World Team Championship March 14-15

[dove]

The Team entries have been posted on the event website:


Member First name Last name Category

USA
Katherine Reutter Ladies
Kimberly Derrick Ladies
Jessica Smith Ladies
Lana Gehring Ladies
Alyson Dudek Ladies
Apolo Anton Ohno Men
J.R. Celski Men
Jeffrey Simon Men
Jordan Malone Men
Travis Jayner Men

Canada
Kalyna Roberge Ladies
Anne Maltais Ladies
Valerie Maltais Ladies
Jessica Hewitt Ladies
Jessica Gregg Ladies
Laurie Marceau Ladies
Charles Hamelin Men
Oliver Jean Men
Guillaume Bastille Men
Francois Hamelin Men
Marc-Andre Monette Men
Francois-Louis Tremblay Men

South-Korea
Min-Jung Kim Ladies
Sae-Bom Shin Ladies
Ba-Ra Jung Ladies
Shin-Young Yang Ladies
Yoon-Gu Kwak Men
Si-Bak Sung Men
Ho-Suk Lee Men
Jung-Su Lee Men
Jin-Hwan Park Men

Japan
Ito Ayuko Ladies
Ozawa Mika Ladies
Sakai Yui Ladies
Sakurai Biba Ladies
Sadakane Hiroko Ladies
Fujimoto Takahiro Men
Tamido Yuzo Men
Kakubari Fumihiko Men
Sakacrapa Satshi Men
Sakurai Yuma Men

China
Meng Wang Ladies
Yang Zhou Ladies
Qiuhong Liu Ladies
Tianyu Fu Ladies
Hui Zhang Ladies
Baoko Sui Men
Jialiang Han Men
Weilong Song Men
Xianwei Liu Men
Jin Yang Men

the Netherlands
Annita van Doorn Ladies
Maaike Vos Ladies
Liesbeth Mau Asam Ladies
Sanne van Kerkhof Ladies
Jorien ter Mors Ladies
Margriet (SUB) de Schutter Ladies
Niels Kerstholt Men
Daan Breeuwsma Men
Sjinkie Knegt Men
Freek van der Wart Men
Rudy Koek Men
Ingmar van Riel Men

Germany
Aika Klein Ladies
Susanne Rudolph Ladies
Christin Priebst Ladies
Bianca Walter Ladies
Julia Riedel Ladies
Sebastian Praus Men
Paul Herrmann Men
Tyson Heung Men
Robert Becker Men
Robert Seifert Men

Italy
Arianna Fontana Ladies
Cecilia Maffei Ladies
Lucia Peretti Ladies
Martina Valcepina Ladies
Katia Zini Ladies
Yuri Confortola Men
Gianluigi Nover Men
Claudio Rinaldi Men
Nicola Rodigari Men
Roberto Serra Men

www.knsb.nl/live-2009/wk/shorttrack/content/home/en/

[aaosmts19]

Mar 9, 2009 6:50:30 GMT -5 aaosmts19 said:

So if Jeff sits out the Team Championships due to his wrist injury, would Ryan or Jordan step in? or do we lose a contestant somehow?

Good to hear that Jeff is racing this weekend!
Good luck Jeff!

[A.O.Freak]

Member First name Last name Category

USA
Katherine Reutter Ladies
Kimberly Derrick Ladies
Jessica Smith Ladies
Lana Gehring Ladies
Alyson Dudek Ladies
Apolo Anton Ohno ;D Men
J.R. Celski Men
Jeffrey Simon Men
Jordan Malone Men
Travis Jayner Men

[apolostarr]

The US sure has a jam packed team

[justsayin]

dove, thanks for the confirmation of the US team lineup!

I went to the link you provided and was excited to see the tab for "live video". I clicked and found the meet would be broadcast live but then saw the "IP blocks are active for Japan and United States"

I hope that we can pick this up on Korean TV again. I looked at the portal that I used to find that and there are 135 Dutch stations listed but none of them are labeled "sports"

Guess I'll frantically be clicking away again when the action starts

[mtnme]

This just in from USS.

March 11, 2009.

The U.S. short track team is ready to tear up the ice at the ISU World Short Track Team Championships in Heerenveen , Netherlands on March 14-15. The men's team will be defending their 2008 World Team Championship title and after last weekend's gold-medal relay performance, and J.R. Celski's ( Federal Way, WA ) silver medal in the overall classification, the team is ready to rumble.

