Canada’s Sam Girard and Dutch star Suzanne Schulting each won two events, including one each on relays, at the third Short Track World Cup, held in Almaty (KAZ).
Girard, the PyeongChang gold medalist in the 1,000 m, won the 500 m and then helped Canada win the 2,000 m Mixed Relay. He also collected a silver medal in the men’s 5,000 m Relay.
Schulting, who had won both of her 1,000 m races this season, stayed undefeated by edging Canadian Kim Boutin in the Almaty 1,000. She then helped the Dutch women’s 3,000 m relay team to tight win over Korea. Schulting also finished second in the second 1,500 m race.
Korea won four events in the event, with four different skaters taking the two men’s 1,500 m races (Hyo Jun Lim and Gun Woo Kim) and the two women’s 1,500 m events, with Geon Hee Kim and Min Jeong Choi. Summaries:
ISU Short Track World Cup
Almaty (KAZ) ~ 7-9 December 2018
(Full results here)
Men
500 m: 1. Sam Girard (CAN), 40.661; 2. Shaoang Liu (HUN), 40.802; 3. Abzal Azhgaliyev (KAZ), 40.827.
1,000 m: 1. Shaoang Liu (HUN), 1:27.418; 2. Sjinkie Knegt (NED), 1:27.438; 3. June Seo Lee (KOR), 1:27.574.
1,500 m I: 1. Hyo Jun Lim (KOR), 2:19.167; 2. Gun Woo Kim (KOR), 2:19.201; 3. Dae Heon Hwang (KOR), 2:19.277.
1,500 m II: 1. Gun Woo Kim (KOR), 2:16.608; 2. Kyung Hwan Hong (KOR), 2:16.940; 3. June Seo Lee (KOR), 2:17.048.
5,000 m Relay: 1. Netherlands (Breeuwsma, de Laat, Knegt, Visser), 6:49.973; 2. Canada, 6:56.750; 3. China, 7:02.021.
Women
500 m: 1. Petra Jaszapati (HUN), 44.650; 2. Lara van Ruijven (NED), 51.843; 3. Natalia Maliszewska (POL), 1:01.140.
1,000 m: 1. Suzanne Schulting (NED), 1:28.887; 2. Kim Boutin (CAN), 1:28.974; 3. Ah Rum Noh (KOR), 1:29.128.
1,500 m I: 1. Geon Hee Kim (KOR), 2:25.280; 2. Ekaterina Efremenkova (RUS), 2:25.460; 3. Jinyu Li (CHN), 2:25.571.
1,500 m II: 1. Min Jeong Choi (KOR), 2:28.264; 2. Schulting (NED), 2:28.320; 3. Kim Boutin (CAN), 2:28.476.
3,000 m Relay: 1. Netherlands (de Vries, Schulting, van Kerkhof, van Ruijven), 4:11.327; 2. Korea, 4:11.506; 3. Canada, 4:12.193.
Mixed
2,000 m Relay: 1. Canada (Blais, Boutin, Charles, Girard), 2:39.615; 2. Korea, 2:39.639; 3. China, 2:39.789.
