WORLD CUP 5 Sofia, Bulgaria

[debbief]

1:40 mountain time...YIKES! I don't think I'm gonna be able to hang in there tonight or I will really be dragging at work tomorrow, or I should say today! With that being said, goodnight all. GO TEAM USA!

[bubblebuttsbabe]

AND WE'RE OFF!! (and sorry for lagging on the job, mtnme. i was talking. lol)

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Ladies 1500m Heats Heat 1 Schedule and Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 SMITH Jessica USA 2:24.179 Q ;D ;D ;D
2 4 DROLET Marie-Eve CAN 2:24.407 Q
3 6 OZAWA Mika JPN 2:24.515 q
4 3 WHELBOURNE Alex GBR 2:27.347
4 5 ZINI Katia ITA 2:27.347
6 2 EZZI Ranya SWE 2:30.138

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 SHIN Sae-Bom KOR 2:26.901 Q
2 1 FU Tian Yu CHN 2:26.957 Q
3 4 ITO Ayuko JPN 2:27.086
4 5 BELYAKOVA Olga RUS 2:28.664
5 2 VOS Maaike NED 2:30.667

Heat 3 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 KESZLER Andrea HUN 2:31.585 Q
2 5 BOUVIER Stephanie FRA 2:31.684 Q
3 1 MAFFEI Cecilia ITA 2:31.997
4 6 GILMARTIN Charlotte GBR 2:32.209
5 3 MASKAIKINA Olga RUS 2:33.965
6 4 GEORGIEVA Petia BUL

Heat 4 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 4 ZHOU Yang CHN 2:31.390 Q
2 1 KIM Min-Jung KOR 2:31.796 Q
3 3 FONTANA Arianna ITA 2:31.901
4 2 HEIDUM Bernadett HUN 2:32.476
5 5 AUSMA Jessica NED 2:37.152

Heat 5 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 JUNG Eun-Ju KOR 2:26.229 Q
2 2 BORODULINA Tatiana AUS 2:27.669 Q
3 1 KLEIN Aika GER 2:28.234
4 4 TER MORS Jorien NED 2:28.720
5 5 TOTH Patricia HUN 2:38.406

Heat 6 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 5 REUTTER Katherine USA 2:30.492 Q ;D ;D ;D
2 2 HEWITT Jessica CAN 2:31.477 Q
3 1 SAKURAI Biba JPN 2:32.370
4 4 SIMONOVA Inna KAZ 2:32.645
5 3 VUTEVA Kristina BUL 2:33.170

Heat 7 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 NOVOTNA Katerina CZE 2:25.434 Q
2 5 BAVER Allison USA 2:25.880 Q ;D ;D ;D
3 6 MARCEAU Laurie CAN 2:26.086 q
4 4 RIEDEL Julia GER 2:29.062
5 1 PATSOVA Gergana BUL 2:31.022
DQ 3 MENG Xiaoxue CHN DQ

[mtnme]

Great start for Jessica!

I don't think I'm gonna be able to hang in there tonight, so I'll have to check the results later. But hi to tripleB and all the lurkers who have more chutzpah than I do tonight! LOL

EDIT: All three of team USA's ladies move on. Jessica, Katherine and Allison. Nice start gals! ;D

[mtnme]

Heat 1 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 STELZMULLER Matthias AUT
2 LOTH David Mano HUN
3 BEDFORD Ryan USA
4 TSANKOV Tsvetan BUL
5 KAKUBARI Fumihiko JPN
6 ZAKHAROV Ruslan RUS

Heat 2 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 BECK Jeremy AUS
2 SIMON Jeff USA
3 YOSHIDA Takashi JPN
4 NOVER Gianluigi ITA
5 GERTSIKOV Alexander RUS
6 BERES Bence HUN

Heat 3 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 LIU Xianwei CHN
2 KOEK Rudy NED
3 PETROV Petar BUL
4 TAKAMIDO Yuzo JPN
5 CONFORTOLA Yuri ITA
6 LIFYRENKO Serhiy UKR

