approved. The dates and location of the first two events of the ISU Junior World Cup Speed Skating series were also agreed and the Council acknowledged that these events are also part of the Youth Olympic Games Qualifying System, the other dates will be decided shortly.

For the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating the Council decided to give the possibility to seeded Skaters to skate 3 Grand Prix Events per season under certain conditions that will be published in the Announcement of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating.

The Council also agreed in principle to pursue an initiative to become active in social media.

See Communication 1671 for more details.

Working Groups for each discipline have been created. Each group consists of 12 people, the 6 Technical Committee members, the 4 Council members (of either the Speed Skating or Figure Skating Branch), the Chair Sports Directorate and the Sports Director of the branch. These Groups offer a platform to discuss ideas and issues within each discipline and the possibility to present two main topics to the Council or the Congress.

SPORTS DIRECTORATE Ottavio Cinquanta President, International Skating Union

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In the branches of Figure Skating and Speed Skating the Sports Directors, with the Chair of the Sports Directorate, were highly involved in this season’s ISU Events, in the preparation of the first Winter Youth Olympic Games to be held in Innsbruck in 2012, in the consultation to the ISU Council for the meetings in Helsinki and Amsterdam and especially in the relocation of the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2011 from Tokyo (JPN) to Moscow (RUS). Furthermore the Sports Directorate was in charge of coordinating the individual meetings of the Working Groups for all five

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The Sports Directorate is also preparing the ISU Junior Grand Prix, the ISU Grand Prix, the ISU Junior World Cup and the ISU Senior World Cup in both Speed Skating and Short Track, attending the various inspection visits for the next Championships and organizing the ISU Figure Skating Global Seminar to be held in Frankfurt next July.

Championships in Moscow (RUS) to discuss two important items to be presented to the ISU Council. The Committee also evaluated dozens of Referees and Technical Controller Reports for all the competitions of the 2010/11 season and worked on a proposal for changes to the 2011/12 season and prepared Communication 1672 to that effect.

In Figure Skating 3 additional Development Seminars were successfully organized; Ice Dance Junior category, Ice Dance Novice category and Pair Skating Junior/Novice categories. A total of 56 Dance couples from 16 ISU Members and 22 Pairs from 11 ISU Members attended these seminars.

Ice Dance

Following the outcome of the Working Groups and the Council’s decision, the Technical Committees of Speed Skating and Short Track are preparing a project on event presentation.

ISU TECHNICAL COMMITTEES Single & Pair Skating

The Committee Members served as Referees and Technical Controllers at the European, Four Continents, World Junior and World Championships. The Committee moderated the Judges Seminars in Seoul (KOR) and Milan (ITA) and participated in a Working Group Meeting during the ISU World Figure Skating

The Ice Dance Technical Committee (IDTC) was represented at all the ISU Figure Skating Championships either as Officials or attendees. They held meetings with coaches, skaters and other interested persons in order to gather feedback on the new Short Dance format which was introduced this season. The meetings were well attended and the new format positively received. Communication 1670 with the Requirements for Technical Rules 2011/12 was published to help coaches and skaters prepare their program for next season.

Updates to the current ongoing requirements, valid as of July 1st, 2011 will be published before June 1st, 2011 in a subsequent Communication.

Finally the IDTC met with the ISU Council and Sports Directorate in a Working Group session at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships in Moscow (RUS) to prepare for the ISU

Congress in 2012. The IDTC will next meet in Madrid (ESP) from May 16 to 22.

Synchronized Skating

The Synchronized Skating Technical Committee (SySTC) is busy preparing the Communication containing the technical changes for next season. Committee meetings took place during the ISU Synchronized Skating Junior World Challenge Cup in Neuchatel (SUI) and the ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships in Helsinki (FIN). During these meetings the SySTC discussed the simplification of the rules set and technical requirements all of which will be included in the upcoming communication. Official Trial Judging was conducted by the SySTC in Neuchatel (SUI) with 8 participating Judges from 7 Members (CAN, ITA, FRA, FIN, SWE, JPN, RUS).

Speed Skating

For the second part of the season, the Committee assigned technical representatives for 3 Essent ISU World Cup competitions, 3 ISU Junior World Cup competitions and 5 ISU Championships. The Committee was actively involved in the preparation of Mass Start races held as demonstration events at the World Cup competition in Salt Lake City (USA) and at the World Cup final in Heerenveen (NED), where a Team Sprint competition was presented. The Committee met on the occasion of the World Single Distances Championships in Inzell (GER), where the annual season review meeting with coaches took place prior to the Championships. The Committee has been working on the ISU Speed Skating calendar for 2011/12.

Short Track

Vladimir Putin (Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation) attends the Opening Ceremony of the ISU World Vladimir Putin attends Opening2011, Ceremony of the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2011 with(President Ottavio Cinquanta, Figure Skating Championships with Ottavio Cinquanta (President of ISU), Alexander Gorshkov of the Alexander Gorshkov and Seiko Hashimoto Figure Skating Federation of Russia) and Seiko Hashimoto (President of the Japan Skating Federation)

The Short Track Technical Committee reported a successful season. The new racing rules implemented at the 2010 Congress have proved to be positively welcomed and successfully implemented. The goal of the new rules was to make the races more exciting, increase passing, and to make the officiating more consistent and reliable.

The Technical Committee will be holding a Referee’s seminar in Las Vegas (USA) on June 23-25, 2011 to discuss the past season and make needed adjustments for the upcoming season. The Committee is also looking into new ways to bring more of a marketing value to the sport with the aim to attract more sponsors and attendees to the events.

All ISU Short Track Speed Skating Championships were successfully held in Europe during 2010/11 season and the World Team Championships took place for the last time.

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European Championships

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Sarah Meier (SUI)

For the first time in history, Bern (SUI) hosted the ISU European Championships in the Postfinance Arena from January 24 to 30. 162 skaters/couples from 35 Members competed at the 103rd edition of the event.

In what was the most emotional moment of the Championships, Sarah Meier (SUI), with a total score of 170.60 points, skated off with the gold medal on home ice in the final competition of her career. Three-time and defending Champion Carolina Kostner (ITA) settled for the silver this time with 168.54 points and Kiira Korpi (FIN) took the bronze with 166.40 points, returning to the podium for the first time since 2007. Ksenia Makarova (RUS) came fourth (162.04 points) and Alena Leonova (RUS) finished fifth (154.31 points).

Pair skaters Aliona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy (GER) scored a total of 206.20 points and captured their fourth European title ahead of defending champions Yuko Kavaguti/Alexander Smirnov (RUS) who followed closely behind with 203.61 points. Vera Bazarova/Yuri Larionov (RUS) accumulated a total of 188.24 points and claimed their first medal at Europeans with bronze. The new couple of Katarina Gerboldt/ Alexander Enbert (RUS) finished fourth in their debut (169.95 points) ahead of Stefania Berton/Ondrej Hotarek (ITA) (164.83 points).

Florent Amodio (FRA) totaled 226.86 points and skated to victory in his debut at the European Championships. Brian Joubert (FRA) added another silver medal to his impressive collection. With a total of 223.01 points this is his tenth consecutive medal at the European Championships. Tomas Verner (CZE) completed his set of European medals with the bronze and 222.60 points. Kevin van der Perren (BEL) finished fourth (216.59 points) and Artur Gachinski (RUS) came fifth (216.07 points).

In the Ice Dance competition, Nathalie Pechalat/Fabian Bourzat (FRA) totaled 167.40 points and danced to the title, their first medal at an ISU Championships. Ekaterina Bobrova/Dmitri Soloviev (RUS) earned the silver medal with 161.14 points and Sinead Kerr/John Kerr accumulated 157.49 points overall and captured the bronze like they had in 2009. 2010 World Junior Champions Elena Ilinykh/Nikita Katsalapov (RUS) were a strong fourth (153.48 points) while two-time

FIGURE SKATING European silver medalists Federica Faiella/ Massimo Scali (ITA) were ranked fifth (145.92 points).

