ISU World No. 56 May 2015

INTERNATIONAL SKATING UNION OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER

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SEASON REVIEW

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NO 56 MAY 2015

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I have said already many times that in my opinion the International Sport Federations should adequately give consideration to: sponsors, TV plus media (journalists) and spectators. How to conduct the matter with the spectators? We know that the Figure Skating sport disciplines have complex technical content that only Officials that have the necessary tools and knowledge can evaluate to decide on the relevant level of performance. This means that we do not believe that spectators can replace Officials. However spectators are certainly in a position to determine the level of emotion each performance has produced. This is the point. Emotion is something one cannot control nor precisely evaluate, since it is a very personal reaction and obviously spectators and we must be conscious that there might be many different opinions.

A spectator may prefer the Skater A, another may be in favor of Skater B; of course the range can be bigger. But at the end a computer calculates and shows the final result.

How about a vote? First of all you have clearly understood that we are speaking about the Figure Skating sport disciplines, since Speed Skating and also Short Track directly determines who is best through the time performed or the winner of the race. In Figure Skating it is different.

It is clear that we absolutely need the Officials to evaluate the competition, provide results which in turn determine the winners, and this is because only they have the tools, knowledge and experience to do so. But we were at the point of how about a vote?

And more specifically, how about a public vote to determine the best performance given by a Skater during an exhibition? At the moment we are thinking of using mobile technology (phones, tablets, smart watches etc.), but this essential part has not yet been decided. We are well aware that we cannot impose a spectator on which basis to form her/his opinion, but it is important that her/his voice is given the possibility to finally express such an opinion. This might bring the Skaters to present their program at its best, even on the occasion of exhibitions.

If such an initiative is adopted, it can put again the Skaters in front of a responsibility, since at the end the spectators will decide which is their favorite and from their point of view most emotional performance, therefore the ISU and also the above mentioned entities can be satisfied. At least this is what we hope.

We are conscious that in an exhibition only the best Skaters perform; this is a not perfect aspect since it deprives certain protagonists of the possibility to show what they can do, but the main duty of the ISU is to cover at best the fraction of skating under its control, also in strict relation to the available time.

We would be glad to receive constructive suggestions on how to handle the idea of a voting procedure. Thanks for the attention, and we would like to emphasize that this is simply a project.

Ottavio Cinquanta President, International Skating Union ELIZAVETA TUKTAMYSHEVA (RUS)

In 2015 Tuktamysheva is the first Russian Lady to win the World title in ten years. During the same season she also won the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and was crowned European Champion.

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ISU COUNCIL

The ISU Council met on March 23 - 24, 2015 in Shanghai (CHN) and granted provisional ISU Membership for the Speed Skating Branch to the Philippine Skating Union while the ISU Members from Greece and Puerto Rico were suspended.

The Council provisionally allotted the 2017 ISU European Short Track Speed Skating Championships to the Federazione Italiana Sport Del Ghiaccio. The event is to be held in Torino (ITA) on January 13 - 15, 2017. The ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final (junior and senior) is to be held in Barcelona (ESP) on December 10 - 13, 2015. The allotments for the ISU Figure Skating Challenger Series, ISU World Cup Speed Skating Series and the ISU World Cup Short Track Speed Skating for the season 2015/16 have also been confirmed.

The Council will meet again on June 12 - 14, 2015 in Geneva (SUI) on October 16 - 18, 2015 in the new ISU Headquarters in Lausanne (SUI), on March 28 - 29, 2016 in Boston (USA) and on June 5, 11 & 12, 2016 in Dubrovnik (CRO).

For more information on the decisions of the Council see ISU Communication 1933.

SPORTS DIRECTORS & SPORT MANAGER FIGURE SKATING

Following a successful season, Skaters and Coaches turn their attention to the new season.

The annual ISU Ice Dance Development Training Seminar for Junior and Novice took place in Oberstdorf (GER) on April 19 to May 9.

The Seminar helps the participants to familiarize themselves with the new rules and the requirements for the new season. The Synchronized Skating ISU Development Training Seminar will be held in Vierumaki (FIN). The annual ISU Development Pair Skating Seminar for Novice and Junior Pairs was held in Torun (POL). Skater Development along with the Olympic Solida-rity will provide a Development Seminar at the Olympic site in Sochi (RUS).

The decision of the IOC is expected in July 2015 regarding the inclusion of Synchronized Skating in the Olympic Winter Games program.

In the Speed Skating Branch, the decision to include Mass Start in the Olympic Program will be finalized during the 128th IOC Session in July. The Speed Skating Sports Director has attended a number of events and was involved in the event coordination of all Short Track Speed Skating events. Regular meetings with the Speed Skating and Short Track Speed Skating Technical Committees took

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Crown Prince Haakon Magnus unveils official One Year To Go to 2nd Youth Winter Olympic Games Lillehammer 2016

place. Finally preparation for the 2nd Winter Youth Olympic Games – Lillehammer 2016 is picking up pace as the event approaches with less than a year to go.

ISU TECHNICAL COMMITTEES Single and Pair Skating

The Single and Pair Skating Technical Committee (SPTC) members served as Referees and Technical Controllers at all ISU Championships.

They also served as Moderators at the Recognized Judges Seminars in Milan (ITA), Manchester (GBR), Kiev (UKR) and the Sponsored Pair Skating Judges Seminar in Torun (POL).

A lot of time was dedicated to reviewing the Officials Assessment Commission (OAC) reports from all ISU Events of the season.

The SPTC, jointly with the OAC, decided on Letters of Assessments and Warnings to Judges whose scores were classified as serious errors. The SPTC met during the European and World Championships and studied hundreds of Referee and Technical Controllers reports from the season. Based on these reports and various discussions with Judges, Coaches and Skaters the Committee prepared the new ISU Communication with guidelines for the events of the new season.

Ice Dance

The Ice Dance Technical Committee (IDTC) members participated in ISU Championships as Officials and Moderators. Informal meetings were held with Coaches, Skaters and Officials at the European, Four Continents and World Junior Championships. A presentation and Q&A session was held at the ISU World

Championships in Shanghai (CHN) which was positively received by the participants. The IDTC prepared three ISU Communications: Communications of Requirements for Technical Rules, changes to Calling Specifications and an update to the Scale of Values. Judges and Referees Seminars were held in Ukraine, Russia and Canada.

Handbooks will be published early Summer for the training of new prospective International Judges and Referees as well as promotion of Referees and Recertification of Technical Panel members. The annual IDTC Spring meeting was held in May to review the past season, prepare reports and assignments, and prepare for the 2016 Congress.

Synchronized Skating 2015 could also be a historic year for Synchonized Skating. The IOC decision regarding the ISU’s application to include Synchronized Skating in the Olympic Winter Games program is due within the next few months. In the meantime the Synchronized Skating Technical Committee (SySTC) has been busy at the World Junior and World Championships.

An increased number of teams participated in this year’s events which shows the positive development of the sport. An innovative training camp for Junior Skaters and their Coaches took place and the SySTC also ran a seminar in Vierumaki (FIN) for all ISU event Officials. Preparation for the upcoming season is underway and will shortly be published.

