SHORT TRACK: Olympic champs Wu and Schulting win two at Calgary World Cup

China's Short Track star Dajing Wu

If you saw the Short Track competitions at the 2018 Olympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, you saw some familiar faces at the opening stage of the 2018-19 ISU Short Track World Cup in Calgary (CAN).

The men’s 500 m winner, China’s Dajing Wu, won both of the 500 m races and Dutch star Suzanne Schulting, the PyeongChang winner at 1,000 m, took the 1,000 m and 1,500 m. “I was a little nervous before this competition because I want to show the world that I’m not only able to win gold at the Olympics, but I can do it at the World Cups, World Championships and Europeans,” Schulting said.

The other highlight came in the men’s 5,000 m relay, where the quartet of Cole Krueger, Csaba Burjan, Shaoang Liu and Shaolin Sandor Liu set a world record of 6:28.625, eclipsing the November, 2017 mark set by the United States of 6:29.052.

The World Cup season is now in full swing, with the second stop in Salt Lake City, Utah next weekend. Summaries:

ISU Short Track World Cup
Calgary (CAN) ~ 2-4 November 2018
(Full results here)

Men

500 m I: 1. Dajing Wu (CHN), 39.836; 2. Shaoang Liu (HUN), 40.044; 3. Gun Woo Kim (KOR), 40.415. Also: 5. Thomas Hong (USA), 41.407.

500 m II: 1. Wu (CHN), 39.915; 2. Abzal Azhgaliyev (KAZ), 40.136; 3. Shaolin Sandor Liu (HUN), 40.194.

1,000 m: 1. Shaoang Liu (HUN), 1:24.818; 2. Ji Won Park (KOR), 1:24.868; 3. Ziwei Ren (CHN), 1:24.883.

1,500 m: 1. Kazuki Yoshinaga (JPN), 2:17.285; 2. June Seo Lee (KOR), 2:17.557; 3. Vladislav Bykanov (ISR), 2:18.195.

5,000 m Relay: 1. Hungary (Krueger, Burjan, Shao. Liu, S.S. Liu), 6:28.625 (World Record; old, 6:29.052, United States, 2017); 2. Korea, 6:28.857; 3. Netherlands, 6:28.879.

Women

500 m I: 1. Natalia Maliszewska (POL), 43.142; 2. Yara van Kerkhof (NED), 43.353; 3. Alyson Charles (CAN), 43.449.

500 m II: 1. Lara van Ruijven (NED), 43.070; 2. Kexin Fan (CHN), 43.214; 3. Alyson Charles (CAN), 43.575.

1,000 m: 1. Suzanne Schulting (NED), 1:29.257; 2. Sofia Prosvirnova (RUS), 1:30.350; 3. Veronique Pierron (FRA), 1:30.419.

1,500 m: 1. Schulting (NED), 2:28.423; 2. Courtney Lee Sarault (CAN), 2:28.432; 3. Ekaterina Efremenkova (RUS), 2:28.614.

3,000 m Relay: 1. Russia (Efremenkova, Konstantinova, Prosvirnova, Malagich), 4:03.925; 2. Korea, 4:03.966; 3. Canada, 4:05.267.

Mixed

2,000 m Relay: 1. China (Fan, Li, Ren, Wu), 2:38.245; 2. Netherlands, 2:38.492; 3. Korea, 2:38.827. Also: 4. United States (Aaron Tran, Kristen Santos, Maame Biney, Thomas Hong), 2:39.346.