Four Continents Championships The 13th edition of the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships took place in Taipei City (TPE) from February 17 to 21.

Chinese Taipei hosted an ISU Figure Skating Championships for the first time.

2010 World Champion Daisuke Takahashi (JPN) racked up a total of 244.00 points and skated off with the gold medal while 2010 World Junior Champion Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) celebrated a successful senior-level debut with 228.01 points and the silver medal. At 225.71 points Jeremy Abbott (USA) clinched the bronze. Takahiko Kozuka (JPN) completed a strong showing of the Japanese men in fourth place (223.52 points). Defending Champion Adam Rippon (USA) finished fifth (210.01 points).

Meryl Davis/Charlie White (USA) claimed their second Four Continents title with a total score of 172.03 points. Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (USA) earned 155.38 points and the silver medal in their debut at the event and the bronze went to Vanessa Crone/Paul Poirier (CAN) who racked up a total of 151.83 points. Defending Champions Kaitlyn Weaver/ Andrew Poje (CAN) settled for fourth place this time (151.14 points). Olympic Champions Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir (CAN) withdrew during the Free Dance, citing injury.

Miki Ando (JPN) with 201.34 points overall beat 2010 World Champion Mao Asada (JPN) (196.30 points) for the Four Continents title.

Mirai Nagasu (USA) took the bronze with 189.46 points. Rachael Flatt (USA) finished fourth (180.31 points).

Qing Pang/Jian Tong (CHN) accumulated a total of 199.45 points and skated to their fifth Four Continents title. The newly formed Pairs Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN) earned the silver medal with 181.79 points and with a total score of 171.73 points Paige Lawrence/Rudi Swiegers (CAN) clinched the bronze. Swiegers displayed extraordinary sportsmanship when lending his boot to fellow pair skater Mark Ladwig (USA) whose skating boot broke in the middle of the Short Program. US Champions Caitlyn Yankowskas/ John Coughlin came fourth (166.97 points) and Kirsten Moore-Towers/Dylan Moscovitch (CAN) finished fifth (166.22 points).

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Daisuke Takahashi (JPN)

161.07 points. Christina Gao (USA) finished fourth (155.27 points).

After claiming the bronze in 2010, Ksenia Monko/Kirill Khaliavin (RUS) danced off with the gold this year and scored 144.16 points.

Ekaterina Pushkash/Jonathan Guerreiro (RUS) earned the silver medal with 134.64 points and Charlotte Lichtman/Dean Copely (USA) grabbed the bronze in their first Junior Worlds at 133.36 points. Tiffany Zahorski/Alexis Miart (FRA) were ranked second in the Free Dance and finished fourth in their debut at Junior Worlds, collecting 128.16 points.

Wenjing Sui/Cong Han (CHN) repeated as World Junior Champions with a score of 167.01 points while 2010’s other medalists switched places: Ksenia Stolbova/Fedor Klimov (RUS) claimed the silver medal at 159.60 points and Narumi Takahashi/Mervin Tran (JPN) earned the bronze this year with 154.52 points. Ashley Cain/Joshua Reagan (USA) came fourth at 135.40 points.

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World Championships

Maia Shibutani and Alex Shibutani (USA)

World Junior Championships The Junior season 2010/11 finished with the ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships in Gangneung (KOR) March 2 to 6. Junior Worlds was once again a showcase for the emerging talent from all over the world. 201 skaters from 48 ISU Members were entered for the event.

Malaysia and Mongolia were represented for the first time at ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships with entries in the single events.

Adelina Sotnikova (RUS) continued her dominance from the Junior Grand Prix and won the title ahead of Elizaveta Tuktamysheva (RUS). Sotnikova scored 174.96 points while Tuktamysheva earned 169.11 points. 2010 silver medalist Agnes Zawadzki (USA) took home the bronze this time at

The 101st edition of the ISU World Figure Skating Championships took place in Moscow (RUS) April 24 to May 2. The Championships was postponed and moved from Tokyo (JPN) to Russia following the devastating earthquake and tsunami on March 11. Six ISU Members bid to hold the Championships at such a short notice. It was the first time that the World Championships was prepared within a month.

194 skaters from 43 ISU Members participated in the event including the Preliminary Rounds. More than 60 000 spectators followed the high-level competition in the Megasport Arena. The twelve medals went to eight different ISU Members.

Aliona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy(GER) crowned their most successful season to date with their third World title and two flawless performances. They set two new record scores in the free skating with 144.87 and in the total score with 217.85 points.

Newcomers Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov (RUS) made a splash on the scene in their debut at the World level and took silver with strong programs. They scored 210.73 points. Defending World Champions Qing Pang/Jian Tong (CHN) settled for the bronze this time with 204.12 points. Yuko Kavaguti/ Alexander Smirnov and Vera Bazarova/Yuri Larionov completed a strong showing of

FIGURE SKATING Russian pairs in fourth (187.36 points) and fifth place (187.13 points).

Patrick Chan (CAN) skated smoothly to his first World title. He produced three quadruple jumps in his programs and earned record scores in both short program (93.02 points) and free skating (187.96 points) which added up to 280.98 points. Takahiko Kozuka claimed the silver, his first World medal and racked up 258.41 points. Artur Gachinski (RUS) captured the bronze in his debut at the ISU World Championships with 241.86 points. Michal Brezina (CZE) landed a quadruple toeloop and Salchow to come in fourth (233.61 points).

Defending champion Daisuke Takahashi (JPN) finished fifth after a screw had come lose on his boot (232.97 points).

Miki Ando (JPN) earned the Ladies’ gold, her second World title since 2007 with a score of 195.79 points. Olympic Champion Yuna Kim (KOR) took the silver in what was her only competition of the season, earning 194.50 points. The bronze went to Carolina Kostner (ITA), who moved up from 6th place in the short with a total of 184.68 points. It was her third World medal. Alena Leonova (RUS) came fourth (183.92 points) and Alissa Czisny (USA) ranked fifth (182.25 points). For both it was their best result at the World Championships so far.

History was made in the Ice Dance event with the first ever North American podium sweep.

Meryl Davis/Charlie White (USA) danced with their Tango to the gold, the first Ice Dance world title for the USA. They accumulated 185.27 points. Olympic Champions Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir (CAN) claimed the silver at 181.79 points after missing almost the whole season as she recovered from injury. In a surprising turn of events, Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (USA) clinched the bronze in their first World Championships with 163.79 points and were the first World debutants on the ice dance podium since Anjelika Krylova/Vladimir Fedorov (URS) in 1993. Nathalie Pechalat/ Fabian Bourzat (FRA) slipped to fourth following a fall in the Free Dance (163.54 points). Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje (CAN) finished fifth (160.32 points).

2011 in Helsinki (FIN). 21 teams from 16 Members competed in front of a full arena.

For the second year in a row, Team Finland 1 and Team Finland 2 took gold and silver respectively with Team USA 1 grabbing the bronze. Team Sweden 1 skated a very strong Free Program and placed fourth with the 2009 World Champions Team Canada 1 finishing in fifth place.

Figure Skating Team Event On April 6 2011, the Executive Board of the International Olympic Committee confirmed the inclusion of the new Figure Skating Team Event on the program of the Olympic Winter Games in Sochi in 2014.

World Synchronized Championships The 12th ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships took place from April 8 to 9,

Aliona Savchenko and Robin Szolkowy (GER)

The ISU, in cooperation with the Japan Skating Federation (JSF) and with the participation of TV Asahi Corporation, launched the first ever international team Figure Skating competition during (Team Trophy) the 2008/09 season in Tokyo, Japan.

The event was unprecedented in the ISU history. The second Team event was due to take place in April 2011 in Yokohama, Japan.

However due to the tragic circumstances in Japan, the event has been postponed to 2012.

The Figure Skating Team Event at the Sochi Olympic Winter Games 2014 is expected to have the participation of the ten best national Figure Skating teams each composed of 6 skaters, one Man, one Lady, one Pair Skating couple and one Ice Dance couple. Each team will skate a Short Program/Dance and the top five teams will go on to compete in the Free Skate/Dance.

