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JORIEN TER MORS (NED) Jorien ter Mors is a Dutch Speed Skater and Short Track Speed Skater. She won the 1500 meters and Team Pursuit titles in Speed Skating at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games and is the first lady to have competed in both disciplines at the Olympics.
NO 53 MAY 2014
International Sport Federations which were constituted a long time ago are generally proud of their long history. However there is something that is not truly positive for them, i.e. their Statutes were written many years ago and since the world of sport has modified its approach over the years, they are now confronted with necessary changes.
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The ISU, founded in 1892 in Scheveningen, The Netherlands, is among those federations. One of the first pieces of evidence is the issue of natural ice-rinks. In the past they were more available in Nordic countries and the best skaters started in the first groups since the ice conditions were more favorable (this is particularly true in Speed Skating). Progress, technology and industry made the artificial ice-rinks available and the ISU proposed to the ISU Congress, which has the power to change the rules, to modify that imposition, so that the best skaters were to progressively compete in the last groups. Except for Technical Rules, to pass an amendment at Congress, which is the highest body of the ISU, it was and still is necessary to obtain a two-third majority. It must be noted that based on the number of ISU Members, there is a maximum of 115 votes in 2014 and therefore a two-third majority means 77 votes are required to confirm that a new proposal is accepted. But the procedure also requires that the proposal be included in the Congress Agenda months in advance, otherwise it must be presented as an Urgent Matter (Art. 29, para 5) in order to be included in the Congress Agenda. Urgent Matters need a 4 / 5 majority i.e. 92 out of 115 votes in favor. In order to continue to be attractive, at present a sport needs to receive consensus from the entities who are most involved in the sport area, namely sponsors, television-media and spectators (TV viewers and individuals attending the event). But as pointed out, to adapt a sport discipline to the requirements of the sport’s entities it is necessary to compose a constructive solution and in particular to respect the procedure of democracy existing in each International Sport Federation. After that, the involved entities need to be persuaded that the new package is better than the one they used to offer to the final “consumer” for many years. Now, since an International Sport Federation is working with the cooperation of elected and appointed people and the ISU is very attentive to respect the ISU Statutes, it is necessary that the large mass of individuals in the ISU, defined as ISU Office Holders, supports the message and actually helps to form the rules with the aim to improve the situation. When this does not happen, it is clear that everything remains linked to the existing rules, therefore the sport disciplines remain as they have been for many years. In the past this was accepted however today and in the future the consequence might be that sport disciplines are no longer considered attractive enough. Here a point comes to surface, i.e. is it correct that the ISU Office Holders, normally considered as experts, that are elected by the Congress or appointed by the Council (the two major ISU bodies) accept a much different direction since this was the Congress orientation? One can note that important rules may be changed, but yet again the matter shall be submitted to the Congress which has to reach a two-thirds majority as described above. Ottavio Cinquanta President, International Skating Union ISU World is the official newsletter of the International Skating Union Published and produced by ISU, Chemin de Primerose 2, 1007 Lausanne, Switzerland Telephone : +41 21 612 66 66. Facsimile : +41 21 612 66 77. Editorial board : Selina Vanier, Rodney Lajoie. Designed by : moserdesign.ch Front cover photograph : Jorien ter Mors (NED) © Getty Images Photography : © Getty Images © AFP © Elina Paasonen
ISU COUNCIL The ISU Council met on February 14, 17 and 20, 2014 in Sochi / Russia and allotted the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final (junior & senior) to the Spanish Ice Sports Federation, to be held on December 11-14, 2014 in Barcelona, Spain. Based on proposals received from Members, the Council agreed upon a number of topics for the Forum to be held during the ISU Congress on June 9, 2014 which include; the on-going activities of the ISU Sport disciplines and ISU Elections 2016/2018. Mindful that the ISU support towards the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating is restricted to a limited group of organizing Members, to a limited number of skaters and to a limited number of Officials, the ISU Council agreed to financially support a group of identified Members traditionally staging International Figure Skating Competitions starting with the season 2014/15. This ISU support has the objective to ensure the proper and consistent organization and conduct of the identified International Competitions, to give adequate opportunities for all skaters to compete at the international senior level and earn World Standing points and to increase the opportunity for Officials to officiate at an international level. Full details of this ISU support and related conditions are available in ISU Communication 1858. The ISU Council agreed to meet again on June 8, 14 and 15, 2014 in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, on October 17-19, 2014 in Geneva, Switzerland and on March 23 - 24, 2015 in Shanghai, China. For more information on the decisions of the Council see ISU Communication 1854.
SPORTS DIRECTORATE In the Figure Skating Branch, the Team Event was successfully included into the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games program. Following the Games the ISU World Junior and World Figure Skating Championships along with the ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships took place and put an end to the busy Olympic Season. Preparation for the new season is under way and the proposals for the ISU Congress are being discussed. Development Seminars are being prepared along with the Global Seminar in Frankfurt which will take place in July. In the Speed Skating Branch, the World Short Track Championships in Montreal (CAN) showed a very high level of performance and
ISU NEWS in Speed Skating the Allround Championships took place in front of over 20000 spectators. The proposals for the upcoming ISU Congress are discussed in collaboration with the respective Technical Committees. In depth evaluation is under way in both disciplines in order to improve them and standardized the calendar for the 2014/15 season. A number of inspection visits for the 2015 Championships are scheduled to take place in the coming months. Finally a successful TV Workshop was held in Saitama (JPN) to discuss, offer and propose new ideas to improve the presentation of Figure Skating on television.
A demonstration by a professional Japanese dance company of next season’s requirement, the Spanish Dances was organized with the help of the Japan Skating Federation. Proposed rule changes for the ISU Congress and the requirements for next season were presented by the IDTC. An Educational DVD with “live examples” and “exercise examples” of Required Pattern Dance Key Points for the upcoming season for Junior and Senior Short Dance will be available to order on the ISU website. Finally an ISU Judges and Referees Seminar was held in Las Vegas (USA) at the end of April.
ISU TECHNICAL COMMITTEES
The Synchronized Skating Technical Committee (SySTC) has been busy with preparations for the Junior World Challenge Cup, ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships and the ISU Congress as well as preparing the requirements for next season. At the same time, the SySTC members have published the Element Requirements for next season and issued the proposals for the upcoming ISU Congress. An annual Trial Judging seminar was held in Rouen (FRA) during the 20th Anniversary edition of the French Cup. The ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships were held in Courmayeur (ITA) and marked the end of the ISU Championships season. An IOC representative attended the World Championships as an observer. The SySTC now concentrates on preparing for the ISU Congress as well as finalizing the Technical Requirements for the 2014/15 season.
Single and Pair Skating The Technical Committee members acted as Referees and Technical Controllers at the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games and at ISU Championships. Two Committee meetings were held during the Olympics and during the Worlds Championships in Saitama, Japan. The Committee evaluated the content and quality of almost 100 Referees and Technical Controllers Reports which also contained a number of suggestions relating to the ISU Judging System. These suggestions along with proposals made by ISU Members and Technical Committee members, ISU Rule change proposals for the ISU Congress 2014, preparation of the annual ISU Communication with changes for the season 2014/15 and amendments to the current Technical Panel Handbooks for the next season were the bulk of the Committee’s work. At the end of April the Technical Committee Members acted as Moderators at two Judges Seminars: ISU Sponsored Pair Judges Seminar in Berlin, Germany and Recognized Judges Seminar in Las Vegas, USA.
Ice Dance Members of the Ice Dance Technical Committee (IDTC) acted as Referees and Technical Controllers at the Olympic Winter Games and ISU Championships. The IDTC Members conducted meetings with Coaches at all ISU Championships in order to receive feedback in particular on suggestions of technical requirements for the coming seasons. The Annual IDTC meeting with Coaches, Officials and Skaters was organized in Tokyo (JPN).
Synchronized Skating
Speed Skating The Speed Skating Technical Committee (SSTC) had technical representatives at four ISU Championships, two Essent ISU World Cups and three ISU Junior World Cups. The SSTC managed the qualification process and facilitated the event entry process at the Olympic Winter Games. SSTC meetings were held in Sochi and on the occasion of the Essent ISU World Allround Championships last March. The annual season review meeting with Coaches took place prior to the World Cup final. The Committee reviewed the proposals for Speed Skating Rule changes announced in the provisory agenda for the ISU Congress and adjusted some of its own proposals based on further feedback. The SSTC has worked in close cooperation with the ISU
Speed Skating Vice President and Sports Director on the structure and the details of the ISU Speed Skating calendar for the next seasons, taking into account the new standardized calendar for ISU Championships that will be implemented as from 2014/15.
Short Track The Short Track Speed Skating Technical Committee (STSSTC) was busy with the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games where they held a number of meetings. Two weeks after the Olympics the ISU Championships continued. Turkey hosted their first ISU Short Track Championships from March 7-9 with the World Junior Championships in Erzurum. The ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place in Montreal (CAN) in a sold out venue. The STSSTC also held meetings in Montreal to discuss and prepare the proposals for changes to the Short Track Speed Skating Special Regulations and Technical Rules which will be submitted at the forthcoming ISU Congress in Dublin (IRL). The Technical Committee also scheduled the next Seminar for Short Track Speed Skating Officials which will be held in Frankfurt (GER) September 3-7, 2014.