Several new events are planned for the Calendar including the Shanghai Trophy, a mixed discipline event involving Synchronized Skating and Short Track Speed Skating.

The Speed Skating Technical Committee (SSTC) had representatives at a number of ISU Events.

The SSTC was responsible for implementing the new ISU Championships qualification system with allocation of quota places for the World Single Distances, World Sprint and World Allround Championships based on results in designated World Cup competitions.

The revised ISU Championships calendar structure lived up to expectations, with a very successful World Single Distances Championships, indeed five different countries celebrated a World Champion and a total of 10 countries reached podium finishes at the Event. The SSTC held its annual meeting on the occasion of the World Allround Championships in Calgary (CAN), and the annual season review meeting with coaches took place prior to the ISU World Cup Final in Erfurt. Finally the ISU World Cup calendar 2015/16 was approved by the Council.

Short Track

The Short Track Speed Skating Technical Committee (STSSTC) has been working on a number of projects including the Race Report System for Referees and the Officials Database. Both systems have been tested within their preliminary stages and are due to be completed in 2016. Three ISU Championships took place with the new format voted in

by Congress 2014. They were successfully implemented and received and the STSSTC will be looking at ways to further improve the format. The ISU Communication regarding the World Cup Short Track Speed Skating Series 2015/16 has been published and includes changes that will reduce the first qualifying day of the World Cup. Finally the STSSTC met during the ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships in Moscow (RUS) to discuss the projects, proposals for rule changes and seminars for the Officials.

ISU SECRETARIAT

After 18 years in its offices at Chemin de Primerose, the ISU Headquarters is scheduled to move to its new offices at Avenue Juste-Olivier on June 1- 2, 2015.

Ms. Nicole Manxholli, Accountant left the ISU for personal reasons at the end of March.

We thank Ms. Manxholli for her cooperation during the past three years and wish her the best for the future. In the meantime Ms. Claudia Mercanton has joined the ISU Secretariat.

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EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

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The ISU European Figure Skating Championships returned to Stockholm (SWE) for the first time since 1912. 151 skaters from 32 ISU Member countries competed in the event.

Russia took 9 out of 12 medals, the other three medals went to Spain, France and Italy.

Javier Fernandez (ESP) earned his third consecutive European title confidently with 262.49 points followed by Maxim Kovtun (RUS) and Sergei Voronov (RUS). Alexei Bychenko (ISR) came fourth, which is the best result for an Israeli single skater at an ISU Championship so far. Michal Brezina (CZE) placed fifth.

Cheng Peng / Hao Zhang (CHN)

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Elizaveta Tuktamysheva led a sweep of the Russian Ladies, taking her first title with 210.40 points (the highest total score of the season in the Ladies category). She was joined on the podium by Elena Radionova and Anna Pogorilaya, who debuted at the European Championships. Sisters Joshi and Viktoria Helgesson in fourth and fifth place delivered an excellent result for Swedish Figure Skating.

Russia also swept the Pairs podium. Yuko Kavaguti/Alexander Smirnov earned their second European title in what was an emotional performance that included a quadruple throw Salchow after sitting out the past season due to injury (207.67 points).

Ksenia Stolbova/Fedor Klimov repeated as silver medalists and Evgenia Tarasova/ Vladimir Morozov claimed the bronze in their European debut. The newly formed couple of Valentina Marchei (a former single skater) and Ondrej Hotarek (ITA) surprised by finishing fourth ahead of Vanessa James/Morgan Cipres (FRA).

Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron (FRA) continued their ascent by winning their first European title in their second appearance at the event with 179.97 points. Defending champions Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte (ITA) earned the silver and Alexandra Stepanova/ Ivan Bukin (RUS) clinched the bronze. Elena

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Javier Fernandez (ESP)

Ilinykh/Ruslan Zhiganshin (RUS), who have been skating together only since spring 2014, came fourth followed by Sara Hurtado/Adria Diaz (ESP), who gave Spain its best Ice Dance result so far.

FOUR CONTINENTS The ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships were held in Seoul (KOR) for the first time. However, Korea hosted the Championships four times before: 2002 and 2010 in Jeonju, 2005 in Gangneung and 2008 in Goyang City. 91 skaters from 15 ISU Members competed in the event. Argentina was represented for the first time with Denis Margalik in the Men’s. Skaters from five ISU Members were on the podium but the USA was the most successful with four medals.

Denis Ten (KAZ) made history again, winning the first ISU Championship title for Kazakhstan.

The Olympic bronze medalist put in two strong performances to score 289.46 points, which was also the highest total score achieved this season in the Men’s. Joshua Farris (USA) earned the silver, his first medal at the event, while Han Yan (CHN) picked up his second bronze medal since 2013. Daisuke Murakami (JPN) and Shoma Uno (JPN) placed

fourth and fifth. In the Ladies, Polina Edmunds came from fourth place in the short program to strike gold in her debut at the event with 184.02 points. Satoko Miyahara (JPN) collected her second consecutive silver medal and the bronze went to Rika Hongo (JPN).

Pair skaters Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN) continued their successful season and took their second Four Continents title since 2013 with 219.48 points. They performed a quadruple throw Salchow.

Cheng Peng/Hao Zhang (CHN) claimed the silver medal and veterans Qing Pang/Jian Tong (CHN), who had decided to come out of retirement, captured the bronze. Wenjing Sui/Cong Han (CHN) were fourth and Alexa Scimeca/Chris Knierim (USA) rounded up the top five.

Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje (CAN) edged out Madison Chock/Evan Bates (USA) for the gold medal by just 1.28 points in the Ice Dance event and won their second Four Continents title with 177.46 points. Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (USA) secured the bronze medal. Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier (CAN) ranked fourth and Kaitlin Hawayek/Jean-Luc Baker (USA) were fifth.

WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS Estonia’s capital Tallinn hosted the ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships for the first time. 163 skaters from 42 ISU Members participated in the event and the medals went to six different countries. Russia led the medal table with four medals.

Shoma Uno (JPN) skated to the gold medal with 232.54 points. Boyang Jin (CHN) came from fifth to take the silver medal and Sota Yamamoto (JPN) rose from seventh to collect the bronze. 2014 World Junior bronze medalist Nathan Chen (USA) ranked fourth while 2014 World Junior silver medalist Adian Pitkeev (RUS) finished fifth this time.

Evgenia Medvedeva took the fifth consecutive World Junior Ladies title for Russia.

The 2014 World Junior bronze medalist scored 192.97 points. Serafima Sakhanovich (RUS) repeated as silver medalist and Wakaba Higuchi (JPN) picked up the bronze in her World Junior debut. Elizabet Tursynbaeva (KAZ) achieved the best result for a Kazakhstan Lady skater at an ISU Championship so far by coming fourth. Maria Sotskova (RUS) placed fifth.

Xiaoyu Yu/Yang Jin (CHN) defended their World Junior title in the Pairs event with

from fifth to claim the bronze, the second medal for an Ukrainian Ice Dance team in the history of Junior Worlds. Natalia Gudina/Vitaly Kurkudym had earned a bronze as well back in 1996.