Heat 4 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 SUI Bao Ku CHN
2 UPCOTT Ian GBR
3 KNEGT Sjinkie NED
4 DARAZS Peter HUN
5 PRAUS Sebastian GER
6 PIUSS Janis LAT

Heat 5 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 MATTEI Jean Charles FRA
2 BECKER Robert GER
3 RODIGARI Nicola ITA
4 VALACH Andrej SVK
5 MONETTE Marc-Andre CAN
6 GUTENOV Ievgen UKR

Heat 6 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 LEE Ho-Suk KOR
2 LEPAPE Sebastien FRA
3 SMETANIN Andrey KAZ
4 HERRMANN Paul GER
5 CELSKI J.R. USA

Heat 7 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 PARK Jin-Hwan KOR
2 HAMELIN Charles CAN
3 PEARCE Thomas NZL
4 YANG Jin CHN
5 IVESON Tom GBR
6 KOZULIN Evgeny RUS

Heat 8 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 NURMAGAMBETOV Azamat KAZ
2 BASTILLE Guillaume CAN
3 DOUGLAS Anthony GBR
4 HAY Lachlan AUS
5 SUNG Si-Bak KOR

[bubblebuttsbabe]

Link: sports.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090205.wsptworld5/GSStory/GlobeSportsOther/home

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World Cup Preview

BEVERLEY SMITH

From Friday's Globe and Mail

February 5, 2009 at 10:07 PM EST

Canada's long-track speed skaters are steaming to the first of their sport's two world championships this weekend. And the short-trackers are finally stretching their legs in their first World Cup competition in two months.

Both are an important part of an action-packed weekend for all winter disciplines with only a year to go until the Vancouver Olympics. Canada's long-track team has seven of nine World Cup events behind it and is gearing up for the world all-round championships at the Vikingskipet Olympic Arena in Hamar, Norway, tomorrow and Sunday.

The squad will compete without last year's 500-metre world champion, Jeremy Wothersthingy of Red Deer, Alta., who broke an arm during a fall in a World Cup event in Berlin, as well as Cindy Klassen of Winnipeg, who is recovering from surgery. Sprinter Mike Ireland of Winnipeg is also nursing a dislocated shoulder.

But there are plenty of other Canadian speed skaters sharpening their skills for the Olympics this weekend. The women are hard to stop in the 1,500-metre event, with Kristina Groves of Ottawa standing atop the world rankings, and three other Canadians in the top six.

Denny Morrison of Fort St. John, B.C., is finally finding his legs after a slow start and ranks second in the 1,000 metres behind only training partner and Olympic champion Shani Davis of the United States.

Canada's male short-track speed skaters are deadly in the 500 metres, with four ranked in the world top eight. And Kalyna Roberge of Saint-Étienne-de-Lauzon, Que., showed she is back in the game with wins in the 500 and 2,000 metres at the Canadian open championships last week in Montreal. A tiny skater who fears nothing, Roberge will be set to break up the dominance the Chinese women have enjoyed this season.

Speed Skating Canada has split up its assignments to short-track skaters to give them all opportunities in the final year before the Vancouver Games. Therefore this week, Roberge will mix it up with opponents at a World Cup in Sofia, then return home before the next World Cup in Dresden, Germany.

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LOL! I love how they have described Kalyna! :]

[bubblebuttsbabe]

Ladies - 1000m (1) - Preliminaries Schedule and Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 VAN DOORN Annita NED 1:39.125 Q
2 2 POTEMKINA Valeriya RUS 1:39.140 Q
3 4 VALCEPINA Martina ITA 1:39.184
4 3 WALTER Bianca GER 1:39.301

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 PIERRON Veronique FRA 1:33.699 Q
2 2 GEHRING Lana USA 1:33.715 Q ;D ;D ;D
3 1 EVTEEVA Nina RUS 1:33.765 q
4 4 DARAZS Rozsa HUN 1:33.839

