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NO 56 MAY 2015
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I have said already many times that in my opinion the International Sport Federations should adequately give consideration to: sponsors, TV plus media (journalists) and spectators. How to conduct the matter with the spectators? We know that the Figure Skating sport disciplines have complex technical content that only Officials that have the necessary tools and knowledge can evaluate to decide on the relevant level of performance. This means that we do not believe that spectators can replace Officials. However spectators are certainly in a position to determine the level of emotion each performance has produced. This is the point. Emotion is something one cannot control nor precisely evaluate, since it is a very personal reaction and obviously spectators and we must be conscious that there might be many different opinions. A spectator may prefer the Skater A, another may be in favor of Skater B; of course the range can be bigger. But at the end a computer calculates and shows the final result. How about a vote? First of all you have clearly understood that we are speaking about the Figure Skating sport disciplines, since Speed Skating and also Short Track directly determines who is best through the time performed or the winner of the race. In Figure Skating it is different. It is clear that we absolutely need the Officials to evaluate the competition, provide results which in turn determine the winners, and this is because only they have the tools, knowledge and experience to do so. But we were at the point of how about a vote? And more specifically, how about a public vote to determine the best performance given by a Skater during an exhibition? At the moment we are thinking of using mobile technology (phones, tablets, smart watches etc.), but this essential part has not yet been decided. We are well aware that we cannot impose a spectator on which basis to form her/his opinion, but it is important that her/his voice is given the possibility to finally express such an opinion. This might bring the Skaters to present their program at its best, even on the occasion of exhibitions. If such an initiative is adopted, it can put again the Skaters in front of a responsibility, since at the end the spectators will decide which is their favorite and from their point of view most emotional performance, therefore the ISU and also the above mentioned entities can be satisfied. At least this is what we hope. We are conscious that in an exhibition only the best Skaters perform; this is a not perfect aspect since it deprives certain protagonists of the possibility to show what they can do, but the main duty of the ISU is to cover at best the fraction of skating under its control, also in strict relation to the available time. We would be glad to receive constructive suggestions on how to handle the idea of a voting procedure. Thanks for the attention, and we would like to emphasize that this is simply a project. Ottavio Cinquanta President, International Skating Union ELIZAVETA TUKTAMYSHEVA (RUS)
In 2015 Tuktamysheva is the first Russian Lady to win the World title in ten years. During the same season she also won the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and was crowned European Champion.
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ISU COUNCIL
The ISU Council met on March 23 - 24, 2015 in Shanghai (CHN) and granted provisional ISU Membership for the Speed Skating Branch to the Philippine Skating Union while the ISU Members from Greece and Puerto Rico were suspended. The Council provisionally allotted the 2017 ISU European Short Track Speed Skating Championships to the Federazione Italiana Sport Del Ghiaccio. The event is to be held in Torino (ITA) on January 13 - 15, 2017. The ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final (junior and senior) is to be held in Barcelona (ESP) on December 10 - 13, 2015. The allotments for the ISU Figure Skating Challenger Series, ISU World Cup Speed Skating Series and the ISU World Cup Short Track Speed Skating for the season 2015/16 have also been confirmed. The Council will meet again on June 12 - 14, 2015 in Geneva (SUI) on October 16 - 18, 2015 in the new ISU Headquarters in Lausanne (SUI), on March 28 - 29, 2016 in Boston (USA) and on June 5, 11 & 12, 2016 in Dubrovnik (CRO). For more information on the decisions of the Council see ISU Communication 1933.
SPORTS DIRECTORS & SPORT MANAGER FIGURE SKATING
Following a successful season, Skaters and Coaches turn their attention to the new season. The annual ISU Ice Dance Development Training Seminar for Junior and Novice took place in Oberstdorf (GER) on April 19 to May 9. The Seminar helps the participants to familiarize themselves with the new rules and the requirements for the new season. The Synchronized Skating ISU Development Training Seminar will be held in Vierumaki (FIN). The annual ISU Development Pair Skating Seminar for Novice and Junior Pairs was held in Torun (POL). Skater Development along with the Olympic Solida-rity will provide a Development Seminar at the Olympic site in Sochi (RUS). The decision of the IOC is expected in July 2015 regarding the inclusion of Synchronized Skating in the Olympic Winter Games program. In the Speed Skating Branch, the decision to include Mass Start in the Olympic Program will be finalized during the 128th IOC Session in July. The Speed Skating Sports Director has attended a number of events and was involved in the event coordination of all Short Track Speed Skating events. Regular meetings with the Speed Skating and Short Track Speed Skating Technical Committees took
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place. Finally preparation for the 2nd Winter Youth Olympic Games – Lillehammer 2016 is picking up pace as the event approaches with less than a year to go.
ISU TECHNICAL COMMITTEES Single and Pair Skating
The Single and Pair Skating Technical Committee (SPTC) members served as Referees and Technical Controllers at all ISU Championships. They also served as Moderators at the Recognized Judges Seminars in Milan (ITA), Manchester (GBR), Kiev (UKR) and the Sponsored Pair Skating Judges Seminar in Torun (POL). A lot of time was dedicated to reviewing the Officials Assessment Commission (OAC) reports from all ISU Events of the season. The SPTC, jointly with the OAC, decided on Letters of Assessments and Warnings to Judges whose scores were classified as serious errors. The SPTC met during the European and World Championships and studied hundreds of Referee and Technical Controllers reports from the season. Based on these reports and various discussions with Judges, Coaches and Skaters the Committee prepared the new ISU Communication with guidelines for the events of the new season.
Ice Dance
The Ice Dance Technical Committee (IDTC) members participated in ISU Championships as Officials and Moderators. Informal meetings were held with Coaches, Skaters and Officials at the European, Four Continents and World Junior Championships. A presentation and Q&A session was held at the ISU World
Championships in Shanghai (CHN) which was positively received by the participants. The IDTC prepared three ISU Communications: Communications of Requirements for Technical Rules, changes to Calling Specifications and an update to the Scale of Values. Judges and Referees Seminars were held in Ukraine, Russia and Canada. Handbooks will be published early Summer for the training of new prospective International Judges and Referees as well as promotion of Referees and Recertification of Technical Panel members. The annual IDTC Spring meeting was held in May to review the past season, prepare reports and assignments, and prepare for the 2016 Congress.
Synchronized Skating 2015 could also be a historic year for Synchonized Skating. The IOC decision regarding the ISU’s application to include Synchronized Skating in the Olympic Winter Games program is due within the next few months. In the meantime the Synchronized Skating Technical Committee (SySTC) has been busy at the World Junior and World Championships. An increased number of teams participated in this year’s events which shows the positive development of the sport. An innovative training camp for Junior Skaters and their Coaches took place and the SySTC also ran a seminar in Vierumaki (FIN) for all ISU event Officials. Preparation for the upcoming season is underway and will shortly be published. Several new events are planned for the Calendar including the Shanghai Trophy, a mixed discipline event involving Synchronized Skating and Short Track Speed Skating.
The Speed Skating Technical Committee (SSTC) had representatives at a number of ISU Events. The SSTC was responsible for implementing the new ISU Championships qualification system with allocation of quota places for the World Single Distances, World Sprint and World Allround Championships based on results in designated World Cup competitions. The revised ISU Championships calendar structure lived up to expectations, with a very successful World Single Distances Championships, indeed five different countries celebrated a World Champion and a total of 10 countries reached podium finishes at the Event. The SSTC held its annual meeting on the occasion of the World Allround Championships in Calgary (CAN), and the annual season review meeting with coaches took place prior to the ISU World Cup Final in Erfurt. Finally the ISU World Cup calendar 2015/16 was approved by the Council.
Short Track
The Short Track Speed Skating Technical Committee (STSSTC) has been working on a number of projects including the Race Report System for Referees and the Officials Database. Both systems have been tested within their preliminary stages and are due to be completed in 2016. Three ISU Championships took place with the new format voted in by Congress 2014. They were successfully implemented and received and the STSSTC will be looking at ways to further improve the format. The ISU Communication regarding the World Cup Short Track Speed Skating Series 2015/16 has been published and includes changes that will reduce the first qualifying day of the World Cup. Finally the STSSTC met during the ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships in Moscow (RUS) to discuss the projects, proposals for rule changes and seminars for the Officials.
ISU SECRETARIAT
After 18 years in its offices at Chemin de Primerose, the ISU Headquarters is scheduled to move to its new offices at Avenue Juste-Olivier on June 1- 2, 2015. Ms. Nicole Manxholli, Accountant left the ISU for personal reasons at the end of March. We thank Ms. Manxholli for her cooperation during the past three years and wish her the best for the future. In the meantime Ms. Claudia Mercanton has joined the ISU Secretariat.
