SHORT TRACK WC #2-VANCOUVER-OCT.24-26

[number1fan]

Ladies 1000m (1) Repechage Heat Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 4 MALTAIS Anne CAN 1:38.407 Q
2 3 VOS Maaike NED 1:38.475 Q
3 1 STEPANOVA Liya RUS 1:38.502 q
4 2 PERETTI Lucia ITA 1:39.391

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 4 GEORGIEVA-NIKOLOVA Marina BUL 1:39.445 Q
2 1 SAKAI Yui JPN 1:40.116 Q
3 3 ROMANOWICZ Anna POL 1:40.649
4 2 KOVACS Kinga ROU 1:40.966

Heat 3 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 GREGG Jessica CAN 1:34.594 Q
2 2 CHRISTIE Elise GBR 1:34.700 Q
3 3 HUSZAR Erika HUN 1:36.233 q
4 4 KATSOV Vera ISR 1:40.233

Heat 4 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 BORODULINA Tatiana AUS 1:36.855 Q
2 2 HEIDUM Bernadett HUN 1:36.929 Q
3 3 KRIEVANE Evita LAT 1:37.172 q
4 4 MALISZEWSKA Patrycja POL 1:39.810

Heat 5 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 DARAZS Rozsa HUN 1:37.531 Q
2 2 ITO Ayuko JPN 1:37.861 Q
3 4 VALCEPINA Martina ITA 1:38.518 q
DQ 3 RUDOLPH Susanne GER DQ

Heat 6 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 SHIMIZU Sayuri JPN 1:39.921 Q
2 1 VAN KERKHOF Sanne NED 1:40.049 Q
3 3 BELLA Aida POL 1:41.578 ADV
DQ 4 WALTER Bianca GER DQ


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Mens 1000m (1) Repechage Heat Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 HEUNG Tyson GER 1:32.212 Q
2 3 SERRA Roberto ITA 1:32.315 Q
3 2 VAN DER WART Freek NED 1:36.423 q
DQ 4 SHRIANE Elliott AUS DQ

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 PRANKEVITCH Sergei RUS 1:32.319 Q
2 4 SAKASH*TA Satoshi JPN 1:32.334 Q
3 3 VAN RIEL Ingmar NED 1:32.440 q
4 2 LUI Pan To Barton HKG 1:33.577

Heat 3 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 STANLEY Paul GBR 1:34.464 Q
2 4 KULESZA Dariusz POL 1:34.618 Q
3 2 PANDOV Kiril BUL 1:35.201 q
4 1 POLTAVETS Dmytro UKR 1:35.388

Heat 4 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 4 JAYNER Travis USA 1:33.752 Q ;D
2 1 HAN Jialiang CHN 1:33.981 Q
3 2 BERES Bence HUN 1:39.439 ADV
DQ 3 KOROLYOV Viktor UKR DQ

Heat 5 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 KIM Yong-Sung KOR 1:30.761 Q
2 3 RINALDI Claudio ITA 1:30.820 Q
3 2 BREEUWSMA Daan NED 1:31.044 q
4 4 KOSHELENKO Oleksiy UKR 1:31.784

Heat 6 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 NOVER Gianluigi ITA 1:32.813 Q
2 3 DARAZS Peter HUN 1:33.646 Q
3 2 ANTERIEUX Benoit FRA 1:54.020 ADV
DQ 4 JACKSON Mark NZL DQ

[number1fan]

Oct 24, 2008 21:22:43 GMT -5 aaosmts19 said:

We can all see that #1 is in withdrawal after she lost her st virginity last weekend....er, I mean, she went to SLC (or was that Emerald City...'we're off to see the wizard')

but unlike dorothy, i was saying, 'i DON'T want to go home'.

[mellie]

Hey y'all I just got back from trying to help set up one of two b-day parties for a nephew and a niece, and I had to come check for results. The parties are both tomorrow, and they are one right after the other. I will be here tomorrow for sure.

[number1fan]

hopefully see you all tomorrow evening for some of the finals!

[A.O.Freak]

did i miss anything?whos's ahead?

