ISU World No. 55 Jan 2015

INTERNATIONAL SKATING UNION OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER

NO 55 JANUARY 2015

INSIDE • ISU NEWS • GRAND PRIX • WORLD CUP REPORTS • RESULTS

Probably the most embarrassing question for a sport administrator is the following: is it better to stay with tradition which means the past, or to give more consideration to progress i.e. the future? Both considerations deserve respect and a proper approach.

To maintain a sport discipline as it was developed during the years is probably safer since the major necessities are known whilst seconding the current trend, that is more devoted to money, can be risky and requires substantial changes without knowing the final outcome.

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Again, staying with the past would probably require just few changes, that however must be voted by an Assembly or Congress which means a sufficient number of votes expressed by the major body of an International Federation must be secured. Therefore it is not sufficient to have an idea, for example to use the past with some changes, it is necessary to obtain the votes!

It seems a bit easier to follow the adventure of a new impact. Of course also this case shall be duly authorized, but certain International Federations can obtain the purpose using the power of the existing Council or Executive body, instead trying to convince the Assembly or Congress.

Now allow me to better clarify what is actually at the basis of what is indicated above.

It is evident that people are currently well aware that money is required to conduct a whatsoever activity. The variety of sport disciplines that might form a package easily sold substantially increased in the last period. It is not our purpose to make confrontation between technical sports of the past and technical sports of the future. But a fact is sure, anything that is maintained (past) or adopted (future) do have a value. We are witnessing that even the major sport events need to give adequate consideration to the importance of finances.

On the other hand how can we criticize the ambition of International Sport Federations, which try to develop something new as an alternative to the past? In almost all other areas we have evidence that progress imposes radical changes, even if they happen over many years.

We have to pay attention to what happened in the meantime and to what human beings noted as to the result of progress.

Digital instead of analog, constant variation of models in the car industry, better treatments in every medical area, a long list of examples could be included, but to be clear: it is without a doubt that the world is changing.

The International Federation that I have the privilege to preside is one of the best examples of sport disciplines that need to be assessed. But the problem is big. How can we forget what truly sustained the ISU for years, just to adopt new lines for the reasons that the modern world so requires? I personally believe that to maintain a high reputation it is necessary to deliver what people would like to see (that probably means the future).

Of course an essential part of the solution is in the capable hands of those available to exchange points of view. At the end of the day I realize that there is an activity that was valid yesterday and will also be important in the future. The activity has a name: cooperation.

Ottavio Cinquanta President, International Skating Union HEATHER RICHARDSON (USA)

Richardson is an American Speed Skater who won the 2013/14 Grand World Cup Speed Skating title and is the 2013 World Sprint champion. She recently moved to the Netherlands to train and has so far had a successful World Cup season by winning two gold medals.

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ISU COUNCIL

The ISU Council met on October 17-19, 2014 in Geneva (SUI) and granted four provisional ISU Memberships; Skating Federation of the Kyrgyz Republic for the Figure Skating Branch, Liechtensteiner Eislauf Verband for the Figure Skating Branch, the Qatar Skating Federation for the Speed Skating Branch and the Figure Skating Federation of the Republic of Moldova.

The Council also approved the Qualification Systems for the ISU sports disciplines that will take part in the 2nd Winter Youth Olympic Games – Lillehammer 2016 and the ISU Junior Grand prix of Figure Skating Calendar season 2015/16. A number of provisional allotments for 2016 and 2017 ISU Championships have been decided and the dates of the 2017 ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships to be held in Gangneung (KOR) as the Olympic Test Event has been changed from February 22 - 26, 2017 to February 15 - 19, 2017.

A test consisting of splitting the judging responsibilities, with some Judges evaluating the Grades of Execution and other Judges evaluating the Program Components, took place during the 2014 Nebelhorn Trophy (GER). Following these tests and the submission of reports from the Single & Pair Skating and Ice Dance Technical Committees, the Council acknowledged that further evaluation is required.

The ISU World Development Trophy initiative was approved for a 3rd and 4th season and it was decided that a follow up to the Frankfurt Seminar in Figure Skating – Youth Seminar will take place. The Council also reviewed the conclusions reached by the Forum held at the beginning of the 2014 ISU Congress in Dublin and mandated Council members in order to prepare workshops focusing on selected topics of interest to the Members.

The Council agreed to meet again on March 23 - 24, 2015 in Shanghai (CHN), on June 12 - 14, 2015 in Geneva (SUI) and finally on October 15 - 18, 2015 in Lausanne (SUI).

For more information on the decisions of the Council see ISU Communication 1913.

DOCTOR HONORIS CAUSA On November 20, 2014 the President of the International Skating Union, Mr. Ottavio Cinquanta, was presented with the honorary title Doctor Honoris Causa by the Rector, Associate Professor Pencho Geshev, of the National Sports Academy Vassil Levski in Sofia (BUL).

SPORTS DIRECTORS

The first part of the Figure Skating season concluded with the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating in Barcelona (ESP). Although it was the first time Spain organized an ISU Event on such

ISU NEWS a scale, it was a great success. With the direction of the ISU Figure Skating Vice President, members of the Single and Pair Skating and Ice Dance Technical Committees, together with the Figure Skating Sport Directors and Sport Manager Figure Skating, are working on reevaluating and redefining some aspects of the sport with the goal to keep the athlete in the forefront. Continuous improvements are made to further develop tools addressing accountability.

In the Speed Skating Branch the Sports Director activities included several meetings and projects. The event attendance and coordination for ISU Short Track and Speed Skating events has successfully started. Regular meetings with the Speed Skating and Short Track Speed Skating Technical Committees take place. An important step was reached during the ISU World Cup Speed Skating Event in Seoul (KOR) with the attendance of IOC persons observing the Mass Start Event for potential inclusion in the Olympic Program.

Finally preparation for the 2nd Winter Youth Olympic Games – Lillehammer 2016 is ongoing.

will take place in the form of amendments issued in the annual ISU Communication in spring 2015 as well as proposals for the next ISU Congress 2016.