BRIAN WESTOVER It is with deep sorrow that the ISU learned of the death of Brian Westover in April 2014. Mr. Westover was an ISU Short Track Competitors Steward and considered by many as one of the best in his field. The ISU pays homage to Mr. Westover’s contribution to Short Track and will remember him with fondness.
ISU MEDICAL COMMISSION Dr. David Mitchell retires after 26 years on the ISU Medical Commission. Dr. Mitchell was appointed in 1988 and was the Chief Medical Officer for the National Ice Skating Association from 1985 to 2000. He was also involved with Anti-Doping UK and had a 30 year career as a General Practitioner. The ISU thanks Dr. Mitchell for his dedication and contribution to the sports and wishes him much success in the future.
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OLYMPIC WINTER GAMES
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The Figure Skating competition in the Iceberg venue was one of the most popular events at the Olympic Winter Games. The inaugural team competition was a big success. Led by Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov and Evgeni Plushenko, Team Russia easily took the gold medal. Team Canada, headlined by Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir and Patrick Chan claimed the silver medal and the bronze went to Team USA featuring Meryl Davis/Charlie White and Ashley Wagner. Volosozhar/Trankov went on to earn the gold medal in the individual event ahead of surprise silver medalists Ksenia Stolbova/ Fedor Klimov (RUS) and Aliona Savchenko/ Robin Szolkowy (GER). Qing Pang/Jian Tong (CHN) placed fourth ahead of Kirsten Moore-Towers/Dylan Moscovitch (CAN). Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) became the first Japanese man to win Olympic Gold and at 19 years old, he is also the youngest Olympic Men’s Champion in 68 years. Patrick Chan (CAN) took home the silver medal and Denis Ten (KAZ) surged from 9th place after the Short Program to capture the bronze. Ten is also the first Figure Skater from Kazakhstan to earn an Olympic medal. Javier Fernandez (ESP) was narrowly edged out of the podium to finish fourth, ahead of Tatsuki Machida (JPN). Davis/White made history by taking the first Ice Dance gold for the USA. Defending champions Virtue/Moir earned the silver medal. Elena Ilinykh/Nikita Katsalapov (RUS) danced to the bronze medal. Nathalie Pechalat/Fabian Bourzat (FRA) ranked fourth and Ekaterina Bobrova/Dmitri Soloviev (RUS) finished fifth. In the Ladies event, Adelina Sotnikova (RUS) edged out defending champion Yuna Kim (KOR) to strike gold. Carolina Kostner (ITA) skated to the bronze medal. Gracie Gold (USA) was fourth, followed by Julia Lipnitskaia (RUS).
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS The ISU European Figure Skating Championships returned to Budapest (HUN) January 14 -19 for the first time in ten years. It was the 106th edition of the event. Javier Fernandez (ESP) defended his European title ahead of first-time medalists Sergei Voronov (RUS) and Konstantin Menshov (RUS). Menshov rose from 11th in the Short Program to clinch the bronze, edging out Michal Brezina (CZE) by less than one point.
Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy (GER)
FIGURE SKATING Maxim Kovtun (RUS) finished fifth. 15-year-old Julia Lipnitskaia (RUS) struck gold in her debut at the ISU European Figure Skating Championships. Her teammate Adelina Sotnikova repeated as silver medalist while defending champion Carolina Kostner (ITA) settled for the bronze. Alena Leonova (RUS) came fourth ahead of Mae-Berenice Meite (FRA). Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov led a Russian sweep in the Pair Skating event followed by Ksenia Stolbova/Fedor Klimov and Vera Bazarova/Yuri Larionov. Stefania Berton/Ondrej Hotarek (ITA) placed fourth and Vanessa James/Morgan Cipres (FRA) came fifth. Four-time European Champions Aliona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy (GER) withdrew
Meryl Davis / Charlie White (USA)
due to illness before the Free Skating. In the Ice Dance event, Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte (ITA) danced to their first European title. Elena Ilinykh/Nikita Katsalapov (RUS) claimed the silver medal and the bronze went to Penny Coomes/Nicholas Buckland (GBR). 2012 World Junior Champions Victoria Sinitsina/Ruslan Zhiganshin (RUS) placed fourth in their debut at the European Championships, followed by teammates Ekaterina Riazanova/Ilia Tkachenko (RUS).
FOUR CONTINENTS CHAMPIONSHIPS The 16th edition of the ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships took place in Taipei City (TPE) from January 22-26. Takahito
Mura skated to his first ISU Championship title and led the Japanese men to a one-two finish. Takahiko Kozuka earned the silver medal and Nan Song (CHN) took the bronze. Denis Ten (KAZ) placed fourth and Richard Dornbush (USA) was fifth. Kanako Murakami (JPN) won the Ladies event followed by her teammate Satoko Miyahara and Zijun Li (CHN). Haruka Imai (JPN) completed a strong showing of the Japanese ladies in fourth place and Courtney Hicks (USA) placed fifth. Wenjing Sui/Cong Han (CHN) recaptured the title they had won back in 2012. Silver medalists Tarah Kayne/Daniel O’Shea (USA) and bronze medalists Alexa Scimeca/Chris Knierim (USA) won their first medal at an ISU Championship.
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In what was a North American ice dance duel, Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue (USA) beat Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier (CAN) for the gold medal. Two-time World Junior bronze medalists Alexandra Aldridge/Daniel Eaton (USA) claimed the bronze in their debut at the event.
WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS The Junior season 2013/14 cumulated with the ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships in Sofia (BUL) March 12-16. Nam Nguyen (CAN) won the Junior Men’s title. Adian Pitkeev (RUS) earned the silver medal and the bronze went to Nathan Chen (USA). Alexander Petrov (RUS) was fourth and Shoma Uno (JPN) was fifth. Led by Elena Radionova, the Russian Junior Ladies swept the podium as they had in 2013. Radionova became the first lady to defend the World Junior title. Serafima Sakhanovich and Evgenia Medvedeva were the silver and bronze medalists. Satoko Miyahara (JPN) finished fourth, Alaine Chartrand (CAN) came fifth. Xiaoyu Yu/Yang Jin (CHN) continued the success of the Chinese pairs and won their first World Junior title. Evgenia Tarasova/ Vladimir Morozov (RUS) and Maria Vigalova/ Egor Zakroev (RUS) claimed silver and bronze, their first medals at this event. Vasilisa Davankova/Andrei Deputat (RUS) placed fourth, followed by Madeline Aaron/Max Settlage (USA). Kaitlin Hawayek/Jean-Luc Baker (USA) upset favorites Anna Yanovskaya/Sergey Mozgov (RUS) in the Ice Dance event. Madeline Edwards/Zhao Kai Pang (CAN) moved from fifth to snatch the bronze medal. Lorraine McNamara/Quinn Carpenter (USA) ranked fourth and Alexandra Nazarova/Maxim Nikitin (UKR) came fifth.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS The 104th edition of the ISU World Figure Skating Championships took place in Saitama (JPN) March 26 to 30. Japan was selected to host the World Championships in 2011, but the event had to be moved to Moscow (RUS) following the earthquake and tsunami catastrophe. 177 skaters from 38 ISU members participated in the event. The twelve medals went to seven ISU members. Japan got two gold medals and one silver. Italy had one gold and one bronze. One gold went to
Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN)
FIGURE SKATING Germany, Russia claimed two silver medals, Canada earned one silver and one bronze while France and Spain left with a bronze medal each. Aliona Savchenko/Robin Szolkowy (GER) concluded their successful career with their fifth World title. Ksenia Stolbova/Fedor Klimov (RUS) confirmed their results from Budapest and Sochi by taking the silver medal. Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN) picked up the bronze like they had last year. Kirsten Moore-Towers/Dylan Moscovitch (CAN) came fourth and Cheng Peng/Hao Zhang (CHN) were fifth. Mao Asada (JPN) skated off with her third world title. Julia Lipnitskaia (RUS) claimed the silver in her debut at the World Championship and the bronze went to Carolina Kostner (ITA). Anna Pogorilaya (RUS), another newcomer, placed fourth and Gracie Gold (USA) was ranked fifth. Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) capped off a great season by earning his first World title. Teammate Tatsuki Machida won the silver medal in his debut at the World Championship. Javier Fernandez (ESP) repeated as bronze medalist. Maxim Kovtun (RUS) and Jeremy Abbott (USA) finished fourth and fifth respectively. Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte (ITA) came out on top in an extremely tight Ice Dance competition. Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje (CAN) finished just 0.02 points behind in second place and bronze medalists Nathalie Pechalat/Fabian Bourzat (FRA) trailed the champions by just 0.06 points. Elena Ilinykh/ Nikita Katsalapov (RUS) won the Free Dance but were too far behind after an error in the Short Dance and came fourth. Madison Chock/ Evan Bates (USA) finished fifth.
