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.
