World Cup #2 - Sept. 24-27, 2009 - Seoul, S. Korea

[mtnme]

watching the 1500m live.

Well, that was fun while it lasted....

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I am so confused. Lol.

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Do we need 1500m quarterfinal results posted or does everyone already know where we're at?! :] I'm moving on...

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Women - 500m - Quarterfinals - Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 3 ROBERGE Kalyna CAN 44.733 Q
2 4 DUDEK Alyson USA 44.791 Q
3 1 WANG Xinyue HKG 44.938
DQ 2 PARK Seung-Hi KOR DQ

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 ZHAO Nannan CHN 44.116 Q
2 2 FONTANA Arianna ITA 44.135 Q
3 3 GREGG Jessica CAN 44.250
4 4 MALISZEWSKA Patrycja POL 45.669

Heat 3 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 WANG Meng CHN 43.607 Q
2 2 JEON Da-Hye KOR 44.754 Q
3 3 LINDSAY Sarah GBR 44.828
4 4 NOVOTNA Katerina CZE 45.820
5 5 VOS Maaike NED 46.022

Heat 4 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 LIU Qiuhong CHN 44.129 Q
2 3 HUSZAR Erika HUN 44.240 Q
3 4 RADANOVA Evgenia BUL 44.682
DQ 2 CHO Ha-Ri KOR DQ

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Men - 500m - Quarterfinals - Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 TREMBLAY Francois-Louis CAN 41.761 Q
2 2 RODIGARI Nicola ITA 42.036 Q
3 5 DARAZS Peter HUN 42.172
4 3 CHO Simon USA 58.500 ADV
DQ 4 ELEY Jon GBR DQ

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 HAMELIN Charles CAN 41.429 Q
2 1 KWAK Yoon-Gy KOR 41.554 Q
3 3 LOBELLO Anthony USA 42.067
4 4 HEUNG Tyson GER 42.240

Heat 3 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 2 HAMELIN Francois CAN 41.556 Q
2 4 HAN Jialiang CHN 41.638 Q
3 3 SIMON Jeff USA 41.964
4 5 ITO Junji JPN 42.411
5 1 KULESZA Dariusz POL 43.108

Heat 4 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 LEE Ho-Suk KOR 41.969 Q
2 2 FUJIMOTO Takahiro JPN 42.217 Q
3 4 GYSEL Pieter BEL 42.323
4 3 FAUCONNET Thibaut FRA 42.542

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[number1fan]

Simon Cho advances

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RAWR - ISU! What are you guys doing over there?! Could you at least get the heat seedings in the right order, please?!

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Women - 500m - Semifinals - Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 ZHAO Nannan CHN 44.587 QA
2 3 FONTANA Arianna ITA 45.044 QA
3 2 LIU Qiuhong CHN 1:05.392 QB
4 4 JEON Da-Hye KOR 1:41.845 QB

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 WANG Meng CHN 43.768 QA
2 3 ROBERGE Kalyna CAN 44.557 QA
3 2 HUSZAR Erika HUN 44.731 QB
4 4 DUDEK Alyson USA 44.895 QB

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Men - 500m - Semifinals - Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 HAN Jialiang CHN 41.502 QA
2 3 LEE Ho-Suk KOR 41.504 QA
3 2 TREMBLAY Francois-Louis CAN 41.669 QB
4 4 RODIGARI Nicola ITA 42.595 QB

Heat 2 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 HAMELIN Charles CAN 43.899 QA
2 3 HAMELIN Francois CAN 43.991 QA
3 2 KWAK Yoon-Gy KOR 44.001 QB
4 5 CHO Simon USA 44.098 QB
5 4 FUJIMOTO Takahiro JPN 45.055

Heat 2** [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 HAMELIN Charles CAN 41.343 QA
2 5 CHO Simon USA 41.653 QA
3 4 FUJIMOTO Takahiro JPN 42.760 QB
4 2 KWAK Yoon-Gy KOR 54.729 ADV
DQ 3 HAMELIN Francois CAN DQ

**According to Tony's twitter, the track was too big for semi #2, so the Koreans wanted a reskate. The Canadians didn't (they had two of their skaters in there, of course they wouldn't want one), but there was a reskate anyway and Francois was DQ'ed and Simon Cho made it in the A Final! (That is why the first race is crossed out and the reskate is the new result.)