Heat 3 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 ROBERGE Kalyna CAN 1:36.114 Q ;D
2 1 MAU ASAM Liesbeth NED 1:36.519 Q
3 4 PRIEBST Christin GER 1:36.965
4 2 YELSAKOVA Yulyia BLR 1:37.664

Heat 4 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 ZHANG Hui CHN 1:34.410 Q
2 4 YANG Shin-Young KOR 1:34.514 Q
3 2 SAKAI Yui JPN 1:34.670 q
4 1 ZAHARIEVA Raya BUL 1:37.998

Heat 5 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 LIU Qiuhong CHN 1:33.224 Q
2 2 BELOVA Ekaterina RUS 1:33.716 Q
3 3 SADAKANE Hiroko JPN 1:33.718 q
4 4 VAN KERKHOF Sanne NED 1:35.856

Heat 6 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 RADANOVA Evgenia BUL 1:37.933 Q
2 2 MALTAIS Anne CAN 1:38.458 Q
3 1 LINDSAY Sarah GBR 1:38.600
4 4 RUDOLPH Susanne GER 1:38.736

Heat 7 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 PARK Seung-Hi KOR 1:34.512 Q
2 2 HUSZAR Erika HUN 1:34.655 Q
3 4 GEORGIEVA-NIKOLOVA Marina BUL 1:34.696 q
4 3 SECCHI Debora ITA 1:37.571

Heat 8 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 WANG Meng CHN 1:34.299 Q
2 4 JUNG Ba-Ra KOR 1:34.384 Q
3 2 PERETTI Lucia ITA 1:34.768 q
4 3 GARCIA Maria USA 1:34.897

Heat 9 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 GREGG Jessica CAN 1:33.447 Q
2 2 DERRICK Kimberly USA 1:33.720 Q ;D ;D ;D
3 4 CHRISTIE Elise GBR 1:34.439 q
4 1 CHIKA Ishida JPN 1:34.498

[mtnme]

Jeff and JR advance, Ryan Bedford gets a DQ on his first race out of the chute.
Settle down there Ryan....now b-r-e-a-t-h-e....

I'd love to stay up for my boys Travis, Jordan and Anthony...but I just can't make it.

Good Luck team USA with the rest of Friday's races.

[bubblebuttsbabe]

Feb 6, 2009 2:30:50 GMT -5 musicalmom said:

Do you think Apolo will be there next weekend?
Musical Mom

He won't. He stayed behind to get his skates ready in time for Worlds.

[bubblebuttsbabe]

Men 1000m (1) Preliminaries Schedule and Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 5 KWAK Yoon-Gy KOR 1:28.338 Q
2 3 KURGINYAN Vyacheslav RUS 1:28.497 Q
3 4 PANDOV Assen BUL 1:28.802 q
4 1 KROEGER Torsten GER 1:28.888
5 2 PULEC Andre AUT 1:33.737

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 SONG Weilong CHN 1:27.787 Q
2 2 KIM Yong-Sung KOR 1:27.852 Q
3 4 BEAN Nicolas ITA 1:27.950 q
4 3 HEUNG Tyson GER 1:27.990

Heat 3 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 5 FUJIMOTO Takahiro JPN 1:30.052 Q
2 1 VAN RIEL Ingmar NED 1:30.199 Q
3 2 SHRIANE Elliott AUS 1:30.271 q
4 4 MACE Benjamin FRA 1:30.700
5 3 SAULITIS Jekabs LAT 1:34.136

Heat 4 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 HAMELIN Francois CAN 1:32.550 Q
2 3 JAYNER Travis USA 1:32.604 Q ;D ;D ;D
3 4 BREEUWSMA Daan NED 1:33.385
4 2 KOROLYOV Viktor UKR 1:33.806

Heat 5 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 TREMBLAY Francois-Louis CAN 1:29.499 Q
2 4 PRANKEVITCH Sergei RUS 1:29.588 Q
3 5 RINALDI Claudio ITA 1:29.761 q
4 1 SULTANGALIYEV Artur KAZ 1:29.845
2 GANTUMUR Munkhdori MGL