[bubblebuttsbabe]

Six Canadians qualify for 500-metre quarters at short-track World Cup event
52 minutes ago

VANCOUVER, B.C. — Six Canadian short-track speed skaters qualified for the 500-metre quarter-finals at a World Cup event Friday at the Pacific Coliseum.

On the men's side, Francois-Louis Tremblay of Montreal, Que., was second-fastest in the heats, Olivier Jean of Lachenaie, Que., was fourth and Francois Hamelin of Ste-Julie, skated to the fifth-fastest time.

"We all had good times in the first round," said Hamelin. "We were all first on the start line, so it was the strategy that made sense: go out fast, make sure you stay there, so you don't need to risk passes."

It was a similar scenario for the women, as Jessica Gregg of Edmonton, Marianne St-Gelais of St-Felicien, Que., and Anne Maltais of Quebec City were all able to qualify for Sunday's quarter-finals.

Hamelin and his brother Charles, along with Tremblay, also qualified for Saturday's 1000-metre quarter-finals.

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Hamelins gear up for Vancouver Olympics
MATTHEW SEKERES
From Saturday's Globe and Mail
October 24, 2008 at 11:00 PM EDT

VANCOUVER — The well-worn Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver's east end is a far cry from suburban Montreal, but for Canada's first family of short-track speed skating, it is beginning to feel like home.

The Hamelins of Sainte-Julie, Que. — father Yves, the top short-track official for Speed Skating Canada, and sons Charles and François, both Olympic hopefuls — first came here in July, and will be frequent visitors between now and the 2010 Winter Games.

So frequent, in fact, that in their ongoing quest to replicate the Olympic environment, they are now friends with a chef at a downtown hotel near the proposed athletes village. The chef works with the Hamelins' nutritionist to prepare meals for the Olympic hopefuls when they are apart from their mother's home-cooking.

"People here at the [Pacific National Exhibition], at the hotel, and at the [regional sports excellent centre in Vancouver] have been so great," said Yves Hamelin. "The gameplan is to be here as often as we can."

This weekend, the Pacific Coliseum is the site of an International Skating Union World Cup event, a competition that also serves as a test for the 2010 Games. The Coliseum, which underwent a $19-million renovation for the Olympics, will be home to short-track and figure skating in February 2010.

It has been fitted with new ice-making equipment and other upgrades, but the athletes have given it a lukewarm reception, claiming the ice isn't the best and that the dressing rooms are older.

Certainly, it doesn't compare to the brilliant new venues at Beijing's just-past Games, but the Vancouver Olympic Games Organizing Committee officials say spectators will be tight to the action.

Yesterday, Charles Hamelin moved into the quarter-finals in one 1,000-metre event but was disqualified in another for impeding a competitor. François Hamelin, meanwhile, qualified for the 500-metre final tomorrow and for the 1,000-metres quarter-final today.

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Racer from Yellowknife looks to make his mark
Marc Weber, The Province
Published: Thursday, October 23, 2008

Canadian short track speed skater Michael Gilday is hoping to stand out on the ice as much as he does in his team's media guide.

In a rink flooded with slick Quebec skaters at this weekend's World Cup event at the Pacific Coliseum, the 21-year-old from Yellowknife represents a rarity, even more for his northern roots than his western ones.

There aren't too many elite athletes who call the Northwest Territories home, former Canucks forward Geoff Sanderson (Hay River) one of the more prominent.

Asked to name the most famous, Gilday offers the Firth sisters, Shirley and Sharon, not exactly household names to most Canadians despite being four-time Winter Olympians in cross-country skiing.

Anyone who makes a national team is a big deal back home.

"I get phenomenal support in Yellowknife and across the Territories and I'm grateful for that," said Gilday, who was born in Iqaluit (now the capital of Nunavut) but moved to Yellowknife at age two. "The government has a great program for amateur-athlete support and I'm really proud to be representing the NWT as well as Canada."

Gilday was an avid cross-country skier growing up and figures he spent only half as much time speed skating as his current rivals. Clearly he's a quick learner.

He grabbed headlines last fall when he set a 1,000-metre world record at Calgary's Olympic Oval, his base since high school, and participated in two World Cup events as a member of Canada's development team.

He's hoping to reap the benefits of a full season on the World Cup circuit leading into the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver.