161 skaters representing 37 ISU Members competed in the Championships. Skaters from eight countries took home the medals: Canada, China, Japan and Russia had two medals each, while France, Kazakhstan, Spain and USA got one. Three world titles went to Europe.

Javier Fernandez claimed a historic first figure skating World title for Spain, skating to the gold with 273.90 points. 2014 World Champion Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) settled for the silver this time and Denis Ten (KAZ) added a bronze to his World silver from 2013.

Elizaveta Tuktamysheva (RUS) crowned a golden season with the World title, landed a triple Axel in the Short Program and racked up 210.36 points. The 18-year-old from St. Petersburg became the first Russian Lady in ten years to win the World title. Satoko Miyahara (JPN) claimed the silver medal and Elena Radionova (RUS) took the bronze in their debut at the ISU World Figure Skating Championships. Gracie Gold (USA) came fourth ahead of Ashley Wagner (USA).

Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN) skated to their first World title following an extraordinary season that saw them winning each single competition they entered. Their score of 221.53 points was also the highest total score achieved this season in the Pairs. Wenjing Sui/Cong Han (CHN) collected the silver medal while the bronze went to Qing Pang/ Jian Tong (CHN), who competed in their 16th World Championship. The couple announced retirement following an international career that had started in 1997. Cheng Peng/Hao Zhang completed a successful event for the Chinese Pairs by finishing fourth and Yuko Kavaguti/Alexander Smirnov (RUS) ranked fifth.

Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron (FRA) danced to their first World title, coming from fourth place following the Short Dance. They scored 184.28 points, which was the highest total score this season. Madison Chock/Evan Bates (USA) earned the silver medal and Kaitlyn Weaver/ Andrew Poje (CAN) got the bronze. The French and American ice dancers claimed their first World medals. 2014 World Champions Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte (ITA) finished fourth while Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (USA) were fifth.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

WORLD TEAM TROPHY

Shanghai hosted the first ISU World Figure Skating Championships held in China.

The fourth edition of the ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating was held in

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Satoko Miyahara (JPN)

178.79 points. Julianne Seguin/Charlie Bilodeau (CAN) took the silver medal and the bronze went to Lina Fedorova/ Maxim Miroshkin (RUS).

Anna Yanovskaya/Sergey Mozgov (RUS) danced off with the Ice Dance gold (155.92 points).

Lorraine McNamara/Quinn Carpenter (USA) captured the silver medal and Ukraine’s Alexandra Nazarova/ Maxim Nikitin pulled up www.isu.org

FIGURE SKATING Tokyo (JPN). The USA edged out Russia by one point to win their third World Team Trophy gold medals following their victories in 2009 and 2013. Team USA, led by World Ice Dance silver medalists Madison Chock/Evan Bates and U.S. Champion Jason Brown totaled 110 points. Team Russia moved up from third to second place on the last day thanks to their strong Ladies Elizaveta Tuktamysheva and Elena Radionova. Team Japan with Olympic Champion Yuzuru Hanyu picked up the bronze medals. Team Canada placed fourth followed

by Team China and Team France. For the first time, the ISU used the points system from the Olympic Team event to allow more movement and make the event more exciting. In this format, the skaters receive team points for the Short and for the Free Skating placement, meaning that a first place in the Short Program/Short Dance earns 12 points and a first place in the Free Skating/Free Dance adds another 12 points. Each team consisted of two Men, two Ladies, one Pairs and one Ice Dance couple.

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WORLD JUNIOR SYNCHRONIZED CHAMPIONSHIPS Team Finland 1 (Musketeers) won the title with 172.98 points at the second edition of the ISU World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships which took place in Zagreb (CRO) and are held every two years.

Finland 2 (Fintastic) claimed the silver medal and Canada 1 (Les Supremes) took the bronze.

Team Russia 2 (Crystal Ice) came fourth followed by Team Canada 2 (Nexxice).

24 teams from 19 ISU Members competed in Zagreb.

WORLD SYNCHRONIZED CHAMPIONSHIPS The ISU World Synchronized Skating Championships were held in Canada for the third time. In what was the 16th edition of the event, Nexxice (Team Canada 1) struck gold on home ice, edging out Marigold Ice Unity (Team Finland 1) by less than one point in an exciting Final. The Canadians earned 214.73 points.

Paradise (Team Russia 1) earned the bronze, the first medal for Russia at the World Championships. Team Finland 2 (The Rockettes) finished fourth and Sweden 1 (Team Surprise) placed fifth. 25 teams from 20 ISU members competed in Hamilton.

Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron (FRA)

WORLD CUP

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The ISU World Cup Speed Skating Series spread across 7 events this season. It started in Obihiro (JPN) and moved to Seoul (KOR).

The European events were held in Berlin (GER) and Heerenveen (NED) and again in Hamar (NOR) and Heerenveen (NED). The ISU World Cup Speed Skating Final was held in Erfurt (GER). Heather Richardson (USA) and Pavel Kulizhnikov (RUS) won the Grand World Cup.

500 m Ladies Nao Kodaira (JPN) won one race in Seoul and finished second five times. This was enough for her to win the 500 m World Cup. Sang-Hwa Lee (KOR) had a good season by winning six times, but she did not participate in the final, consequently she dropped to second and Richardson won the all-important races in Erfurt and clenched the third place.

1000 m Ladies Brittany Bowe (USA) won three races including the Final to gain the Cup. Marrit Leenstra (NED) was in close second only 3 points behind while Qishi Li (CHN) got third place.

1500 m Ladies Leenstra (NED) competed five times in the 1500 m and got four podium finishes, including gold in Seoul (KOR), this was enough for her to win the Cup. The Americans Richardson and Bowe competed in four events, Richardson won in the first Heerenveen event and in Hamar while Bowe won at the Final. They finished second and third.

3000 m / 5000 m Ladies Martina Sáblíková (CZE) got a podium finish in all six races and secured the Cup. Claudia Pechstein (GER) won in Seoul, but she competed in each race which gave her enough points to get second place. Although Ireen Wüst (NED) only competed in four out of six races, she was always on the podium, including two wins. This was enough for her to finish third overall.

Team Pursuit Ladies Three Team Pursuit races took place and the Netherlands won all of them. Germany and Poland finished second and third.

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Karolina Erbonova (CZE)

She racked up enough points to win the Cup. Irene Schouten (NED) and Sáblíková follow.

500 m Men Kulizhnikov won eight races and clenched the World Cup. Laurent Dubreuil (CAN) and Ruslan Murashov (RUS) also had a strong season by finishing second and third.

1000 m Men Kulizhnikov also won the 1000 m Cup with three wins. Kjeld Nuis (NED) got six podium finishes and places second overall. Although he was not as consistent as the others Nico Ihle (GER) won one race and managed to finish third in the rankings.

1500 m Men Denny Morrison (CAN) won the final and gave him enough points to take the Cup. Sverre Lunde Pedersen (NOR) won a gold in Seoul and silver in Erfurt and ranks second overall. Nuis won the first race and had an additional two podium finishes and ended in third place overall.