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WORLD SYNCHRONIZED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS
The 15th edition of the ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships took place in Courmayeur (ITA) April 4-5. Italy hosted the event for the first time. 23 teams from 18 ISU members competed in the Championships. Team Finland 1 (Marigold Ice Unity) struck gold, giving Finland its eight world title in the discipline. Team Canada 1 (Nexxice) edged out Team Finland 2 (Rockettes) for the silver medal. The Rockettes took bronze. Team Russia 1 (Paradise) came fourth followed by Sweden 1 (Team Surprise).
Carolina Kostner (ITA)
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The Speed Skating events took place in the Adler Arena where 36 medals were up for grabs and 43 Men and 32 Ladies set new national records and five Olympic records were broken. The Dutch swept four podiums and won a total of 23 medals, Russia and Poland won three medals, Korea, Canada and Czech Republic all got two medals and China clenched one medal. The first Dutch podium sweep was the 5000 m where Sven Kramer (NED) bettered his own Olympic record, successfully defended his Olympic title and topped the podium followed by Jan Blokhuijsen and Jorrit Bergsma. Since the 2010 Olympics Kramer won most races in this distance and the last time there was a sweep was at the 1964 Olympics with Norway. In the Ladies’ 3000m, Dutch star and 2006 gold medalist Ireen Wüst managed to regain her title ahead of the reigning Olympic Champion Martina Sáblíková (CZE). Olga Graf won the bronze medal on home ice and also skated a new national record (she also achieved a new national record in the 5000 m). In the Men’s 500 m although the Dutch had never won gold in this distance they triumphed with their second sweep of the Games. Michel Mulder won 0.012 ahead of Jan Smeekens. Ronald Mulder skated a track record in his second race, which brought him from sixth to third place. Reigning 500 m Olympic Champion Sang-Hwa Lee (KOR) kept her title and Olga Fatkulina (RUS) clenched the silver while Margot Boer won the first Dutch Olympic medal in this distance. In the Men’s 1000 m Stefan Groothuis (NED) won the gold and Michel Mulder the bronze. Denny Morrison was the second Canadian in history to medal in the 1000 m after Gaétan Boucher (in 1980 and 1984). He was not qualified for this distance but his teammate Gilmore Junio gave up his spot when realizing that Morrison’s chances of winning a medal was higher than his own. China came to center stage in the Ladies’ 1000 m when Hong Zhang won the title. Two Dutch skaters followed with Wüst in second and Boer taking the bronze. The Men’s 1500 m was the tightest race in Olympic history, with two skaters finishing in 1:45.00. A study of the 1000ths of a second brought Poland its first ever Olympic Speed Skating gold medal. Zbigniew Bródka beat
Dutchman Koen Verweij with only 0.003 second. Morrison took his second medal with a bronze. Jorien ter Mors was the first lady to compete in both Speed Skating and Short Track at the Olympic Winter Games, she set a new Olympic record of 1:53.51 and led the 1500 m Ladies podium which was also a clean Dutch sweep. Defending champion Wüst clenched the silver while Lotte van Beek got bronze. The final Dutch sweep was in the Men’s 10000 m. Kramer was hungry for victory following his disqualifying mistake in Vancouver. However Jorrit Bergsma set an Olympic record of 12:44.45 and took the title. Kramer got the silver while 2006 Olympic champion Bob de Jong won his fourth medal in this distance becoming the most decorated long distance skater. 2010 Olympic Ladies’ 5000 m Champion Martina Sáblíková retained her title and for the first time in history, the German ladies did not make it to the podium. Wüst won silver, her fourth medal at these Games, and 35-year-old Carien Kleibeuker (NED) won bronze, bringing the total of individual medals for the
Martina Sablikova (CZE)
Netherlands to 21. In the Team Pursuit the Dutch teams set new Olympic records, the men 3:37.71 and the ladies in 2:58.05. The Polish teams also did well with a silver medal in the Ladies and bronze for the Men. The Russian Ladies took the bronze while the Korean Men took the silver medals. A number of skaters have announced their retirement which marks the beginning of a new Olympic cycle which will peak at the next Olympic Winter Games in 2018.
WORLD CUP In this Olympic season, the World Cup circuit was spread over six weekends. The Series started last November in Calgary (CAN) then moved to Salt Lake City (USA). On December 1 the series went to Astana (KAZ) then Berlin (GER). The next World Cup took place three months later in Inzell (GER), two weeks after the Olympic Games. The following week the Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating Final took place in Heerenveen (NED) where Americans Shani Davis and Heather Richardson won the Grand World Cup.
SPEED SKATING In the ladies 500 m, Sang-Hwa Lee dominated most of the season and brought the World Record down to 36.36 however she did not compete after the Olympics giving other contenders the opportunity to win the Cup. Finally Olga Fatkulina (RUS) took the Cup, Heather Richardson was second and Jenny Wolf (GER) finished her career ranked third. Richardson took the 1000m title followed by teammate Britanny Bowe and then by Fatkulina. Bowe won the Salt Lake City race in a world record time of 1:12.58. Ireen Wüst (NED) won the 1500 m ahead of Lotte van Beek (NED) and Bowe. Martina Sáblíková won the long distance World Cup for the 8th successive time, ahead of Claudia Pechstein (GER) and Yvonne Nauta (NED) who had her international break-through this season. Francesca Lollobrigida brought Italy success by winning the Mass Start ahead of Dutch Ladies Irene Schouten and Janneke Ensink. The Dutch ladies dominated the Team Pursuit, with Poland and Japan following. In the men’s 500 m, twin brothers Michel and Ronald Mulder battled for the victory however Ronald was the most stable taking the Cup while Michel finished in second. Last year’s winner Jan Smeekens completed the podium. Tae-Bum Mo (KOR) led throughout the season, but did not compete after the Olympics therefore he did not finish in the top three ranking. Shani Davis won the 1000 m for the sixth time and now has the most victories than anyone in this distance. Denny Morrison (CAN) and Kjeld Nuis (NED) followed. The 1500 m had five different winners; although only Denis Yuskov (RUS) won two races, he ranked overall second behind Koen Verweij and Davis came in third. Jorrit Bergsma (NED) won the long distance, winning the last three races. Sven Kramer (NED) won the first three, but then finished his World Cup season after the Olympics and finished third, passed in the ranking by Patrick Beckert (GER). Bob de Vries (NED) won the mass start, Arjan Stroetinga (NED) and Bart Swings (BEL) followed. The Dutch men dominated the Team Pursuit, USA and Norway finished second and third.
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS For the third time Ireen Wüst won the European title at the Essent ISU European Speed Skating Championships in Hamar (NOR). Silver went to Yvonne Nauta (NED) and bronze to Martina
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Zbigniew Brodka (POL)
Sáblíková (CZE). Six time European Champion Sven Kramer did not defend his titles this season leaving the way for Jan Blokhuijsen who was crowned the new European champion, while Koen Verweij (NED) won the silver medal. Håvard Bøkko (NOR) took the bronze in his home country.
where Ireen Wüst won the World title for the third consecutive. Olga Graf (RUS) won silver and Yvonne Nauta took the bronze. In the Men the 2014 European silver medalist Koen Verweij (NED) won the World title ahead of team mate Jan Blokhuijsen and Russian Denis Yuskov.
WORLD SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIPS
WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS
Jing Yu (CHN) and Michel Mulder won the Essent ISU World Sprint Championships in Nagano (JPN), three weeks before the Olympic Games started. Yu had won back in 2012 and team mate Hong Zhang took the silver medal. 2013 Sprint Champion Heather Richardson (USA) had to contend with bronze. Mulder won his second consecutive title and 2009 Sprint Champion Shani Davis won silver. By finishing third Daniel Greig became the first Australian Speed Skater to win a medal at an ISU Event.
The ISU World Junior Championships were held last March in Bjugn (NOR). Antoinette de Jong and Patrick Roest became Ladies’ and Men’s World Junior Champions. De Jong also took the 1000 m and 3000 m distance titles while Vanessa Bittner (AUT) won the title in the 500 m and Melissa Wijfje (NED) the 1500 m. The Dutch ladies also won the team pursuit followed by Korea and Japan. Although Roest did not win a distance title he did win the 3000 m in the allround and was often on the podium. Kai Verbij (NED) on the other hand won the 500 and 1000 m, Fan Yang (CHN) the 1500 m and Nils van der Poel (SWE) the 5000 m. The Asian skaters dominated the Team Pursuit: The Korean men won the title ahead of Japan and China.