"In the Olympic year there's not a lot of people who jump out of nowhere, so you want to establish yourself," he said.

"This weekend, I want to make some 'A' finals and contend for some medals."

[musicalmom]

Hi All;

I promised to check on whether or not there was a web cam at the Coliseum and whether they could turn it on. So, I bugged both the BC Speed Skating and VANOC people today and finally got an answer in the late afternoon. Here it is:

No there will be no web cam coverage of WC #2
A deal has been cut with CBC ( Canadian Broadcasting Company) to
film and broadcast highlights of this event ( likely exclusive rights)...
***This highlight broadcast will be aired Nov. 1 at 3 p.m. pacific time on CBC.

You might want to check to see if CBC is available on your cable program.

So sorry, I tried really hard, and had so hoped to tell you where you could tune in tomorrow, but as I've learned over many years, when you ask a question, you should be prepared to hear either a yes or a no. This time it was a no.

But we had an incredible day and there will be pictures and maybe even a video clip to post once everyone gets home and has time to process it all.
Yes, we got pictures of Apolo and nearly all the team, both U.S. and Canadian.
It was a long day. We were at the Coliseum from about 8:30 until after 6..then a big challenge getting out of the parking lot, and we finally got to dinner, tired, hungry but happy at a wonderful day. Of course it's Friday night and all the restaurants were crowded but after a long wait we sat down to another wonderful meal together. It's midnight and I just got home. So more later...
All in all we all experienced the OFF and were amazed. Several of us had a chance to talk with Yuki as well as Apolo at different times so all in all it was a stupendous day!
Once again, so sorry about the lack of webcam or tv coverage. I know how frustrating it is when you are left with flashing numbers only!
More soon,
Musical Mom

[number1fan]

mm... your effort is really appreciated by us all!!!

all i can say is...the broadcast was sold out to the highest bidder

have another stupendous day tomorrow!!!

[skaterswaltz]

Zippity-Doo-Dah...I'm here in Vancouver! I flew up straight from work and can't wait for tomorrow! I'll try to take some videos - unless I get arrested or something.

[A.O.Freak]

good luck skaterswaltz...your gonna have a "BLAST",as we did last weekend

[number1fan]

Ladies 1500m Repechage Quarterfinals Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 SAKASH*TA Yasuko JPN 2:32.815 Q
2 2 ZAWADA Malwina POL 2:32.983 Q
3 3 WHELBOURNE Alex GBR 2:42.477 ADV
4 4 MYRA-ANDERSON Alix AUS 2:53.870
DQ 5 VUTEVA Kristina BUL DQ
DQ 6 RIEDEL Julia GER DQ

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 MENDES-CAMPEAU Marie-Andree CAN 2:28.138 Q
2 3 MAU ASAM Liesbeth NED 2:28.274 Q
3 4 SECCHI Debora ITA 2:29.512 q
4 1 KAPLAN Elena ISR 2:32.188
5 6 PATSOVA Gergana BUL 2:35.098
DQ 5 TOTH Patricia HUN DQ

Heat 3 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 ZINI Katia ITA 2:32.764 Q
2 3 KESZLER Andrea HUN 2:32.838 Q
3 4 CHIKA Ishida JPN 2:32.904 q
4 2 HAN Yue Shuang HKG 2:33.688
5 5 BAWERNA Agnieszka POL 2:35.580
6 6 JACKSON Francesca NZL 2:37.024

Heat 4 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 OZAWA Mika JPN 2:29.045 Q
2 4 KRISTO Katalin ROU 2:29.127 Q
3 2 EZZI Ranya SWE 2:29.273 q
4 3 MASKAIKINA Olga RUS 2:30.881
5 6 DENES Veronika HUN 2:47.018
DNS 5 TER MORS Jorien NED DNS


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Mens 1500m Repechage Quarterfinals Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 KNEGT Sjinkie NED 2:18.891 Q
2 1 TAKAMIDO Yuzo JPN 2:19.033 Q
3 4 BECK Jeremy AUS 2:19.164
4 3 GUTENOV Ievgen UKR 2:22.011
5 5 KONOPKO Bartosz POL 2:29.361