5000 m / 10,000 m Men Jorrit Bergsma (NED) almost had a perfect World Cup season as he got three gold and one silver medal. This was enough for the Cup. Lunde Pedersen although he did not win a gold medal, he was consistent and persistent enough to rank second while veteran Bob de Jong (NED) won once and ranks third.

Team Pursuit Men Korea won two silver medals and won the final which was enough for them to win the Cup. The Netherlands are second and Poland also took the third place in the Men’s event.

Mass Start Men Although Seung-Hoon Lee (KOR) did not compete in the Final, he finished on the podium at every other event including three wins. This guaranteed him the World Cup. Bart Swings (BEL) and Andrea Giovannini (ITA) also had a decent season and finished second and third respectively.

SPEED SKATING EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS Wüst was crowned European Champion for the fourth time in the Uralnaya Molniya ice rink in Chelyabinsk (RUS).

Four times European Champion Sáblíková took the silver while the 2013 European silver medalist Linda de Vries (NED) took the bronze.

Sven Kramer (NED) took the title for a record seventh time. 2014 silver medalist Koen Verweij (NED) got his second silver while Denis Yuskov (RUS) won his first European medal in front of a home crowd when he got the bronze.

World Single Distance medal with the bronze.

5000 m Olympic Champion Kramer earned his sixth World title and headed a Dutch sweep with Bergsma in second followed by Douwe de Vries. Bergsma reached the top of the podium in the 10,000 m followed by Erik-Jan Kooiman (NED) and Patrick Beckert (GER).

The Netherlands won the Team Pursuit for the seventh time followed by Canada and Korea.

Arjan Stroetinga (NED) took the Men’s first Mass Start World title, Fabio Francolini (ITA) and Alexis Contin (FRA) also made history by making the podium.

WORLD SINGLE DISTANCES CHAMPIONSHIPS

WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

The ISU World Single Distances Championships took place in the Thialf Stadium in Heerenveen (NED) just before it closed for refurbishment. Richardson had a good season and won the 500 m World title, the 1000 m silver and 1500 m bronze. Her teammate Bowe on the other hand had an excellent Championship winning two titles. She was crowned 1000 m and 1500 m Champion and took the silver medal in the 500 m. It was Richardson and Bowe’s first World titles in their career.

Kodaira completed the 500 m podium by winning bronze and Karolina Erbanová (CZE) also got bronze but in the 1000 m. European Champion Wüst won the silver medal in the 1500 m and the 3000 m. Six time World 5000 m Champion and two times Olympic 5000 m Champion Sáblíková was strong this season and got two World titles in the long distances, 3000 m and 5000 m. Marije Joling (NED) is the bronze medalist in the 3000 m.

Carlijn Achtereekte (NED) and Pechstein were second and third in the 5000 m. The Japanese Ladies surprised the world by taking the gold in the Team Pursuit. The Netherlands were disappointed to only finish second and Russia followed in third. The first ever Ladies’ World Mass Start Champion is Schouten, she outsprinted Blondin and teammate Mariska Huisman (NED).

On the Men’s side, Kulizhnikov won his first World title in the 500 m and got the silver medal in the 1000 m. Mulder and Dubreuil were also on the 500 m podium. Three times 1000 m World Champion Shani Davis (USA) gained his title back in Heerenveen while Nuis got the bronze medal. Reigning 1500 m Champion Yuskov got his second title while two times World 1500 m Champion Morrison had to settle for silver and Verweij got his first

At the ISU World Junior Speed Skating Championships in Warsaw (POL) Melissa Wijfje (NED) traded last year’s allround silver medal for gold. Wijfje also got the gold medal in the 1500m and 3000 m. Her teammate Sanneke de Neeling finished second overall and Yelizaveta Kazelina (RUS) got the bronze.

Vanessa Bittner (AUT) took the 500 m, 1000 m and Mass Start gold medals.

On the Men’s side Patrick Roest (NED) took his second consecutive allround title and finished on the podium in each distance and got a second gold in the 1500 m. Min-Seok Kim (KOR) took allround silver and Marcel Bosker (NED) bronze. Jun-Ho Kim (KOR) won the 500 m, Fan Yang (CHN) the 1000 m and Nils van der

Jorrit Bergsma (NED)

Poel (SWE) the 5000 m. Korean Hyun-Min Oh won the Mass Start.

Korea dominated the Team Sprint as both the Ladies’ and Men took the gold while the Netherlands took the Team Pursuit titles. The Team Sprint and the Mass Start were added to the World Junior Championships program this season.

WORLD SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIPS Bowe and Kulizhnikov were crowned ISU World Sprint Speed Skating Champions in Astana (KAZ) with the fastest sprint combination ever skated on a lowland rink. 2013 Sprint Champion Richardson took the silver while Erbanová finished third. Hein Otterspeer (NED) finished second in the Men’s while Aleksey Yesin (RUS) got his first ISU Championships medal with the bronze.

WORLD ALLROUND CHAMPIONSHIPS Sáblíková was crowned World Allround Speed Skating Champions at the Olympic Oval in Calgary (CAN) for the third time in her career.

Wüst finished second and Ida Njåtun (NOR) won bronze. Kramer grabbed a record seventh World Allround title. Denis Yuskov (RUS) won the silver while Sverre Lunde Pedersen (NOR) took the bronze and his first ISU Championship medal.

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WORLD CUP

1000 m Ladies

The ISU World Cup Short Track Speed Skating series was held in six countries across three months. It started in Salt Lake City (USA) and moved to Montreal (CAN). In December the series moved to Asia making a stop in Shanghai (CHN) then Seoul (KOR). The last legs were in Dresden (GER) and Erzurum (TUR) where the Overall World Cup winners were announced. The Overall ranking is determined by points that can be earned in each distance.

Only the six best scores are used to calculate the total points for individual races and the four best scores in Relay.

Suk Hee Shim (KOR) won two World Cup events and finished on the podium twice racking up enough points to win the Cup. Marianne St-Gelais (CAN) is second with one gold, one silver and two bronze medal while Minjeong Choi (KOR) classifies third with one gold and two silver medals.

500 m Ladies It was almost a perfect season for Kexin Fan (CHN) as she won 5 out of 6 races and got the bronze in the other race. She was not far off getting maximum points, and unsurprisingly finished first. Ji-Soo Jeon (KOR) got two silver and one bronze medal. Marianne St-Gelais (CAN) got three podium finishes and ended third overall.

Shaolin Liu (HUN)

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1500 m Ladies Minjeong Choi (KOR) won four events and leads the Ladies’ 1500 m World Cup. Suk Hee Shim (KOR) got two golds one silver and bronze medal and comes second while Yutong Han (CHN) with one gold and one silver is third.

3000 m Relay Ladies Korea won their first three races and got the silver in their last two races which guaranteed them the first place in the overall rankings.

China follows, with two gold but only managed to rank second. Canada has three bronze medals the remaining gold and finish the season in third.

500 m Men Dmitry Migunov (RUS) is the only skater to have won three races and consequently he finished first. Dajing Wu (CHN) is second while Yoon-Gy Kwak (KOR) is third.