WORLD ALLROUND CHAMPIONSHIPS The Essent ISU World Allround Speed Skating Championships were held in Heerenveen (NED)
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The Short Track Speed Skating competition took place in the Iceberg Skating Palace and was considered by many as one of the most exciting events in Sochi. 24 medals were up for grabs and China won the most with six, Russia and Korea took five medals, Canada and Italy claimed three medals while the Netherlands and the USA got one medal each. Charles Hamelin (CAN) won the first Short Track Speed Skating medal of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games in the Men’s 1500 m. China’s Tianyu Han was the surprise of the race by taking silver while Victor An (RUS) brought Russia the first medal in Short Track Skating history with his bronze medal. In the Ladies’ 500 m Jianrou Li (CHN) took the title followed by Arianna Fontana (ITA) who had won bronze in Vancouver in the same distance. Seung-Hi Park (KOR) got the bronze medal. Zhou Yang (CHN) won the ladies 1500 m for the second consecutive time, Shim Suk-Hee (KOR) finished in second place and Arianna Fontana (ITA) won bronze. In the Men’s 1000 m and to the delight of the home crowd Victor An and Vladimir Grigorev clenched the gold and silver medal respectively and Sjinkie Knegt finished third, winning the first medal in Short Track Speed Skating for the Netherlands. In the Ladies’ 3000 m Relay race and four years after their disqualification team Korea regained their title. Referees disqualified China for impeding, promoting Canada to silver and Italy to bronze. In the Men 500 m event Russia’s Victor An out skated his competition to win his third medal and second Olympic title. Dajing Wu (CHN) took silver and Charle Cournoyer (CAN) bronze. Park Seung Hi (KOR) won the Ladies’ 1000m title followed by Kexin Fan (CHN) and Suk Hee SHIM (KOR). Russia won their first Relay title in the Men’s 5000 m Relay race followed by USA and China.
An (RUS) won his first European title three weeks before the Olympic Winter Games. Teammate Semen Elistratov took the silver medal and Niels Kerstholt (NED) followed with bronze. Russia also took the Relay gold medal, then Netherlands got their second consecutive silver medal and Germany got bronze.
JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS ISU World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships were held in Erzurum (TUR) 7-9 March 2014. Do Hee Noh (KOR) won her second consecutive title and lead a Korean clean sweep. Se Jung Ahn finished second and Minjeong Choi got the bronze medal. Since the beginning of the Championships Korea has swept the podium eleven times. Team Korea also won the Ladies’ Relay followed by Canada and China. In the Men’s category Munhyeon Lee (KOR) clinched the overall title followed by teammate Hyo Been Lee and Sandor Liu Shaolin won the first individual medal for Hungary at a World Junior Championships. China won the Relay, Hungary took silver and Japan finished third.
WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Suk-Hee Shim (KOR) was crowned overall World Ladies Champion while teammate Seung-Hi Park (KOR) got the silver medal for the second consecutive year. Valérie
EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS From January 17-19 the ISU European Short Track Championships took place in Dresden, (GER) Jorien Ter Mors won the first individual European Championships title for a Dutch female Short Track skater. Elise Christie got the silver medal for a second consecutive year and 2013 European Champion, Arianna Fontana (ITA) was awarded with bronze. The Netherlands also won the Relay with Great Britain and Hungary tailing behind. Victor
Victor An (RUS)
Maltais (CAN) earned the bronze medal. On the Men’s side, Victor An (RUS) took the overall title, while JR Celski (USA) finished in second and Charles Hamelin (CAN) finished in third. Suk-Hee Shim (KOR) won the Ladies’ 1500 m title followed by teammates Alang Kim and Olympic Champion Seung-Hi Park. 1500 m Olympic Champion Charles Hamelin (CAN) won gold on home ice in a sold out venue. In close second place Tianyu Han (CHN) and third-place finisher was Se-Yeong Park (KOR). Seung-Hi Park (KOR) won the 500 m gold medal followed by Brit Elise Christie and Kexin Fan from China. Wu Dajing (CHN) was crowned new 500 m World Champion, ahead of JR Celski (USA) and Charles Hamelin. The Olympic Champion in this distance Victor An (RUS) finished fourth. In the Ladies’ 1000 m event Suk-Hee Shim (KOR) took the title followed by Seung-Hi Park (KOR) and Valérie Maltais (CAN). The final individual event was the Men’s 1000 m, the Olympic Champion Victor An (RUS) clenched the World title, Olympic bronze medalist Sjinkie Knegt (NED) bettered his performance by winning the World silver medal and Se Yeong Park (KOR) took the bronze. In the Ladies’ Relay China took the gold, Canada silver and Italy bronze and finally the Men’s Relay saw the Netherlands crowned new World Champions, then Korea and Great Britain followed.
ISU CONGRESS PREVIEW The International Skating Union travels to Dublin (IRE) for the 55th ISU Ordinary Congress on June 9 - 13, 2014. Delegates will meet in the Convention Centre Dublin. Over 350 participants are expected, including ISU Office Holders and delegations from Member Federations. Every Congress sees major decisions about the future and direction of the ISU. In 2014 over 400 proposals have been submitted. The Congress begins on June 9 with a debate on the Constitution and General Regulations. Joint Members for Figure Skating and Speed Skating have two votes on each proposal whereas Members for Figure Skating or Speed Skating alone are entitled to one vote. Workshops and the first ever Forum are planned for the Monday. Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday will be dedicated to full Congress then parallel Figure Skating and Speed Skating sessions. To conclude a plenary session will take place on Friday June 13. Proposals require a two thirds majority of Members in favor in order to be accepted.
THE PROPOSALS Some of the most important proposals from the ISU Council, Sports Directorate and Technical Committees are summarized briefly below. The full agenda has been published in ISU Communication 1863 on www.isu.org.
General ISU Membership – Better define the minimum requirement for Members activities and to open ISU membership to countries not having an operating ice rink under the condition that the Council may apply special conditions to those Members. Short Track Speed Skating – To change the official name of the discipline to Short Track instead. Sport Directorate – Following the 2012 Congress decision to discontinue the Sports Directorate as a body effective before the 2014 Congress, a proposal is made for a transition period between the 2014 and 2016 Congresses whereby the position of a Sports Manager Figure Skating would be filled by the current Chair of the Sports Directorate to ensure the proper training of an efficient Figure Skating Event Coordination team among other tasks. Speed Skating Introduction of races and standardization of ISU Events – A proposal is made to include Mass Start and Team Sprint races in more Championships and to adjust the scheduling in order to accommodate these changes. A recommendation is also made to reduce the number of 500 m races to one per event. Adjust the qualification process for World Championships – For World Single Distances Championships it is proposed to apply the same system as for Olympic Winter Games. As for the World Sprint and World Allround Championships country quota places will be allotted by a combination of results from the preceding Championships and designated World Cup competitions. Olympic Winter Games entries – A proposal to adjust the entry rules for the Olympic Winter Games and to introduce Mass Start races if accepted by the IOC. Short Track Standardization of ISU Championships – It is proposed that all ISU Championships start with a qualification day, then days two and three would be split into morning ranking races and afternoon medal races.
False Start – In the case of a second false start committed by a skater, the concerned skater will get a penalty. Single & Pair Skating and Ice Dance Same duration for all Free Programs – To standardize the duration to four minutes for the Seniors and three and a half minutes for Juniors. Consequently the Men’s Free Skating will have seven jump elements instead of eight and there will be no Choreographic Sequence in the Pair Skating Free Skating Programs. Reverse starting order – At all ISU Championships and International Competitions, all competitors will skate their Free Skating/ Dance in the reverse order of their places in the Short Program. Ice Dance factors - Factors of all Program Components will be given equal weight. The sum of the factors of the Program Components remains the same (4.0 for Short Dance and 6.0 for Free Dance) Synchronized Skating Harmonization – the main proposal is to harmonize the Special Regulations and Technical Rules with other Figure Skating Disciplines. Introduction of Option Groups – this would facilitate a greater variety in the structuring of Programs. Elements – to provide more freedom in Synchronized Skating elements that are currently considered restrictive which will give more options for coaches and teams in the choreography of their programs.