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 5 FAUCONNET Thibaut FRA 2:21.614 Q
2 4 SAKAZUME Ryosuke JPN 2:21.656 Q
3 2 LIFYRENKO Serhiy UKR 2:23.365
4 3 KOEK Rudy NED 2:56.950 ADV
DQ 1 BECKER Robert GER DQ

Heat 3 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 GERTSIKOV Alexander RUS 2:20.976 Q
2 1 KERSTHOLT Niels NED 2:20.990 Q
3 2 HORSEPOOL Oliver GBR 2:21.729 ADV
4 5 YORDANOV Asen BUL 2:25.972
DQ 4 BYKANOV Vladislav ISR DQ

Heat 4 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 GALAMBOS Gabor HUN 2:34.353 Q
2 4 PULEC Andre AUT 2:34.949 Q
3 2 DURAND Gregory FRA 2:35.309
4 5 PANDOV Assen BUL 2:37.163
5 3 FILIPOWICZ Adam POL 3:00.727

Heat 5 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 GILDAY Michael CAN 2:21.395 Q
2 1 MATTEI Jean Charles FRA 2:21.417 Q
3 5 LI Haonan CHN 2:22.299
4 4 SKJELLERUP Blake NZL 2:22.963
5 2 WORTH Paul GBR 2:30.621

[number1fan]

Ladies 1000m (1) Repechage Quarterfinals Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 ITO Ayuko JPN 1:35.165 Q
2 2 HEIDUM Bernadett HUN 1:35.229 Q
3 1 GREGG Jessica CAN 1:35.266
4 4 VALCEPINA Martina ITA 1:36.937
5 5 BELLA Aida POL 1:37.567

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 DARAZS Rozsa HUN 1:36.011 Q
2 3 SHIMIZU Sayuri JPN 1:36.110 Q
3 4 VAN KERKHOF Sanne NED 1:36.560
4 1 KRIEVANE Evita LAT 1:37.730

Heat 3 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 BORODULINA Tatiana AUS 1:36.339 Q
2 1 CHRISTIE Elise GBR 1:36.436 Q
3 3 VOS Maaike NED 1:36.618
4 4 STEPANOVA Liya RUS 1:36.943

Heat 4 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 HUSZAR Erika HUN 1:38.507 Q
2 3 GEORGIEVA-NIKOLOVA Marina BUL 1:39.178 Q
3 4 SAKAI Yui JPN 1:50.581 ADV
DQ 2 MALTAIS Anne CAN DQ


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Mens 1000m (1) Repechage Quarterfinals Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 HEUNG Tyson GER 1:30.487 Q
2 1 RINALDI Claudio ITA 1:30.760 Q
3 4 PANDOV Kiril BUL 1:31.192
4 5 ANTERIEUX Benoit FRA 1:31.481
5 3 DARAZS Peter HUN 1:32.698

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 JAYNER Travis USA 1:28.343 Q ;D ;D ;D
2 2 NOVER Gianluigi ITA 1:29.500 Q
3 4 KULESZA Dariusz POL 1:29.890
4 1 BREEUWSMA Daan NED 1:35.017

Heat 3 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 HAN Jialiang CHN 1:30.360 Q
2 1 PRANKEVITCH Sergei RUS 1:30.475 Q
3 4 STANLEY Paul GBR 1:30.711
4 2 VAN RIEL Ingmar NED 1:30.731

Heat 4 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 SAKASH*TA Satoshi JPN 1:32.848 Q
2 2 SERRA Roberto ITA 1:33.384 Q
3 5 BERES Bence HUN 1:33.849
4 4 VAN DER WART Freek NED 2:08.286 ADV
DQ 1 KIM Yong-Sung KOR DQ

[number1fan]

Ladies 1500m Repechage Semis Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 OZAWA Mika JPN 2:27.881 QA
2 2 KRISTO Katalin ROU 2:27.950 QA
3 4 ZINI Katia ITA 2:28.970 QA
4 5 KESZLER Andrea HUN 2:28.983 QB
5 3 EZZI Ranya SWE 2:29.227 QB
6 6 CHIKA Ishida JPN 2:29.256 QB