1000 m Men Two gold and two silver medals was enough for Semen Elistratov (RUS) to clench the World Cup. Sjinkie Knegt ranks second with two silver and three bronze medals. Da Woon Sin (KOR) won twice and got a bronze medal, he finishes the season in third

1500 m Men Da Woon Sin (KOR) finished on the podium of all his races, including four wins. He did not have to participate in the last two races as the World Cup was already his. Dequan Chen (CHN) finishes second just ahead of Charles Hamelin (CAN).

3000 m Relay Men Although the Netherlands started the season with difficulty, they eventually managed to win two Relays and got enough points to

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Minjeong Choi (KOR)

finish first. Korea also won two races but finish in very close second. China won one race and three podium finishes means they stand in third

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS Elise Christie (GBR) won her first European title in Dordrecht (NED). Sofia Prosvirnova (RUS) and Patrycja Maliszewska (POL) also won their first ISU Championships medals by finishing second and third respectfully. The 2012 European Champion Sjinkie Knegt (NED) won his second title in front of a home crowd ahead of Olympic Champion Viktor An (RUS) and last year’s silver medalist Semen Elistratov (RUS) got the bronze. Russia won both the Ladies’ and Men’s title in the Relay events.

WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS Sangjeong Kong (KOR) headed a Korean sweep in the Ladies’ ISU World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships that took place in Osaka (JPN). Kim Jiyoo and Son Hakyung completed the podium. Dagyeom

Kim (KOR) took the Championship title on the Men’s side followed by Park Jiwon (KOR) and Sandor Liu Shaolin (HUN). Korea continued to dominate the Championships by taking the Relay titles in both the Ladies’ and Men’s event.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS The ISU Word Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place in Moscow (RUS) last March. New comer on the senior circuit Minjeong Choi (KOR) took the Overall World title. Arianna Fontana (ITA) earned the silver medal while reigning overall Champion Suk Hee Shim (KOR) got the bronze. Sjinkie Knegt (NED) won his first World title. Se Yeong Park (KOR) got the silver overall medal while Dajing Wu (CHN) received bronze.

In the 500 m Kexin Fan (CHN) won her third title while Elise Christie (GBR) won her second consecutive silver medal. Olympic silver medalist Arianna Fontana (ITA) had to settle for bronze. Reigning 500 m Champion Dajing Wu (CHN) won his second World title. Sandor Liu Shaolin (HUN) wins his first World medal

with the silver while Tianyu Han (CHN) took the bronze.

The Ladies’ 1000 m podium is very similar to the 500 m, the only difference is that Minjeong Choi (KOR) won the World title.

Christie and Fontana got their second silver and bronze medals. Se Yeong Park (KOR) was crowned World 1000 m Champion on the Men’s side. Charles Hamelin (CAN) took the silver and Jingnan Shi (CHN) became the bronze medalist.

Fontana received her first ever World title in the 1500 m and beat the reigning World Champion Suk Hee Shim (KOR). Minjeong Choi (KOR) completes the podium. Semen Elistratov (RUS) wins his first World title in the 1500 m. Sjinkie Knegt (NED) finished with the silver while Olympic Champion Charles Hamelin (CAN) finished third.

Korea won the Ladies’ Relay beating reigning Champions China. Italy finished third.

On the Men’s side China won their first relay since 2000. Hungary got the silver and the Netherlands bronze.

FIGURE SKATING

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ISU EUROPEAN FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, JANUARY 26 FEBRUARY 1 2015, Stockholm (SWE)

ISU FOUR CONTINENTS FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, FEBRUARY 9 -15 2015, SEOUL (KOR)

ISU WORLD JUNIOR FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 2 - 8 2015, TALLINN (EST)