ISU TECHNICAL COMMITTEES Single and Pair Skating

Synchronized Skating

Members of the Single and Pair Skating Technical Committee (SPTC) served as Referees and Technical Controllers in various Junior and Senior Grand Prix Events and at the ISU Grand Prix Figure Skating Final. They also moderated the ISU Recognized Judges Seminars in Japan in November and Australia in December. Following the publication of ISU Communication 1893, regarding the Rules of Procedure for Officials Assessment Commission (OAC) - Evaluation of Judging, a lot of time was devoted to the joint work conducted with the OAC on evaluating Judges that attended ISU Events. All SPTC members discussed possible ways to refine the ISU Judging System. The outcome of this work

Ice Dance

Members of the Ice Dance Technical Committee (IDTC) officiated as Referees and Technical Controllers at Junior and Senior ISU Grand Prix competitions in addition to the Challenger Series and other International competitions.

Communications for Technical Requirements for next season’s Novice Events and Junior and Senior Short Dance and Free Dance are been under taken which includes an effort to simplify and clarify all Rules so there is more uniformity in the work of Technical Panels and Judges.

The IDTC continues to evaluate the work of Judges with additional and more comprehensive criteria included in the Reports of the OAC. Following the sudden and sad death of Technical Committee member Gilles Vandenbroeck, Walter Zuccaro (ITA) joined the IDTC. The IDTC will remember Mr Vandenbroeck with fondness.

The Synchronized Skating Technical Committee (SySTC) will be welcoming the IOC representatives to the French Cup in Rouen (FRA) at the end of January in order to assess the possibility to include the sport in the Olympic Program. The SySTC also ran a successful training camp in Vierumaki (FIN) for ISU officials with the on-ice support of Team Unique.

A busy season of events will culminate in the ISU World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships in Zagreb (CRO) and the ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships which will take place in Hamilton (CAN). The SySTC continue to work to enhance the training opportunities for Coaches and will announce a new initiative that will bring the Synchronized Skating seminars more in line with those of Ice Dance and Pair Skating.

Speed Skating

The ISU World Cup Speed Skating Season kicked off for the first time in Asia and the results from the first four competitions have determined the allotment of quota places for the World Single Distances Championships.

23 countries have qualified quota places, and two more countries have been placed on a short list. The Mass Start event gained particular attention in the first part of the World Cup season, since it will be introduced as an ISU Championships event at the 2015 World Single Distances Championships. A slightly revised set of competition rules for the event (16 laps with 3 intermediate sprints, both for Ladies and Men, and with the warm-up lane included as part of the race track) has proven successful.

The ISU World Cup circuit will resume at the end of January with qualifying competitions for the World Sprint and World Allround Championships.

Short Track

The Short Track Speed Skating Technical Committee (STSSTC) has been working on a number of projects and attended the first four ISU World Cup Short Track Speed Skating Events that took place in 2014. The creation of a DVD for Officials was successfully finalized which includes a presentation which will be available shortly on the ISU website.

ISU Communications 1918 ISU World Cup Short Track Speed Skating 2014/15 – Update; 1919 Short Track Speed Skating Qualifying Tables and 1920 Short Track Speed Skating Ranking Races at ISU Championships have been published to provide clarification on the forthcoming ISU Events. The STSSTC approved a number of seminars which will take place in Australia, Germany and Hungary and an additional regional seminar for Officials will take place in Norway.

WADA RULES

The ISU Anti-Doping Rules (Communication 1922) and the ISU Anti-Doping Procedures (Communication 1923) effective January 1, 2015 are now available on the ISU website.

The ISU Anti-Doping Rules and the ISU AntiDoping Procedures are compiled in accordance with the 2015 World Anti-Doping Code.

MR. GILLES VANDENBROECK

ISU President receives a Doctor Honoris Causa

Mr. Gilles Vandenbroeck passed away in France on November 4th, 2014 at the age of 49. At the time of his passing he was a member of the IDTC, a role to which he was elected at the 53rd Ordinary Congress held in Barcelona (ESP) in 2010. The ISU pays tribute to Gilles Vandenbroeck’s devoted service to the ISU and will remember him with affection.

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2015 ISU CHAMPIONSHIPS FIGURE SKATING European Championships Venue : Stockholm (SWE) Dates : January 26 - February 1

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2014 European Champions Ladies : Julia Lipnitskaia (RUS) Men : Javier Fernandez (ESP) Pairs : Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov (RUS) Ice Dance : Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte (ITA) Four Continents Championships Venue : Seoul (KOR) Dates : February 9 - 15 2014 Four Continents Champions Ladies : Kanako Murakami (JPN) Men : Takahito Mura (JPN) Pairs : Wenjing Sui / Cong Han (CHN) Ice Dance : Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue (USA) World Junior Championships Venue : Tallinn (EST) Dates : March 2 - 8 2014 World Junior Champions Ladies : Elena Radionova (RUS) Men : Nam Nguyen (CAN) Pairs : Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin (CHN) Ice Dance : Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker (USA) World Championships Venue : Shanghai (CHN) Dates : March 23 - 29

Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov (RUS)

ISU JUNIOR GRAND PRIX The ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating entered its 18th season. Overall 333 skaters/ couples (142 Ladies, 105 Men, 22 Pairs, 64 Ice Dance couples) from 57 ISU Members participated in the seven events of the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating series. The series started in August in Courchevel (FRA) and continued in Ljubljana (SLO), Ostrava (CZE), Aichi (JPN), Tallinn (EST), Dresden (GER) and ended in Zagreb (CRO). Morocco and Indonesia were represented for the first time. Viewers all www.isu.org

over the world were able to follow the performances in the Junior Grand Prix events and the Junior Final via the ISU YouTube Channel.

Russia had a strong showing in the ISU Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Barcelona (ESP) by sweeping the Ice Dance podium and claiming a total of eight medals.

Evgenia Medvedeva (RUS), Serafima Sakhanovich (RUS) and Wakaba Higuchi (JPN) were the top qualifiers of the series and went on to take gold, silver and bronze in Barcelona. While the two Russian were

2014 World Champions Ladies : Mao Asada (JPN) Men : Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) Pairs : Aliona Savchenko / Robin Szolkowy (GER) Ice Dance : Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte (ITA) World Team Trophy Venue : Tokyo (JPN) Dates : April 16 - 19 2013 Champions Canada

FIGURE SKATING bronze and silver medallists in the Junior Final one year ago, Higuchi competed in her first Junior Grand Prix season. Defending Junior Final Champion Maria Sotskova (RUS) settled for fourth place this time. The other qualifiers were Yuka Nagai (JPN) and Miyu Nakashio (JPN).