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 4 SAKASH*TA Yasuko JPN 2:31.765 QA
2 1 MENDES-CAMPEAU Marie-Andree CAN 2:31.889 QA
3 2 MAU ASAM Liesbeth NED 2:31.987 QA
4 3 SECCHI Debora ITA 2:32.264 QB
5 5 ZAWADA Malwina POL 2:34.205 QB
6 6 WHELBOURNE Alex GBR 2:34.552 QB


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Mens 1500m Repechage Semis Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 GILDAY Michael CAN 2:18.539 QA
2 3 MATTEI Jean Charles FRA 2:18.987 QA
3 6 GALAMBOS Gabor HUN 2:19.278 QB
4 5 HORSEPOOL Oliver GBR 2:20.053 QB
5 7 KOEK Rudy NED 2:20.100 QB
6 4 SAKAZUME Ryosuke JPN 2:20.328
7 1 KNEGT Sjinkie NED 2:20.943

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 TAKAMIDO Yuzo JPN 2:18.969 QA
2 5 FAUCONNET Thibaut FRA 2:19.034 QA
3 3 GERTSIKOV Alexander RUS 2:19.268 QB
4 6 PULEC Andre AUT 2:20.838 QB
5 2 BECK Jeremy AUS 2:22.751 QB
DQ 4 KERSTHOLT Niels NED DQ

[number1fan]

Ladies 1000m (1) Repechage Semis Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 DARAZS Rozsa HUN 1:35.030 QA
2 2 HEIDUM Bernadett HUN 1:35.054 QA
3 5 SAKAI Yui JPN 1:35.174 QB
4 1 ITO Ayuko JPN 1:35.178 QB
5 4 GEORGIEVA-NIKOLOVA Marina BUL 1:35.739

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 BORODULINA Tatiana AUS 1:40.070 QA
2 4 HUSZAR Erika HUN 2:00.698 QA
3 1 SHIMIZU Sayuri JPN 2:07.567 ADV
DQ 3 CHRISTIE Elise GBR DQ


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Mens 1000m (1) Repechage Semis Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 HAN Jialiang CHN 1:29.190 QA
2 3 HEUNG Tyson GER 1:29.290 QA
3 4 RINALDI Claudio ITA 1:29.760 QB
DQ 2 PRANKEVITCH Sergei RUS DQ

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 SAKASH*TA Satoshi JPN 1:30.428 QA
2 1 JAYNER Travis USA 1:30.466 QA ;D
3 4 SERRA Roberto ITA 1:30.802 QB
4 2 NOVER Gianluigi ITA 1:30.897 QB
5 5 VAN DER WART Freek NED 1:32.576

[number1fan]

Ladies 1500m Repechage Final B Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 KESZLER Andrea HUN 2:33.310
2 2 EZZI Ranya SWE 2:33.406
3 3 ISHIDA Chika JPN 2:33.778
4 5 ZAWADA Malwina POL 2:33.982
5 4 SECCHI Debora ITA 2:34.116
6 6 WHELBOURNE Alex GBR 2:35.877


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Ladies 1500m Repechage Final A Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 OZAWA Mika JPN 2:24.133 Q
2 5 MENDES-CAMPEAU Marie-Andree CAN 2:24.201 Q
3 4 SAKASH*TA Yasuko JPN 2:24.295
4 6 MAU ASAM Liesbeth NED 2:24.490
5 3 ZINI Katia ITA 2:24.607
6 2 KRISTO Katalin ROU 2:24.642


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Mens 1500m Repechage Final B Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 SAKAZUME Ryosuke JPN 2:27.116
2 1 HORSEPOOL Oliver GBR 2:27.217
3 5 BECK Jeremy AUS 2:27.357
4 2 KOEK Rudy NED 2:27.543
5 4 PULEC Andre AUT 2:27.667


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Mens 1500m Repechage Final A Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 GILDAY Michael CAN 2:14.974 Q
2 2 TAKAMIDO Yuzo JPN 2:15.111 Q
3 6 GALAMBOS Gabor HUN 2:15.265
4 3 MATTEI Jean Charles FRA 2:15.368
5 5 GERTSIKOV Alexander RUS 2:15.469
6 4 FAUCONNET Thibaut FRA 2:16.863