Ladies Points

Ladies Points

Ladies Points

1 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva

RUS 210.40

1 Polina Edmunds

USA 184.02

1 Evgenia Medvedeva

RUS 192.97

2 Elena Radionova

RUS 209.54

2 Satoko Miyahara

JPN 181.59

2 Serafima Sakhanovich

RUS 186.15

3 Anna Pogorilaya

RUS 191.81

3 Rika Hongo

JPN 177.44

3 Wakaba Higuchi

JPN 185.57

4 Joshi Helgesson

SWE 169.07

4 Gracie Gold

USA 176.58

4 Elizabet Tursynbaeva

KAZ 173.44

5 Viktoria Helgesson

SWE 166.39

5 Zijun Li

CHN 175.92

5 Maria Sotskova

RUS 169.04

6 Mae Berenice Meite

FRA 156.47

6 Yuka Nagai

JPN 168.09

6 Kaori Sakamoto

JPN 166.25

7 Angelina Kuchvalska

LAT 156.37

7 Gabrielle Daleman

CAN 167.09

7 Yuka Nagai

JPN 163.93

8 Roberta Rodeghiero

ITA

8 Samantha Cesario

USA 166.76

8 Karen Chen

USA 157.30

9 Nicole Schott

GER 153.63

9 So Youn Park

KOR 163.75

9 Da Bin Choi

KOR 156.38

10 Laurine Lecavelier

FRA 151.43

10 Alaine Chartrand

CAN 161.22

10 Diana Nikitina

LAT 148.63

154.52

Men

Points

Men

Points

Men Points

1 Javier Fernandez

ESP 262.49

1 Denis Ten

KAZ 289.46

1 Shoma Uno

JPN 232.54

2 Maxim Kovtun

RUS 235.68

2 Joshua Farris

USA 260.01

2 Boyang Jin

CHN 229.70

3 Sergei Voronov

RUS 233.05

3 Han Yan

CHN 259.47

3 Sota Yamamoto

JPN 215.45

4 Alexei Bychenko

ISR

4 Daisuke Murakami

JPN 256.47

4 Nathan Chen

USA 213.85

5 Michal Brezina

CZE 220.11

5 Shoma Uno

JPN 256.45

5 Adian Pitkeev

RUS 210.71

6 Peter Liebers

GER 213.57

6 Jason Brown

USA 243.21

6 Alexander Petrov

RUS 206.23

7 Adian Pitkeev

RUS 210.87

7 Takahito Mura

JPN 235.75

7 Deniss Vasiljevs

LAT 202.73

8 Ivan Righini

ITA

8 Misha Ge

UZB 226.20

8 Daniel Samohin

ISR

9 Florent Amodio

FRA 210.11

9 Yi Wang

CHN 214.76

9 Jin Seo Kim

KOR 202.25

10 Daniel Samohin

ISR

10 Adam Rippon

USA 212.30

10 Andrew Torgashev

USA 201.74

220.22

210.75 209.93

202.39

Pairs Points

Pairs Points

1 Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov RUS 207.67

1 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford

CAN 219.48

1 Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin

2 Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov

2 Cheng Peng / Hao Zhang

CHN 201.45

2 Julianne Seguin / Charlie Bilodeau CAN 176.32

3 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov RUS 183.02

3 Qing Pang / Jian Tong

CHN 199.99

3 Lina Fedorova / Maxim Miroshkin

RUS 154.33

4 Valentina Marchei / Ondrej Hotarek

ITA

4 Wenjing Sui / Cong Han

CHN 198.88

4 Anastasia Gubanova / Alexei Sintsov

RUS 140.39

5 Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres

FRA 167.29

5 Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim

USA 187.98

5 Caitlin Fields / Ernie Utah Stevens

USA 138.62

6 Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise

ITA

6 Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch

CAN 173.50

6 Ami Koga / Francis Boudreau Audet

JPN 134.97

7 Mari Vartmann / Aaron Van Cleave

GER 155.27

7 Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier

USA 167.57

7 Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson

USA 133.57

8 Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer

AUT 136.80

8 Tarah Kayne / Daniel O Shea

USA 166.67

8 Anna Duskova / Martin Bidar

CZE 128.80

9 Caitlin Yankowskas / Hamish Gaman

GBR 123.42

9 Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro CAN 160.70

9 Shalena Rau / Sebastian Arcieri

CAN 128.66

10 Narumi Takahashi / Ryuichi Kihara

10 Mary Orr / Phelan Simpson

CAN 128.25

RUS 201.11

10 Alessandra Cernuschi / Filippo Ambrosini ITA

175.39 155.77

123.19

Ice Dance Points 1 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron

FRA 179.97

2 Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte

ITA 171.52

3 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin

RUS 160.95

4 Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin

JPN 132.84

Pairs Points CHN 178.79

Ice Dance Points

Ice Dance Points

1 Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

CAN 177.46

1 Anna Yanovskaya / Sergey Mozgov RUS 155.92

2 Madison Chock / Evan Bates

USA 176.18

2 Lorraine Mcnamara /

3 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

USA 170.79

RUS 159.83

4 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier

CAN 162.25

3 Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin UKR 146.08

5 Sara Hurtado / Adria Diaz

ESP 155.81

5 Kaitlin Hawayek / Jean-Luc Baker

USA 149.98

4 Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons

USA 140.94

6 Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri

ITA

6 Alexandra Paul / Mitchell Islam

CAN 149.92

5 Mackenzie Bent / Garrett Mackeen

CAN 140.30

7 Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi

GER 152.57

8 Federica Testa / Lukas Csolley

SVK 150.57

7 Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu

CHN 130.95

6 Madeline Edwards / Zhao Kai Pang

CAN 135.12

8 Emi Hirai / Marien de la Asuncion

JPN 122.67

7 Natalia Kaliszek / Maksim Spodirev

POL 131.78

KOR 120.76

8 Angelique Abachkina / Louis Thauron

FRA 131.31

CHN 115.12

9 Carolina Moscheni / Adam Lukacs

HUN 130.41

154.61

9 Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sorensen

DEN 150.53

9 Rebeka Kim / Kirill Minov

10 Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin

RUS 149.29

10 Yue Zhao / Xun Zheng

Quinn Carpenter

USA 146.90

SYNCHRONIZED SKATING

ISU WORLD FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 23-29 2015, SHANGHAI (CHN)

ISU WORLD JUNIOR SYNCHRONIZED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 13 -14 2015, ZAGREB (CRO)

ISU WORLD SYNCHRONIZED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, APRIL 10 - 11 2015, HAMILTON (CAN)

Ladies Points

Teams Points

Teams Points

1 Team Finland 1

172.98

2 Team Finland 2

166.73

1 Team Canada 1 2 Team Finland 1 3 Team Russia 1 4 Team Finland 2 5 Team Sweden 1 6 Team Canada 2 7 Team USA 1 8 Team USA 2 9 Team Russia 2 10 Team Germany 11 Team Sweden 2 12 Team Japan 13 Team Italy 14 Team France 15 Team Switzerland 16 Team Czech Republic 17 Team Hungary 18 Team Croatia 19 Team Spain 20 Team Australia 21 Team Great Britain 22 Team Mexico 23 Team Belgium 24 Team Turkey 25 Team Latvia

1 Elizaveta Tuktamysheva

RUS 210.36

2 Satoko Miyahara

JPN 193.60

3 Elena Radionova

RUS 191.47

3 Team Canada 1

162.09

4 Gracie Gold

USA 188.96

4 Team Russia 2

156.43

5 Ashley Wagner

USA 185.01

5 Team Canada 2

154.10

6 Rika Hongo

JPN 184.58

6 Team USA 1

152.82

7 Kanako Murakami

JPN 179.66

7 Team Russia 1

147.78

8 Polina Edmunds

USA 177.83

8 Team USA 2

147.11

9 Zijun Li

CHN 165.22

9 Team Sweden 1

142.07

10 Mae Berenice Meite

FRA 162.75

10 Team Sweden 2

141.07

Men Points 1 Javier Fernandez

ESP 273.90

2 Yuzuru Hanyu

JPN 271.08

3 Denis Ten

KAZ 267.72

4 Jason Brown

USA 248.29

5 Nam Nguyen

CAN 242.59

6 Misha Ge

UZB 234.89

7 Maxim Kovtun

RUS 230.70

8 Adam Rippon

USA 229.71

9 Florent Amodio

FRA 229.62

10 Han Yan

CHN 229.15

11 Team Germany

127.52

12 Team Italy

123.90

13 Team Switzerland

103.64

14 Team Great Britain

100.55

15 Team Czech Republic

96.12

16 Team France

93.03

17 Team Australia

82.76

18 Team Croatia

80.52

19 Team Spain

74.70

20 Team Hungary

70.64

21 Team Belgium

62.85

22 Team Latvia

62.66

23 Team South Africa

58.45

24 Team Turkey

33.62

214.73 214.06 203.48 202.44 201.97 199.77 192.73 171.79 170.46 164.34 162.02 141.40 141.04 137.93 127.19 124.66 105.16 97.16 96.87 96.06 82.68 81.62 68.41 64.00 61.39

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Pairs Points 1 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford

CAN 221.53

2 Wenjing Sui / Cong Han

CHN 214.12

3 Qing Pang / Jian Tong

CHN 212.77

4 Cheng Peng / Hao Zhang

CHN 206.63

5 Yuko Kavaguti / Alexander Smirnov

RUS 198.91

6 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov

RUS 198.46

7 Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim

USA 185.81

8 Julianne Seguin / Charlie Bilodeau

CAN 178.03

9 Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres

FRA 177.34

10 Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov

RUS 173.58

Ice Dance Points 1 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron

FRA 184.28

2 Madison Chock / Evan Bates

USA 181.34

3 Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

CAN 179.42

4 Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte

ITA

5 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

USA 172.03

ISU WORLD TEAM TROPHY, APRIL 16-19 2015, TOKYO (JPN)

6 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier

CAN 165.22

7 Elena Ilinykh / Ruslan Zhiganshin

RUS 164.84

Teams Points

8 Ksenia Monko / Kirill Khaliavin

RUS 159.13

1 USA

110

4 Canada

82

9 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin

RUS 156.95

2 Russia

109

5 China

77

10 Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue

USA 156.56

3 Japan

103

6 France

59

10 Nelli Zhiganshina / Alexander Gazsi

GER 154.27

177.50

Team USA

Points

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ISU WORLD SINGLE DISTANCES SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, FEBRUARY 12-15 2015, HEERENVEEN (NED)