Shoma Uno (JPN) emerged as a new top contender on the Junior circuit and claimed the title in his debut in the Final. He had advanced by taking a gold and a silver in his events. Sota Yamamoto (JPN) made it one-two for the Japanese juniors by earning the silver in the Final. Alexander Petrov (RUS) returned to the Final and this time was on the podium as the bronze medallist. Defending Champion Boyang Jin (CHN) this time finished fourth. Roman Sadovsky (CAN) and June Hyoung Lee (KOR) competed in their first Final and Lee was the first Korean man to make it to the Junior Final. In the Pairs, Russia was able to send four teams to Barcelona, however Canadians Julianne Seguin / Charlie Bilodeau won the title in their first Junior Final. Lina Fedorova/ Maxim Miroshkin (RUS) completed set of medals from the Junior Final by taking the silver. They had gold in 2012 and bronze in 2013. Maria Vigalova/Egor Zakroev (RUS) added a third Junior Grand Prix Final medal to their collection as well, this time the bronze. Daria Beklemisheva/Maxim Bobrov (RUS), Kamilla Gainetdinova/Sergei Alexeev (RUS) and Chelsea Liu/Brian Johnson (USA) also qualified and came in fourth to sixth in Barcelona.Defending Junior Grand Prix Final Champions Anna Yanovskaya/ Sergey Mozgov led the Russian sweep in the Ice Dance and were joined by Alla Loboda/ Pavel Drozd and Betina Popova/Yuri Vlasenko on the podium. Mackenzie Bent/Garrett Mackeen (CAN), Madeline Edwards/Zhao Kai Pang (CAN) and Daria Morozova/Mikhail Zhirnov (RUS) had qualified for their first Final and were ranked fourth to sixth.

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Julianne Seguin / Charlie Bilodeau (CAN)

In the post-Olympic season, the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating series 2014/15 provided the opportunity to enjoy performances of well-known champions as well as to discover new faces. The series served as a build-up towards the ISU Championships. 40 Men, 38 Ladies, 26 Pairs and 28 Ice Dance couples representing 24 countries from Austria to

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Uzbekistan competed in the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating 2014/15 Series. The number of entries for single skaters had been increased to 12 again. The series started in late October with Hilton HHonors Skate America in Hoffmans Estates, IL (USA) followed by Skate Canada in Kelowna (CAN) and Lexus Cup of China in Shanghai (CHN). The circuit then travelled to Europe for Rostelecom Cup in Moscow (RUS) and Trophée Bompard in Bordeaux (FRA), before the last spots for the Final were decided at NHK Trophy in Osaka (JPN).

The Grand Prix season ended in December with the combined ISU Grand Prix and Junior Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final in Barcelona (ESP).

The top six skaters and couples (senior and junior) advanced to the Final. Spain hosted such a major figure skating event for the first time. Olympic Champion Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) had a rough start into the season and was the last one to squeeze into the Final by winning silver at Cup of China and placing fourth at NHK Trophy. However, in Barcelona, Hanyu showed that he is back on track and won his second consecutive title in the Final with a seasons best of 288.16 points. European Champion Javier Fernandez (ESP) recovered from a sub-par Short Program to claim silver in front of an enthusiastic home crowd. Sergei Voronov (RUS) competed in his first Grand Prix Final after earning two silver medals on the circuit and went on to take the bronze medal in Barcelona with consistent performances.

Maxim Kovtun (RUS), who was the only skater to win his two GP events Cup of China and Trophée Bompard, came fourth followed by Takahito Mura (JPN) and Tatsuki Machida (JPN). Elizaveta Tuktamysheva (RUS) celebrated a triumphant return following a tough Olympic season. The now 18-year-old first returned to the Final with a silver medal from Skate America and a gold medal from Cup of China and then earned the title in Barcelona with a personal best score of 203.58 points. Elena Radionova (RUS) won at Skate America and Trophée Bompard, her first victories in the senior level Grand Prix series and went on to earn the silver medal in the Final. Ashley Wagner (USA) advanced to Barcelona with a silver and a bronze medal from the circuit and repeated as Grand Prix Final bronze medalist. Anna Pogorilaya (RUS) and Julia Lipnitskaia (RUS) completed the strong showing of the Russian Ladies in the www.isu.org

Takahito Mura (JPN)

FIGURE SKATING silver medalists then added another gold in Barcelona, posting a personal best of 181.14 on the way to the title. Madison Chock/Evan Bates as well won gold twice on the circuit and returned home with a silver medal from Spain. Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron (FRA) upset the favorites at Cup of China, winning the gold, which also was the first Grand Prix title of their career. The French continued their success with another gold in France and the bronze in the Final.

Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (USA) returned to the Final and placed fourth while newcomers Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier (CAN) were fifth while Elena Ilinykh/Ruslan Zhiganshin (RUS) made it to the Final in the first year of their partnership.

The ISU Figure Skating season will continue with the ISU Championships in 2015.

SYNCHRONIZED SKATING Synchronized teams will compete in a number of major international events this season, starting in January 2015. The highlights for synchronized teams will be ISU World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships in Zagreb (CRO) March 13 and 14 and the ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships April 10 and 11 in Hamilton (CAN).

Ashley Wagner (USA)

Grand Prix Series and placed fourth and fifth in the Final. Rika Hongo (JPN), who won the Rostelecom Cup, came into the Final as a substitute following the withdrawal of Gracie Gold (USA).

Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN) started a successful Grand Prix season by winning their first gold medals at Skate Canada and NHK Trophy. The World bronze medalists followed up with a win at the Grand Prix Final with a personal best score of 220.72 points.

Ksenia Stolbova/Fedor Klimov (RUS) as well won their Grand Prix events for the first time, Rostelecom Cup and Trophée Bompard and took the silver medal in their debut in the Final. Wenjing Sui/Cong Han (CHN) led a

strong Chinese pairs group to the Final.