Congress Program
Monday June 9 Opening of the Congress / Congress Forum / Workshops Tuesday June 10 – Thursday June 12 Full Congress / Sections Figure Skating and Speed Skating Friday June 13 Full Congress and Closing Banquet
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FIGURE SKATING
Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games
Ladies
12
Points
Men
Points
Team Event
Points
Gold
Adelina Sotnikova
RUS
224.59
Gold
Yuzuru Hanyu
JPN
280.09
Gold Russia
75
Silver
Yuna Kim
KOR
219.11
Silver
Patrick Chan
CAN
275.62
Silver Canada
65
Bronze Carolina Kostner
ITA
216.73
Bronze Denis Ten
KAZ
255.10
Bronze
United States
60
4
Gracie Gold
USA
205.53
4
Javier Fernandez
ESP
253.92
4
Italy
52
5
Yulia Lipnitskaya
RUS
200.57
5
Tatsuki Machida
JPN
253.42
5
Japan
51
Points
Ice Dance Points
Gold
Pairs Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov
RUS
236.86
Gold
Meryl Davis / Charlie White
USA
195.52
Silver
Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov
RUS
218.68
Silver
Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir
CAN
190.99
Bronze Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy
GER
215.78
Bronze Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov
RUS
183.48
4
Qing Pang / Jian Tong
CHN
209.88
4
Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat
FRA
177.22
5
Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch
CAN
202.10
5
Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev
RUS
172.92
ISU European Figure Skating Championships, January 13 - 19 2014, Budapest (HUN)
Ladies Points
Men
Points
1 Julia Lipnitskaia
RUS 209.72
1 Javier Fernandez
ESP 267.11
1 Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov RUS 220.38
2 Adelina Sotnikova
RUS 202.36
2 Sergei Voronov
RUS 252.55
2 Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov
RUS 207.98
3 Carolina Kostner
ITA 191.39
3 Konstantin Menshov
RUS 237.24
3 Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov
RUS 201.61
4 Alena Leonova
RUS 178.15
4 Michal Brezina
CZE 236.98
4 Stefania Berton / Ondrej Hotarek
ITA
5 Mae Berenice Meite
FRA 173.37
5 Maxim Kovtun
RUS 232.37
5 Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres
FRA 185.48
6 Valentina Marchei
ITA
165.25
6 Peter Liebers
GER 225.76
6 Maylin Wende / Daniel Wende
GER 168.32
7 Elena Glebova
EST 155.71
7 Tomas Verner
CZE 223.66
7 Andrea Davidovich / Evgeni Krasnopolski ISR
163.93
8 Nathalie Weinzierl
GER 151.88
8 Brian Joubert
FRA 221.95
8 Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise
ITA
154.55
9 Joshi Helgesson
SWE 146.45
9 Jorik Hendrickx
BEL 205.92
9 Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave
GER 153.21
10 Elene Gedevanishvili
GEO 141.82
10 Alexei Bychenko
ISR
10 Natalja Zabijako / Alexandr Zaboev
EST 149.82
203.76
Pairs Points
195.61
ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, January 20 - 26 2014, Taipei City (TPE)
Ladies Points
Men
Points
Pairs Points
1 Kanako Murakami
JPN 196.91
1 Takahito Mura
JPN 242.56
1 Wenjing Sui / Cong Han
CHN 212.40
2 Satoko Miyahara
JPN 186.53
2 Takahiko Kozuka
JPN 236.38
3 Zijun Li
CHN 181.56
3 Nan Song
CHN 236.09
2 Tarah Kayne / Daniel O Shea
USA 181.45
4 Haruka Imai
JPN 175.40
4 Denis Ten
KAZ 226.37
3 Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim
USA 170.35
5 Courtney Hicks
USA 169.99
5 Richard Dornbush
USA 224.44
6 Hae Jin Kim
KOR 166.84
6 Joshua Farris
USA 221.00
4 Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier
USA 167.10
7 Alaine Chartrand
CAN 165.19
7 Jinlin Guan
CHN 214.26
5 Natasha Purich / Mervin Tran
CAN 147.80
8 Samantha Cesario
USA 164.87
8 Adam Rippon
USA 213.20
6 Margaret Purdy / Michael Marinaro
CAN 139.99
9 So Youn Park
KOR 162.71
9 Jeremy Ten
CAN 208.51
10 Mirai Nagasu
USA 159.78
10 Nam Nguyen
CAN 204.69
7 Wenting Wang / Yan Zhang
CHN 139.95
ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships, March 10 - 16 2014, Sofia, (BUL)
Ladies Points
Men Points
Pairs Points
1 Elena Radionova
RUS 194.29
1 Nam Nguyen
CAN 217.06
1 Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin
2 Serafima Sakhanovich
RUS 182.13
2 Adian Pitkeev
RUS 212.51
2 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov RUS 168.20
CHN 173.77
3 Evgenia Medvedeva
RUS 178.43
3 Nathan Chen
USA 212.03
3 Maria Vigalova / Egor Zakroev
RUS 152.48
4 Satoko Miyahara
JPN 177.69
4 Alexander Petrov
RUS 210.03
4 Vasilisa Davankova / Andrei Deputat
RUS 150.67
5 Alaine Chartrand
CAN 164.35
5 Shoma Uno
JPN 206.50
5 Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage
USA 144.91
6 Da Bin Choi
KOR 162.35
6 Boyang Jin
CHN 203.64
6 Mary Orr / Phelan Simpson
CAN 132.02
7 Amber Glenn
USA 158.88
7 Keiji Tanaka
JPN 192.76
7 Tara Hancherow / Wesley Killing
CAN 128.68
8 Rika Hongo
JPN 157.88
8 Deniss Vasiljevs
LAT 189.33
8 Alessandra Cernuschi / Filippo Ambrosini ITA
9 Karen Chen
USA 155.83
9 Jordan Moeller
USA 188.14
9 Kaitlin Budd / Nikita Cheban
USA 117.36
10 Na Hyun Kim
KOR 144.21
10 Petr Coufal
CZE 182.28
10 Anna Duskova / Martin Bidar
CZE 113.85
123.95
SYNCHRONIZED SKATING
Team Finland 1
Ice Dance Points 1 Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte
ITA 171.61
2 Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov
RUS 170.51
3 Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland GBR 158.69
ISU Synchronized Skating Junior World Challenge Cup, March 6 - 8 2014, Neuchâtel, (SUI)
ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships, April 4 - 5 2014, Courmayeur, (ITA)
Teams Points
Teams Points
1 Team Finland 1
173.77
2 Team Canada 1
170.89
3 Team Finland 2
167.63
4 Team Sweden 1
157.86
5 Team Canada 2
155.37
6 Team Russia 1
149.63
7 Team USA 1
133.85
8 Team Russia 2
133.80
9 Team Germany
120.82
10 Team USA 2
117.75
11 Team Italy
116.50
12 Team Sweden 2
115.14
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23
13 Team France
98.09
14 Team Great Britain
93.16
15 Team Czec Republic
91.56
4 Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin
RUS 153.73
5 Ekaterina Riazanova / Ilia Tkachenko
RUS 150.44
16 Team Switzerland
88.81
6 Julia Zlobina / Alexei Sitnikov
AZE 147.78
17 Team Austria
58.95
7 Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi
GER 145.37
18 Team Hungary
57.01
8 Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri
ITA
19 Team Belgium
52.66
9 Isabella Tobias / Deividas Stagniunas
LTU 142.31
10 Sara Hurtado / Adria Diaz
ESP 137.58
144.40
Team Finland 1 Team Canada 1 Team Finland 2 Team Russia 1 Team Sweden 1 Team Canada 2 Team USA 1 Team Russia 2 Team Sweden 2 Team Italy Team USA 2 Team Japan Team Germany Team France Team Switzerland Team Czech Republic Team Hungary Team Croatia Team Australia Team Mexico Team Great Britain Team Spain Team Belgium
223.45 220.88 220.66 211.82 204.20 197.01 196.90 189.61 171.29 167.13 166.96 138.47 133.55 127.48 119.46 113.33 99.88 99.15 94.46 90.26 78.59 73.33 72.47