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YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES SHORT TRACK World Junior Championships

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Outdoor rink in Innsbruck (AUT)

The first Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) will be held in Innsbruck (AUT) from January 13-22, 2012. The ISU disciplines will take place in the Olympia World Complex which includes an ice rink (30x60m) and a 400m outdoor Oval for Speed Skating. Short Track Speed Skating and Figure Skating will be held in the main stadium with a total number of 3000 spectator seats. One ice rink at the infield of the Oval will be shared with the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).

A total of 164 Skaters will participate, 76 Skaters for Figure Skating, 56 Skaters for Speed Skating and 36 Skaters for Short Track Speed Skating. All participants must fit the age limit and be born between January 1, 1996 and December 31, 1997 with the exception of male Skaters in Pair Skating and Ice Dance who must be born between January 1, 1994 and December 31, 1997.

The events include: Figure Skating (Ladies, Men, Pair Skating, Ice Dance and Mixed Team Event) Short Track Speed Skating (500m, 1000m and Mixed Relay) and Speed Skating (2x500m, 1500m, 3000m and Mass Start).

All the competitions will be held in accordance with the 2010 version of the ISU Regulations and relevant ISU Communications.

Following the IOC suggestions, besides the traditional competitions, the ISU considered to include a Mixed Team Event in Figure Skating, a completely new Mixed Relay in Short Track Speed Skating and a Mass Start event in Speed Skating, which was warmly welcomed and approved by the IOC Executive Board.

The Mixed Relay in Short Track Speed Skating (Mixed gender and mixed Member/ NOC Relay) is a unique format where young female and male Athletes coming from different Members\NOCs will compete together increasing the friendships and relationship between Athletes which is part of the IOC vision. Eight Relay Teams will be composed of two (2) Men and two (2) Ladies each coming from different Members\NOCs. For Figure Skating, the Team Event is a mixed Member/NOC team event, consisting of eight (8) mixed Member/NOC Teams. The Teams will be composed by lot out of the four individual events. Each Skater/Couple performs a Free Skating/Free Dance program. The composition of the Teams is determined in the YOG Qualification System (QS).

For Speed Skating the following events will take place: 500m (14 Men/14 Ladies), 1500m (14 Men/14 Ladies), 3000 (14 Men/14 Ladies) and Mass start event (28 Men/28 Ladies).

Skaters may participate in a maximum of 2 distances, providing that the applicable qualifying times have been achieved during the period preceding the YOG (July 1st 2011) and the deadline for entry for the YOG. The applicable qualifying time standards and conditions for approval will be announced in an ISU Communication proceeding July 1st 2011.

For further information on entries, qualification process and criteria please refer to the ISU Communication and the Qualification System document posted on www.isu.org

The world’s best junior Short Track speed skaters, representing 33 countries, participated in the ISU World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships 2011 in Courmayeur, Italy last January. The Championships was dominated by the Korean skaters, with their team earning a total of 11 medals out of a possible 30. In the ladies’ competition, Korea finished first and second, with both Hee Jung Cheon and Se Jung Ahn tying for points after four events. However, it was Cheon who took the overall title, having won two of the distances. With Ahn finishing second, it was local favorite Martina Valcepina of Italy who completed the podium. On the men’s side, Yi Ra Seo (KOR) took the World Championships title over Jack Whelbourne of Great Britain, while Dajing Wu of China was third. In the 3000m relay ladies event, Italy finished first, Canada second and China third. In the Men’s event it was France who took the win, followed by Japan and Canada.

European Championships 22 countries were represented at the ISU European Short Track Speed Skating Championships which took place in Heerenveen, Netherlands, from January 14 to 16. Arianna Fontana of Italy was crowned the ladies’ European Short Track Speed Skating Champion for the second time in a row and in the men’s event, French skater Thibaut Fauconnet earned his first-ever European Championships title. Fontana took first place in the 1000m, 1500m and 3000m and finished first overall ahead of Bernadett Heidum of Hungary who finished overall second and Martina Valcepina of Italy, although she finished first in the 500m, took the third place in the overall classification.

On the men’s side, Fauconnet dominated the competition by taking the win in all four events; 500m, 1000m, 1500m and 3000m.

Haralds Silvos (Latvia) finished second overall, while Sjinkie Knegt (Netherlands) finished third. The weekend’s racing concluded with relay events, with the Netherlands taking the win in both the ladies’ and men’s events. Second place in the ladies’ 3000m Relay event went to Hungary, while Italy took third. In the men’s 5000m Relay Russia finished second, while Great Britain took third.

World Championships The ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships 2011 was held in Sheffield,

SPEED SKATING Great Britain. Of the 31 countries taking part, Korea was the most dominant, with skaters earning both the ladies’ and men’s title. Ha-Ri Cho was crowned Ladies’ World Short Track Speed Skating Champion, while Jinkyu Noh earned the title on the men’s side.The ladies’ 1500m World title was won by Katherine Reutter of the United States, finishing ahead of a pair of Korean skaters: Seung-Hi Park (second) and Ha-Ri Cho (third). In the 500m event, three Chinese skaters and one Italian skater made it to the final in the ladies event.

Kexin Fan took the 500m title, ahead of Arianna Fontana of Italy and third place finish went to Qiuhong Liu. In the ladies’ 1000 meter event, Ha-Ri Cho took the gold, finishing ahead of Fontana. Katherine Reutter finished in third place, earning the bronze.

In the ladies 3000 meter Super Final, Ha-Ri Cho won her second single distance World title of the weekend, giving her enough points to win the overall Championships title. Reutter finished second in the race, thus earning enough points to clinch the overall second.

Fontana’s seventh place in the Super Final was enough to earn her third place in the overall Championships classification.

In the men’s 1500m, Noh began his title quest by taking the first of three individual World titles of the Championships. Second place finish went to Charles Hamelin of Canada, while Jeff Simon of the United States took third.

American skater Simon Cho took the gold in the 500m, ahead of Olivier Jean of Canada.

The bronze medal was awarded to Wenhao Liang of China. Eventual Championships winner Noh won his second distance World title of the weekend in the 1000m event. Charles Hamelin took the silver, while Liang of China finished third earning bronze.

In the 3000m Super Finals, Noh had guaranteed his overall title with his previous wins. Hamelin, Liang and Simon on the other hand were still contending for a podium place in the overall ranking. Although he did not need the win, Noh managed to finish first in the Super Final, with Liang finishing second, Simon took third.

Despite finishing fourth, Hamelin earned enough points to clinch second position in the overall classification, while Liang finished third overall. These World Championships concluded with the Relay Finals. The ladies 3000 meter relay was won by China. The team from the Netherlands skated a solid race, earning the second place, while Canada finished third. In the men 5000 meter relay final, Canada earned the title World Short Track Speed Skating Relay Champion 2011 with a win in the event. Germany and the United

States swapped positions from last year’s World Championships, with Germany finishing second, and the United States finishing third.

Team Championships For the second consecutive year, Korea earned both the ladies’ and men’s titles of World Short Track Speed Skating Team Championships in Warsaw, Poland. Nine countries were represented; those that qualified for both the ladies and men’s competition were Canada, China, Korea, Japan, Poland, Russia and the United States. Italy (ladies) and Turkey (men) also had teams in competition.

The competition kicked off with the qualifying rounds: in both the ladies’ and men’s competition. With China, Canada, Korea and the United States qualified, the ladies’ competition was close, with all four teams separated by only 13 points. Korea edged out China by a mere point to take the win in the competition. Korea finished with 35 points, whereas China earned 34 points. The United States took third place with 29 points. On the men’s side, Korea, China, Canada and Japan qualified for the final and it was also a close finish between Korea and China. With a total of 38 points, Korea took the win, ahead of

China, who finished with 35 points. Canada completed the podium with 28 points.

ISU World Cup Short Track

Before the sixth and final ISU World Cup Short Track series took place in Dresden, Germany, the team from Canada led the medal count with a total of 8 medals, with the team from Korea a close second with 7. China took 5, while the United States earned 4. The other countries to earn medals were France and Italy with 2 medals each, and Germany and Japan with one.