The 2014 Four Continents Champions collected two silver medals on the circuit and the bronze in Barcelona. Cheng Peng/Hao Zhang (CHN) were ranked fourth in the Final and had won the Cup of China while World Junior Champions Xiaoyu Yu/Yang Jin (CHN) qualified for the Final in their first full senior season and came in fifth. Yuko Kavaguti/ Alexander Smirnov (RUS) successfully returned to competition following his knee injury that forced them to sit out the Olympic season. They won Skate America and were ranked sixth in the Final.

Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje (CAN) claimed the first Grand Prix gold medals in their career at Skate Canada and NHK Trophy. The World

2015 ISU CHAMPIONSHIPS SYNCHRONIZED SKATING World Junior Championships Venue: Zagreb (CRO) Dates: March 13 - 14 2014 Junior World Challenge Cup Champions Team : Team Finland 1 World Championships Venue : Hamilton (CAN) Dates : April 10 - 11 2014 World Champions Team : Team Finland 1

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The ISU World Cup Speed Skating Series consists of seven events this season. The first four events took place in 2014 and were aimed at both sprinters and allround skaters.

A new rule was voted at the last ISU Congress, now the first four ISU World Cup Speed Skating Events are qualifying events for the ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating

Artur Was (POL)

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Championships. The Hamar World Cup is a qualification event for the ISU World Allround Speed Skating Championships and the second Heerenveen World Cup is the qualifying event for the ISU World Sprint Speed Skating Championships.

The World Cup circuit skated off in Obihiro (JPN) followed one week later by Seoul (KOR) which included Team Sprint as a demonstration event. Skaters then travelled to Berlin (GER) and Heerenveen (NED) for the

December events.

For the fourth season running, a special prize will be awarded to the best female and male skater, called the ‘Grand World Cup winner’, based on a grand total of points earned from World Cup races throughout the season.

Ireen Wüst (NED) currently leads the Grand World Cup standings with 790 points followed

by Martina Sáblíková (CZE) with 590 points.

Marrit Leenstra (NED) is in close third with 560 points. In the Men’s standings Pavel

SPEED SKATING 2015 ISU CHAMPIONSHIPS SPEED SKATING European Championships Venue : Chelyabinsk (RUS) Dates : January 10 - 11 2014 European Champions Ladies : Ireen Wüst (NED) Men : Jan Blokhuijsen (NED) World Single Distances Championships Venue : Heerenveen (NED) Dates : February12 - 15 World Junior Championships Venue : Warsaw (POL) Dates : February 20 - 22 2014 World Junior Champions Ladies : Antoinette de Jong (NED) 500 meters : Vanessa Bittner (AUT) 1000 meters : Antoinette de Jong (NED) 1500 meters : Melissa Wijfje, (NED) 3000 meters : Antoinette de Jong (NED) Team Pursuit Ladies : Netherlands

Kulizhnikov (RUS) is heading the leader board with 640 points, Kjeld Nuis (NED) follows with 450 points and Bart Swings (BEL) is currently third with 390 points.

In the Ladies 500 m Sang-Hwa Lee (KOR) leads with 750 points winning six of her eight races. Nao Kodaira (JNP) stands second with 610 with six podium finishes. German Judith Hesse is in third place with 363 points and following in close fourth position is Margot Boer (NED) with 354 points. Although Heather Richardson (USA) only competed at two events, she is fifth in the standings with 310 points.

Although Pavel Kulizhnikov (RUS) crashed in the final pair of the 500m in Berlin (GER), he still leads the World Cup with 580 points.

With 471 points Laurent Dubreuil (CAN) is second, followed by Dutchman Jan Smeekens (411 points), Tae-Bum Mo (KOR) 379 and Artur Was (POL) 360 points.

With two gold and one silver medal Ireen Wüst leads the 1500 m World Cup with 340 points, compatriot Marrit Leenstra is second with 320 and Ida Njåtun (NOR) is third with 196. Heather Richardson (USA) is fourth with 180.

Men : Patrick Roest (NED) 500 meters : Kai Verbij (NED) 1000 meters : Kai Verbij (NED) 1500 meters : Fan Yang (CHN) 3000 meters : Patrick Roest (NED) 5000 meters : Nils van der Poel (NED) Team Pursuit Men : Republic of Korea World Sprint Championships Venue : Astana (KAZ) Dates : February 28 - March 1 2014 World Sprint Champions Ladies : Jing Yu (CHN) Men : Michel Mulder (NED) World Allround Championships Venue : Calgary (CAN) Dates : March 7 - 8 2014 World Allround Champions Ladies : Ireen Wüst (NED) Men : Koen Verweij (NED) Ivanie Blondin (CAN)

In the Men’s 1500 m ranking Jan Szymanski (POL) leads after his two back to back wins this season. The Polish skater has 261 points while Kjeld Nuis (NED) is in a very close second with 256 points. Sverre Lunde Pedersen (NOR) is third with 240 points.

Wouter olde Heuvel (NED) also has 240 points, but is ranked fourth because Lunde Pedersen won in Seoul.

The Dutch ladies win the Team Pursuit World Cup with 350 points. Germany came second with 240 and Poland third with 236 and all qualify for the ISU World Single Distance Championships. The Japanese ladies also qualify for the Championships based on their ranking as well as Russia and Canada, while Korea and China are added based on their time ranking.

With their win in the final Team Pursuit Race of the season Korea not only took their first ever gold medal in the Men’s team pursuit, they also won the World Cup with 310 points.

The Netherlands ended second with 290 and Poland third with 205. The top six ranked teams and the two fastest time teams qualify for the World Single Distance Championships.

Along with the medalists are Russia, Canada

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and Italy who qualify based on ranking.

Norway and Germany qualified on time.

Qishi Li (CHN) got one gold and three bronze medals so far in the 1000 m and leads the World Cup with 310 points, Marrit Leenstra (NED) is second, with 276 points, and Karolina Erbanová (CZE) is third with 201. Ireen Wüst (NED) is fourth with 185.

Winning three out of four 1000 m races, Pavel Kulizhnikov (RUS) leads the World Cup with 350 points, Kjeld Nuis (NED) is in second place with 251 and Samuel Schwarz (GER) is in very close third with 245.

Martina Sáblíková (CZE) leads the Ladies 3000 m World Cup with 330 points. Ireen Wüst, who won two 3000 m races this season, is second with 280 and Claudia Pechstein (GER), who took gold in this season’s only Ladies’ 5000 m, is third with 235.