ISU World Figure Skating Championships, March 24 - 30 2014, Saitama (JPN)
Ice Dance Points 1 Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue USA 158.25
Ladies Points
Men Points
1 Mao Asada
JPN 216.69
1 Yuzuru Hanyu
JPN 282.59
2 Julia Lipnitskaia
RUS 207.50
2 Tatsuki Machida
JPN 282.26
2 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
CAN 153.71
3 Carolina Kostner
ITA 203.83
3 Javier Fernandez
ESP 275.93
3 Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton
USA 144.95
4 Anna Pogorilaya
RUS 197.50
4 Maxim Kovtun
RUS 247.37
4 Kharis Ralph / Asher Hill
CAN 137.03
5 Gracie Gold
USA 194.58
5 Jeremy Abbott
USA 246.35
5 Nicole Orford / Thomas Williams
CAN 133.42
6 Akiko Suzuki
JPN 193.72
6 Takahiko Kozuka
JPN 238.02
7 Ashley Wagner
USA 193.16
7 Han Yan
CHN 231.91
8 Polina Edmunds
USA 187.50
8 Max Aaron
USA 225.66
6 Lynn Kriengkrairut / Logan Giulietti-Schmitt USA 130.05 7 Danielle Obrien / Gregory Merriman
AUS 121.44
8 Yiyi Zhang / Nan Wu
CHN 116.34
9 Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu
CHN 115.66
9 So Youn Park
KOR 176.61
9 Chafik Besseghier
FRA 224.19
10 Yura Min / Timothy Koleto
KOR 111.23
10 Kanako Murakami
JPN 172.44
10 Tomas Verner
CZE 223.14
Pairs Points
Ice Dance Points
1 Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy GER 224.88
1 Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte
ITA 175.43
Ice Dance Points
2 Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov
RUS 215.92
2 Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje
CAN 175.41
1 Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker
USA 157.12
2 Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov
RUS 155.16
3 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford
CAN 210.84
3 Nathalie Pechalat / Fabian Bourzat FRA 175.37
3 Madeline Edwards / Zhao Kai Pang CAN 139.65
4 Kirsten Moore-Towers / Dylan Moscovitch CAN 205.52
4 Elena Ilinykh / Nikita Katsalapov
RUS 174.38
4 Lorraine Mcnamara / Quinn Carpenter
USA 138.53
5 Cheng Peng / Hao Zhang
CHN 194.83
5 Madison Chock / Evan Bates
USA 167.59
5 Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin
UKR 134.65
6 Wenjing Sui / Cong Han
CHN 192.10
6 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani
USA 158.57
6 Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov
KOR 133.35
7 Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko
RUS 132.47
7 Vera Bazarova / Yuri Larionov
RUS 189.44
7 Victoria Sinitsina / Ruslan Zhiganshin
RUS 155.35
8 Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons
USA 131.82
8 Julia Antipova / Nodari Maisuradze
RUS 186.22
8 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier
CAN 153.86
9 Evgenia Kosigina / Nikolai Moroshkin
RUS 126.72
9 Stefania Berton / Ondrej Hotarek
ITA
9 Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland
GBR 153.66
10 Olivia Smart / Joseph Buckland
GBR 121.01
10 Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres
FRA 183.90
10 Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam
CAN 148.76
184.28
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SPEED SKATING
Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games Men 500 m combined times
Ladies 500 m combined times
Michel Mulder
NED
1:09.312
Gold
Sang Hwa Lee
KOR
1:14.70
Ladies Points
Silver Jan Smeekens
NED
1:09.324
Silver
Olga Fatkulina
RUS
1:15.06
1 Ireen Wüst
NED
159.736
Bronze Ronald Mulder
NED
1:09.460
Bronze Margot Boer
NED
1:15.48
2 Yvonne Nauta
NED
162.253
3 Martina Sábliková
CZE
162.559
4 Diane Valkenburg
NED
163.120
5 Yuliya Skokova
RUS
163.605
Gold
14
Essent ISU European Speed Skating Championships, January 11 - 12 2014, Hamar (NOR)
4
Mo Tae Bum
KOR
1:09.690
4
Hong Zhang
CHN
1:15.58
5
Joji Kato
JPN
1:09.740
5
Nao Kodaira
JPN
1:15.61
Men 1000 m
Time
Ladies 1000 m
Time
Stefan Groothuis
NED
1:08.39
Gold
Hong Zhang
CHN
1:14.02
Silver Denny Morrison
CAN
1:08.43
Silver
Ireen Wust
NED
1:14.69
Bronze Michel Mulder
NED
1:08.74
Bronze Margot Boer
NED
1:14.90
4
Nico Ihle
GER
1:08.86
4
Olga Fatkulina
RUS
1:15.08
5
Samuel Schwarz
GER
1:08.89
5
Lotte Van Beek
NED
1:15.10
Gold
Men 1500 m Gold
Zbigniew Brodka
Time
Ladies 1500 m
Time
Men
Points
1 Jan Blokhuijsen
NED
149.196
2 Koen Verweij
NED
149.251
3 Håvard Bøkko
NOR
149.894
POL
1:45.006
Gold
Jorien Ter Mors
NED
1:53.51
Silver Koen Verweij
NED
1:45.009
Silver
Ireen Wust
NED
1:54.09
4 Bart Swings
BEL
150.272
Bronze Denny Morrison
CAN
1:45.220
Bronze Lotte Van Beek
NED
1:54.54
5 Sverre Lunde Pedersen
NOR
150.302
4
Denis Yuskov
RUS
1:45.370
4
Marrit Leenstra
NED
1:56.40
5
Mark Tuitert
NED
1:45.420
5
Yuliya Skokova
RUS
1:56.45
Men 5000 m
Time
Ladies 3000 m
Time
Gold Sven Kramer
NED
6:10.76
Gold
Ireen Wust
NED
4:00.34
Silver Jan Blokhuijsen
NED
6:15.71
Silver
Martina Sablikova
CZE
4:01.95
Bronze Jorrit Bergsma
NED
6:16.66
Bronze Olga Graf
RUS
4:03.47
4
Bart Swings
BEL
6:17.79
4
Claudia Pechstein
GER
4:05.26
5
Sverre Lunde Pedersen NOR
6:18.84
5
Annouk Van Der Weijden
NED
4:05.75
Ladies 5000 m
Time
Men 10000 m
Time
Gold Jorrit Bergsma
NED
12:44.45
Gold
Martina Sablikova CZE
6:51.54
Silver Sven Kramer
NED
12:49.02
Silver
Ireen Wust
NED
6:54.28
Bronze Bob De Jong
NED
13:07.19
Bronze Carien Kleibeuker NED
6:55.66
4
Seung Hoon Lee
KOR
13:11.68
4
Olga Graf
RUS
6:55.77
5
Bart Swings
BEL
13:13.99
5
Claudia Pechstein
GER
6:58.39
Team Pursuit Men Gold
Time
Team Pursuit Ladies
Ladies Points 1 Jing Yu
CHN
151.275
2 Hong Zhang
CHN
151.705
3 Heather Richardson
USA
151.790
4 Margot Boer
NED
151.865
5 Nao Kodaira
JPN
153.505
Men Points 1 Michel Mulder
NED
139.885
2 Shani Davis
USA
140.600
3 Daniel Greig
AUS
140.715
4 Denis Kuzin
KAZ
141.005
5 Kjeld Nuis
NED
141.205
Time
Netherlands
3:37.71
Gold
Netherlands
2:58.05
Silver Republic of Korea
3:40.85
Silver
Poland
3:05.55
Bronze Poland
3:41.94
Bronze Russia
2:59.73
4
Canada
3:44.27
4 Japan
3:02.57
5
Norway
3:44.91
5
3:02.04
Canada
Essent ISU World Sprint Speed Skating Championships, January 18 - 19 2014, Nagano (JPN)
Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating – Final Standings
Ladies Overall Ranking Points
Men Overall Ranking Points
1 Heather Richardson
USA
108.25
1
Shani Davis
USA
95.50
2 Ireen Wüst
NED
99.00
2
Koen Verweij
NED
67.50
3 Brittany Bowe
USA
82.50
3
Jorrit Bergsma
NED
50.00
4 Olga Fatkulina
RUS
75.50
4
Michel Mulder
NED
49.25
5 Lotte van Beek
NED
67.50
5
Denis Yuskov
RUS
43.00
Ladies 500 m
Points
Ladies Team Pursuit
Points
1 Netherlands
450
2 Poland
315
3 Japan
285
4 Canada
280
5 Republic of Korea
160
Men 500 m Points
6 Russia
155
1 Olga Fatkulina
RUS
960
1 Ronald Mulder
NED
782
7 USA
150
2 Heather Richardson
USA
915
2 Michel Mulder
NED
728
8 Norway
110
3 Jenny Wolf
GER
803
3 Jan Smeekens
NED
655
9 China
85
4 Sang-Hwa Lee
KOR
700
4 Tae-Bum Mo