Celski, Apolo Anton Ohno (Seattle, WA), Jordan Malone (Denton, TX) and Travis Jayner (Midland, MI) will compete at the event with teammate Jeff Simon (Las Vegas, NV) cheering them on. Simon broke his hand during the World Short Track Championships in Vienna , Austria and will not be skating the event.

Kimberly Derrick ( Memphis , TN ) and Katherine Reutter ( Champaign , IL ) will take the ladies team to the next level with the help of teammates Jessica Smith ( Melvindale , MI ), Lana Gehring ( Glenview , IL ) and Alyson Dudek (Hales Corners, WI). Although the ladies struggled in last week's championship event, they are ready to hit the ice with a strong comeback.

On the national side, Midland , Michigan is the place to be in the U.S for great short track speedskating this weekend. The Midland Speedskating Club is hosting the 2009 Dow U.S. National Age Class Short Track Speedskating Championships and American Cup Final on March 13-15 with 250 competitors vying for age-class medallions.

National champions from 9 to 80 years old will be crowned at the event along with the male and female American Cup short track champions. A live webcast will be available for the event at the US Speedskating website—www.usspeeds kating.org. For more information about the event, visit www.midlandspeedska tingclub. com.

________________________________________________________________________________________

Anthony Lobello and many of The Rocker Fund Skaters will be at this event.

[sk8on]

I looked on the event site (under the news section), and I believe these are the brackets...

www.knsb.nl/live-2009/wk/shorttrack/content/home/en/

Men
Korea
United States
Japan
Germany

Ladies
China
United States
Italy
Germany

Men
Canada
China
Italy
Netherlands

Ladies
Korea
Canada
Japan
Netherlands

[Lori]

Hmmm, we must have been seeded 3rd for both men's & ladies, 'cause I think it goes 1-3-5-7 in bracket #1 and 2-4-6-8 in bracket #2.

[gasp]

Dec 2, 1973 8:03:04 GMT -5 apolostarr said:

The US sure has a jam packed team

I agree Apolostarr The US has TWO jam-packed TEAMS.

The ladies are exciting to watch too! hehehe

[musicalmom]

Hi Everyone;
Just to confirm that Ryan Bedford skated the 5000 distance in long track at the Richmond Olympic Oval this afternoon. I was fortunate to be there to see him and yelled really loud and waved my flags!! He skated beautifuly but didn't place...was up against 3 world champion dutchmen and a very fast Russian ...new speed records set ....lots of orange Dutchmen in the stands !
Also saw Shani Davis and Trevor Marsicano in the 1000 distance..amazing times...
Trevor won gold - said to be youngest to win speed skating gold, he used to do short track until a horrible accident, then switched to long track because he was so good at it...
Shani won bronze...what a pleasure to see him skate...I met his manager (a dutchman) who said he admired Shani as a man of character with many talents as much as he admired his skating skill...( no wonder he and Apolo are close friends) he told me that Shani virtually coaches himself and doesn't have a primary coach..as his manager, this gentleman said he books him for all kinds of talks etc...and that he is a great speaker too...
The silver medalist was Denny Morrison, a much medaled Canadian..

Yesterday, Shani won gold in the single distance competition. ;D..not sure which distance...his manager said he's had a winning season all around! Didn't he win the world championship in long track last year as Apolo won the world championship in short track? I think he also used to skate short track too.

All in all , I enjoyed the afternoon, but not nearly as much as I did the Short Track World Cup in Vancouver....I discovered that I am indeed a SHORT TRACK FAN at heart...kind of how I feel about the theater...I'm a musical theater buff...if there's no overture, i feel kind of let down...and although they are so graceful to watch, they really aren't racing each other, they're racing the clock...just not the thrill of a pack of skaters trying to outskate and outwit each other while in very close proximity...

That being said, I so admired Ryan doing the 5000 distance after the last few months of short track... ;D and his long trip from Europe...must be hard to switch from one type of event to the other...but I went down near the rink and yelled really loud for him..hopefully I got a few pictures before they chased me back up to the stands ( guess I was in the photographers zone)
oops!
Not sure where to post this, but here is article re:today (mods please move if this is in the wrong place)
latimesblogs.latimes.com/olympics_blog/2009/03/speedskater-tre.html

I took tons of pictures but won't have time to edit and post for at least a week or so....got some good ones of this new Olympic Oval venue...they may use it for short track after the games I'm told...