Ladies 500 m

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Time

ISU EUROPEAN SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, JANUARY 10-11 2015, CHELYABINSK (RUS)

Men 500 m Time

Ladies Points

1 Heather Richardson

USA

1:15.332

1 Pavel Kulizhnikov

RUS

1:08.931

1 Ireen Wüst

NED

161.734

2 Brittany Bowe

USA

1:15.785

2 Michel Mulder

NED

1:09.622

2 Martina Sábliková

CZE

162.414

3 Nao Kodaira

JPN

1:15.893

3 Laurent Dubreuil

CAN

1:09.694

3 Linda de Vries

NED

163.695

4 Thijsje Oenema

NED

1:15.996

4 Hein Otterspeer

NED

1:09.774

4 Olga Graf

RUS

164.531

5 Sang-Hwa Lee

KOR

1:16.004

5 Artur Was

POL

1:09.807

5 Jorien Voorhuis

NED

165.003

Ladies 1000 m

Time

Men 1000 m

Time

Men

Points

1 Brittany Bowe

USA

1:13.90

1 Shani Davis

USA

1:08.57

1 Sven Kramer

NED

149.928

2 Heather Richardson

USA

1:14.49

2 Pavel Kulizhnikov

RUS

1:08.61

2 Koen Verweij

NED

150.107

3 Karolina Erbanová

CZE

1:15.26

3 Kjeld Nuis

NED

1:08.71

3 Denis Yuskov

RUS

150.696

NOR

150.764

BEL

151.448

4 Ireen Wüst

NED

1:15.50

4 Denny Morrison

CAN

1:08.72

4 Sverre Lunde Pedersen

5 Qishi Li

CHN

1:15.65

5 Hein Otterspeer

NED

1:08.88

5 Bart Swings

Ladies 1500 m

Time

Men 1500 m

Time

1 Brittany Bowe

USA

1:54.27

1 Denis Yuskov

RUS

1:43.36

2 Ireen Wüst

NED

1:54.76

2 Denny Morrison

CAN

1:45.08

3 Heather Richardson

USA

1:55.60

3 Koen Verweij

NED

1:45.15

4 Martina Sábliková

CZE

1:55.65

4 Shani Davis

USA

1:45.84

5 Marrit Leenstra

NED

1:55.90

5 Alexis Contin

FRA

1:46.02

Ladies 3000 m

Time

Men 5000 m

Time

ISU WORLD SPRINT SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, FEBRUARY 28 MARCH 1 2015, ASTANA (KAZ)

Ladies Points 1 Brittany Bowe

USA

149.600

2 Heather Richardson

USA

150.815

3 Karolina Erbanová

CZE

152.625

4 Yekaterina Aydova

KAZ

153.025

5 Olga Fatkulina

RUS

153.315

1 Martina Sábliková

CZE

4:02.17

1 Sven Kramer

NED

6:09.65

2 Ireen Wüst

NED

4:03.46

2 Jorrit Bergsma

NED

6:11.53

3 Marije Joling

NED

4:05.51

3 Douwe de Vries

NED

6:18.24

4 Jorien Voorhuis

NED

4:05.76

4 Denis Yuskov

RUS

6:19.74

Men Points

5 Claudia Pechstein

GER

4:05.95

5 Alexis Contin

FRA

6:19.99

1 Pavel Kulizhnikov

RUS

138.325

2 Hein Otterspeer

NED

139.335

3 Aleksey Yesin

RUS

139.855

12:54.82

4 Michel Mulder

NED

139.865

5 Espen Aarnes Hvammen

NOR

140.250

Ladies 5000 m 1 Martina Sábliková

CZE

Time 6:52.73

Men 10,000 m 1 Jorrit Bergsma

NED

Time

2 Carlijn Achtereekte

NED

6:54.49

2 Erik Jan Kooiman

NED

13:02.57

3 Claudia Pechstein

GER

6:56.53

3 Patrick Beckert

GER

13:10.95

4 Jorien Voorhuis

NED

7:05.64

4 Sverre Lunde Pedersen

NOR

13:12.40

5 Olga Graf

RUS

7:07.89

5 Aleksandr Rumyantsev

RUS

13:14.62

Men Team Pursuit

Time

Ladies Team Pursuit

Time

1 Japan

3:01.53

1 Netherlands

3:41.40

2 Netherlands

3:01.55

2 Canada

3:44.09

3 Republic of Korea

3:44.96

4 Russia

3:46.78

5 Italy

3:47.07

Mass Start Men

Points

3 Russia 4 Canada 5 Republic of Korea

Mass Start Ladies

3:03.19 3:04.11 3:05.84

Points

ISU WORLD ALLROUND SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 7 - 8 2015, CALGARY (CAN)

