The Korean Short track squad left no doubt about who was the boss at the Dresden (KOR) World Cup, winning all four men’s individual events, one women’s event and taking 11 medals in all.
Olympic 1,500 champ Hyo-Jun Lim won the men’s 500 m and took bronze in the 1,500 m; Dae-Heon Hwang was runner-up in the 500 m and won the 1,000 m; Ji-Won Park won the second 1,000 m race and Gun-Woo Kim won the 1,500 m. Very impressive.
On the women’s side, Ji-Yoo Kim won the 1,500 and was runner-up in the second 1,000 m, one of two double medalists for women. Dutch star Suzanne Schulting won the second 1,000 m race and was third in the 1,500 m.
The Short Track World Cup season has one stop left, next week in Turin (ITA). Summaries:
ISU Short Track World Cup
Dresden (GER) ~ 1-3 February 2019
(Full results here)
Men
500 m: 1. Hyo-Jun Lim (KOR), 40.243; 2. Dae-Heon Hwang (KOR), 40.272; 3. Cedrik Blai (CAN), 40.344.
1,000 m I: 1. Dae Heon Hwang (KOR), 1:25.133; 2. Charle Cournoyer (CAN), 1:25.412; 3. Kyung Hwan Hong (KOR), 1:25.416.
1,000 m II: 1. Ji-Won Park (KOR), 1:25.363; 2. Vladislav Bykanov (ISR), 1:25.862; 3. Sebastien Lepape (FRA), 1:25.870.
1,500 m: 1. Gun-Woo Kim (KOR), 2:15.123; 2. Charles Hamelin (CAN), 2:15.155; 3. H-J Lim (KOR), 2:15.180.
5,000 m Relay: 1. Canada (Cournoyer, Hamelin, Girard), 6:44.646; 2. Japan, 6:45.810; 3. Hungary, 6:50.998.
Women
500 m: 1. Martina Valcepina (ITA), 43.049; 2. Lara van Ruijven (NED), 43.075; 3. Natalia Maliszewski (POL), 43.164.
1,000 m I: 1. Sofia Prosvirnova (RUS), 1:32.331; 2. Ji Hyun Choi (KOR), 1:32.424; 3. Cynthia Mascitto (ITA), 1:32.428.
1,000 m II: 1. Suzanne Schulting (NED), 1:27.338; 2. Ji-Yoo Kim (KOR), 1:27.419; 3. Chutong Zhang (CHN), 1:27.547.
1,500 m: 1. J-Y Kim (KOR), 2:23.076; 2. Kim Boutin (CAN), 2:23.140; 3. Suzanne Schulting (NED), 2:23.200.
3,000 m Relay: 1. Russia (Efremenkova, Konstantinova, Malagich, Prosvirova), 4:08.389; 2. Netherlands 4:15.763; Canada and Korea, disqualified.