Bob de Jong (NED) retained his lead in the Men’s 5000 m World Cup ranking with 280 points. But Aleksandr Rumyantsev (RUS) is not far with 240, while Sverre Lunde Pedersen (NOR) is third with 225 points.

Sven Kramer (NED), who won the only two races he participated in, is ranked fourth with 200 points.

Ivanie Blondin (CAN) grabbed two World Cup Mass Start golds so far this season and leads the ranking with 350 points. Irene Schouten (NED) is second with 320 points and Martina Sáblíková (CZE), who finished fourth in Heerenveen, is third with 255 points.

In the final Mass Start of 2014 Seung-Hoon Lee (KOR) increased his lead in the World Cup to 350 points. Andrea Giovannini (ITA) is second with 226 points and Bart Swings (BEL) is third with 167 points. Close behind are Jorrit Bergsma (NED) 160 points and Cheol-Min Kim (KOR) with 158.

The ISU World Cup Season will continue in Hamar (NOR) on January 31 - February 1, then in Heerenveen on February 7 - 8. The ISU World Cup Final will take place in Erfurt (GER) on March 21 - 22.

The ISU Junior World Cup Speed Skating Series started in Calgary (CAN) last November and moved to Minsk (BLR) in December.

These events were both Regional ones and the third such event will take place in Changchun (CHN) in the new year. All skaters will then compete at the Global Junior World Cup in Collalbo (ITA) and the Final will take place in Warsaw (POL) on February 14 - 15.

HongShuang Li (CHN), Namasthee Harris-Gauthier (CAN) and Bernadett Heidum (HUN)

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The Speed Skating Championships will start in January 2015 with the ISU European Championships and will end in March with the ISU World Allround Championships.

SHORT TRACK The ISU World Cup Short Track Speed Skating Series consists of six events across North America, Asia and Europe. The circuit started in Salt Lake City (USA) and moved to Montreal (CAN). The Asian stops took place in December, first in Shanghai (CHN) and then Seoul (KOR). The last two events will take place in Europe in the New Year, first in Dresden (GER) and will end in Erzurum (TUR).

The format of the Series went back to its original format; one day of qualification instead of two.

In the Ladies 500 m Kexin Fan (CHN) leads in the rankings having won four races and accumulated 40000 points. Ji-Soo Seon (KOR) is second with three podium finishes and 30167 points. Yue Lin (CHN) is in third place overall with 25080. Marianne St-Gelais (CAN) has 25021 and Arianna Fontana (ITA) who only

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Paul Stanley (GBR) and Nicola Rodigari (ITA)

competed in two races racked up 18000 points.

Dmitry Migunov (RUS) collected two gold, one silver and one bronze medal so far this season in the 500 m races which puts him at the top of the leader board with 36518. Dajing Wu (CHN) and John-Henry Krueger (USA) competed in four races and are rather close in the rankings with 26640 and 25742 respectively. Yoon-Gy Kwak (KOR) and Sjinkie Knegt (NED) follow in fourth and fifth place.

Suk Hee Shim (KOR) won two 1000 m races and took the silver in another and leads the overall ranking with 33120 points. With one gold and two silver medals teammate Minjeong Choi is second with 26000. Marianne St-Gelais (CAN) has three podium finishes, one in each color and stands third (24400). Elise Christie (GBR) and Yutong Han (CHN) have 16475 and 15120 respectively.

Sjinkie Knegt (NED) competed in three out of five 1000 m races and although he has so far not got a gold medal, he leads with 20800 points. Charles Hamelin (CAN) is second with 19216 points and one gold medal. Da Woon Sin (KOR) is just a few points ahead (16798) of Dajing Wu (CHN) (16474). Semen Elistratov (RUS) currently is fifth with 16000 points.

Minjeong Choi (KOR) won three gold medals

so far in the Ladies 1500 m and has a total of 33277 points. Yutong Han (CHN) has one gold and one silver medal and stands second in the rankings (28240) while Suk Hee Shim (KOR) has one medal of each color and 24438 points.

Jiaying Tao (CHN) ranks fourth (17456) and Deanna Lockett (AUS) fifth (17120).

Da Woon Sin (KOR) has three gold, one silver and one bronze medal and tops the rankings in the Men’s 1500 m with 44400 points. All the other competitors trail behind, with 19201 comes teammate Jung-Su Lee and Charles Hamelin (CAN) with 18097. Se Yeong Park (KOR) has 16400 points and in fifth is John-Henry Krueger (USA) (14213).

Korea dominated the Ladies Relay by winning the first three races and finishing second in Korea. They are in the lead with 38000 points followed by China (30096), Russia (23040), Canada (22016) and Italy (17994). Korea also leads the Men’s Relay table with two gold finishes and 30240 points. Netherlands are second (26397) and Canada third (19838).

China and Hungary follow with 18095 and 16290 respectively.

The Short Track Speed Skating season will continue in January with the ISU Championships.

2015 ISU CHAMPIONSHIPS SHORT TRACK European Championships Venue : Dordrecht (NED) Dates : January 23 - 25 2014 European Champions Ladies : Jorien Ter Mors (NED) Men : Victor An (RUS) World Junior Championships Venue : Osaka (JPN) Dates : February 27 - March 1 2014 World Junior Champions Ladies : Do Hee Noh (KOR) Men: Munhyeon Lee (KOR) World Championships Venue : Moscow (RUS) Dates : March 13 - 15 2014 World Champions Ladies : Suk Hee Shim (KOR) Men : Victor An (RUS)

FIGURE SKATING Grand Prix of Figure Skating – overall standings after six of six events