Katherine Reutter from the United States confirmed her competitive excellence by topping the 1000m and 1500m ladies’ events and Canadian skater Marianne St-Gelais clinched the title for the ladies’ 500m. In the men’s events the French had a good season with Maxime Chataignier grabbing the title in the 1500m and team mate Thibault Fauconnet crowned champion in the 1000m.Simon Cho from the United States clinched the 500m World Cup distance classification men’s title.

The ladies’ 3000m Relay Final was tightly contested, with all four teams finishing within half a second. China clinched the World Cup distance classification ladies’ title, while Canada took the men’s title.

210 Charles Hamelin (CAN), 222 Thibaut Fauconnet (FRA), 212 Olivier Jean (CAN) and 214 Wenhao Liang (CHN)

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won the next, where Richardson was third, and in Heerenveen both were not in optimal shape and did not reach the podium. Nesbitt came 15 points short of the win, with 590 points, Richardson had 605. Margot Boer (NED) completed the podium with 360 points.

1500m Ladies

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The 1500m ladies winner was Christine Nesbitt (CAN). She won the first four out of six races, and had two third place-finishes, which gave her 575 points. Dutch Marrit Leenstra and Ireen Wüst battled for the silver, which Leenstra took with 466 points. Wüst finished on the podium all five times she skated and was only 6 points behind the second place with a total of 460 points. Groves, last year’s winner of the 1500m, fell at the Berlin World Cup team pursuit and suffered from a concussion, which hindered her to skate again.

3000m/5000m Ladies

Ireen Wüst (NED)

SPEED SKATING Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating In this post-Olympic season, the World Cup circuit was spread over eight weekends. The series started in November 2010 with three weekends in Europe (Heerenveen (NED), Berlin (GER) for Sprint and Allround, and Hamar (NOR) for Allround), followed by two weekends in Asia for the sprinters during the month of December (Changchun (CHN) and Obihiro (JPN)). After a short break the series continued in January in Moscow (RUS) for all, moving to Salt Lake City (USA) in February for the Allrounders and March saw the World Cup Final in Heerenveen.

500m Ladies Jenny Wolf (GER) took the 500m Cup for the sixth year in a row. Sang-Hwa Lee (KOR)

and Margot Boer (NED) followed her on the podium. Jenny Wolf has a unique dominance as never before has a lady won the Cup so many times in a row; previously Bonnie Blair won the 500m Cup five times, but not in a row and Gunda Niemann similarly dominated the 1500m in the 90s. Sang-Hwa Lee won three of the twelve races and Annette Gerritsen (NED) won one. Wolf won eight races and finished twice in second and twice in third position.

1000m Ladies Heather Richardson (USA) had a break-through season and put an end to Christine Nesbitt’s (CAN) dominance in the 1000m of the last two years who had to be satisfied with the second place. Nesbitt won the first four out of eight races, but then skipped two due to her busy schedule in Sprint and Allround. Richardson, who had finished in second three times, took the opportunity to win those races. Nesbitt

For the fifth year in a row, Martina Sáblíková (CZE) won the long distance World Cup. At the beginning of the season, she had to miss the first race, and her main rival Stephanie Beckert (GER) won it. In Berlin, Sáblíková finished second and Beckert third behind American newcomer, Jilleanne Rookard, who had her first ever World Cup victory. Beckert won the next, with another second place finish for Sáblíková. In Moscow Berckert’s skate broke and because of the incident she finished last and lost most of her advantage. In the final two races, Sáblíková won and Beckert followed, which gave the Czech champion 510 points and Beckert 475. Jilleanne Rookard finished in third place with 351 points.

Team Pursuit The Dutch ladies won the Team Pursuit, Germany and Norway were second and third with an equal amount of points. It is the first year that Norway had such a strong ladies team.

500m Men Last year, the Europeans and Americans dominated the men’s 500m. This year it is the Asians who took over the World Cup. The two Koreans, Kang-Seok Lee and Kyou-Hyuk Lee finished first and second respectively.

Joji Kato (JPN) finished in third position. All three missed the Moscow World Cup because of the Asian Winter Games that took place in Astana (KAZ). In twelve races, there were 7 different winners. Kang-Seok Lee and Joji Kato won three times, Kyou-Hyuk Lee only once. Kato lost his second place overall in the final race, where he received only 16 points,

SPEED SKATING whereas Kyou-Hyuk Lee won with 150. KangSeok Lee’s had a total of 845 points, Kyou-Hyuk Lee 745, and Kato 671.

1000m Men Dutchman Stefan Groothuis won the 1000m World Cup. In the last three years Shani Davis (USA) won both the 1500m and 1000m World Cup. However this year he finished in third place in the 1000m. Groothuis is the fourth winner in this distance since 1998; Jeremy Wotherspoon (CAN) won five times, Erben Wennemars (NED) and Davis each won four times. Groothuis won the last four of the eight races, but also missed two. Kyou-Hyuk Lee (KOR) took silver, missing one race, and Davis missed three races, and won three in total this season.

1500m Men In the 1000m and the 1500m Shani Davis (USA) has enjoyed a long chain of successes, and he adds an 8th 1500m World Cup victory to his list, it is his fourth 1500m victory in a row. He became the first skater in history to win the 1500m more than three times. Norwegian Håvard Bøkko took the 1500m silver and Groothuis added bronze to his successful season. Ivan Skobrev (RUS) just missed the podium.

5000/10000m Men Last year’s winner in the long distance, Håvard Bøkko (NOR), lost his podium place in the final World Cup. Winning would have been impossible for the reigning champion as Bob de Jong (NED) was sovereign and won well ahead of Ivan Skobrev (RUS). De Jong won all races except in Berlin and collected 610 points. Skobrev finished in second place four times and got 400 points, Bob de Vries (NED) got 356 points and finished third. Olympic 10,000m champion Seung-Hoon Lee won the race in Berlin, but did not participate in half of the races. It is De Jong’s second win, his first was in 2004.

Team Pursuit Norway won the Team Pursuit for a second year running, with Russia and the USA also on the podium.

European Championships Ivan Skobrev (RUS) and Martina Sáblíková (CZE) were crowned European champions in Collalbo (ITA) with the rest of the podiums dominated by the Dutch. It was the first title for the Russian, and the competition was exciting to the end. Close behind him,

Dutch youngsters Jan Blokhuijsen and Koen Verweij took silver and bronze. Sábliková won her third European title beating Ireen Wüst and Marrit Leenstra (NED) who had her first podium finish in an ISU Championship, like the two young Dutch men.

World Sprint Speed Skating Championships The 40th World Sprint Championships took place in Heerenveen (NED). Kyou-Hyuk Lee (KOR) successfully defended his title, and won the World Sprint title for the fourth time in his career. In the ladies’ field, Sang-Hwa Lee (KOR) did not come to defend her title, due to the Asian Winter Games. Instead, the tradition of having a new winner every year continued, as Christine Nesbitt became the tenth champion in ten years.

Behind the winners, Olympic 500m Champion Tae-Bum Mo (KOR) took silver and Shani Davis took bronze. The Dutch ladies Annette Gerritsen and Margot Boer finished next to Nesbitt.

Essent ISU World Allround Speed Skating Championships Ivan Skobrev (RUS) and Ireen Wüst (NED) won the World Allround titles on the fast Olympic Oval in Calgary (CAN), both in national records points. After four titles in a row, Sven Kramer was absent this year and after two titles in a row, Martina Sábliková did not manage to grab the title for the third time and finished as the bronze medalist. World Sprint champion Christine Nesbitt did very well with silver, but missed the stamina for the long distances, whereas Ireen Wüst skated personal best times. It was the second World Allround title in her career.

For Skobrev it was the first World title, and he continued in the flow he had at the European Championships. Again, it was very close and came down to the last meters of the 10,000m to determine the winner. Håvard Bøkko took silver for Norway and Jan Blokhuijsen got the bronze.