Im off for a nap and will hopefully be back for the first bracket at 2:30 A.M. PACIFIC TIME!!
musical mom

[musicalmom]

Hi All
got up at 2:30 for bracket #1...men came in second overall to Korea, can't stay awake for Bracket #2...will check back at 11 a.m. to see if we have to skate in repechage..depends on results of bracket #2...I think the women may have to...lots of great skating this round...couldn't get Dutch tv to work and I'm not in Japan or U.S. which are blocked...wonder what that's about?
didn't see anyone here...am I on wrong thread?

[evie5]

Mar 9, 2009 21:02:44 GMT -5 Lori said:

In each bracket, the top finishing team is advanced to the A Finals and the bottom team is relegated to the B Finals. Then the middle 2 teams compete in a Repechage round with the middle 2 teams in the other bracket.

So, if I understand this correctly, both the men and the women will be skating in the Repechage. The men are in the #2 spot and the women in the #3 spot.

[evie5]

Ladies 1000 m
Heat 1 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 WANG Meng CHN 1:32.525
2 1 REUTTER Katherine USA 1:32.999
3 2 MAFFEI Cecilia ITA 1:33.976
4 4 KLEIN Aika GER 1:33.997

Heat 2 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 4 LIU Qiuhong CHN 1:32.823
2 2 DERRICK Kimberly USA 1:33.099
3 3 ZINI Katia ITA 1:33.347
4 1 PRIEBST Christin GER 1:33.421

Heat 3 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 ZHOU Yang CHN 1:32.435
2 3 SMITH Jessica USA 1:33.297
3 2 RUDOLPH Susanne GER 1:34.157
4 4 PERETTI Lucia ITA 1:34.222

Heat 4 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 FONTANA Arianna ITA 1:33.803
2 2 ZHANG Hui CHN 1:33.836
3 4 GEHRING Lana USA 1:34.097
4 3 WALTER Bianca GER 1:35.140

Ladies 500 m

Heat 1 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 REUTTER Katherine USA 45.479
2 4 ZHOU Yang CHN 45.524
3 3 ZINI Katia ITA 46.115
4 1 RUDOLPH Susanne GER 1:12.293

Heat 2 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 FU Tian Yu CHN 45.068
2 3 SMITH Jessica USA 45.147
3 2 KLEIN Aika GER 45.254
4 4 MAFFEI Cecilia ITA 45.837

Heat 3 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 WANG Meng CHN 44.282
2 4 GEHRING Lana USA 45.052
3 1 FONTANA Arianna ITA 45.166
4 3 WALTER Bianca GER 45.776

Heat 4 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 VALCEPINA Martina ITA 45.659
2 4 PRIEBST Christin GER 45.788
3 1 DERRICK Kimberly USA 45.841
4 3 LIU Qiuhong CHN 1:02.305


Ladies 3000 m

Heat 1 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 5 ZHOU Yang CHN 5:18.776
2 1 LIU Qiuhong CHN 5:19.600
3 2 PERETTI Lucia ITA 5:24.008
4 4 RIEDEL Julia GER 5:24.796
5 8 PRIEBST Christin GER 5:29.523
6 6 ZINI Katia ITA 5:30.081
7 3 DERRICK Kimberly USA 5:36.116
8 7 SMITH Jessica USA 5:37.486

Ladies Relay

Heat 1 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Relay Team ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 CHINA
FU Tian Yu
WANG Meng
ZHANG Hui
ZHOU Yang CHN 4:16.127
2 4 ITALY
FONTANA Arianna
MAFFEI Cecilia
VALCEPINA Martina
ZINI Katia ITA 4:20.181
3 1 GERMANY
KLEIN Aika
PRIEBST Christin
RUDOLPH Susanne
WALTER Bianca GER 4:20.300
4 2 UNITED STATES
DERRICK Kimberly
DUDEK Alyson
GEHRING Lana
REUTTER Katherine USA 4:21.379

[evie5]

Here's where the men stand:

Rank Name ISU Member Points
1 Korea KOR 44
2 United States USA 39
3 Japan JPN 23
4 Germany GER 14

