The ISU Short Track World Cup season will pass its halfway mark in Almaty (KAZ) in the Halyk Arena, with the third of five stops. The current, event-by-event standings:
∙ Men’s 500 m:
1. 30,000 Dajing Wu (CHN)
2. 14,400 Shaoang Liu (HUN)
3. 11,355 Shaolin Sandor Liu (HUN)
4. 9,342 Hyo Jun Lim (KOR)
9.342 Abzal Azhgaliyev (KAZ)
∙ Men’s 1,000 m:
1. 14,400 Ziwei Ren (CHN)
1. 14,400 Ji Won Park (KOR)
3. 13,277 Shaoang Liu (HUN)
4. 12,621 Kyung Hwan Hong (KOR)
5. 10,000 Shaolin Sandor Liu (HUN)
∙ Men’s 1,500 m:
1. 16,000 June Seo Lee (KOR)
2. 10,180 Kazuki Yoshinaga (JPN)
3. 10,144 Sjinkie Knegt (NED)
4. 8,192 Pascal Dion (CAN)
5. 7,259 Vladislav Bykanov (ISR)
∙ Women’s 500 m:
1. 25,120 Natalia Maliszewska (POL)
2. 16,078 Kexin Fan (CHN)
3. 12,800 Alyson Charles (CAN)
4. 12,096 Yara van Kerkhof (NED)
5. 10,665 Lara van Ruijven (NED)
∙ Women’s 1,000 m:
1. 20,000 Suzanne Schulting (NED)
2. 16,000 Sofia Prosvirnova (RUS)
3. 15,120 Alyson Charles (CAN)
4. 12,298 Veronique Pierron (FRA)
5. 8,497 Ah-Rum Noh (KOR)
∙ Women’s 1,500 m:
1. 14,096 Min-Jeong Choi (KOR)
2. 10,000 Suzanne Schulting (NED)
3. 9,021 Ekaterina Efremenkova (RUS)
4. 8,144 Courtney Lee Sarault (CAN)
5. 8,000 Ji-Yoo Kim (KOR)
China’s Wu is the only skater to have won all three of his competitions this season; Dutch skater Schulting has won both of her races at 1,000 m, but skipped the last race in Salt Lake City.
The program includes 500 m, 1,000 m and two 1,500 m races for both men and women, plus relays for men (3,000 m) and women (5,000 m) and a Mixed Gender Relay of 2,000 m.
Look for results here.