KOR
527
10 Germany
72
5 Nao Kodaira
JPN
637
5 Artyom Kuznetsov
RUS
471
6 Margot Boer
NED
493
6 Gilmore Junio
CAN
457
7 Beixing Wang
CHN
430
7 Jesper Hospes
NED
442
8 Thijsje Oenema
NED
401
8 Tucker Fredricks
USA
440
1 Francesca Lollobrigida
ITA
200
9 Judith Hesse
GER
360
9 Dmitry Lobkov
RUS
428
2 Irene Schouten
NED
190
10 Miyako Sumiyoshi
JPN
314
10 Nico Ihle
GER
425
3 Janneke Ensing
NED
155
4 Ivanie Blondin
CAN
150
5 Mariska Huisman
NED
150
6 Claudia Pechstein
GER
145
Ladies 1000 m
Points
Men 1000 m
Points
Mass Start Ladies
Points
1 Heather Richardson
USA
555
1 Shani Davis
USA
590
2 Brittany Bowe
USA
500
2 Denny Morrison
CAN
344
3 Olga Fatkulina
RUS
352
3 Kjeld Nuis
NED
305
7 Maria Lamb
USA
80
BEL
68
4 Lotte van Beek
NED
313
4 Michel Mulder
NED
300
8 Jelena Peeters
5 Margot Boer
NED
311
5 Koen Verweij
NED
253
9 Masako Hozumi
JPN
68
6 Ireen Wüst
NED
260
6 Brian Hansen
USA
246
10 Saskia Alusalu
EST
28
7 Karolina Erbanová
CZE
185
7 Denis Kuzin
KAZ
207
8 Yuliya Skokova
RUS
159
8 Stefan Groothuis
NED
193
9 Nao Kodaira
JPN
156
9 Tae-Bum Mo
KOR
173
10 Sang-Hwa Lee
KOR
155
10 Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen NOR
173
Ladies 1500 m
Points
Men 1500 m
Points
Men Team Pursuit Points 1 Netherlands
450
2 USA
280
1 Ireen Wüst
NED
530
1 Koen Verweij
NED
440
3 Norway
270
2 Lotte van Beek
NED
430
2 Denis Yuskov
RUS
430
USA
389
USA
401
265
3 Brittany Bowe
3 Shani Davis
4 Poland
4 Yuliya Skokova
RUS
343
4 Zbigniew Brodka
POL
386
5 Republic of Korea
220
5 Marrit Leenstra
NED
242
5 Brian Hansen
USA
245
6 Canada
135
6 Katarzyna Bachleda-Curus
POL
215
6 Sverre Lunde Pedersen
NOR
214
7 Germany
120
7 Yekaterina Lobysheva
RUS
204
7 Denny Morrison
CAN
210
8 France
120
8 Ida Njåtun
NOR
181
8 Mark Tuitert
NED
186
9 Russia
120
9 Olga Graf
RUS
165
9 Konrad Niedzwiedzki
POL
186
10 Monique Angermüller
GER
155
10 Kjeld Nuis
NED
183
Men 5000 m / 10000 m
1 Martina Sábliková
CZE
550
1 Jorrit Bergsma
NED
500
2 Claudia Pechstein
GER
416
2 Patrick Beckert
GER
311
3 Yvonne Nauta
NED
326
3 Sven Kramer
NED
300
4 Olga Graf
RUS
274
4 Sverre Lunde Pedersen
NOR
265
5 Jorien Voorhuis
NED
245
5 Jan Blokhuijsen
NED
263
6 Ireen Wüst
NED
240
6 Douwe de Vries
NED
244
7 Katarzyna Bachleda-Curus
POL
237
7 Seung-Hoon Lee
KOR
NED
225
8 Aleksandr Rumyantsev
RUS
90
Mass Start Men
Ladies 3000 m / 5000 m Points
8 Antoinette de Jong
10 Italy
Points
Points
1 Bob de Vries
NED
220
2 Arjan Stroetinga
NED
175
3 Bart Swings
BEL
170
4 Maarten Swings
BEL
148
5 Bram Smallenbroek
AUT
123
6 Christijn Groeneveld
NED
105
230
7 Patrick Meek
USA
90
213
8 Andrea Giovannini
ITA
72
GER
56
USA
45
9 Annouk van der Weijden
NED
224
9 Bob de Jong
NED
206
9 Felix Rijhnen
10 Ida Njåtun
NOR
221
10 Bart Swings
BEL
198
10 Brian Hansen
15
SPEED SKATING
ISU World Junior Speed Skating Championships, March 7 - 9 2013, Bjugn (NOR)
Ladies Allround
16
Points
Ladies 500 m combined times
Ladies 1000 m
Time
1 Antoinette de Jong
NED
162.970
1 Vanessa Bittner
AUT
1:19.680
1 Antoinette de Jong
NED
1:18.82
2 Melissa Wijfje
NED
163.929
2 Antoinette de Jong
NED
1:20.730
2 Melissa Wijfje
NED
1:19.46
3 Yelizaveta Kazelina
RUS
166.453
3 Bente van den Berge
NED
1:20.960
3 Sanneke de Neeling
NED
1:20.51
4 Sanneke de Neeling
NED
167.342
4 Min-Sun Kim
KOR
1:21.160
4 Vanessa Bittner
AUT
1:20.70
5 Cho-Won Park
KOR
168.461
5 Yeon-Joo Chang
KOR
1:21.320
5 Yelizaveta Kazelina
RUS
1:20.94
Ladies 1500 m
Time
Ladies 3000 m
Time
Ladies Team Pursuit
Time
1 Melissa Wijfje
NED
2:00.65
1 Antoinette de Jong
NED
4:16.74
1 Team Netherlands
3:11.09
2 Antoinette de Jong
NED
2:01.71
2 Melissa Wijfje
NED
4:19.22
2 Team Republic of Korea
3:18.89
3 Yelizaveta Kazelina
RUS
2:03.97
3 Jade van der Molen
NED
4:21.39
3 Team Japan
3:20.73
4 Cho-Won Park
KOR
2:04.25
4 Yelizaveta Kazelina
RUS
4:24.90
4 Team Russia
3:23.48
5 Sanneke de Neeling
NED
2:04.37
5 Cho-Won Park
KOR
4:24.96
Men Allround
Points
Men 500 m combined times
Men 1000 m
Time
1 Patrick Roest
NED
154.723
1 Kai Verbij
NED
1:13.01
1 Kai Verbij
NED
1:12.40
2 Willem Hoolwerf
NED
155.571
2 Takuya Goto
JPN
1:13.42
2 Armin Hager
AUT
1:13.01
3 Emery Lehman
USA
155.808
3 Dai Dai Ntab
NED
1:13.57
3 Taro Kondo
JPN
1:13.38
4 Fan Yang
CHN
155.878
4 Seung-Yong Yang
KOR
1:13.95
4 Joel Dufter
GER
1:13.54
5 Min-Seok Kim
KOR
156.415
5 Piotr Michalski
POL
1:14.02
5 Vasily Melnikov
RUS
1:13.89
Men 1500 m
Time
Men 3000 m
Time
Men Team Pursuit
Time
1 Fan Yang
CHN
1:51.87
1 Patrick Roest
NED
3:52.05
1 Team Republic of Korea
4:01.42
2 Kai Verbij
NED
1:52.74
2 Willem Hoolwerf
NED
3:54.06
2 Team Japan
4:02.05
3 Patrick Roest
NED
1:53.01
3 Emery Lehman
USA
3:55.31
3 Team China
4:02.59
4 Min-Seok Kim
KOR
1:53.24
4 Nils van der Poel
SWE
3:56.32
4 Team Netherlands
4:07.46
5 Taro Kondo
JPN
1:53.28
5 Min-Seok Kim
KOR
3:57.02
Men 5000 m
Time
1 Nils van der Poel
SWE
6:41.29
2 Patrick Roest
NED
6:43.88
3 Emery Lehman
USA
6:43.97
4 Willem Hoolwerf
NED
6:46.41
5 Min-Seok Kim
KOR
6:51.86
Essent ISU World Allround Speed Skating Championships, March 22 - 23 2014, Heerenveen (NED)
Ladies Points
Men Points
1 Ireen Wüst
NED
158.615
1 Koen Verweij
NED
149.365
2 Olga Graf
RUS
161.315
2 Jan Blokhuijsen
NED
149.600
3 Yvonne Nauta
NED
162.488
3 Denis Yuskov
RUS
150.03
4 Yuliya Skokova
RUS
162.946
4 Sverre Lunde Pedersen
NOR
151.217
5 Diane Valkenburg
NED
163.275
5 Bart Swings
BEL
151.519
ISU Junior World Cup Speed Skating – Final Standings
Ladies 500 m
Points
Men 500 m Points
Mass Start Men
Points
1 Vanessa Bittner
AUT
250
1 Dai Dai Ntab
NED
250
1 Armin Hager
AUT
290
2 Bente van den Berge
NED
230
2 Piotr Michalski
POL
226
2 Patrick Roest
NED
254
3 Yelizaveta Kazelina
RUS
181
3 Johann Jørgen Sæves
NOR
215
3 Viktor Hald Thorup
DEN
197
4 Sanneke de Neeling
NED
180
4 Kai Verbij
NED
180
4 Kai Verbij
NED
170
5 Alyona Stapstova
KAZ
168
5 Armin Hager
AUT
155
5 Arvin Wijsman
NED
155
6 Nan Sun
CHN
162
6 Joel Dufter
GER
146
7 Martine Ripsrud
NOR
124
7 Arvin Wijsman
NED
139
Mass Start Ladies
Points
8 Mariya Sizova
KAZ
104
8 Vasily Melnikov
RUS
122
1 Vanessa Bittner
AUT
250
104
2 Mei Han
CHN
212
3 Sanneke de Neeling
NED
206
4 Nikola Zdráhalová
CZE
171
5 Yelizaveta Prokhorenko
KAZ
159
9 Rio Yamada
JPN
10 Antoinette de Jong
NED
Ladies 1000 m
90 80 Points
9 Ignat Golovatyuk 10 Taro Kondo
BLR JPN
Men 1000 m
90 Points
1 Melissa Wijfje
NED
320
1 Arvin Wijsman
NED
244
2 Sanneke de Neeling
NED
250
2 Piotr Michalski
POL
220
3 Vanessa Bittner
AUT
205
3 Joel Dufter
GER
208
4 Sofie Karoline Haugen
NOR
164
4 Kai Verbij
NED
200
5 Nan Sun
CHN
145
5 Armin Hager
AUT
153
Men Team Pursuit
6 Antoinette de Jong
NED
120
6 Vasily Melnikov
RUS
131
1 Netherlands
150
118
2 Russia
120
3 Japan
105
7 Jade van der Molen
NED
110
7 Yiming Liu
CHN
8 Aleksandra Kapruziak
POL
109
8 Taro Kondo
JPN
105
9 Miki Fujimori
JPN
107
9 Thijs Roozen
NED
100