Junior World Championships The Junior World Championships took place at the end of February in Seinäjoki (FIN). The titles were won by Sverre Lunde Pedersen (NOR) and Karolina Erbanová (CZE). Both took the title with three distance victories. Erbanová was champion also in the ladies’ 500m, 1500m and 1000m and Do-Yeong Park (KOR) won the 3000m. The Korean ladies also won the Team Pursuit.

Lunde Pedersen won the men’s 3000m,

1500m and 5000m. Champion in the 500m and 1000m was Sung-Kyu Kim (KOR). Due to a fall in the leading Norwegian team, the men’s Dutch team won the Team Pursuit.

World Single Distances Championships The season concluded with the World Single Distances Championships in the German village of Inzell, where the old ice-stadium re-opened with a roof. Jenny Wolf won her fourth 500m title in a row. Sang-Hwa Lee was second and Beixing Wang, after being the runner-up four times, finished third.

Christine Nesbitt won the 1000m like in the last edition. She beat Ireen Wüst and World Cup winner Heather Richardson. Ireen Wüst won the 1500m like in 2007. The 1500m podium was all Dutch with Diane Valkenburg and Jorien Voorhuis taking their first World Championships medals. Wüst also won the 3000m, for the first time. After Gunda Niemann in 2001 there was a different winner every year. Martina Sáblíková finished second, Stephanie Beckert third. In the 5000m Sáblíková won for the fourth time in a row.

Beckert followed and Claudia Pechstein, back after a two-year suspension won bronze.

Kyou-Hyuk Lee won the men’s 500m. It was his first distance title, after two successive silvers on this distance. Joji Kato finished in second and Jan Smeekens (NED) took bronze.

Defending champion Kang-Seok Lee fell.

Shani Davis won the 1000m for the third time.

He defeated Kjeld Nuis (NED) and World Cup winner Stefan Groothuis. He also defended the 1500m title, but had to settle for silver, as Håvard Bøkko won his first senior world title here. Lucas Makowsky (CAN) took bronze.

Bob de Jong won the 5000 and 10,000m.

It was his second 5000m title, after 2001.

Defending champion Sven Kramer (NED) took the season off. Seung-Hoon Lee got silver and Ivan Skobrev bronze in the 5000m. In the 10,000m the winner has always been Dutch.

Bob de Jong won it for the fourth time, but it was his 11th podium finish in this distance.

Only in 2007 he wasn’t there, and the first edition in 1996.

The Canadian ladies Cindy Klassen, Christine Nesbitt and Brittany Schussler won the Team Pursuit for the third time, ahead of the Netherlands (third silver) and Germany (third bronze), and the American men Shani Davis, Trevor Marsicano and Jonathan Kuck won the men’s Team Pursuit, ahead of Canada and the Netherlands. The latter had won all previous world titles in the Team Pursuit.

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FIGURE SKATING European Figure Skating Championships, 24 – 30 January 2011, Bern (SUI)

Ladies

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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Sarah Meier Carolina Kostner Kiira Korpi Ksenia Makarova Alena Leonova Viktoria Helgesson Ira Vannut Elene Gedevanishvili Mae Berenice Meite Valentina Marchei

Points 170.60 168.54 166.40 162.04 154.31 151.66 150.66 147.96 138.74 137.44

SUI ITA FIN RUS RUS SWE BEL GEO FRA ITA

Men 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Florent Amodio Brian Joubert Tomas Verner Kevin Van Der Perren Artur Gachinski Samuel Contesti Konstantin Menshov Michal Brezina Javier Fernandez Alban Preaubert

FRA FRA CZE BEL RUS ITA RUS CZE ESP FRA

Pairs

Points 226.86 223.01 222.60 216.59 216.07 204.88 202.62 201.39 199.65 196.15

1 Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy GER 2 Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov RUS 3 Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov RUS 4 Katarina Gerboldt / Alexander Enbert RUS 5 Stefania Berton / Ondrej Hotarek ITA 6 Maylin Hausch / Daniel Wende GER 7 Klara Kadlecova / Petr Bidar CZE 8 Stacey Kemp / David King

GBR 9 Adeline Canac / Yannick Bonheur

FRA 10 Lubov Bakirova / Mikalai Kamianchuk BLR

Points 206.20 203.61 188.24 169.95 164.83 149.97 139.94 128.04 125.34 120.72

Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, 15 - 20 February 2011, Taipei City (TPE)

Ladies 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Miki Ando Mao Asada Mirai Nagasu Rachael Flatt Alissa Czisny Cynthia Phaneuf Akiko Suzuki Min-Jeong Kwak Amelie Lacoste Cheltzie Lee

Points 201.34 196.30 189.46 180.31 168.81 163.14 162.59 147.15 137.48 127.90

JPN JPN USA USA USA CAN JPN KOR CAN AUS

Men 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Pairs

Points

Daisuke Takahashi Yuzuru Hanyu Jeremy Abbott Takahiko Kozuka Adam Rippon Jinlin Guan Armin Mahbanoozadeh Jialiang Wu Nan Song Shawn Sawyer

JPN JPN USA JPN USA CHN USA CHN CHN CAN

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

244.00 228.01 225.71 223.52 210.01 201.98 200.67 199.78 195.13 192.94

Qing Pang / Jian Tong CHN Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford CAN Paige Lawrence / Rudi Swiegers CAN Caitlin Yankowskas / John Coughlin USA Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch CAN Amanda Evora / Mark Ladwig USA Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran JPN Mary Beth Marley / Rockne Brubaker USA Yue Zhang / Lei Wang CHN Huibo Dong / Yiming Wu CHN

Points 199.45 181.79 171.73 166.97 166.22 157.30 152.63 144.46 138.93 135.10

World Junior Figure Skating Championships, 28 February - 6 March 2011, Gangneung City (KOR)

Ladies 1 Adelina Sotnikova 2 Elizaveta Tuktamisheva 3 Agnes Zawadzki 4 Christina Gao 5 Risa Shoji 6 Courtney Hicks 7 Polina Shelepen 8 Miyabi Oba 9 Zijun Li 10 Ira Vannut

RUS RUS USA USA JPN USA RUS JPN CHN BEL

Points 174.96 169.11 161.07 155.27 151.27 150.92 149.93 148.62 139.81 133.51

Men 1 Andrei Rogozine 2 Keiji Tanaka 3 Alexander Majorov 4 Keegan Messing 5 Max Aaron 6 Han Yan 7 Jason Brown 8 Artur Dmitriev 9 Gordei Gorshkov 10 Ryuichi Kihara

CAN JPN SWE USA USA CHN USA RUS RUS JPN

Points

Pairs

200.13 196.98 195.71 195.07 193.92 187.49 185.44 181.19 177.34 175.72

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Wenjing Sui / Cong Han Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran Ashley Cain / Joshua Reagan Natasha Purich / Raymond Schultz Brittany Jones / Kurtis Gaskell Kristina Astakhova / Nikita Bochkov Klara Kadlecova / Petr Bidar Cassie Andrews / Timothy Leduc Carolina Gillespie / Luca Dematte

CHN RUS JPN USA CAN CAN RUS CZE USA ITA

Points 167.01 159.60 154.52 135.40 129.97 129.28 118.75 117.24 117.11 116.44

World Figure Skating Championships, 24 April - 1 May 2011, Moscow (RUS)

Ladies 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Miki Ando Yuna Kim Carolina Kostner Alena Leonova Alissa Czisny Mao Asada Ksenia Makarova Kanako Murakami Kiira Korpi Elene Gedevanishvili

Points 195.79 194.50 184.68 183.92 182.25 172.79 167.22 167.10 164.80 156.24

JPN KOR ITA RUS USA JPN RUS JPN FIN GEO

Men 1 Patrick Chan 2 Takahiko Kozuka 3 Artur Gachinski 4 Michal Brezina 5 Daisuke Takahashi 6 Nobunari Oda 7 Florent Amodio 8 Brian Joubert 9 Richard Dornbush 10 Javier Fernandez