Men's 1000 m

Heat 1 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 SUNG Si-Bak KOR 1:27.546
2 3 KAKUBARI Fumihiko JPN 1:27.701
3 4 PRAUS Sebastian GER 1:27.840
4 2 OHNO Apolo Anton USA 1:28.303

Heat 2 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 CELSKI J.R. USA 1:27.080 ;D
2 2 LEE Jung-Su KOR 1:27.227
3 4 FUJIMOTO Takahiro JPN 1:27.525
DQ 1 HERRMANN Paul GER DQ

Heat 3 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 LEE Ho-Suk KOR 1:30.761
2 4 MALONE Jordan USA 1:30.956
3 2 HEUNG Tyson GER 1:31.601
4 1 SAKAcrapA Satoshi JPN 1:32.965

Heat 4 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 JAYNER Travis USA 1:29.924 ;D
2 4 KWAK Yoon-Gy KOR 1:29.929
3 2 TAKAMIDO Yuzo JPN 1:30.128
4 3 BECKER Robert GER 1:30.994

Men's 500 m

Heat 1 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 SUNG Si-Bak KOR 42.114
2 2 JAYNER Travis USA 42.274
3 3 TAKAMIDO Yuzo JPN 43.137
4 4 HERRMANN Paul GER 43.645

Heat 2 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 LEE Jung-Su KOR 42.911
2 1 PRAUS Sebastian GER 43.054
3 3 MALONE Jordan USA 43.149
4 4 KAKUBARI Fumihiko JPN 43.213

Heat 3 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 SAKAcrapA Satoshi JPN 42.749
2 4 CELSKI J.R. USA 42.807
3 3 LEE Ho-Suk KOR 42.914
4 2 HEUNG Tyson GER 42.944

Heat 4 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 OHNO Apolo Anton USA 43.299 ;D
2 2 FUJIMOTO Takahiro JPN 43.573
3 3 SEIFERT Robert GER 44.281
4 4 KWAK Yoon-Gy KOR 1:07.167

Men's 3000 m

Heat 1 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 8 CELSKI J.R. USA 5:12.160 ;D
2 7 LEE Jung-Su KOR 5:12.352
3 3 PARK Jin-Hwan KOR 5:12.855
4 4 MALONE Jordan USA 5:12.979
5 5 PRAUS Sebastian GER 5:13.576
6 2 SAKURAI Yuma JPN 5:13.975
7 6 TAKAMIDO Yuzo JPN 5:14.157
8 1 HEUNG Tyson GER 5:14.963

Men's Relay
Heat 1 [Splits]

Place Start Pos. Relay Team ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 KOREA
LEE Ho-Suk
LEE Jung-Su
PARK Jin-Hwan
SUNG Si-Bak KOR 6:53.237

2 2 UNITED STATES
JAYNER Travis
CELSKI J.R.
MALONE Jordan
OHNO Apolo Anton USA 6:53.677

3 3 JAPAN
FUJIMOTO Takahiro
KAKUBARI Fumihiko
SAKAcrapA Satoshi
TAKAMIDO Yuzo JPN 6:56.250

4 4 GERMANY
BECKER Robert
HERRMANN Paul
HEUNG Tyson
PRAUS Sebastian GER 7:13.959

[justsayin]

well, I was up for the Bracket 1 races. The US ladies came out of the gate strong but had some trouble with the 3000 and the relay.

The men's races were quite exciting. Our guys certainly gave the Koreans a run for the money. Going into the relay with only 1 point between them. the Koreans brought out their "fresh legs" with their 5 th skater in the 3000 and relays and barely pulled it out.

congrats to JR for winning his second 3000 race in less then a week.........ahhhh youth.

Promptly fell back to sleep after the men's relay .....LOL.......and woke up just before the Bracket 2 men's 500. Wow, Canada was in last place overall but really picked up ground. This should be a race to the wire too!

I don't understand why we can't get a live feed here in the US. I suspect that it has to do with Universal sports having the ST rights here. Then why don't they just pick up the feed and let us watch through their site?? Doesn't even interfere timewise with the LT meet.

I tried the Korean station many times with no luck and Dutch TV seems to consists totally of nature shows, talk shows and really bad tecno-music dance shows.

Maybe Korea will show the finals tomorrow. It is right in prime time over there so there sure would be an audience , you'd think.