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EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS
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The ISU European Figure Skating Championships returned to Stockholm (SWE) for the first time since 1912. 151 skaters from 32 ISU Member countries competed in the event. Russia took 9 out of 12 medals, the other three medals went to Spain, France and Italy. Javier Fernandez (ESP) earned his third consecutive European title confidently with 262.49 points followed by Maxim Kovtun (RUS) and Sergei Voronov (RUS). Alexei Bychenko (ISR) came fourth, which is the best result for an Israeli single skater at an ISU Championship so far. Michal Brezina (CZE) placed fifth.
Cheng Peng / Hao Zhang (CHN)
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Elizaveta Tuktamysheva led a sweep of the Russian Ladies, taking her first title with 210.40 points (the highest total score of the season in the Ladies category). She was joined on the podium by Elena Radionova and Anna Pogorilaya, who debuted at the European Championships. Sisters Joshi and Viktoria Helgesson in fourth and fifth place delivered an excellent result for Swedish Figure Skating. Russia also swept the Pairs podium. Yuko Kavaguti/Alexander Smirnov earned their second European title in what was an emotional performance that included a quadruple throw Salchow after sitting out the past season due to injury (207.67 points).
Ksenia Stolbova/Fedor Klimov repeated as silver medalists and Evgenia Tarasova/ Vladimir Morozov claimed the bronze in their European debut. The newly formed couple of Valentina Marchei (a former single skater) and Ondrej Hotarek (ITA) surprised by finishing fourth ahead of Vanessa James/Morgan Cipres (FRA). Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron (FRA) continued their ascent by winning their first European title in their second appearance at the event with 179.97 points. Defending champions Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte (ITA) earned the silver and Alexandra Stepanova/ Ivan Bukin (RUS) clinched the bronze. Elena
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Ilinykh/Ruslan Zhiganshin (RUS), who have been skating together only since spring 2014, came fourth followed by Sara Hurtado/Adria Diaz (ESP), who gave Spain its best Ice Dance result so far.
FOUR CONTINENTS The ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships were held in Seoul (KOR) for the first time. However, Korea hosted the Championships four times before: 2002 and 2010 in Jeonju, 2005 in Gangneung and 2008 in Goyang City. 91 skaters from 15 ISU Members competed in the event. Argentina was represented for the first time with Denis Margalik in the Men’s. Skaters from five ISU Members were on the podium but the USA was the most successful with four medals. Denis Ten (KAZ) made history again, winning the first ISU Championship title for Kazakhstan. The Olympic bronze medalist put in two strong performances to score 289.46 points, which was also the highest total score achieved this season in the Men’s. Joshua Farris (USA) earned the silver, his first medal at the event, while Han Yan (CHN) picked up his second bronze medal since 2013. Daisuke Murakami (JPN) and Shoma Uno (JPN) placed
fourth and fifth. In the Ladies, Polina Edmunds came from fourth place in the short program to strike gold in her debut at the event with 184.02 points. Satoko Miyahara (JPN) collected her second consecutive silver medal and the bronze went to Rika Hongo (JPN). Pair skaters Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN) continued their successful season and took their second Four Continents title since 2013 with 219.48 points. They performed a quadruple throw Salchow. Cheng Peng/Hao Zhang (CHN) claimed the silver medal and veterans Qing Pang/Jian Tong (CHN), who had decided to come out of retirement, captured the bronze. Wenjing Sui/Cong Han (CHN) were fourth and Alexa Scimeca/Chris Knierim (USA) rounded up the top five. Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje (CAN) edged out Madison Chock/Evan Bates (USA) for the gold medal by just 1.28 points in the Ice Dance event and won their second Four Continents title with 177.46 points. Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (USA) secured the bronze medal. Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier (CAN) ranked fourth and Kaitlin Hawayek/Jean-Luc Baker (USA) were fifth.
WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS Estonia’s capital Tallinn hosted the ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships for the first time. 163 skaters from 42 ISU Members participated in the event and the medals went to six different countries. Russia led the medal table with four medals. Shoma Uno (JPN) skated to the gold medal with 232.54 points. Boyang Jin (CHN) came from fifth to take the silver medal and Sota Yamamoto (JPN) rose from seventh to collect the bronze. 2014 World Junior bronze medalist Nathan Chen (USA) ranked fourth while 2014 World Junior silver medalist Adian Pitkeev (RUS) finished fifth this time. Evgenia Medvedeva took the fifth consecutive World Junior Ladies title for Russia. The 2014 World Junior bronze medalist scored 192.97 points. Serafima Sakhanovich (RUS) repeated as silver medalist and Wakaba Higuchi (JPN) picked up the bronze in her World Junior debut. Elizabet Tursynbaeva (KAZ) achieved the best result for a Kazakhstan Lady skater at an ISU Championship so far by coming fourth. Maria Sotskova (RUS) placed fifth. Xiaoyu Yu/Yang Jin (CHN) defended their World Junior title in the Pairs event with
from fifth to claim the bronze, the second medal for an Ukrainian Ice Dance team in the history of Junior Worlds. Natalia Gudina/Vitaly Kurkudym had earned a bronze as well back in 1996.
161 skaters representing 37 ISU Members competed in the Championships. Skaters from eight countries took home the medals: Canada, China, Japan and Russia had two medals each, while France, Kazakhstan, Spain and USA got one. Three world titles went to Europe. Javier Fernandez claimed a historic first figure skating World title for Spain, skating to the gold with 273.90 points. 2014 World Champion Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) settled for the silver this time and Denis Ten (KAZ) added a bronze to his World silver from 2013. Elizaveta Tuktamysheva (RUS) crowned a golden season with the World title, landed a triple Axel in the Short Program and racked up 210.36 points. The 18-year-old from St. Petersburg became the first Russian Lady in ten years to win the World title. Satoko Miyahara (JPN) claimed the silver medal and Elena Radionova (RUS) took the bronze in their debut at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships. Gracie Gold (USA) came fourth ahead of Ashley Wagner (USA). Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN) skated to their first World title following an extraordinary season that saw them winning each single competition they entered. Their score of 221.53 points was also the highest total score achieved this season in the Pairs. Wenjing Sui/Cong Han (CHN) collected the silver medal while the bronze went to Qing Pang/ Jian Tong (CHN), who competed in their 16th World Championship. The couple announced retirement following an international career that had started in 1997. Cheng Peng/Hao Zhang completed a successful event for the Chinese Pairs by finishing fourth and Yuko Kavaguti/Alexander Smirnov (RUS) ranked fifth. Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron (FRA) danced to their first World title, coming from fourth place following the Short Dance. They scored 184.28 points, which was the highest total score this season. Madison Chock/Evan Bates (USA) earned the silver medal and Kaitlyn Weaver/ Andrew Poje (CAN) got the bronze. The French and American ice dancers claimed their first World medals. 2014 World Champions Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte (ITA) finished fourth while Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (USA) were fifth.
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Shanghai hosted the first ISU World Figure Skating Championships held in China.
The fourth edition of the ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating was held in
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178.79 points. Julianne Seguin/Charlie Bilodeau (CAN) took the silver medal and the bronze went to Lina Fedorova/ Maxim Miroshkin (RUS). Anna Yanovskaya/Sergey Mozgov (RUS) danced off with the Ice Dance gold (155.92 points). Lorraine McNamara/Quinn Carpenter (USA) captured the silver medal and Ukraine’s Alexandra Nazarova/ Maxim Nikitin pulled up www.isu.org
FIGURE SKATING Tokyo (JPN). The USA edged out Russia by one point to win their third World Team Trophy gold medals following their victories in 2009 and 2013. Team USA, led by World Ice Dance silver medalists Madison Chock/Evan Bates and U.S. Champion Jason Brown totaled 110 points. Team Russia moved up from third to second place on the last day thanks to their strong Ladies Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Elena Radionova. Team Japan with Olympic Champion Yuzuru Hanyu picked up the bronze medals. Team Canada placed fourth followed by Team China and Team France. For the first time, the ISU used the points system from the Olympic Team event to allow more movement and make the event more exciting. In this format, the skaters receive team points for the Short and for the Free Skating placement, meaning that a first place in the Short Program/Short Dance earns 12 points and a first place in the Free Skating/Free Dance adds another 12 points. Each team consisted of two Men, two Ladies, one Pairs and one Ice Dance couple.