CAN JPN RUS CZE JPN JPN FRA FRA USA ESP

Points

Pairs

280.98 258.41 241.86 233.61 232.97 232.50 229.68 227.67 222.42 218.26

1 Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy 2 Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov 3 Qing Pang / Jian Tong 4 Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov 5 Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov 6 Caitlin Yankowskas / John Coughlin 7 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford 8 Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch 9 Narumi Takahashi / Mervin Tran 10 Stefania Berton / Ondrej Hotarek

Points GER 217.85 RUS 210.73 CHN 204.12 RUS 187.36 RUS 187.13 USA 175.94 CAN 173.03 CAN 163.17 JPN 160.10 ITA 157.15

SYNCHRONIZED SKATING World Synchronized Skating Championships, 8 - 9 April 2011, Helsinki (FIN) Teams 1 2 3

Team Finland 1 215.43 Team Finland 2 213.48 Team USA 1 205.40

4 5 6

Team Sweden 1 204.50 Team Canada 1 202.60 Team Canada 2 180.76

7 8 9

Team Russia 1 180.69 Team Sweden 2 167.02 Team Russia 2 164.34

10 11 12

Team USA 2 162.74 Team Germany 147.63 Team Japan 141.80

13 14 15

Team Czech Republic Team Italy Team Switzerland

136.58 129.53 114.92

8 3 2

SPEED SKATING Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating – Final Standings

Ice Dance 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Points Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat FRA 167.40 Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev RUS 161.14 Sinead Kerr / John Kerr GBR 157.49 Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapo RUS 153.48 Federica Faiella / Massimo Scali ITA 145.92 Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko RUS 145.05 Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi GER 140.69 Nora Hoffmann / Maxim Zavozin HUN 140.30 Pernelle Carron / Lloyd Jones FRA 135.41 Lucie Mysliveckova / Matej Novak CZE 135.35

Ice Dance 1 Meryl Davis / Charlie White 2 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani 3 Vanessa Crone / Paul Poirier 4 Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje 5 Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein 6 Xintong Huang / Xun Zheng 7 Xiaoyang Yu / Chen Wang 8 Xueting Guan / Meng Wang 9 Danielle Obrien / Gregory Merriman 10 Corenne Bruhns / Benjamin Westenberger

Points USA 172.03 USA 155.38 CAN 151.83 CAN 151.14 USA 142.44 CHN 130.29 CHN 125.75 CHN 106.26 AUS 104.69 MEX 88.55

Ice Dance 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Points Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin RUS 144.16 Ekaterina Pushkash / Jonathan Guerreiro RUS 134.64 Charlotte Lichtman / Dean Copely USA 133.36 Tiffany Zahorski / Alexis Miart FRA 128.16 Nikola Visnova / Lukas Csolley SVK 126.07 Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin RUS 125.43 Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin McManus USA 122.90 Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams CAN 122.22 Sara Hurtado / Adria Diaz ESP 120.41 Irina Shtork / Taavi Rand EST 117.50

Ice Dance 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Points

Meryl Davis / Charlie White Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte Madison Chock / Greg Zuerlein Vanessa Crone / Paul Poirier

16 Team France 111.60 17 Team Austria 109.35 18 Team Australia 99.96

USA CAN USA FRA CAN RUS RUS ITA USA CAN

Ladies 500 m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Jenny Wolf Sang-Hwa Lee Margot Boer Heather Richardson Nao Kodaira Judith Hesse Maki Tsuji Laurine Van Riessen Annette Gerritsen Shannon Rempel

Ladies 1000 m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Heather Richardson Christine Nesbitt Margot Boer Nao Kodaira Ireen Wüst Laurine Van Riessen Shannon Rempel Judith Hesse Marrit Leenstra Gabriele Hirschbicher

USA CAN NED JPN NED NED CAN GER NED GER

Ladies 1500 m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Christine Nesbitt Marrit Leenstra Ireen Wüst Brittany Schussler Martina Sábliková Cindy Klassen Ida Njåtun Jilleanne Rookard Diane Valkenburg Yekaterina Lobysheva

CAN NED NED CAN CZE CAN NOR USA NED RUS

Ladies 3000/5000 m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Martina Sábliková Stephanie Beckert Jilleanne Rookard Brittany Schussler Eriko Ishino Jorien Voorhuis Cindy Klassen Shiho Ishizawa Ireen Wüst Christine Nesbitt

CZE GER USA CAN JPN NED CAN JPN NED CAN

Ladies Team Poursuit 1 2 3 4 5

Netherlands Norway Germany Russia Canada

185.27 181.79 163.79 163.54 160.32 160.23 154.50 153.77 151.86 151.13

19 Team Croatia 92.67 20 Team Belgium 75.61 21 Team Great Britain 53.24

GER KOR NED USA JPN GER JPN NED NED CAN

Kyou-Hyuk Lee (KOR)

Points 1190 875 735 548 511 442 430 386 375 311

Men 500 m

Points 605 590 360 353 350 302 264 261 250 228

Men 1000 m

Points 575 466 460 265 227 213 185 181 176 175

Men 1500 m

Points 510 475 351 267 256 239 218 186 176 155

Men 5000/10000 m

Points 300 250 250 220 175

Men Team Poursuit

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5

Kang-Seok Lee Kyou-Hyuk Lee Joji Kato Tucker Fredricks Jan Smeekens Keiichiro Nagashima Akio Ota Yuya Oikawa Dmitry Lebkov Jacques de Koning Stefan Groothuis Kyou-Hyuk Lee Shani Davis Simon Kuipers Denny Morrison Jan Bos Samuel Schwarz Mikael Flygind-Larsen Nico Ihle Dmitry Lebkov Shani Davis Håvard Bøkko Stefan Groothuis Ivan Skobrev Trevor Marsicano Simon Kuipers Mark Tuitert Denny Morrison Jonathan Kuck Mikael Flygind-Larsen Bob de Jong Ivan Skobrev Bob de Vries Håvard Bøkko Jonathan Kuck Wouter Olde Heuvel Jorrit Bergsma Seung-Hoon Lee Patrick Beckert Øystein Grødum

KOR KOR JPN USA NED JPN JPN JPN RUS NED NED KOR USA NED CAN NED GER NOR GER RUS USA NOR NED RUS USA NED NED CAN USA NOR NED RUS NED NOR USA NED NED KOR GER NOR

Norway Russia USA Canada Germany

Points 845 745 671 639 592 538 501 475 450 406 Points 580 522 485 354 336 317 314 299 270 253 Points 440 357 342 333 325 303 298 257 190 188 Points 610 400 356 331 275 255 224 220 163 157 Points 270 250 232 220 174

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SPEED SKATING

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Essent ISU European Speed Skating Championships, 7 - 9 January 2011, Collalbo (ITA) Ladies Points Men Points

ISU Junior World Cup Speed Skating – Final Standings

1 2 3 4 5

1 2 3

Martina Sábliková Ireen Wüst Marrit Leenstra Diane Valkenburg Jorien Voorhuis

CZE NED NED NED NED

165.104 166.463 168.045 169.266 169.594

1 2 3 4 5

Ivan Skobrev Jan Blokhuijsen Koen Verweij Wouter Olde Heuvel Håvard Bøkko

RUS NED NED NED NOR

154.167 154.273 154.688 154.816 154.851

Essent ISU World Sprint Speed Skating Championships, 22 - 23 January 2011, Heerenveen (NED) Ladies Points Men Points 1 Christine Nesbitt 2 Annette Gerritsen 3 Margot Boer 4 Heather Richardson 5 Nao Kodaira

CAN NED NED USA JPN

152.220 154.015 154.025 154.035 154.405

1 2 3 4 5

Kyou-Hyuk Lee Tae-Bum Mo Shani Davis Stefan Groothuis Kjeld Nuis

KOR KOR USA NED NED

Essent ISU World Allround Speed Skating Championships, 12 - 13 February 2011, Calgary (CAN) Ladies Points Men 1 2 3 4 5

