Short Track Speed Skating ISU World Championships 2019

[Kirkpatrick 144]

SATURDAY, MARCH 9

10:00

Ranking Finals 1500, 500 m. Ladies & Men

13:45

Opening Ceremony

14:02

S-Finals & Finals 1500 m. Ladies & Men

Q-Finals, S-Finals & Finals 500 m. Ladies & Men

Semi-Finals 3000 m. Relay Ladies

Semi-Finals 5000 m. Relay Men

 

What do the "Ranking Finals" mean?

[Kirkpatrick 144]

Looks like it's a round between heats and QFs or SFs, with the participants that didn't qualify for the latter racing.

[heywoodu 13,540]

Yeah, if I'm not mistaken ranking finals are just sort of a more extended version of the 'A-final/B-final' kind of system to determine lower positions  

[heywoodu 13,540]

Wow, this track looks really poor...it sort of reminds me like the European Youth Olympic Festival in Erzurum, for which it'd be fine, but for a world championships..?

[heywoodu 13,540]

Anna Seidel drives a Chinese down to the ice in the 1500m QF's. Result: Chinese gets a penalty, Seidel (who also fell) is advanced  

[heywoodu 13,540]

Emotional highlights

[phelps 6,782]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Wow, this track looks really poor...it sort of reminds me like the European Youth Olympic Festival in Erzurum, for which it'd be fine, but for a world championships..?

 

yeah, it looks like the Barclays Center in New York...

it's a building not originally projected to host an ice rink, which then has been put in place by removing a lot of "normal" seats...

and in this case you can also clearly see that the ice surface is not frozen on an appropriate platform, at least not a good one in terms of "choreography" and that has a really awful look, both for the spectators on site and for those in front of their TV/PC screen...

[phelps 6,782]

Christie...

[heywoodu 13,540]

Just now, phelps said:

Christie...

What else is new  

[phelps 6,782]

women's 1500m, Skaters qualified to the A-Final

Kim Ji Yoo

Hanne Desmet

Veronique Pierron

Choi Min Jeong

Ekaterina Efremenkova

Kim Boutin

Sofia Prosvirnova