10 Aleksandra Kachurkina
RUS
104
10 Stanislav Palkin
KAZ
100
Ladies 1500 m
1 Melissa Wijfje
NED
Points 320
Men 1500 m 1 Patrick Roest
NED
Points
75
Ladies Team Pursuit
Points 150
2 Norway
120
3 Japan
105
285
2 Arvin Wijsman
NED
190
3 Antoinette de Jong
NED
200
3 Kai Verbij
NED
180
4 Sofie Karoline Haugen
NOR
184
4 Armin Hager
AUT
163
5 Leia Behlau
GER
151
5 Willem Hoolwerf
NED
154
6 Jade van der Molen
NED
120
6 Taro Kondo
JPN
150
7 Mei Han
CHN
111
7 Yiming Liu
CHN
135
8 Sophie Reinländer
GER
104
8 Sergey Trofimov
RUS
118
9 Aleksandra Kapruziak
POL
95
9 Shane Williamson
JPN
105
10 Ayano Sato
JPN
87
10 Magnus Myhren Kristensen NOR
100
Men 3000 m
90
5 Germany
270
NED
Points
4 Denmark
1 Netherlands
2 Sanneke de Neeling
Ladies 3000 m
Points
Points
4 Germany
90
5 Russia
75
Ladies Team Spint
Points
1 Netherlands
200
2 Germany
130
1 Melissa Wijfje
NED
350
1 Patrick Roest
NED
330
3 Russia
112
2 Yelizaveta Kazelina
RUS
240
2 Nils van der Poel
SWE
250
4 Poland
110
5 Kazakhstan
100
3 Jade van der Molen
NED
235
3 Willem Hoolwerf
NED
245
4 Antoinette de Jong
NED
200
4 Daniil Semerikov
RUS
180
5 Sofie Karoline Haugen
NOR
167
5 Yiming Liu
CHN
167
6 Leia Behlau
GER
157
6 Viktor Hald Thorup
DEN
161
7 Mei Han
CHN
111
7 Magnus Myhren Kristensen NOR
99
8 Urszula Włodarczyk
POL
99
8 Shoya Ogawa
JPN
94
9 Camilla Lund
NOR
92
9 Linus Heidegger
AUT
10 Nikola Zdráhalová
CZE
83
10 Sergey Trofimov
RUS
Men Team Spint
Points
1 Netherlands
180
2 Austria
150
3 Sweden
106
90
4 Belarus
104
88
5 Norway
94
17
SHORT TRACK
Sochi 2014 Olympic Winter Games Ladies 500 m Gold
18
Time
Men 500 m
Jianrou Li
CHN
43.486
Gold
Silver Arianna Fontana
ITA
43.405
Bronze Seung-Hi Park
KOR
4
Qiuhong Liu
5
Kexin Fan
RUS
41.063
Ladies
Silver Dajing Wu
CHN
40.846
43.392
Bronze Charle Cournoyer
CAN
40.945
1
Jorien Ter Mors
NED
107
CHN
43.478
2
Elise Christie
GBR
63
4
Wenhao Liang
CHN
41.221
3
Arianna Fontana
ITA
52
CHN
43.288
5
Tianyu Han
CHN
41.151
4
Bernadett Heidum
HUN
37
5
Tatiana Borodulina
RUS
37
Victor An
Ladies 1000 m Time
Men 1000 m
Gold
Gold
Seung-Hi Park
KOR
1:30.182
Silver Kexin Fan
CHN
1:29.380
Silver Vladimir Grigorev
Bronze Suk Hee Shim
KOR
1:29.356
Bronze Sjinkie Knegt
4
Jessica Smith
USA
1:30.399
5
Jorien Ter Mors
NED
1:29.119
4 5
Victor An
Dajing Wu Tianyu Han
RUS
1:24.868
1 Netherlands
4:14.147
NED
1:25.611
2
4:15.497
1:24.239
3 Hungary
4:15.873
1:24.490
4 Russia
4:20.634
5 Italy
4:27.706
CHN CHN
Men 1500 m
2:18.825
Gold
Silver Suk Hee Shim
KOR
2:18.966
Bronze Arianna Fontana
ITA
Charles Hamelin
Time
Ladies Relay
Ladies 1500 m Time CHN
2:14.480
Silver Tianyu Han
CHN
2:15.055
2:19.336
Bronze Victor An
RUS
2:15.062
Jorien Ter Mors
NED
2:19.382
4
J.R. Celski
USA
2:15.624
5
Emily Scott
USA
2:22.641
5
Dequan Chen
CHN
2:15.626
Time
Men Relay
Time
Gold Republic of Korea
4:08.052
Gold Russia
6:42.100
Silver Canada
4:08.871
Silver United States
6:42.371
Bronze Italy
4:11.282
Bronze China
6:44.521
4 Russia
4:13.938
4 Netherlands
6:45.385
From left to right : Jianrou Li (CHN), Suk Hee Shim (KOR) and Elise Christie (GBR)
Great Britain
Time
Time
CAN
4
Ladies Relay
Points
1:24.102
RUS
Gold
Yang Zhou
Time
ISU European Short Track Speed Skating Championships, January 17 - 19 2014, Dresden (GER)
Men
Points
1
Victor An
RUS
102
2
Semen Elistratov
RUS
60
3
Niels Kerstholt
NED
34
4
Vladimir Grigorev
RUS
26
5
Freek van der Wart
NED
19
Men Relay
Time
1 Russia
6:45.803
2 Netherlands
6:46.072
3 Germany
6:48.313
4 Italy
7:08.946
ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, March 14 - 16 2014, Montréal (CAN)
ISU World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships, March 7 - 9 2014, Erzurum (TUR) Ladies
Points
1
Do Hee Noh
KOR
89
2
Se Jung Ahn
KOR
68
3
Minjeong Choi
KOR
4
Sofia Prosvirnova
5
Yutong Han
1 Victor An
RUS
63
68
2 Seung-Hi Park
KOR
73
2 J.R. Celski
USA
55
RUS
42
3 Valérie Maltais
CAN
39
3 Charles Hamelin
CAN
48
CHN
34
4 Elise Christie
GBR
36
4 Dajing Wu
CHN
42
5 Jessica Smith
USA
24
5 Se Yeong Park
KOR
34
Time
Republic of Korea
4:12.848 4:15.114 4:30.895 Time
Men Relay
Time
1 CHINA
4:10.062
1 Netherlands
6:52.618
2 CANADA
4:11.568
2 Republic of Korea
6:52.651
4:32.654
3 Great Britain
6:52.716
PEN*
4 Russia
6:52.904
Time
Men 500 m
Time
Ladies Relay Men
Points
1
Munhyeon Lee
KOR
76
2
Hyo Been Lee
KOR
71
3
Sandor Liu Shaolin
HUN
68
3 ITALY
4
Samuel Girard
CAN
50
4 Republic of Korea
5
Ziwei Ren
CHN
21
* Disqualify
Time
1 China
4:04.012
2 Hungary
4:04.090
3 Japan
4:06.378
Republic of Korea
Points
102
3 China
4
Men Overall
KOR
2 Canada
Men Relay
Points
1 Suk Hee Shim
Ladies Relay 1
Ladies Overall
4:10.362
Ladies 500 m 1 Seung-Hi PARK
KOR
42.792
1 Dajing Wu
CHN
40.526
2 Elise CHRISTIE
GBR
42.870
2 J.R. Celski
USA
40.582
3 Kexin FAN
CHN
42.942
3 Charles Hamelin
CAN
40.623
Ladies 1000 m
Time
Men 1000 m
Time
1 Suk Hee Shim
KOR
1:30.488
1 Victor An
RUS
1:25.446
2 Seung-Hi Park
KOR
1:30.597
2 Sjinkie Knegt
NED
1:25.626
3 Valérie Maltais
CAN
1:30.690
3 Se Yeong Park
KOR
1:25.737
Ladies 1500 m
Time
Men 1500 m
Time
1 Suk Hee Shim
KOR
2:34.423
1 Charles Hamelin
CAN
2:15.049
2 Alang Kim
KOR
2:34.717
2 Tianyu Han
CHN
2:15.138
3 Seung-Hi Park
KOR
2:34.838
3 Se Yeong Park
KOR
2:15.262
Ladies 3000 m
Time
Men 3000 m
Time
1 Suk Hee Shim
KOR
4:50.829
1 J.R. Celski
USA
4:59.528
2 Jessica Smith
USA
4:51.625
2 Jingnan Shi
CHN
5:01.801
3 Valérie Maltais
CAN
4:52.082
3 Victor An
RUS
5:12.334
19
PAST MASTER BRIAN ORSER (CAN): BORN 1961 Olympic Winter Games Men’s Silver Medal 1984, 1988 ISU World Figure Skating Championships Men’s Gold 1987 Men’s Silver 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988 Men’s Bronze 1983 Brian Orser first discovered success as a Figure Skater at the age of 16 when he became the Canadian novice champion. Orser went on to earn many medals and titles during his skating career including two time Olympic silver medalist, eight time Canadian Champion, 1987 World Champion and was the first man to land a triple axel at an Olympic Winter Games. In 2006, after a long career as a competitive skater, Orser turned his attention to coaching. Since 2009 he coaches at the Toronto Cricket Skating and Curling Club where he trained some of the best achieving skaters including 2010 Olympic Winter Games Gold medalist Yuna Kim (KOR), Javier Fernández (ESP) 2013 and 2014 European Champion, 2014 Olympic and World Champion Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) and Nam Nguyen (CAN) 2014 World Junior Champion. In 1985 he was made a Member of the Order of Canada and was promoted to Officer in 1988. In 1990 he won an Emmy Award for his performance in Carmen on Ice. He was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 1989, the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame in 1995 and the World Figure Skating Hall of Fame in 2009.