Ladies

12

Hilton HHonors Skate America

Skate Canada International

Lexus Trophée Cup of Rostelecom Eric NHK Total China Cup Bompard Trophy Points

1 Elena Radionova RUS 1st 1st 2 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva RUS 2nd 1st 3 Anna Pogorilaya RUS 1st 2nd 4 Gracie Gold USA 3rd 1st 5 Julia Lipnitskaia RUS 2nd 2nd 6 Ashley Wagner USA 2nd 3rd 7 Rika Hongo JPN 5th 1st 8 Satoko Miyahara JPN 3rd 3rd 9 Kanako Murakami JPN 3rd 4th 10 Alena Leonova RUS 6th 2nd 11 Courtney Hicks USA 4th 4th 12 Alaine Chartrand CAN 7th 3rd 13 Mirai Nagasu USA 6th 4th 14 So Youn Park KOR 5th 5th 15 Samantha Cesario USA 4th 7th 16 Polina Edmunds USA 4th 8th 17 Gabrielle Daleman CAN 5th 6th CHN 6th 7th 18 Zijun Li 19 Mae Berenice Meite FRA 5th 20 Riona Kato JPN 5th 21 Haruka Imai JPN 8th 8th 22 Maria Artemieva RUS 6th 23 Miyabi Oba JPN 6th 24 Elene Gedevanishvili GEO 7th 25 Viktoria Helgesson SWE 7th RUS 7th 26 Maria Stavitskaia 27 Brooklee Han AUS 8th 28 Hae Jin Kim KOR 8th 29 Ashley Cain USA 8th

Men

Hilton HHonors Skate America

Skate Canada International

30 28 28 26 26 24 22 22 20 18 18 15 14 14 13 12 12 9 7 7 6 5 5 4 4 4 3 3 3

Total Final - Ladies Points 1 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva RUS

203.58

2 Elena Radionova

RUS

198.74

3 Ashley Wagner

USA

189.50

4 Anna Pogorilaya

RUS

180.29

5 Julia Lipnitskaia

RUS

177.79

6 Rika Hongo

JPN

176.13

Total Final - Pair Skating Points 1 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford

CAN 220.72

2 Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov

RUS 213.72

3 Wenjing Sui / Cong Han

CHN 194.31

4 Cheng Peng / Hao Zhang

CHN 191.79

5 Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin

CHN 187.79

6 Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov RUS 184.54

Lexus Trophée Cup of Rostelecom Eric NHK Total China Cup Bompard Trophy Points

1 Maxim Kovtun RUS 1st 1st 30 2 Javier Fernandez ESP 2nd 1st 28 3 Tatsuki Machida JPN 1st 2nd 28 4 Takahito Mura JPN 1st 3rd 26 5 Sergei Voronov RUS 2nd 2nd 26 6 Yuzuru Hanyu JPN 2nd 4th 22 7 Jason Brown USA 2nd 5th 20 8 Denis Ten KAZ 4th 3rd 20 9 Nam Nguyen CAN 3rd 4th 20 10 Konstantin Menshov RUS 5th 4th 16 11 Misha Ge UZB 5th 4th 16 Daisuke Murakami JPN 1st 15 12 13 Michal Brezina CZE 7th 3rd 15 14 Richard Dornbush USA 3rd 7th 15 15 Max Aaron USA 3rd 7th 15 16 Jeremy Abbott USA 5th 5th 14 17 Adian Pitkeev RUS 6th 6th 10 18 Stephen Carriere USA 4th 9 19 Han Yan CHN 6th 8th 8 20 Takahiko Kozuka JPN 8th 6th 8 USA 5th 7 21 Adam Rippon 22 Florent Amodio FRA 6th 5 23 Elladj Balde CAN 6th 5 24 Chafik Besseghier FRA 7th 4 25 Alexei Bychenko ISR 7th 4 26 Ross Miner USA 7th 4 27 Jeremy Ten CAN 8th 3 28 Artur Gachinski RUS 8th 3 29 Douglas Razzano USA 8th 3 30 Keiji Tanaka JPN 8th 3

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Total Final - Ladies Points 1 Evgenia Medvedeva

RUS

190.89

2 Serafima Sakhanovich

RUS

186.01

3 Wakaba Higuchi

JPN

178.09

4 Maria Sotskova

RUS

175.99

5 Yuka Nagai

JPN

172.34

6 Miyu Nakashio

JPN

144.44

Total Final - Pair Skating Points 1 Julianne Seguin / Charlie Bilodeau CAN 175.57 2 Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin

RUS 165.78

3 Maria Vigalova / Egor Zakroev

RUS 161.75

4 Daria Beklemisheva / Maxim Bobrov RUS 131.57 5 Kamilla Gainetdinova / Sergei Alexeev RUS 130.14 6 Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson

USA 124.86

The top six skaters / couples in each category qualified for the Grand Prix Final

Pair Skating

OF FIGURE SKATING FINAL Barcelona, Spain

Hilton HHonors Skate Lexus Trophée Skate Canada Cup of Rostelecom Eric NHK Total America International China Cup Bompard Trophy Points

1 Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov

RUS

2 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford

CAN

1st

1st

30

1st

1st

30

3 Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov RUS 1st

2nd

28

Total Final - Men Points 4 Cheng Peng / Hao Zhang

CHN 3rd

1 Yuzuru Hanyu

JPN

288.16

5 Wenjing Sui / Cong Han

CHN

2 Javier Fernandez

ESP

253.90

6 Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin

CHN

3 Sergei Voronov

RUS

244.53

7 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov

RUS

3rd

2nd

24

4 Maxim Kovtun

RUS

242.27

8 Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier

USA 2nd

4th

22

5 Takahito Mura

JPN

235.37

9 Xuehan Wang / Lei Wang

CHN

3rd

3rd

216.13

10 Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim

USA 4th

4th

11 Vera Bazarova / Andrei Deputat

RUS

12 Madeline Aaron / Max Settlage

USA 5th

4th

16

13 Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres

FRA

5th

5th

14

6th

12 11

6 Tatsuki Machida

JPN

Total Final - Ice Dance Points 14 Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise

1st

2nd

ITA

2nd

2nd

26 3rd

4th

5th

26

22 18 4th

1 Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

CAN 181.14

15 Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov

RUS

3rd

2 Madison Chock / Evan Bates

USA 167.09

16 Jessica Calalang / Zack Sidhu

USA

5th

17 Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave

GER

24

18

7 5th

7

3 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron

FRA 162.39

18 Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro CAN 6th 5

4 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

USA 158.94

19 Annabelle Prölss / Ruben Blommaert

GER

5 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier

CAN 158.16

20 Dee Dee Leng / Simon Shnapir

USA

RUS 156.46

21 Natasha Purich / Andrew Wolfe

CAN

6th

5

22 Vanessa Grenier / Maxime Deschamps

CAN 6th

5

6 Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin

Ice Dance

5 6th

5

Hilton HHonors Skate Lexus Trophée Skate Canada Cup of Rostelecom Eric NHK Total America International China Cup Bompard Trophy Points