Ireen Wüst Christine Nesbitt Martina Sábliková Marrit Leenstra Cindy Klassen

NED CAN CZE NED CAN

157.313 158.939 159.288 159.620 159.922

1 2 3 4 5

Ivan Skobrev Håvard Bøkko Jan Blokhuijsen Koen Verweij Jonathan Kuck

RUS NOR NED NED USA

139.255 139.365 139.600 139.665 140.645

Points 146.230 146.408 146.603 146.948 147.693

Ladies 500 m Yekaterina Aydova Hyun-Yung Kim Doreen Lamb

Points 420 350 267

Men 500 m

KAZ KOR GER

Points 250 222 205

Men 1000 m

NED KAZ KOR

Ladies 1000 m 1 2 3

Lotte Van Beek Yekaterina Aydova Hyun-Yung Kim

Ladies 1500 m 1 2 3

Pien Keulstra Bo-Reum Kim Kali Christ

Points

Pien Keulstra Bo-Reum Kim Jessica Beckert

Maurice Vriend Seong-Kyu Kim H. H. Lorentzen

KOR RUS CAN

Points 450 308 280

NED KOR NOR

Points 245 240 210

NED NOR NED

Points 275 230 215

NED NED NOR

Points 275 250 225

Men 1500 m 1 2 3

Maurice Vriend H. H. Lorentzen Thomas Krol

285 245 225 Points 290 280 155

Men 3000/5000 m

NED KOR GER

Points 230 190 165

Men Team Pursuit

Ladies Team Pursuit 1 2 3

1 2 3

Seong-Kyu Kim Denis Koval Laurent Dubreuil

NED KOR CAN

Ladies 3000 m 1 2 3

1 2 3

Japan Canada USA

1 2 3

1 2 3

Frank Hermans Maurice Vriend K. R. Fredriksen

Points 250 200 175

Netherlands Norway Japan

ISU World Junior Speed Skating Championships, 25 - 27 February 2011, Seinäjoki (FIN) Ladies Points Men Points

Essent ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships, 10 - 13 March 2011, Inzell (GER) Men 500 m combined times Ladies 500 m combined times

1 2 3 4 5

1 2 3 4 5

Karolina Erbanova Pien Keulstra Lotte Van Beek Miho Takagi Bo-Reum Kim

CZE NED NED JPN KOR

168.221 168.987 169.406 169.609 169.636

Ladies 500 m combined times 1 2 3 4 5

Karolina Erbanova Yekaterina Aydova Hyun-Yung Kim Erina Kamiya Hanne Haugland

CZE KAZ KOR JPN NOR

80.71 80.97 81.61 82.56 82.94

Ladies 1000 m 1 2 3 4 5

Karolina Erbanova Hege Bøkko Kali Christ Lotte Van Beek Pien Keulstra

CZE NOR CAN NED NED

1:21.41 1:22.32 1:22.40 1:22.45 1:22.58

Ladies 1500 m 1 2 3 4 5

Karolina Erbanova Pien Keulstra Hege Bøkko Lotte Van Beek Kali Christ

CZE NED NOR NED CAN

2:03.86 2:04.94 2:05.05 2:05.17 2:05.73

Ladies 3000 m 1 2 3 4 5

Do-Yeong Park Bo-Reum Kim Pien Keulstra Miho Takagi Lotte Van Beek

KOR KOR NED JPN NED

4:21.51 4:23.55 4:25.81 4:28.00 4:29.75

Team Pursuit Ladies 1 2 3 4

Republic of Korea Japan Canada USA

3:14.95 3:18.66 3:22.78 3:23.37

1 2 3 4 5

Sverre L. Pedersen Simen S. Nilsen Kristian R. Fredriksen Maurice Vriend Bailin Li

NOR NOR NOR NED CHN

Men 500 m combined times 1 2 3 4 5

Sung-Kyu Kim Laurent Dubreuil Tsubasa Hasegawa Denis Koval Shunsuke Nakamura

KOR CAN JPN RUS JPN

Men 1000 m

1 2 3 4 5

Sung-Kyu Kim Tommi Pulli Maurice Vriend Håvard Lorentzen Martin Corbett

KOR FIN NED NOR CAN

Men 1500 m

1 2 3 4 5 5

Sverre L. Pedersen Bailin Li Håvard Lorentzen Thomas Krol Simen S. Nilsen Seok-Min Park

NOR CHN NOR NED NOR KOR

Men 3000 m

1 2 3 4 5

Sverre L. Pedersen Kristian R. Fredriksen Simen S. Nilsen Frank Hermans Maurice Vriend

NOR NOR NOR NED NED

Men 5000 m

1 2 3 4 5

Sverre L. Pedersen Kristian R. Fredriksen Simen S. Nilsen Maurice Vriend Frank Hermans

NOR NOR NOR NED NED

Team Pursuit Men

1 2 3 4

Netherlands Norway Japan Russia

156.311 158.021 158.126 158.412 158.489

73.45 73.55 74.35 74.54 75.15 1:13.95 1:14.90 1:14.91 1:15.03 1:15.19 1:54.71 1:55.25 1:55.57 1:56.25 1:56.37 1:56.37 3:55.85 3:56.80 3:57.57 3:59.81 4:01.34 6:51.07 6:51.17 6:53.06 6:53.66 6:57.40 4:11.30 4:41.50 4:06.99 4:13.51

Jenny Wolf Sang-Hwa Lee Beixing Wang Annette Gerritsen Judith Hesse

GER KOR CHN NED GER

75.93 76.17 76.39 76.47 76.63

CAN NED USA NED RUS

1:14.84 1:15.42 1:15.45 1:16.38 1:16.56

Christine Nesbitt Ireen Wüst Heather Richardson Marrit Leenstra Yekaterina Shikhova

Ireen Wüst Diane Valkenburg Jorien Voorhuis Yekaterina Shikhova Christine Nesbitt

NED NED NED RUS CAN

1:54.80 1:56.27 1:57.30 1:57.78 1:57.83

Ireen Wüst Martina Sábliková Stephanie Beckert Jilleanne Rookard Eriko Ishino

NED CZE GER USA JPN

4:01.56 4:02.07 4:04.28 4:05.80 4:06.88

Martina Sábliková Stephanie Beckert Claudia Pechstein Masako Hozumi Diane Valkenburg

CZE GER GER JPN NED

6:50.83 6:54.99 7:00.90 7:03.14 7:04.15

Canada Netherlands Germany Japan Norway

Shani Davis Kjeld Nuis Stefan Groothuis Kyou-Hyuk Lee Denny Morrison

USA NED NED KOR CAN

1:08.45 1:08.67 1:08.73 1:08.91 1:08.92

1 2 3 4 5

Håvard Bøkko Shani Davis Lucas Makowsky Stefan Groothuis Ivan Skobrev

NOR USA CAN NED RUS

1:45.04 1:45.09 1:45.22 1:45.51 1:45.58

1 2 3 4 5

Bob de Jong Seung-Hoon Lee Ivan Skobrev Alexis Contin Håvard Bøkko

NED KOR RUS FRA NOR

6:15.41 6:17.45 6:17.47 6:18.85 6:21.16

1 2 3 4 5

Bob de Jong Bob de Vries Ivan Skobrev Seung-Hoon Lee Shane Dobbin

NED NED RUS KOR NZL

12:48.20 13:04.62 13:08.17 13:08.83 13:17.56

Men Team Poursuit

Ladies Team Poursuit 1 2 3 4 5

1 2 3 4 5

Men 10000 m

Ladies 5000 m 1 2 3 4 5

69.10 69.42 69.43 69.65 69.76

Men 5000 m

Ladies 3000 m 1 2 3 4 5

KOR JPN NED FIN RUS

Men 1500 m

Ladies 1500 m 1 2 3 4 5

Kyou-Hyuk Lee Joji Kato Jan Smeekens Mika Poutala Dmitry Lobkov

Men 1000 m

Ladies 1000 m 1 2 3 4 5

1 2 3 4 5

2:59.74 3:00.43 3:01.82 3:03.20 3:04.26

1 2 3 4 5

USA Canada Netherlands Germany Norway

3:41.72 3:41.85 3:43.44 3:45.54 3:45.73

short tRack European Short Track Speed Skating Championships, 14 - 16 January 2011, Heerenveen (NED) Ladies Points Men Points