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WORLD JUNIOR SYNCHRONIZED CHAMPIONSHIPS Team Finland 1 (Musketeers) won the title with 172.98 points at the second edition of the ISU World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships which took place in Zagreb (CRO) and are held every two years. Finland 2 (Fintastic) claimed the silver medal and Canada 1 (Les Supremes) took the bronze. Team Russia 2 (Crystal Ice) came fourth followed by Team Canada 2 (Nexxice). 24 teams from 19 ISU Members competed in Zagreb.
WORLD SYNCHRONIZED CHAMPIONSHIPS The ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships were held in Canada for the third time. In what was the 16th edition of the event, Nexxice (Team Canada 1) struck gold on home ice, edging out Marigold Ice Unity (Team Finland 1) by less than one point in an exciting Final. The Canadians earned 214.73 points. Paradise (Team Russia 1) earned the bronze, the first medal for Russia at the World Championships. Team Finland 2 (The Rockettes) finished fourth and Sweden 1 (Team Surprise) placed fifth. 25 teams from 20 ISU members competed in Hamilton.
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The ISU World Cup Speed Skating Series spread across 7 events this season. It started in Obihiro (JPN) and moved to Seoul (KOR). The European events were held in Berlin (GER) and Heerenveen (NED) and again in Hamar (NOR) and Heerenveen (NED). The ISU World Cup Speed Skating Final was held in Erfurt (GER). Heather Richardson (USA) and Pavel Kulizhnikov (RUS) won the Grand World Cup.
500 m Ladies Nao Kodaira (JPN) won one race in Seoul and finished second five times. This was enough for her to win the 500 m World Cup. Sang-Hwa Lee (KOR) had a good season by winning six times, but she did not participate in the final, consequently she dropped to second and Richardson won the all-important races in Erfurt and clenched the third place.
1000 m Ladies Brittany Bowe (USA) won three races including the Final to gain the Cup. Marrit Leenstra (NED) was in close second only 3 points behind while Qishi Li (CHN) got third place.
1500 m Ladies Leenstra (NED) competed five times in the 1500 m and got four podium finishes, including gold in Seoul (KOR), this was enough for her to win the Cup. The Americans Richardson and Bowe competed in four events, Richardson won in the first Heerenveen event and in Hamar while Bowe won at the Final. They finished second and third.
3000 m / 5000 m Ladies Martina Sáblíková (CZE) got a podium finish in all six races and secured the Cup. Claudia Pechstein (GER) won in Seoul, but she competed in each race which gave her enough points to get second place. Although Ireen Wüst (NED) only competed in four out of six races, she was always on the podium, including two wins. This was enough for her to finish third overall.
Team Pursuit Ladies Three Team Pursuit races took place and the Netherlands won all of them. Germany and Poland finished second and third.
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She racked up enough points to win the Cup. Irene Schouten (NED) and Sáblíková follow.
500 m Men Kulizhnikov won eight races and clenched the World Cup. Laurent Dubreuil (CAN) and Ruslan Murashov (RUS) also had a strong season by finishing second and third.
1000 m Men Kulizhnikov also won the 1000 m Cup with three wins. Kjeld Nuis (NED) got six podium finishes and places second overall. Although he was not as consistent as the others Nico Ihle (GER) won one race and managed to finish third in the rankings.
1500 m Men Denny Morrison (CAN) won the final and gave him enough points to take the Cup. Sverre Lunde Pedersen (NOR) won a gold in Seoul and silver in Erfurt and ranks second overall. Nuis won the first race and had an additional two podium finishes and ended in third place overall.
5000 m / 10,000 m Men Jorrit Bergsma (NED) almost had a perfect World Cup season as he got three gold and one silver medal. This was enough for the Cup. Lunde Pedersen although he did not win a gold medal, he was consistent and persistent enough to rank second while veteran Bob de Jong (NED) won once and ranks third.
Team Pursuit Men Korea won two silver medals and won the final which was enough for them to win the Cup. The Netherlands are second and Poland also took the third place in the Men’s event.
Mass Start Men Although Seung-Hoon Lee (KOR) did not compete in the Final, he finished on the podium at every other event including three wins. This guaranteed him the World Cup. Bart Swings (BEL) and Andrea Giovannini (ITA) also had a decent season and finished second and third respectively.
SPEED SKATING EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS Wüst was crowned European Champion for the fourth time in the Uralnaya Molniya ice rink in Chelyabinsk (RUS). Four times European Champion Sáblíková took the silver while the 2013 European silver medalist Linda de Vries (NED) took the bronze. Sven Kramer (NED) took the title for a record seventh time. 2014 silver medalist Koen Verweij (NED) got his second silver while Denis Yuskov (RUS) won his first European medal in front of a home crowd when he got the bronze.
World Single Distance medal with the bronze. 5000 m Olympic Champion Kramer earned his sixth World title and headed a Dutch sweep with Bergsma in second followed by Douwe de Vries. Bergsma reached the top of the podium in the 10,000 m followed by Erik-Jan Kooiman (NED) and Patrick Beckert (GER). The Netherlands won the Team Pursuit for the seventh time followed by Canada and Korea. Arjan Stroetinga (NED) took the Men’s first Mass Start World title, Fabio Francolini (ITA) and Alexis Contin (FRA) also made history by making the podium.
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The ISU World Single Distances Championships took place in the Thialf Stadium in Heerenveen (NED) just before it closed for refurbishment. Richardson had a good season and won the 500 m World title, the 1000 m silver and 1500 m bronze. Her teammate Bowe on the other hand had an excellent Championship winning two titles. She was crowned 1000 m and 1500 m Champion and took the silver medal in the 500 m. It was Richardson and Bowe’s first World titles in their career. Kodaira completed the 500 m podium by winning bronze and Karolina Erbanová (CZE) also got bronze but in the 1000 m. European Champion Wüst won the silver medal in the 1500 m and the 3000 m. Six time World 5000 m Champion and two times Olympic 5000 m Champion Sáblíková was strong this season and got two World titles in the long distances, 3000 m and 5000 m. Marije Joling (NED) is the bronze medalist in the 3000 m. Carlijn Achtereekte (NED) and Pechstein were second and third in the 5000 m. The Japanese Ladies surprised the world by taking the gold in the Team Pursuit. The Netherlands were disappointed to only finish second and Russia followed in third. The first ever Ladies’ World Mass Start Champion is Schouten, she outsprinted Blondin and teammate Mariska Huisman (NED). On the Men’s side, Kulizhnikov won his first World title in the 500 m and got the silver medal in the 1000 m. Mulder and Dubreuil were also on the 500 m podium. Three times 1000 m World Champion Shani Davis (USA) gained his title back in Heerenveen while Nuis got the bronze medal. Reigning 1500 m Champion Yuskov got his second title while two times World 1500 m Champion Morrison had to settle for silver and Verweij got his first
At the ISU World Junior Speed Skating Championships in Warsaw (POL) Melissa Wijfje (NED) traded last year’s allround silver medal for gold. Wijfje also got the gold medal in the 1500m and 3000 m. Her teammate Sanneke de Neeling finished second overall and Yelizaveta Kazelina (RUS) got the bronze. Vanessa Bittner (AUT) took the 500 m, 1000 m and Mass Start gold medals. On the Men’s side Patrick Roest (NED) took his second consecutive allround title and finished on the podium in each distance and got a second gold in the 1500 m. Min-Seok Kim (KOR) took allround silver and Marcel Bosker (NED) bronze. Jun-Ho Kim (KOR) won the 500 m, Fan Yang (CHN) the 1000 m and Nils van der
Jorrit Bergsma (NED)
Poel (SWE) the 5000 m. Korean Hyun-Min Oh won the Mass Start. Korea dominated the Team Sprint as both the Ladies’ and Men took the gold while the Netherlands took the Team Pursuit titles. The Team Sprint and the Mass Start were added to the World Junior Championships program this season.
WORLD SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIPS Bowe and Kulizhnikov were crowned ISU World Sprint Speed Skating Champions in Astana (KAZ) with the fastest sprint combination ever skated on a lowland rink. 2013 Sprint Champion Richardson took the silver while Erbanová finished third. Hein Otterspeer (NED) finished second in the Men’s while Aleksey Yesin (RUS) got his first ISU Championships medal with the bronze.
WORLD ALLROUND CHAMPIONSHIPS Sáblíková was crowned World Allround Speed Skating Champions at the Olympic Oval in Calgary (CAN) for the third time in her career. Wüst finished second and Ida Njåtun (NOR) won bronze. Kramer grabbed a record seventh World Allround title. Denis Yuskov (RUS) won the silver while Sverre Lunde Pedersen (NOR) took the bronze and his first ISU Championship medal.