OF FIGURE SKATING FINAL Barcelona, Spain

6th

1 Madison Chock / Evan Bates

USA 1st

2 Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

CAN

1st

1st

30 1st

30

3 Gabriella Papadakis /

Guillaume Cizeron

Total 4 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani Final - Men Points 1 Shoma Uno

JPN

FRA

1st

USA 2nd

2nd

238.27

5 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier

CAN

RUS

2nd

26 22

JPN

213.12

3 Alexander Petrov

RUS

207.14

7 Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin

RUS

4th

201.02

8 Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue

USA

3rd

9 Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland

GBR

3rd

10 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin

RUS 3rd

5th

11 Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker

USA

6th

12 Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi

GER

13 Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam

Total Final - Ice Dance Points 14 Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri

CAN

1 Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov RUS 148.58

15 Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte

ITA

2 Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd

RUS 136.31

16 Sara Hurtado / Adria Diaz

ESP

3 Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko

RUS 131.88

17 Elisabeth Paradis / Francois-Xavier Ouellette CAN 4th 9

5 Roman Sadovsky

CAN

185.47

6 June Hyoung Lee

KOR

180.39

ITA

26

2nd

2 Sota Yamamoto

CHN

30

2nd

6 Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin

4 Boyang Jin

4th

1st

2nd 3rd

22 5th

5th

22 18 18

3rd

16

4th

16

5th

6th

12

6th

5th

12

3rd

11

4th

9

4 Mackenzie Bent / Garrett Mackeen CAN 128.61

18 Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov

RUS

4th

9

5 Madeline Edwards / Zhao Kai Pang CAN 122.39

19 Anastasia Cannuscio / Colin Mcmanus

USA 5th

7

6 Daria Morozova / Mikhail Zhirnov

20 Alexandra Aldridge / Daniel Eaton

USA

21 Cathy Reed / Chris Reed

JPN

22 Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu

CHN

RUS 113.26

6th 6th

5 6th

5 5

13

SPEED SKATING

ISU WORLD CUP SPEED SKATING – overall standings after four of six events

Total

Ladies 500 m Points

14

Total

Ladies 1000 m Points

Total

Points

Mass Start Ladies

1 Sang-Hwa Lee

KOR

750

1 Qishi Li

CHN

310

1 Ivanie Blondin

CAN

350

2 Nao Kodaira

JPN

610

2 Marrit Leenstra

NED

276

2 Irene Schouten

NED

320

3 Judith Hesse

GER

363

3 Karolina Erbanová

CZE

201

3 Martina Sábliková

CZE

255

4 Margot Boer

NED

354

4 Ireen Wüst

NED

185

4 Nana Takagi

JPN

200

5 Heather Richardson

USA

310

5 Heather Richardson

USA

180

5 Bo-Reum Kim

KOR

168

6 Floor van den Brandt

NED

306

6 Brittany Bowe

USA

180

6 Claudia Pechstein

GER

163

7 Karolina Erbanová

CZE

302

7 Nao Kodaira

JPN

124

7 Miho Takagi

JPN

150

8 Olga Fatkulina

RUS

300

8 Olga Fatkulina

RUS

118

8 Ye-Jin Jun

KOR

136

9 Thijsje Oenema

NED

272

9 Ida Njåtun

NOR

108

9 Rixt Meijer

NED

124

10 Vanessa Bittner

AUT

269

10 Ivanie Blondin

CAN

102

10 Kali Christ

CAN

99

Ladies 1500 m

Total Points

Ladies 3000/5000 m

Total Points

Total

Points

1 Ireen Wüst

NED

340

1 Martina Sábliková

CZE

330

2 Marrit Leenstra

NED

320

2 Ireen Wüst

NED

280

3 Ida Njåtun

NOR

196

3 Claudia Pechstein

GER

235

4 Heather Richardson

USA

180

4 Ivanie Blondin

CAN

202

1 Netherlands 2 Germany 3 Poland 4 Japan 5 Russia

350 240 236 226 180

5 Olga Graf

RUS

163

5 Jorien Voorhuis

NED

200

6 Martina Sábliková

CZE

162

6 Marije Joling

NED

170

Total

7 Linda de Vries

NED

156

7 Olga Graf

RUS

155

8 Brittany Bowe

USA

140

8 Diane Valkenburg

NED

120

9 Marije Joling

NED

136

9 Bente Kraus

GER

108

10 Yuliya Skokova

RUS

134

10 Carlijn Achtereekte

NED

102

1 2 3 4 4

760 590 560 530 475

Total

Points

Men 500 m

Men 1000 m

Total Points

Ladies Team Pursuit

Ladies Grand World Cup ranking Points Ireen Wüst Martina Sábliková Marrit Leenstra Ivanie Blondin Sang-Hwa Lee