Heat 6 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 4 HAN Jialiang CHN 1:29.942 Q
2 3 ELEY Jon GBR 1:30.219 Q
3 1 MASSON Jeremie FRA 1:31.779 q
DQ 2 MALONE Jordan USA DQ

Heat 7 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 JEAN Olivier CAN 1:30.970 Q
2 2 LOBELLO Anthony USA 1:31.272 Q ;D ;D ;D
3 4 POLTAVETS Dmytro UKR 1:32.404 q
4 1 STANLEY Paul GBR 1:32.735

Heat 8 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 FAUCONNET Thibaut FRA 1:30.263 Q
2 4 SAKAcrapA Satoshi JPN 1:30.417 Q
3 2 KNOCH Viktor HUN 1:31.566 q
4 3 DIMITROV Viktor BUL 1:33.594

Heat 9 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 LEE Jung-Su KOR 1:30.210 Q
2 4 GALAMBOS Gabor HUN 1:30.302 Q
3 2 SERRA Roberto ITA 1:30.629 q
4 1 WORTH Paul GBR 1:31.767

Heat 10 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 LI Ye CHN 1:32.158 Q
2 5 VAN DER WART Freek NED 1:32.611 Q
3 2 YORDANOV Asen BUL 1:33.943
4 4 ZHUMAGAZIYEV Nurbergen KAZ 1:35.215
DQ 1 KOSHELENKO Oleksiy UKR DQ

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Ladies - 1000m (1) - Heats Schedule and Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 ZHANG Hui CHN 1:34.505 Q
2 4 RADANOVA Evgenia BUL 1:34.579 Q
3 1 EVTEEVA Nina RUS 1:34.752
4 3 MAU ASAM Liesbeth NED 1:34.753

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 LIU Qiuhong CHN 1:31.285 Q
2 3 JUNG Ba-Ra KOR 1:31.394 Q
3 2 DERRICK Kimberly USA 1:32.090 q ;D ;D ;D
4 4 PERETTI Lucia ITA 1:37.116

Heat 3 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 GEHRING Lana USA 1:32.859 Q ;D ;D ;D
2 1 PIERRON Veronique FRA 1:32.972 Q
3 4 SAKAI Yui JPN 1:33.080
4 3 HUSZAR Erika HUN 1:33.597

Heat 4 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 WANG Meng CHN 1:35.951 Q
2 2 CHRISTIE Elise GBR 1:36.069 Q
3 4 VAN DOORN Annita NED 1:36.275
4 3 MALTAIS Anne CAN 1:36.539

Heat 5 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 YANG Shin-Young KOR 1:32.299 Q
2 1 GREGG Jessica CAN 1:32.381 Q
3 4 GEORGIEVA-NIKOLOVA Marina BUL 1:32.434
4 2 BELOVA Ekaterina RUS 1:52.883

Heat 6 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 PARK Seung-Hi KOR 1:32.119 Q
2 3 ROBERGE Kalyna CAN 1:32.191 Q ;D
3 1 SADAKANE Hiroko JPN 1:32.349 q
4 4 POTEMKINA Valeriya RUS 1:32.453

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Men - 1000m (1) - Heats Schedule and Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 SONG Weilong CHN 1:30.437 Q
2 3 ELEY Jon GBR 1:30.657 Q
3 4 POLTAVETS Dmytro UKR 1:30.842
4 2 VAN RIEL Ingmar NED 1:31.407

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 LEE Jung-Su KOR 1:29.677 Q
2 3 LI Ye CHN 1:29.773 Q
3 1 RINALDI Claudio ITA 1:29.895
4 4 VAN DER WART Freek NED 1:30.306

Heat 3 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 TREMBLAY Francois-Louis CAN 1:28.880 Q
2 4 KNOCH Viktor HUN 1:29.085 Q
3 1 KURGINYAN Vyacheslav RUS 1:29.465
4 3 SAKAcrapA Satoshi JPN