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The ISU World Cup Short Track Speed Skating series was held in six countries across three months. It started in Salt Lake City (USA) and moved to Montreal (CAN). In December the series moved to Asia making a stop in Shanghai (CHN) then Seoul (KOR). The last legs were in Dresden (GER) and Erzurum (TUR) where the Overall World Cup winners were announced. The Overall ranking is determined by points that can be earned in each distance. Only the six best scores are used to calculate the total points for individual races and the four best scores in Relay.
Suk Hee Shim (KOR) won two World Cup events and finished on the podium twice racking up enough points to win the Cup. Marianne St-Gelais (CAN) is second with one gold, one silver and two bronze medal while Minjeong Choi (KOR) classifies third with one gold and two silver medals.
500 m Ladies It was almost a perfect season for Kexin Fan (CHN) as she won 5 out of 6 races and got the bronze in the other race. She was not far off getting maximum points, and unsurprisingly finished first. Ji-Soo Jeon (KOR) got two silver and one bronze medal. Marianne St-Gelais (CAN) got three podium finishes and ended third overall.
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1500 m Ladies Minjeong Choi (KOR) won four events and leads the Ladies’ 1500 m World Cup. Suk Hee Shim (KOR) got two golds one silver and bronze medal and comes second while Yutong Han (CHN) with one gold and one silver is third.
3000 m Relay Ladies Korea won their first three races and got the silver in their last two races which guaranteed them the first place in the overall rankings. China follows, with two gold but only managed to rank second. Canada has three bronze medals the remaining gold and finish the season in third.
500 m Men Dmitry Migunov (RUS) is the only skater to have won three races and consequently he finished first. Dajing Wu (CHN) is second while Yoon-Gy Kwak (KOR) is third.
1000 m Men Two gold and two silver medals was enough for Semen Elistratov (RUS) to clench the World Cup. Sjinkie Knegt ranks second with two silver and three bronze medals. Da Woon Sin (KOR) won twice and got a bronze medal, he finishes the season in third
1500 m Men Da Woon Sin (KOR) finished on the podium of all his races, including four wins. He did not have to participate in the last two races as the World Cup was already his. Dequan Chen (CHN) finishes second just ahead of Charles Hamelin (CAN).
3000 m Relay Men Although the Netherlands started the season with difficulty, they eventually managed to win two Relays and got enough points to
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Minjeong Choi (KOR)
finish first. Korea also won two races but finish in very close second. China won one race and three podium finishes means they stand in third
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS Elise Christie (GBR) won her first European title in Dordrecht (NED). Sofia Prosvirnova (RUS) and Patrycja Maliszewska (POL) also won their first ISU Championships medals by finishing second and third respectfully. The 2012 European Champion Sjinkie Knegt (NED) won his second title in front of a home crowd ahead of Olympic Champion Viktor An (RUS) and last year’s silver medalist Semen Elistratov (RUS) got the bronze. Russia won both the Ladies’ and Men’s title in the Relay events.
WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS Sangjeong Kong (KOR) headed a Korean sweep in the Ladies’ ISU World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships that took place in Osaka (JPN). Kim Jiyoo and Son Hakyung completed the podium. Dagyeom
Kim (KOR) took the Championship title on the Men’s side followed by Park Jiwon (KOR) and Sandor Liu Shaolin (HUN). Korea continued to dominate the Championships by taking the Relay titles in both the Ladies’ and Men’s event.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS The ISU Word Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place in Moscow (RUS) last March. New comer on the senior circuit Minjeong Choi (KOR) took the Overall World title. Arianna Fontana (ITA) earned the silver medal while reigning overall Champion Suk Hee Shim (KOR) got the bronze. Sjinkie Knegt (NED) won his first World title. Se Yeong Park (KOR) got the silver overall medal while Dajing Wu (CHN) received bronze. In the 500 m Kexin Fan (CHN) won her third title while Elise Christie (GBR) won her second consecutive silver medal. Olympic silver medalist Arianna Fontana (ITA) had to settle for bronze. Reigning 500 m Champion Dajing Wu (CHN) won his second World title. Sandor Liu Shaolin (HUN) wins his first World medal
with the silver while Tianyu Han (CHN) took the bronze. The Ladies’ 1000 m podium is very similar to the 500 m, the only difference is that Minjeong Choi (KOR) won the World title. Christie and Fontana got their second silver and bronze medals. Se Yeong Park (KOR) was crowned World 1000 m Champion on the Men’s side. Charles Hamelin (CAN) took the silver and Jingnan Shi (CHN) became the bronze medalist. Fontana received her first ever World title in the 1500 m and beat the reigning World Champion Suk Hee Shim (KOR). Minjeong Choi (KOR) completes the podium. Semen Elistratov (RUS) wins his first World title in the 1500 m. Sjinkie Knegt (NED) finished with the silver while Olympic Champion Charles Hamelin (CAN) finished third. Korea won the Ladies’ Relay beating reigning Champions China. Italy finished third. On the Men’s side China won their first relay since 2000. Hungary got the silver and the Netherlands bronze.
FIGURE SKATING
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ISU EUROPEAN FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, JANUARY 26 FEBRUARY 1 2015, Stockholm (SWE)
ISU FOUR CONTINENTS FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, FEBRUARY 9 -15 2015, SEOUL (KOR)
ISU WORLD JUNIOR FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 2 - 8 2015, TALLINN (EST)
Ladies Points
Ladies Points
Ladies Points
1 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
RUS 210.40
1 Polina Edmunds
USA 184.02
1 Evgenia Medvedeva
RUS 192.97
2 Elena Radionova
RUS 209.54
2 Satoko Miyahara
JPN 181.59
2 Serafima Sakhanovich
RUS 186.15
3 Anna Pogorilaya
RUS 191.81
3 Rika Hongo
JPN 177.44
3 Wakaba Higuchi
JPN 185.57
4 Joshi Helgesson
SWE 169.07
4 Gracie Gold
USA 176.58
4 Elizabet Tursynbaeva
KAZ 173.44
5 Viktoria Helgesson
SWE 166.39
5 Zijun Li
CHN 175.92