ISU World Cup Short Track Speed Skating – Final Standings Ladies 500 m Points Men 500 m

1 Arianna Fontana 2 Bernadett Heidum 3 Martina Valcepina 4 Katerina Novotna 5 Veronika Windisch

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

ITA HUN ITA CZE AUT

115 42 39 37 34

Ladies Relay 1 2 3 4

Netherlands Hungary Italy Germany

4:19.253 4:19.284 4:20.473 4:21.885

1 2 3 4 5

Thibaut Fauconnet Haralds Silovs Sjinkie Knegt Ruslan Zakharov Jack Whelbourne

FRA LAT NED RUS GBR

136 50 47 42 39

Men Relay 1 2 3 4

Netherlands Russia Great Britain Germany

6:54.608 6:54.726 6:56.025 6:56.848

Hee Jung Cheon Se Jung Ahn Martina Valcepina Do Hee Noh Meng Lin

KOR KOR ITA KOR CHN

68 68 50 42 31

Ladies Relay 1 2 3 4

Italy Canada China Republic of Korea

4:20.004 4:20.166 4:32.995 PEN

1 2 3 4 5

Yi Ra Seo Jack Whelbourne Dajing Wu Songbo Liu Jingnan Shi

Points 89 76 40 39 26

KOR GBR CHN CHN CHN

Men Relay 1 2 3 4

France Japan Canada Kazakhstan

4:08.911 4:09.923 4:15.867 4:16.766

World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, 11 - 13 March 2011, Sheffield (GBR) Ladies Points Men Points 1 Ha-Ri Cho KOR 2 Katherine Reutter USA 3 Arianna Fontana ITA 4 Kexin Fan CHN 5 Qiuhong Liu CHN

81 68 57 35 26

1 2 3 4 5

Jinkyu Noh Charles Hamelin Wenhao Liang Simon Cho Jeff Simon

Ladies Relay

Men Relay

1 2 3 4

1 2 3 4

China 4:16.295 Netherlands 4:17.725 Canada 4:18.043 Republic of Korea 4:39.789

Ladies 500 m 1 Kexin Fan 2 Arianna Fontana 3 Qiuhong Liu

Points Men 500 m CHN 44.620 1 Simon Cho ITA 44.687 2 Olivier Jean CHN 44.784 3 Wenhao Liang

Ladies 1000 m 1 Ha-Ri Cho 2 Arianna Fontana 3 Katherine Reutter

Katherine Reutter Seung-Hi Park Ha-Ri Cho

102 50 47 44 26

6:52.731 6:54.693 7:01.659 PEN Points 42.307 42.429 42.493

USA CAN CHN

Men 1000 m KOR 1:38.895 1 ITA 1:40.306 2 USA 2:23.268 3

Ladies 1500 m 1 2 3

KOR CAN CHN USA USA

Canada Germany USA Republic of Korea

Jinkyu Noh Charles Hamelin Wenhao Liang

KOR 1:28.552 CAN 1:28.663 CHN 1:29.203

Men 1500 m

USA 2:33.978 1 KOR 2:34.218 2 KOR 2:34.336 3

Jinkyu Noh Charles Hamelin Jeff Simon

KOR 2:18.291 CAN 2:18.676 USA 2:18.725

World Short Track Speed Skating Team Championships, 19 - 20 March 2011, Warsaw (POL) Ladies Points Men Points 1 2 3 4

Republic of Korea China USA Canada

35 34 29 22

1 2 3 4

Republic of Korea China Canada Japan

Points

Men 1000 m

3136 3000 2440 2394 2202 2147 2088 2014 1850 1562

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Points

Men 1500 m

4210 3490 2600 2480 2382 2000 1572 1554 1512 1440

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Points

Men Relay

Points

4000 2880 2850 2810 2018 1946 1890 1394 1062 524

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

3800 2850 2460 2374 2048 2020 1918 1522 1512 892

Ladies Team

Points

Men Team

Points

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

5112 4490 3400 2694 2684 2070 1958 1416 1092 524

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4880 4290 3600 3304 2106 1874 1712 1590 1110 1096

Ladies 1000 m

World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships, 25 - 27 February 2011, Courmayeur (ITA) Ladies Points Men 1500 m

1 2 3 4 5

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

CAN CHN CHN CHN ITA ITA HUN JPN POL USA

38 35 28 18

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Katherine Reutter Shin-Young Yang Yang Zhou Lana Gehring Qiuhong Liu Marie-Eve Drolet Yui Sakai Hyunsun Hwang Marianne St-Gelais Jianrou Li

USA KOR CHN USA CHN CAN JPN KOR CAN CHN

Ladies 1500 m 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Katherine Reutter Yang Zhou Ha-Ri Cho Marie-Eve Drolet Dam Min Kim Shin-Young Yang Biba Sakurai Bernadett Heidum Lana Gehring Hyunsun Hwang

Ladies Relay 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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

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

USA CHN KOR CAN KOR KOR JPN HUN USA KOR

Simon Cho Thibaut Fauconnet Wenhao Liang Jialiang Han Charles Hamelin Francois-Louis Tremblay Si-Bak Sung Byeong-Jun Kim Jin Yang Francois Hamelin

Points

5000 4250 3840 3412 2725 2452 1373 1289 1149 1132

Marianne St-Gelais Qiuhong Liu Nannan Zhao Kexin Fan Martina Valcepina Arianna Fontana Erika Huszar Yui Sakai Patrycja Maliszewska Jessica Smith

Thibaut Fauconnet Jinkyu Noh Travis Jayner Byeong-Jun Kim Anthony Lobello Sjinkie Knegt Weilong Song Michael Gilday Guillaume Bastille Niels Kerstholt

Maxime Chataignier Xianwei Liu Michael Gilday Guillaume Bastille Jinkyu Noh Weilong Song Jeff Simon Ho-Suk Lee Cheol Min Kim Travis Jayner

Canada Republic of Korea Netherlands USA China France Germany Italy Russia Japan

Canada China Republic of Korea USA France Netherlands Russia Japan Germany Italy

USA FRA CHN CHN CAN CAN KOR KOR CHN CAN

3978 3275 2550 2396 1890 1512 1414 1303 1270 1152

Points FRA KOR USA KOR USA NED CHN CAN CAN NED

4220 3152 2411 2328 2144 1918 1750 1645 1440 1414

Points FRA CHN CAN CAN KOR CHN USA KOR KOR USA

2405 2358 2306 2259 2203 2088 2041 1827 1774 1646

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PAST MASTERS

JAMES HAWKINS (USA) James Hawkins began his sporting career in 1946 with 8 years of competition as a Speed Skater. Once his competitive days were over, he stayed active within the sport and rapidly became a great contributor to the development of Speed Skating in the USA. He served over 20 years on the Board of the Missouri Skating Association where he held several positions including President (19661969), General Secretary and Treasurer (1966-1976). He is one of the founders of the US International Speed Skating Association which is now named US Speedskating. He was a delegate to USOC House of Delegates from 1976 to 1988 and acted as the Manager of the USA Speedskating Team at the Sapporo Olympics (1972). He was a track announcer for 5 ISU World Speed Skating Championships and at the 1960 and 1980 Winter Olympic Games. He became an ISU referee and worked at a number of ISU World Speed Skating Championships and at the Olympic Winter Games of 1980 and 1994. He was a delegate to several ISU Congresses and enjoyed a successful professional career as a lawyer. In June 1996, Hawkins was named as one of the ISU Legal Advisors by the ISU Council.

With his impressive track record and continuous dedication to the sport, Hawkins was elected to the Speedskating Hall of Fame on April 22, 2006 in Salt Lake City (USA), in November 2007 the International Olympic Committee awarded him with the Olympic Order and in 2010 he became Honorary Member of the ISU.