Heat 4 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 4 JEAN Olivier CAN 1:27.703 Q
2 3 FAUCONNET Thibaut FRA 1:28.031 Q
3 1 BEAN Nicolas ITA 1:30.654
4 2 PANDOV Assen BUL 1:36.282

Heat 5 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 HAMELIN Francois CAN 1:29.399 Q
2 4 JAYNER Travis USA 1:29.628 Q ;D ;D ;D
3 2 SHRIANE Elliott AUS 1:30.132
DQ 1 FUJIMOTO Takahiro JPN DQ

Heat 6 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 KWAK Yoon-Gy KOR 1:29.800 Q
2 3 GALAMBOS Gabor HUN 1:30.427 Q
3 2 PRANKEVITCH Sergei RUS 1:30.512
4 4 MASSON Jeremie FRA 1:31.430

Heat 7 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 KIM Yong-Sung KOR 1:30.388 Q
2 2 HAN Jialiang CHN 1:30.589 Q
3 4 LOBELLO Anthony USA 1:31.322
DQ 3 SERRA Roberto ITA DQ

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Ladies - 500m - Preliminaries Schedule and Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 MENG Xiaoxue CHN 45.230 Q
2 2 PARK Seung-Hi KOR 45.274 Q
3 1 LINDSAY Sarah GBR 45.980 q
4 4 VAN KERKHOF Sanne NED 46.682

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 SAKAI Yui JPN 46.370 Q
2 4 KESZLER Andrea HUN 46.816 Q
3 2 YELSAKOVA Yulyia BLR 55.709
DQ 3 RUDOLPH Susanne GER DQ

Heat 3 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 ROBERGE Kalyna CAN 44.441 Q ;D
2 4 DARAZS Rozsa HUN 45.603 Q
3 1 VAN DOORN Annita NED 1:19.636 ADV
DQ 2 BELOVA Ekaterina RUS DQ

Heat 4 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 GREGG Jessica CAN 44.613 Q
2 3 CHRISTIE Elise GBR 44.836 Q
3 4 YANG Shin-Young KOR 44.855 q
4 2 SADAKANE Hiroko JPN 45.590

Heat 5 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 MALTAIS Anne CAN 46.030 Q
2 2 VOS Maaike NED 46.114 Q
3 4 CHIKA Ishida JPN 47.009 q
DNS 1 PIERRON Veronique FRA DNS

Heat 6 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 GEHRING Lana USA 45.141 Q ;D ;D ;D
2 2 NOVOTNA Katerina CZE 45.269 Q
3 3 VUTEVA Kristina BUL 47.146
4 4 SECCHI Debora ITA 47.293

Heat 7 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 WANG Meng CHN 44.725 Q
2 2 SMITH Jessica USA 45.188 Q ;D ;D ;D
3 3 VALCEPINA Martina ITA 45.313 q
4 4 JUNG Ba-Ra KOR 45.445

Heat 8 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 FU Tian Yu CHN 45.311 Q
2 1 WALTER Bianca GER 46.052 Q
3 4 GARCIA Maria USA 46.206 q ;D ;D ;D
4 3 ZAHARIEVA Raya BUL 47.968

Heat 9 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 FONTANA Arianna ITA 45.200 Q
2 1 HUSZAR Erika HUN 45.467 Q
3 4 PATSOVA Gergana BUL 46.543 q
4 2 MASKAIKINA Olga RUS 47.105

[bubblebuttsbabe]

i won't be able to finish - i have to take my bff to the airport. GOOD LUCK, TEAM USA! GO JORDAN! :]

[stfan]

Thanks for the info aao2010. Hey DebbieF, now I know who you are when I rewatch DWTS season 4. Can anyone tell me if we can watch WC5 anywhere? Can somebody please beat Meng Wang. Anybody at all, preferably the US team. It's getting boring.

[Lori]

Good morning, all! I've been checking in, and will continue to do so - BBB, I love the little emoties in your recaps!

EDIT: Is anyone else getting a 'Server Error' on the ISU results page?