Short Track Speed Skating ISU World Cup 2019 - 2020

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Stage #4 (Shanghai, CHN)

 

men's 500m, race #2

 

Gold: Shaolin Sandor Liu

Silver: Lee June Seo

Bronze: Steven Dubois

 

men's 1000m

 

Gold: Han Tianyu

Silver: Shaoang Liu

Bronze: Park Ji Won

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Stage #4 (Shanghai, CHN)

 

women's 3000m Relay

 

Gold: Canada

Silver: Netherlands

Bronze: United States

 

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Stage #4 (Shanghai, CHN)

 

men's 5000m Relay

 

Gold: Russia

Silver: Hungary

Bronze: South Korea

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this week we had a totally different outcome than the Nagoya WC stage...

 

if in Japan dominated the field, this time we had an extreme balance final medal table, with 5 Nations ( Canada, China, Hungary, Netherlands and South Korea) winning 2 Gold Medals each, meanwhile Russia took the 11th and last one...

 

with Arianna fontana back home, this time Italy won "only" a bronze medal...pretty disappointing performance in any case, as there were 2 500m races, where Martina Valcepina should have done a lot better...

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1 hour ago, phelps said:

this week we had a totally different outcome than the Nagoya WC stage...

 

if in Japan dominated the field, this time we had an extreme balance final medal table, with 5 Nations ( Canada, China, Hungary, Netherlands and South Korea) winning 2 Gold Medals each, meanwhile Russia took the 11th and last one...

 

with Arianna fontana back home, this time Italy won "only" a bronze medal...pretty disappointing performance in any case, as there were 2 500m races, where Martina Valcepina should have done a lot better...

In at least one of them Valcepina was launched into the barriers 100% outside of her own fault (she would have gotten at least bronze, most likely).

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55 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

In at least one of them Valcepina was launched into the barriers 100% outside of her own fault (she would have gotten at least bronze, most likely).

 

it happened yesterday...in the semifinals...

 

and in fact she was advanced to the A final by the jury panel and then she won bronze...

 

today she made a mistake by her own and ended up "only" 4th...

Edited December 8, 2019 by phelps

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Ren Ziwei took the 1500m win in Dresden by launching an all-out attack in the first lap, nearly lapping everyone and holding on for dear life until the finish  

 

That was rather epic, I've rarely seen someone in short track skating where you could almost visibly see his legs burn as much as Ren's legs in the last laps.

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51 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Ren Ziwei took the 1500m win in Dresden by launching an all-out attack in the first lap, nearly lapping everyone and holding on for dear life until the finish  

 

That was rather epic, I've rarely seen someone in short track skating where you could almost visibly see his legs burn as much as Ren's legs in the last laps.

Have seen that done before! An Israeli (well, probably Russian) guy - can’t remember his name - did the same thing a couple of years ago.  Lapped  the field in the first 2-3 laps, but crucially settled into the back of the peleton and then hung on easily in the final of a World Cup 1500m race.

Edited February 8, 2020 by Grassmarket

[phelps 8,287]

yeah, in the 3000m superfinal of the all-round global championships it happens once every while...

 

it's way more uncommon instead in the shorter individual distances...

 

it was nice to watch the race, in any case...something unusual is always welcome!

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Stage #5 (Dresden, GER)

 

women's 1000m

 

Gold: Kim Ji Yoo

Silver: Courtney Lee Sarault

Bronze: Suzanne Schulting

 

women's 1500m, race #1

 

Gold: Choi Min Jeong

Silver: Noh Ah Rum

Bronze: Han Yu Tong