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Women - 500m - Final B - Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 HUSZAR Erika HUN 45.182
2 2 DUDEK Alyson USA 45.388
3 3 LIU Qiuhong CHN 45.400
DNS 4 JEON Da-Hye KOR DNS

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Women - 500m - Final A - Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 WANG Meng CHN 43.603 GOLD
2 3 ZHAO Nannan CHN 43.720 SILVER
3 2 ROBERGE Kalyna CAN 43.933 BRONZE
4 4 FONTANA Arianna ITA 45.763

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Men - 500m - Final B - Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 TREMBLAY Francois-Louis CAN 41.586
2 3 FUJIMOTO Takahiro JPN 41.726
3 2 RODIGARI Nicola ITA 42.762

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Men - 500m - Final A - Results

Heat 1 [Splits]
Place Start Pos. Name ISU Member Results Qual.
1 1 HAMELIN Charles CAN 41.462 GOLD
2 2 HAN Jialiang CHN 41.509 SILVER
3 3 LEE Ho-Suk KOR 41.553 BRONZE
4 4 CHO Simon USA 41.561
5 5 KWAK Yoon-Gy KOR 45.601

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That's all folks! ;D

See you guys tomorrow!

GO TEAM USA!!!

[evie5]

Apolo comments on WC from FB

Rough week but was able to make the A-Final and was caught at the back of the race...3 Koreans all skating from the front makes for an interesting race. Good to see what the other countries have been doing all summer. Overall the team is skating VERY well! One more day :-)

[number1fan]

re-skate

SIMON CHO made the best of it though

valiant effort in the 500 m Finals A Simon...that was a tight race throughout ;D

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www.universalsports.com/ViewArticle.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=23000&ATCLID=204802136

U.S. skaters fail to win medal at World Cup meet in Seoul
Sat Sep 26, 2009 By US Speedskating


By: Reuters

Canadian Charles Hamelin won the men's 500m final in Seoul on Saturday.

Seoul -- Team USA did everything they could to medal at the ISU Short Track World Cup in Seoul, Korea during Saturday’s races, but just couldn’t pull it off.

The ladies did a great job skating the 1,500m quarterfinals with U.S. Short Track Champion Katherine Reutter and Olympians Allison Baver and Kimberly Derrick advancing to the semifinals. Baver and Derrick finished third and fourth, respectively, in their heats, earning spots in the B Final. Reutter took second place her semifinal race to advance to the A Final.

In the Ladies 1,500m B Final, Derrick and Baver skated a fast race to grab third and fourth place finishes. In the 1,500m A Final, Reutter was in second place, battling for first with two laps to go when she tangled with Eun-Byul Lee of Korea and fell, finishing in sixth place. Lee went on to win the event. After two World Cup events, three U.S. ladies are ranked in the top ten for the 1,500m with Reutter in fourth, Derrick in eighth and Baver in ninth.

Alyson Dudek was the only U.S. lady to skate the 500m quarterfinals. She made it through to advance to the semis and ended up in the B Final. Dudek put in a great performance to finish second in the B Final. After two World Cup events, Dudek is ranked ninth in overall classification.

In a very competitive Men’s 1,500m quarterfinals, Olympian Apolo Anton Ohno and Jeff Simon skated to first place wins in their heats, while Jordan Malone finished in third but was advanced to the semis.

During the 1,500m semifinals, the top three athletes in each heat advanced to the A Final. Ohno took third in his race, advancing to the A Final along with Simon who finished in fifth but was advanced after Canadian skater Charles Hamelin was disqualified. Malone finished in fourth and ended up winning the B Final. Ohno and Simon skated a highly competitive A Final race but finished just off the medal stand in fourth and fifth. Ho-Suk Lee from Korea took the gold with a time of 2:13.922. Three U.S. men are ranked in the top ten for World Cup classification in the 1,500m: Ohno is fourth, Simon is eighth and Malone is ranked tenth.

The men’s 500m proved to be exciting as Simon Cho advanced from the quarters to the semis. However, Olympian Anthony Lobello and Jeff Simon finished third in their heat and narrowly missed advancing to the semifinals.

Cho fought through the 500m semifinals and ended in second behind Hamelin, moving into the A Final. In a tough race, Cho battled hard but couldn’t get out of the fourth position, missing the bronze medal by a hair. After two World Cups, Jeff Simon is ranked sixth overall in the 500m while Cho is looking strong in eighth.

Racing concludes on Sunday with the Men’s and Ladies Relay Finals and the 1,000m.