5 Maria Sotskova
RUS 169.04
6 Mae Berenice Meite
FRA 156.47
6 Yuka Nagai
JPN 168.09
6 Kaori Sakamoto
JPN 166.25
7 Angelina Kuchvalska
LAT 156.37
7 Gabrielle Daleman
CAN 167.09
7 Yuka Nagai
JPN 163.93
8 Roberta Rodeghiero
ITA
8 Samantha Cesario
USA 166.76
8 Karen Chen
USA 157.30
9 Nicole Schott
GER 153.63
9 So Youn Park
KOR 163.75
9 Da Bin Choi
KOR 156.38
10 Laurine Lecavelier
FRA 151.43
10 Alaine Chartrand
CAN 161.22
10 Diana Nikitina
LAT 148.63
154.52
Men
Points
Men
Points
Men Points
1 Javier Fernandez
ESP 262.49
1 Denis Ten
KAZ 289.46
1 Shoma Uno
JPN 232.54
2 Maxim Kovtun
RUS 235.68
2 Joshua Farris
USA 260.01
2 Boyang Jin
CHN 229.70
3 Sergei Voronov
RUS 233.05
3 Han Yan
CHN 259.47
3 Sota Yamamoto
JPN 215.45
4 Alexei Bychenko
ISR
4 Daisuke Murakami
JPN 256.47
4 Nathan Chen
USA 213.85
5 Michal Brezina
CZE 220.11
5 Shoma Uno
JPN 256.45
5 Adian Pitkeev
RUS 210.71
6 Peter Liebers
GER 213.57
6 Jason Brown
USA 243.21
6 Alexander Petrov
RUS 206.23
7 Adian Pitkeev
RUS 210.87
7 Takahito Mura
JPN 235.75
7 Deniss Vasiljevs
LAT 202.73
8 Ivan Righini
ITA
8 Misha Ge
UZB 226.20
8 Daniel Samohin
ISR
9 Florent Amodio
FRA 210.11
9 Yi Wang
CHN 214.76
9 Jin Seo Kim
KOR 202.25
10 Daniel Samohin
ISR
10 Adam Rippon
USA 212.30
10 Andrew Torgashev
USA 201.74
220.22
210.75 209.93
202.39
Pairs Points
Pairs Points
1 Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov RUS 207.67
1 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
CAN 219.48
1 Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin
2 Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov
2 Cheng Peng / Hao Zhang
CHN 201.45
2 Julianne Seguin / Charlie Bilodeau CAN 176.32
3 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov RUS 183.02
3 Qing Pang / Jian Tong
CHN 199.99
3 Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin
RUS 154.33
4 Valentina Marchei / Ondrej Hotarek
ITA
4 Wenjing Sui / Cong Han
CHN 198.88
4 Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov
RUS 140.39
5 Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres
FRA 167.29
5 Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim
USA 187.98
5 Caitlin Fields / Ernie Utah Stevens
USA 138.62
6 Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise
ITA
6 Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch
CAN 173.50
6 Ami Koga / Francis Boudreau Audet
JPN 134.97
7 Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave
GER 155.27
7 Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier
USA 167.57
7 Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson
USA 133.57
8 Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer
AUT 136.80
8 Tarah Kayne / Daniel O Shea
USA 166.67
8 Anna Duskova / Martin Bidar
CZE 128.80
9 Caitlin Yankowskas / Hamish Gaman
GBR 123.42
9 Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro CAN 160.70
9 Shalena Rau / Sebastian Arcieri
CAN 128.66
10 Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara
10 Mary Orr / Phelan Simpson
CAN 128.25
RUS 201.11
10 Alessandra Cernuschi / Filippo Ambrosini ITA
175.39 155.77
123.19
Ice Dance Points 1 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
FRA 179.97
2 Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte
ITA 171.52
3 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
RUS 160.95
4 Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin
JPN 132.84
Pairs Points CHN 178.79
Ice Dance Points
Ice Dance Points
1 Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
CAN 177.46
1 Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov RUS 155.92
2 Madison Chock / Evan Bates
USA 176.18
2 Lorraine Mcnamara /
3 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
USA 170.79
RUS 159.83
4 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
CAN 162.25
3 Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin UKR 146.08
5 Sara Hurtado / Adria Diaz
ESP 155.81
5 Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
USA 149.98
4 Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons
USA 140.94
6 Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri
ITA
6 Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam
CAN 149.92
5 Mackenzie Bent / Garrett Mackeen
CAN 140.30
7 Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi
GER 152.57
8 Federica Testa / Lukas Csolley
SVK 150.57
7 Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu
CHN 130.95
6 Madeline Edwards / Zhao Kai Pang
CAN 135.12
8 Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion
JPN 122.67
7 Natalia Kaliszek / Maksim Spodirev
POL 131.78
KOR 120.76
8 Angelique Abachkina / Louis Thauron
FRA 131.31
CHN 115.12
9 Carolina Moscheni / Adam Lukacs
HUN 130.41
154.61
9 Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sorensen
DEN 150.53
9 Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov
10 Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin
RUS 149.29
10 Yue Zhao / Xun Zheng
Quinn Carpenter
USA 146.90
SYNCHRONIZED SKATING
ISU WORLD FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 23-29 2015, SHANGHAI (CHN)
ISU WORLD JUNIOR SYNCHRONIZED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 13 -14 2015, ZAGREB (CRO)
ISU WORLD SYNCHRONIZED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, APRIL 10 - 11 2015, HAMILTON (CAN)
Ladies Points
Teams Points
Teams Points
1 Team Finland 1
172.98
2 Team Finland 2
166.73
1 Team Canada 1 2 Team Finland 1 3 Team Russia 1 4 Team Finland 2 5 Team Sweden 1 6 Team Canada 2 7 Team USA 1 8 Team USA 2 9 Team Russia 2 10 Team Germany 11 Team Sweden 2 12 Team Japan 13 Team Italy 14 Team France 15 Team Switzerland 16 Team Czech Republic 17 Team Hungary 18 Team Croatia 19 Team Spain 20 Team Australia 21 Team Great Britain 22 Team Mexico 23 Team Belgium 24 Team Turkey 25 Team Latvia
1 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva
RUS 210.36
2 Satoko Miyahara
JPN 193.60
3 Elena Radionova
RUS 191.47
3 Team Canada 1
162.09
4 Gracie Gold
USA 188.96
4 Team Russia 2
156.43
5 Ashley Wagner
USA 185.01
5 Team Canada 2
154.10
6 Rika Hongo
JPN 184.58
6 Team USA 1
152.82
7 Kanako Murakami
JPN 179.66
7 Team Russia 1
147.78
8 Polina Edmunds
USA 177.83
8 Team USA 2
147.11
9 Zijun Li
CHN 165.22
9 Team Sweden 1
142.07
10 Mae Berenice Meite
FRA 162.75
10 Team Sweden 2
141.07
Men Points 1 Javier Fernandez
ESP 273.90
2 Yuzuru Hanyu
JPN 271.08
3 Denis Ten
KAZ 267.72
4 Jason Brown
USA 248.29
5 Nam Nguyen
CAN 242.59
6 Misha Ge
UZB 234.89
7 Maxim Kovtun
RUS 230.70
8 Adam Rippon
USA 229.71
9 Florent Amodio
FRA 229.62
10 Han Yan
CHN 229.15
11 Team Germany
127.52
12 Team Italy