NED CZE NED CAN KOR

Total

Points

Mass Start Men

1 Pavel Kulizhnikov

RUS

580

1 Pavel Kulizhnikov

RUS

350

1 Seung-Hoon Lee

KOR

350

2 Laurent Dubreuil

CAN

471

2 Kjeld Nuis

NED

251

2 Andrea Giovannini

ITA

226

3 Jan Smeekens

NED

411

3 Samuel Schwarz

GER

245

3 Bart Swings

BEL

167

4 Tae-Bum Mo

KOR

379

4 Nico Ihle

GER

196

4 Jorrit Bergsma

NED

160

5 Artur Waś

POL

360

5 Hein Otterspeer

NED

192

5 Cheol-Min Kim

KOR

158

6 Nico Ihle

GER

292

6 Stefan Groothuis

NED

181

6 Haralds Silovs

LAT

140

7 Espen Aarnes Hvammen

NOR

285

7 Shani Davis

USA

160

7 Shane Williamson

JPN

125

8 Ruslan Murashov

RUS

260

8 Aleksey Yesin

RUS

156

8 Arjan Stroetinga

NED

96

9 Denis Koval

RUS

254

9 Kai Verbij

NED

130

9 Linus Heidegger

AUT

96

10 Ryohei Haga

JPN

250

10 Denny Morrison

CAN

121

10 Patrick Beckert

GER

95

Men 1500 m Points Men 5000/10000 m

Total Points

Total

Points

1 Jan Szymanski

POL

261

1 Bob de Jong

NED

280

2 Kjeld Nuis

NED

256

2 Aleksandr Rumyantsev

RUS

240

3 Sverre Lunde Pedersen

NOR

240

3 Sverre Lunde Pedersen

NOR

225

4 Wouter Olde Heuvel

NED

240

4 Sven Kramer

NED

200

5 Shani Davis

USA

215

1 Republic of Korea 2 Netherlands 3 Poland 4 Italy 5 Russia

310 290 205 166 166

5 Bart Swings

BEL

195

6 Denny Morrison

CAN

189

Total

6 Jorrit Bergsma

NED

180

7 Konrad Niedzwiedzki

POL

166

7 Douwe de Vries

NED

180

8 Bart Swings

BEL

165

8 Patrick Beckert

GER

165

9 Koen Verweij

NED

152

9 Wouter Olde Heuvel

NED

140

10 Thomas Krol

NED

148

10 Seung-Hoon Lee

KOR

121

1 2 3 4 5

640 450 390 380 370

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Men Grand World Cup ranking Points Pavel Kulizhnikov Kjeld Nuis Bart Swings Wouter Olde Heuvel Sverre Lunde Pedersen

RUS NED BEL NED NOR

SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING

ISU WORLD CUP SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING – overall standings after four of six events

Ladies 500 m

Total Points

Ladies 1000 m

Total Points

Ladies 1500 m

Total Points

1 Kexin Fan

CHN

30000

1 Suk Hee Shim

KOR

33120

1 Suk Hee Shim

KOR

24400

2 Yue Lin

CHN

23738

2 Minjeong Choi

KOR

26000

2 Minjeong Choi

KOR

23277

3 Marianne St-Gelais

CAN

22400

3 Marianne St-Gelais

CAN

24400

3 Yutong Han

CHN

20240

4 Ji-Soo Jeon

KOR

22167

4 Elise Christie

GBR

16475

4 Arianna Fontana

ITA

14400

5 Arianna Fontana

ITA

18000

5 Yutong Han

CHN

15120

5 Jiaying Tao

CHN

14179

6 Alang Kim

KOR

10496

6 Jessica Smith

USA

11538

6 Deanna Lockett

AUS

13024

7 Kasandra Bradette

CAN

10029

7 Alang Kim

KOR

10621

7 Alang Kim

KOR

8000

8 Hongshuang Li

CHN

10000

8 Kim Boutin

CAN

9338

8 Eun-Byul Lee

KOR

7474

9 Elise Christie

GBR

9216

9 Valérie Maltais

CAN

9021

9 Hongshuang Li

CHN

6400

10 Emina Malagich

RUS

9147

10 Kexin Fan

CHN

8303

10 Moemi Kikuchi

JPN

6193

Men 500 m

Total Points

Men 1000 m

Total Points

Men 1500 m

Total Points

1 Dmitry Migunov

34840

1 Sjinkie Knegt

20800

1 Da Woon Sin

38000

RUS

NED

KOR

2 John-Henry Krueger

USA

24400

2 Charles Hamelin

CAN

19216

2 Charles Hamelin

CAN

18097

3 Yoon-Gy Kwak

KOR

21577

3 Da Woon Sin

KOR

16798

3 Se Yeong Park

KOR

16400

4 Dajing Wu

CHN

21520

4 Dajing Wu

CHN

16474

4 John-Henry Krueger

USA

14213

5 Shaolin Sandor Liu

HUN

13123

5 Semen Elistratov

RUS

16000

5 Dequan Chen

CHN

13373

6 Vladimir Grigorev

RUS

12096

6 Yi Ra Seo

KOR

15798

6 Vladislav Bykanov

ISR

10592

7 Sjinkie Knegt

NED

10097

7 Shaolin Sandor Liu

HUN

14423

7 Jung-Su Lee

KOR

9201

8 Jingnan Shi

CHN

8476

8 Se Yeong Park

KOR

12096

8 Yi Ra Seo

KOR

6861

9 Tianyu Han

CHN

8192

9 Dequan Chen

CHN

11674

9 Ruslan Zakharov

RUS

6798

10 William Preudhomme

CAN

6408

10 Victor An

RUS

10003

10 Sjinkie Knegt

NED

6625

Ladies Relay

Total Points

1 Republic of Korea

38000

2 China

30096

3 Russia

23040

4 Canada

22016

5 Italy

17994

6 Japan

10092

7 Hungary

9216

8 USA

7995

9 France

5898

10 Poland

3775

Total

1 Republic of Korea

30240

2 Netherlands

26397

3 Canada

19838

4 China

18095

5 Hungary

16290

6 USA

15215

7 Russia

14215

8 Japan

9254

9 Italy

8918

10 Kazakhstan

8813

Men Relay Points

Short Track Speed Skating

15

PAST MASTERS MARINA ANISSINA (FRA) : BORN 1975 GWENDAL PEIZERAT (FRA) : BORN 1972 Olympic Winter Games Ice Dance Gold Medal 2002 Ice Dance Bronze Medal 1998 ISU World Figure Skating Championships Ice Dance Gold Medal 2000 Ice Dance Silver Medal 1998, 1999, 2001 ISU European Figure Skating Championships Ice Dance Gold Medal 2000, 2002 Ice Dance Silver Medal 1999, 2001 Ice Dance Bronze Medal 1998 Ice Dancers Anissina & Peizerat teamed up in early 1993. Both skaters medaled with other partners at ISU World Junior Championships.

Anissina skated with Ilia Averbukh for Russia and Peizerat with Marina Morel for France. When Anissina spilt with her partner she wrote to Peizerat who in turn invited her to his hometown Lyon (FRA).

They were a good match and won two European titles and crowned World Champions in 2000.

In 2002 they won the first Ice Dance Olympic gold medal for France. The couple retired from competition after the Olympics but continued skating together for many years in shows. Anissina is a coach and choreographer while Peizerat was named a Chevalier of the National Order of Merit in 1998 and a Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 2003.