123.90
13 Team Switzerland
103.64
14 Team Great Britain
100.55
15 Team Czech Republic
96.12
16 Team France
93.03
17 Team Australia
82.76
18 Team Croatia
80.52
19 Team Spain
74.70
20 Team Hungary
70.64
21 Team Belgium
62.85
22 Team Latvia
62.66
23 Team South Africa
58.45
24 Team Turkey
33.62
214.73 214.06 203.48 202.44 201.97 199.77 192.73 171.79 170.46 164.34 162.02 141.40 141.04 137.93 127.19 124.66 105.16 97.16 96.87 96.06 82.68 81.62 68.41 64.00 61.39
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Pairs Points 1 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
CAN 221.53
2 Wenjing Sui / Cong Han
CHN 214.12
3 Qing Pang / Jian Tong
CHN 212.77
4 Cheng Peng / Hao Zhang
CHN 206.63
5 Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov
RUS 198.91
6 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov
RUS 198.46
7 Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim
USA 185.81
8 Julianne Seguin / Charlie Bilodeau
CAN 178.03
9 Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres
FRA 177.34
10 Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov
RUS 173.58
Ice Dance Points 1 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron
FRA 184.28
2 Madison Chock / Evan Bates
USA 181.34
3 Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
CAN 179.42
4 Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte
ITA
5 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
USA 172.03
ISU WORLD TEAM TROPHY, APRIL 16-19 2015, TOKYO (JPN)
6 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
CAN 165.22
7 Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin
RUS 164.84
Teams Points
8 Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin
RUS 159.13
1 USA
110
4 Canada
82
9 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin
RUS 156.95
2 Russia
109
5 China
77
10 Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue
USA 156.56
3 Japan
103
6 France
59
10 Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi
GER 154.27
177.50
Team USA
Points
SPEED SKATING
ISU WORLD SINGLE DISTANCES SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, FEBRUARY 12-15 2015, HEERENVEEN (NED)
Ladies 500 m
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Time
ISU EUROPEAN SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, JANUARY 10-11 2015, CHELYABINSK (RUS)
Men 500 m Time
Ladies Points
1 Heather Richardson
USA
1:15.332
1 Pavel Kulizhnikov
RUS
1:08.931
1 Ireen Wüst
NED
161.734
2 Brittany Bowe
USA
1:15.785
2 Michel Mulder
NED
1:09.622
2 Martina Sábliková
CZE
162.414
3 Nao Kodaira
JPN
1:15.893
3 Laurent Dubreuil
CAN
1:09.694
3 Linda de Vries
NED
163.695
4 Thijsje Oenema
NED
1:15.996
4 Hein Otterspeer
NED
1:09.774
4 Olga Graf
RUS
164.531
5 Sang-Hwa Lee
KOR
1:16.004
5 Artur Was
POL
1:09.807
5 Jorien Voorhuis
NED
165.003
Ladies 1000 m
Time
Men 1000 m
Time
Men
Points
1 Brittany Bowe
USA
1:13.90
1 Shani Davis
USA
1:08.57
1 Sven Kramer
NED
149.928
2 Heather Richardson
USA
1:14.49
2 Pavel Kulizhnikov
RUS
1:08.61
2 Koen Verweij
NED
150.107
3 Karolina Erbanová
CZE
1:15.26
3 Kjeld Nuis
NED
1:08.71
3 Denis Yuskov
RUS
150.696
NOR
150.764
BEL
151.448
4 Ireen Wüst
NED
1:15.50
4 Denny Morrison
CAN
1:08.72
4 Sverre Lunde Pedersen
5 Qishi Li
CHN
1:15.65
5 Hein Otterspeer
NED
1:08.88
5 Bart Swings
Ladies 1500 m
Time
Men 1500 m
Time
1 Brittany Bowe
USA
1:54.27
1 Denis Yuskov
RUS
1:43.36
2 Ireen Wüst
NED
1:54.76
2 Denny Morrison
CAN
1:45.08
3 Heather Richardson
USA
1:55.60
3 Koen Verweij
NED
1:45.15
4 Martina Sábliková
CZE
1:55.65
4 Shani Davis
USA
1:45.84
5 Marrit Leenstra
NED
1:55.90
5 Alexis Contin
FRA
1:46.02
Ladies 3000 m
Time
Men 5000 m
Time
ISU WORLD SPRINT SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, FEBRUARY 28 MARCH 1 2015, ASTANA (KAZ)
Ladies Points 1 Brittany Bowe
USA
149.600
2 Heather Richardson
USA
150.815
3 Karolina Erbanová
CZE
152.625
4 Yekaterina Aydova
KAZ
153.025
5 Olga Fatkulina
RUS
153.315
1 Martina Sábliková
CZE
4:02.17
1 Sven Kramer
NED
6:09.65
2 Ireen Wüst
NED
4:03.46
2 Jorrit Bergsma
NED
6:11.53
3 Marije Joling
NED
4:05.51
3 Douwe de Vries
NED
6:18.24
4 Jorien Voorhuis
NED
4:05.76
4 Denis Yuskov
RUS
6:19.74
Men Points
5 Claudia Pechstein
GER
4:05.95
5 Alexis Contin
FRA
6:19.99
1 Pavel Kulizhnikov
RUS
138.325
2 Hein Otterspeer
NED
139.335
3 Aleksey Yesin
RUS
139.855
12:54.82
4 Michel Mulder
NED
139.865
5 Espen Aarnes Hvammen
NOR
140.250
Ladies 5000 m 1 Martina Sábliková
CZE
Time 6:52.73
Men 10,000 m 1 Jorrit Bergsma
NED
Time
2 Carlijn Achtereekte
NED
6:54.49
2 Erik Jan Kooiman
NED
13:02.57
3 Claudia Pechstein
GER
6:56.53
3 Patrick Beckert
GER
13:10.95
4 Jorien Voorhuis
NED
7:05.64
4 Sverre Lunde Pedersen
NOR
13:12.40
5 Olga Graf
RUS
7:07.89
5 Aleksandr Rumyantsev
RUS
13:14.62
Men Team Pursuit
Time
Ladies Team Pursuit
Time
1 Japan
3:01.53
1 Netherlands
3:41.40
2 Netherlands
3:01.55
2 Canada
3:44.09
3 Republic of Korea
3:44.96
4 Russia
3:46.78
5 Italy
3:47.07
Mass Start Men
Points
3 Russia 4 Canada 5 Republic of Korea
Mass Start Ladies
3:03.19 3:04.11 3:05.84
Points
ISU WORLD ALLROUND SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 7 - 8 2015, CALGARY (CAN)
Ladies Points 1 Martina Sábliková
CZE
157.717
2 Ireen Wüst
NED
159.278
3 Ida Njåtun
NOR
159.795
4 Heather Richardson
USA
160.046
5 Linda de Vries
NED
160.527
Men Points 1 Sven Kramer
NED
146.509
40
2 Denis Yuskov
RUS
146.934
3 Sverre Lunde Pedersen NOR
147.182
1 Irene Schouten
NED
60
1 Arjan Stroetinga
NED
60
2 Ivanie Blondin
CAN
40
2 Fabio Francolini
ITA
3 Mariska Huisman
NED
20
3 Alexis Contin
FRA
20
4 Miho Takagi
JPN
8
4 Haralds Silovs
LAT
8
4 Bart Swings
BEL
148.299
5 Vanessa Bittner
AUT
6
5 Andrea Giovannini
ITA
6
5 Alexis Contin
FRA
148.738
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ISU WORLD CUP SPEED SKATING – FINAL STANDINGS
Men 500 m Points
Mass Start Ladies
1 Nao Kodaira
JPN
926
1 Pavel Kulizhnikov
RUS
930
1 Ivanie Blondin
CAN
466
2 Sang-Hwa Lee
KOR
880
2 Laurent Dubreuil
CAN
771
3 Heather Richardson
USA
710
3 Ruslan Murashov
RUS
565
2 Irene Schouten
NED
432
4 Judith Hesse
GER
538
4 Michel Mulder
NED
560
3 Martina Sábliková
CZE
405
5 Brittany Bowe
USA
535
5 Nico Ihle
GER
558
4 Nana Takagi
JPN
330
6 Karolina Erbanová
CZE
523
6 Artur Was
POL
526
5 Miho Takagi
JPN
255
ITA
242
Ladies 500 m
Points
Points
7 Thijsje Oenema
NED
486
7 Tae-Bum Mo
KOR
495
6 Francesca Lollobrigida
8 Margot Boer
NED
459
8 Jan Smeekens
NED
475
7 Claudia Pechstein
GER
234
9 Floor van den Brandt
NED
436
9 Espen Aarnes Hvammen
NOR
453
8 Bo-Reum Kim
KOR
168
10 Yekaterina Aydova
KAZ
429
10 Aleksey Yesin
RUS
302
9 Ye-Jin Jun
KOR
160
10 Jelena Peeters
BEL
148
Ladies 1000 m
Points
Men 1000 m
Points
1 Brittany Bowe
USA
510
1 Pavel Kulizhnikov
RUS
600
2 Marrit Leenstra
NED
507
2 Kjeld Nuis
NED
571
3 Qishi Li
CHN
485
3 Nico Ihle
GER
402
1 Seung-Hoon Lee
KOR
450
BEL
387
Mass Start Men
Points
4 Karolina Erbanová
CZE
407
4 Stefan Groothuis
NED
324
2 Bart Swings
5 Heather Richardson
USA
400
5 Denny Morrison
CAN
321
3 Andrea Giovannini
ITA
362
6 Ireen Wüst
NED
235
6 Samuel Schwarz
GER
313
4 Jorrit Bergsma
NED
280
7 Vanessa Bittner
AUT
211
7 Hein Otterspeer
NED
252
8 Yekaterina Aydova
KAZ
194
8 Shani Davis
USA
250
5 Marco Weber
GER
218
9 Laurine van Riessen
NED
179
9 Vincent De Haitre
CAN
246
6 Shane Williamson
JPN
189
10 Nao Kodaira
JPN
166
10 Aleksey Yesin
RUS
236
7 Sverre Lunde Pedersen
NOR
183
8 Cheol-Min Kim
KOR
179
9 Haralds Silovs
LAT
158
10 Linus Heidegger
AUT
150
Ladies 1500 m
Points
Men 1500 m
Points
1 Marrit Leenstra
NED
410
1 Denny Morrison
CAN
409
2 Heather Richardson
USA
400
2 Sverre Lunde Pedersen
NOR
405
3 Brittany Bowe
USA
370
3 Kjeld Nuis
NED
381
4 Ireen Wüst
NED
340
4 Wouter Olde Heuvel
NED
301
5 Martina Sábliková
CZE
313
5 Jan Szymañski
POL
293
6 Ida Njåtun
NOR
304
6 Konrad Niedžwiedzki
POL
288
7 Marije Joling
NED
251
7 Bart Swings
BEL
285
8 Linda de Vries
NED
238
8 Thomas Krol
NED
284
9 Yuliya Skokova
RUS
234
9 Shani Davis
USA
255
10 Olga Graf
RUS
199
10 Zbigniew Bródka
POL
172
Ladies Team Pursuit
Points
1 Netherlands
350
2 Germany
240
3 Poland
236
4 Japan
226
5 Russia
180
6 Canada
160
7 Republic of Korea
115
8 China
111
Ladies 3000 m / 5000 m Points
Men 5000 m / 10,000 m Points
1 Martina Sábliková
CZE
580
1 Jorrit Bergsma
NED
430
2 Claudia Pechstein
GER
360
2 Sverre Lunde Pedersen
NOR
415
3 Ireen Wüst
NED
350
3 Bob de Jong
NED
346
4 Marije Joling
NED
350
4 Patrick Beckert
GER
331
5 Jorien Voorhuis
NED
282
5 Aleksandr Rumyantsev
RUS
325
6 Diane Valkenburg
NED
271
6 Bart Swings
BEL
320
7 Carlijn Achtereekte
NED
258
7 Douwe de Vries
NED
296
Men Team Pursuit Points
8 Ivanie Blondin
CAN
242
8 Wouter Olde Heuvel
NED
256
1 Republic of Korea
310
9 Olga Graf
RUS
223
9 Sven Kramer
NED
200
10 Bente Kraus
GER
148
10 Seung-Hoon Lee
KOR
151
2 Netherlands
290
3 Poland
205
4 Italy
166 166
9 Czech Republic
35
Ladies Overall Ranking Points
Men Overall Ranking Points
5 Russia
1 Heather Richardson
1
985
6 Canada
165
806
7 Norway
141
786
8 Japan
112 100
2 Martina Sábliková 3 Brittany Bowe
USA CZE USA
1195 1096 1045
2 3
Pavel Kulizhnikov Bart Swings
RUS BEL
Sverre Lunde Pedersen NOR
4 Ireen Wüst
NED
855
4
Kjeld Nuis
NED
750
9 Germany
5 Marrit Leenstra
NED
796
5
Jorrit Bergsma
NED
710
10 Austria
85
15
SPEED SKATING
ISU WORLD JUNIOR SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, FEBRUARY 20-22 2015, WARSAW (POL)
16
Ladies Points
Ladies 500 m
Time
Ladies 1000 m
1 Melissa Wijfje
NED
166.806
1 Vanessa Bittner
AUT
40.26
1 Vanessa Bittner
AUT
1:19.73
2 Sanneke Deneeling
NED
167.023
2 Darya Kachanova
RUS
40.49
2 Sanneke de Neeling
NED
1:20.44
3 Yelizaveta Kazelina
RUS
168.039
3 Nan Sun
CHN
40.54
3 Yelizaveta Kazelina
RUS
1:20.63
4 Ji-Woo Park
KOR
170.736
4 Sanneke Deneeling
NED
40.63
4 Melissa Wijfje
NED
1:21.20
5 Nikola Zdráhalová
CZE
170.877
5 Mi JANG
KOR
40.64
5 Nan Sun
CHN
1:22.21
Time
Men Points
Men 500 m Time
Men 1000 m
1 Patrick Roest
NED
151.987
1 Jun-Ho Kim
KOR
36.43
1 Fan Yang
CHN
1:12.80
2 Min-Seok Kim
KOR
154.328
2 Fan Yang
CHN
36.72
2 Patrick Roest
NED
1:13.01
3 Marcel Bosker
NED
154.872
3 Patrick Roest
NED
37.30
3 Stanislav Palkin
KAZ
1:13.82
4 Fan Yang
CHN
155.151
4 Seung-Yong Yang
KOR
37.32
4 Wesly Dijs
NED
1:13.85
5 Emery Lehman
USA
155.892
5 Stanislav Palkin
KAZ
37.35
5 Min-Seok Kim
KOR
1:13.91
Mass Start Ladies
Points
Points
ISU JUNIOR WORLD CUP SPEED SKATING – FINAL STANDINGS
Mass Start Men
Time
1 Vanessa Bittner
AUT
30
1 Hyun-Min Oh
KOR
30
Ladies 500 m
2 Cho-Won PARK
KOR
20
2 Marcel Bosker
NED
20
1 Darya Kachanova
RUS
264
2 Min-Sun Kim
KOR
255
3 Xue Lin
CHN
180
4 Sanneke de Neeling
NED
165
5 Nan Sun
CHN
147
6 Yelizaveta Kazelina
RUS
140
7 Martine Ripsrud
NOR
119
8 Anastasiya Chepil
RUS
114
9 Xiaoxuan Shi
CHN
105
10 Vanessa Bittner
AUT
100
3 Melissa Wijfje
NED
10
4 Elena Møller-Rigas
DEN
5
5 Leia Behlau
GER
3
3 Bin Zhou
CHN
10
4 Linus HEIDEGGER
AUT
5
5 Emery Lehman
USA
3
Points
Men 500 m Points 1 Mikhail Kazelin
RUS
245
2 Stanislav Palkin
KAZ
225
3 Seung-Yong Yang
KOR
224
4 Viktor Mushtakov
RUS
170
5 Ignat Golovatyuk
BLR
170
6 Artyom Krikunov
KAZ
149
7 Han-Song Kim
KOR
135
8 Hayato Nakamura
JPN
125
9 Henrik Fagerli Rukke
NOR
112
10 Bjørn Magnussen
NOR
112
Mass Start Ladies
Points
1 2 3 4 5
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NED GER GER KOR NED
190 186 178 159 152
Ladies 1500 m 1 Melissa Wijfje
NED
Time 2:04.15
Ladies 3000 m 1 Melissa Wijfje
NED
Time 4:22.58
2 Sanneke de Neeling
NED
2:05.29
2 Sanneke de Neeling
NED
4:26:46
3 Ji-Woo Park
KOR
2:06.80
3 Yelizaveta Kazelina
RUS
4:27.65
4 Nikola Zdràhalovà
CZE
2:06.89
4 Isabelle Weidemann
CAN
4:28:55
5 Yelizaveta Kazelina
RUS
2:07.40
5 Ji-Woo Park
KOR
4:29.49
Men 1500 m 1 Patrick Roest
NED
Time 1:52.31
Men 5000 m 1 Nils van der Poel
SWE
Time 6:46.57
2 Min-Seok Kim
KOR
1:53.26
2 Patrick Roest
NED
6:47.46
3 Emery Lehman
USA
1:53.82
3 Emery Lehman
USA
6:50.37
4 Sergey Trofimov
RUS
1:53.86
4 Marcel Bosker
NED
6:50.87
5 Marcel Bosker
NED
1:54.54
5 Min-Seok Kim
KOR
6:54.80
Ladies 1000 m
Points
Ladies 1500 m
Points
Ladies Team Pursuit
Time
1 Team Netherlands
3:14.57
2 Team Republic of Korea
3:17.96
3 Team Japan
3:18.85
4 Team Poland
3:21.23
Men Team Pursuit
Time
1 Team Netherlands
4:01.50
2 Team Republic of Korea
4:02.46
3 Team Japan
4:04.69
4 Team Canada
4:08.86
Ladies 3000 m
Points
1 Tessa Boogaard
NED
285
1 Melissa Wijfje
NED
350
1 Melissa Wijfje
NED
350
2 Aleksandra Kapruziak
POL
225
2 Yelizaveta Kazelina
RUS
280
2 Leia Behlau
GER
220
3 Sanneke de Neeling
NED
200
3 Ji-Woo Park
KOR
168
3 Ji-Woo Park
KOR
178
4 Darya Kachanova
RUS
196
4 Aleksandra Kapruziak
POL
147
4 Yelizaveta Kazelina
RUS
160
5 Nan Sun
CHN
144
5 Leia Behlau
GER
146
5 Isabelle Weidemann
CAN
145
6 Min-Sun Kim
KOR
142
6 Esmee Visser
NED
128
6 Karolina Bosiek
POL
136
7 Mei Han
CHN
128
7 Isabelle Weidemann
CAN
120
7 Nene Sakai
JPN
125
8 Marina Salnikova
RUS
104
8 Mei Han
CHN
114
8 Karolina Gasecka
POL
119
9 Melissa Wijfje
NED
100
9 Nene Sakai
JPN
110
9 Natálie Kerschbaummayr
CZE
108
10 Svetlana Maltseva
KAZ
92
10 Karolina Bosiek
POL
101
10 Esmee Visser
NED
97
Men 1000 m
Points
Men 1500 m
Points
Men 3000 m
Points
1 Wesly Dijs
NED
240
1 Patrick Roest
NED
350
1 Patrick Roest
NED
350
2 Stanislav Palkin
KAZ
227
2 Magnus Myhren KristensenNOR
220
2 Sergey Trofimov
RUS
250
3 Mikhail Kazelin
RUS
205
3 Marcel Bosker
NED
215
3 Marcel Bosker
NED
217
4 Hayato Nakamura
JPN
190
4 Wesly Dijs
NED
186
4 Linus Heidegger
AUT
197
5 Ignat Golovatyuk
BLR
154
5 Sergey Trofimov
RUS
181
5 Bin Zhou
CHN
144
6 Tatsuya Shinhama
JPN
150
6 Ki-Woong Park
KOR
170
6 Seitaro Ichinohe
JPN
140
7 Patrick Roest
NED
150
7 Hyun-Min Oh
KOR
135
7 Magnus Myhren Kristensen NOR
132
8 Magnus Myhren Kristensen NOR
111
8 Min-Seok Kim
KOR
120
8 Ki-Woong Park
KOR
120
9 Francesco Tescari
ITA
100
9 Chenglong Xu
CHN
101
9 Hyun-Min Oh
KOR
120
10 Henrik Fagerli Rukke
NOR
96
10 Ben Donnelly
CAN
98
10 Chenglong Xu
CHN
100
Ladies Team Events 1 Republic of Korea 2 Netherlands 3 Poland 4 Germany 5 Japan
Points 290 290 196 177 155
Mass Start Men 1 2 3 4 5
Patrick Roest Hyun-Min Oh Marcel Bosker Anton Kapustin Linus Heidegger
NED KOR NED BLR AUT
Points 275 220 205 158 154
Men Team Events 1 Republic of Korea 2 Russia 3 Netherlands 4 China 5 Belarus
Points 280 255 220 185 184
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SHORT TRACK
Ladies 500 m Time
Men 500 m Time
ISU EUROPEAN SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, JANUARY 23-25 2015, DORDRECHT (NED)
1 Kexin Fan
CHN
56400
1 Dmitry Migunov
RUS
46078
Ladies Points
2 Ji-Soo Jeon
KOR
31714
2 Dajing Wu
CHN
36737
1 Elise Christie
GBR
89
3 Marianne St-Gelais
CAN
30581
3 Yoon-Gy Kwak
KOR
27977
2 Sofia Prosvirnova
RUS
79
4 Elise Christie
GBR
30016
4 John-Henry Krueger
USA
25742
3 Patrycja Maliszewska
POL
52
21178
4 Arianna Fontana
ITA
36
FRA
28
ISU WORLD CUP SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING – FINAL STANDINGS
18
5 Yue Lin
CHN
28858
5 Viktor Knoch
HUN
6 Arianna Fontana
ITA
28000
6 Sjinkie Knegt
NED
19439
5 Veronique Pierron
7 Sofia Prosvirnova
RUS
22189
7 Jingnan Shi
CHN
18470
Men Points
8 Kasandra Bradette
CAN
16279
8 Charles Hamelin
CAN
16077
1 Sjinkie Knegt
NED
97
9 Yang Liu
CHN
13095
9 Vladimir Grigorev
RUS
16060
2 Victor An
RUS
71
10 Patrycja Maliszewska
POL
12331
10 Shaolin Sandor Liu
HUN
13844
3 Semen Elistratov
RUS
60
4 Vladislav Bykanov
ISR
45
5 Freek van der Wart
NED
32
Ladies 1000 m
Time
Men 1000 m
Time
Ladies Relay
Time
1 Suk Hee Shim
KOR
39745
1 Semen Elistratov
RUS
36000
1 Russia
4:18.084
2 Marianne St-Gelais
CAN
30800
2 Sjinkie Knegt
NED
35211
2 Netherlands
4:18.174
3 Minjeong Choi
KOR
29277
3 Da Woon Sin
KOR
33198
3 Hungary
4:18.658
4 Elise Christie
GBR
29096
4 Charles Hamelin
CAN
24590
4 Italy
4:18.748
5 Kexin Fan
CHN
21423
5 Victor An
RUS
21280
6 Alang Kim
KOR
20621
6 Dajing Wu
CHN
20662
7 Kim Boutin
CAN
17835
7 Shaolin Sandor Liu
HUN
19543
8 Yutong Han
CHN
15120
8 Patrick Duffy
CAN
19443
9 Jiaying Tao
CHN
14843
9 Yi Ra Seo
KOR
17140
10 Veronique Pierron
FRA
13368
10 Se Yeong Park
KOR
12096
Ladies 1500 m
Time
Men 1500 m
Time
Men Relay
Time
1 Russia
7:04.153
2 Hungary
7:04.492
3 Netherlands
7:04.850
4 Italy
7:05.246
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1 Minjeong Choi
KOR
45898
1 Da Woon Sin
KOR
54400
2 Suk Hee Shim
KOR
34438
2 Dequan Chen
CHN
27773
Ladies
3 Yutong Han
CHN
28240
3 Charles Hamelin
CAN
24497
1 Sangjeong Kong
KOR
78
2 Jiyoo Kim
KOR
68
3 Hakyung Son
KOR
68
4 Yize Zang
CHN
36
5 Ekaterina Strelkova
RUS
34
Points
4 Arianna Fontana
ITA
27677
4 Se Yeong Park
KOR
24400
5 Jiaying Tao
CHN
23856
5 Jung-Su Lee
KOR
21738
6 Deanna Lockett
AUS
19217
6 John-Henry Krueger
USA
18309
7 Do Hee Noh
KOR
18721
7 Tianyu Han
CHN
16942
8 Alang Kim
KOR
16000
8 Semen Elistratov
RUS
15401
Men
9 Kim Boutin
CAN
15819
9 Ruslan Zakharov
RUS
14721
1 Dagyeom Kim
KOR
81
10 Ekaterina Strelkova
RUS
15143
10 Yoon-Gy Kwak
KOR
13120
2 Jiwon Park
KOR
69
3 Shaolin Sandor Liu
HUN
42
4 Dan Iwasa
JPN
37
5 Ziwei Ren
CHN
29
Points
Ladies Relay
Points
Men Relay
Points
1 Republic of Korea
38000
1 Netherlands
34400
Ladies Relay
2 China
36000
2 Republic of Korea
33120
1 Republic of Korea
4:18.210
3 Canada
29200
3 China
30800
2 Russia
4:19.006
3 Japan
4:20.713
4 Canada
4:31.945
4 Italy
25216
4 Hungary
22193
5 Russia
23040
5 Russia
20894
6 France
15575
6 Canada
20593
7 Japan
12615
7 USA
15483
8 Hungary
12387
8 Great Britain
12848
9 USA
11272
9 Italy
11672
10 Poland
6795
10 France
10853
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Time
Men Relay
Time
1 Republic of Korea
4:01.909
2 China
4:02.205
3 Russia
4:02.701
4 Hungary
4:18.749
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Ladies Points
Ladies 1000 m
1 Minjeong Choi
KOR
89
1 Minjeong Choi
KOR
1:32.730
2 Arianna Fontana
ITA
68
2 Elise Christie
GBR
1:32.782
3 Suk Hee Shim
KOR
47
3 Arianna Fontana
ITA
1:32.903
4 Elise Christie
GBR
45
5 Kexin Fan
CHN
41
Ladies 500 m
Time
Time
Ladies 3000 m
Time
1 Minjeong Choi
KOR
5:40.480
2 Suk Hee Shim
KOR
5:40.908
3 Alang Kim
KOR
5:41.071
19 Ladies 1500 m Time
Time Ladies Relay 1 Republic of Korea 2 China 3 Italy 4 Japan
4:18.550 4:18.595 4:20.916 4:21.676
5 Hungary
4:27.362
1 Kexin Fan
CHN
43.866
1 Arianna Fontana
ITA
2:31.392
2 Elise Christie
GBR
44.139
2 Suk Hee Shim
KOR
2:31.472
3 Arianna Fontana
ITA
53.723
3 Minjeong Choi
KOR
2:31.502
Men Points
Men 1000 m Time
Men 3000 m Time
1 Sjinkie Knegt
NED
63
1 Se Yeong Park
KOR
1:25.155
1 Sjinkie Knegt
NED
5:05.321
2 Se Yeong Park
KOR
63
2 Charles Hamelin
CAN
1:25.189
2 Se Yeong Park
KOR
5:05.344
3 Dajing Wu
CHN
55
3 Jingnan Shi
CHN
1:25.225
3 Dajing Wu
CHN
5:06.093
4 Charles Hamelin
CAN
45
5 Semen Elistratov
RUS
41
Men 500 m
Time
Men 1500 m Time
Time Men Relay 1 China 2 Hungary 3 Netherlands 4 Republic of Korea
1 Dajing Wu
CHN
41.032
1 Semen Elistratov
RUS
2:18.096
2 Shaolin Sandor Liu
HUN
41.133
2 Sjinkie Knegt
NED
2:18.104
3 Tianyu Han
CHN
41.202
3 Charles Hamelin
CAN
2:18.117
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PAST MASTER
WILLIAM MARKLAND (USA) 1939-2007 William Markland started his sporting career as a Skater then became a Coach and an advocate for Short Track Speed Skating. He later became a member of the ISU Short Track Speed Skating Technical Committee for eighteen years from 1980/98 and later as Chairperson of the same Committee for 4 years from 1998 to 2002. He also served as an ISU Referee and spearheaded the Organizing Committee of the first World Short Track Speed Skating Championships. Markland passed away in 2007 at the age of 67 in his native Champaign, Illinois, USA. He greatly contributed to the development of Short Track Speed Skating and has left a lasting impression on the sport.