Ladies Points 1 Martina Sábliková

CZE

157.717

2 Ireen Wüst

NED

159.278

3 Ida Njåtun

NOR

159.795

4 Heather Richardson

USA

160.046

5 Linda de Vries

NED

160.527

Men Points 1 Sven Kramer

NED

146.509

40

2 Denis Yuskov

RUS

146.934

3 Sverre Lunde Pedersen NOR

147.182

1 Irene Schouten

NED

60

1 Arjan Stroetinga

NED

60

2 Ivanie Blondin

CAN

40

2 Fabio Francolini

ITA

3 Mariska Huisman

NED

20

3 Alexis Contin

FRA

20

4 Miho Takagi

JPN

8

4 Haralds Silovs

LAT

8

4 Bart Swings

BEL

148.299

5 Vanessa Bittner

AUT

6

5 Andrea Giovannini

ITA

6

5 Alexis Contin

FRA

148.738

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Men 500 m Points

Mass Start Ladies

1 Nao Kodaira

JPN

926

1 Pavel Kulizhnikov

RUS

930

1 Ivanie Blondin

CAN

466

2 Sang-Hwa Lee

KOR

880

2 Laurent Dubreuil

CAN

771

3 Heather Richardson

USA

710

3 Ruslan Murashov

RUS

565

2 Irene Schouten

NED

432

4 Judith Hesse

GER

538

4 Michel Mulder

NED

560

3 Martina Sábliková

CZE

405

5 Brittany Bowe

USA

535

5 Nico Ihle

GER

558

4 Nana Takagi

JPN

330

6 Karolina Erbanová

CZE

523

6 Artur Was

POL

526

5 Miho Takagi

JPN

255

ITA

242

Ladies 500 m

Points

Points

7 Thijsje Oenema

NED

486

7 Tae-Bum Mo

KOR

495

6 Francesca Lollobrigida

8 Margot Boer

NED

459

8 Jan Smeekens

NED

475

7 Claudia Pechstein

GER

234

9 Floor van den Brandt

NED

436

9 Espen Aarnes Hvammen

NOR

453

8 Bo-Reum Kim

KOR

168

10 Yekaterina Aydova

KAZ

429

10 Aleksey Yesin

RUS

302

9 Ye-Jin Jun

KOR

160

10 Jelena Peeters

BEL

148

Ladies 1000 m

Points

Men 1000 m

Points

1 Brittany Bowe

USA

510

1 Pavel Kulizhnikov

RUS

600

2 Marrit Leenstra

NED

507

2 Kjeld Nuis

NED

571

3 Qishi Li

CHN

485

3 Nico Ihle

GER

402

1 Seung-Hoon Lee

KOR

450

BEL

387

Mass Start Men

Points

4 Karolina Erbanová

CZE

407

4 Stefan Groothuis

NED

324

2 Bart Swings

5 Heather Richardson

USA

400

5 Denny Morrison

CAN

321

3 Andrea Giovannini

ITA

362

6 Ireen Wüst

NED

235

6 Samuel Schwarz

GER

313

4 Jorrit Bergsma

NED

280

7 Vanessa Bittner

AUT

211

7 Hein Otterspeer

NED

252

8 Yekaterina Aydova

KAZ

194

8 Shani Davis

USA

250

5 Marco Weber

GER

218

9 Laurine van Riessen

NED

179

9 Vincent De Haitre

CAN

246

6 Shane Williamson

JPN

189

10 Nao Kodaira

JPN

166

10 Aleksey Yesin

RUS

236

7 Sverre Lunde Pedersen

NOR

183

8 Cheol-Min Kim

KOR

179

9 Haralds Silovs

LAT

158

10 Linus Heidegger

AUT

150

Ladies 1500 m

Points

Men 1500 m

Points

1 Marrit Leenstra

NED

410

1 Denny Morrison

CAN

409

2 Heather Richardson

USA

400

2 Sverre Lunde Pedersen

NOR

405

3 Brittany Bowe

USA

370

3 Kjeld Nuis

NED

381

4 Ireen Wüst

NED

340

4 Wouter Olde Heuvel

NED

301

5 Martina Sábliková

CZE

313

5 Jan Szymañski

POL

293

6 Ida Njåtun

NOR

304

6 Konrad Niedžwiedzki

POL

288

7 Marije Joling

NED

251

7 Bart Swings

BEL

285

8 Linda de Vries

NED

238

8 Thomas Krol

NED

284

9 Yuliya Skokova

RUS

234

9 Shani Davis

USA

255

10 Olga Graf

RUS

199

10 Zbigniew Bródka

POL

172

Ladies Team Pursuit

Points

1 Netherlands

350

2 Germany

240

3 Poland

236

4 Japan

226

5 Russia

180

6 Canada

160

7 Republic of Korea

115

8 China

111

Ladies 3000 m / 5000 m Points

Men 5000 m / 10,000 m Points

1 Martina Sábliková

CZE

580

1 Jorrit Bergsma

NED

430

2 Claudia Pechstein

GER

360

2 Sverre Lunde Pedersen

NOR

415

3 Ireen Wüst

NED

350

3 Bob de Jong

NED

346

4 Marije Joling

NED

350

4 Patrick Beckert

GER

331

5 Jorien Voorhuis

NED

282

5 Aleksandr Rumyantsev

RUS

325

6 Diane Valkenburg

NED

271

6 Bart Swings

BEL

320

7 Carlijn Achtereekte

NED

258

7 Douwe de Vries

NED

296

Men Team Pursuit Points

8 Ivanie Blondin

CAN

242

8 Wouter Olde Heuvel

NED

256

1 Republic of Korea

310

9 Olga Graf

RUS

223

9 Sven Kramer

NED

200

10 Bente Kraus

GER

148

10 Seung-Hoon Lee

KOR

151

2 Netherlands

290

3 Poland

205

4 Italy

166 166

9 Czech Republic

35

Ladies Overall Ranking Points

Men Overall Ranking Points

5 Russia

1 Heather Richardson

1

985

6 Canada

165

806

7 Norway

141

786

8 Japan

112 100

2 Martina Sábliková 3 Brittany Bowe

USA CZE USA

1195 1096 1045

2 3

Pavel Kulizhnikov Bart Swings

RUS BEL

Sverre Lunde Pedersen NOR

4 Ireen Wüst

NED

855

4

Kjeld Nuis

NED

750

9 Germany

5 Marrit Leenstra

NED

796

5

Jorrit Bergsma

NED

710

10 Austria

85

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ISU WORLD JUNIOR SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, FEBRUARY 20-22 2015, WARSAW (POL)

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Ladies Points

Ladies 500 m

Time

Ladies 1000 m

1 Melissa Wijfje

NED

166.806

1 Vanessa Bittner

AUT

40.26

1 Vanessa Bittner

AUT

1:19.73

2 Sanneke Deneeling

NED

167.023

2 Darya Kachanova

RUS

40.49

2 Sanneke de Neeling

NED

1:20.44

3 Yelizaveta Kazelina

RUS

168.039

3 Nan Sun

CHN

40.54

3 Yelizaveta Kazelina

RUS

1:20.63

4 Ji-Woo Park

KOR

170.736

4 Sanneke Deneeling

NED

40.63

4 Melissa Wijfje

NED

1:21.20

5 Nikola Zdráhalová

CZE

170.877

5 Mi JANG

KOR

40.64

5 Nan Sun

CHN

1:22.21

Time

Men Points

Men 500 m Time

Men 1000 m

1 Patrick Roest

NED

151.987

1 Jun-Ho Kim

KOR

36.43

1 Fan Yang

CHN

1:12.80

2 Min-Seok Kim

KOR

154.328

2 Fan Yang

CHN

36.72

2 Patrick Roest

NED

1:13.01

3 Marcel Bosker

NED

154.872

3 Patrick Roest

NED

37.30

3 Stanislav Palkin

KAZ

1:13.82

4 Fan Yang

CHN

155.151

4 Seung-Yong Yang

KOR

37.32

4 Wesly Dijs

NED

1:13.85

5 Emery Lehman

USA

155.892

5 Stanislav Palkin

KAZ

37.35

5 Min-Seok Kim

KOR

1:13.91

Mass Start Ladies

Points

Points

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Mass Start Men

Time

1 Vanessa Bittner

AUT

30

1 Hyun-Min Oh

KOR

30

Ladies 500 m

2 Cho-Won PARK

KOR

20

2 Marcel Bosker

NED

20

1 Darya Kachanova

RUS

264

2 Min-Sun Kim

KOR

255

3 Xue Lin

CHN

180

4 Sanneke de Neeling

NED

165

5 Nan Sun

CHN

147

6 Yelizaveta Kazelina

RUS

140

7 Martine Ripsrud

NOR

119

8 Anastasiya Chepil

RUS

114

9 Xiaoxuan Shi

CHN

105

10 Vanessa Bittner

AUT

100

3 Melissa Wijfje

NED

10

4 Elena Møller-Rigas

DEN

5

5 Leia Behlau

GER

3

3 Bin Zhou

CHN

10

4 Linus HEIDEGGER

AUT

5

5 Emery Lehman

USA

3

Points

Men 500 m Points 1 Mikhail Kazelin

RUS

245

2 Stanislav Palkin

KAZ

225

3 Seung-Yong Yang

KOR

224

4 Viktor Mushtakov

RUS

170

5 Ignat Golovatyuk

BLR

170

6 Artyom Krikunov

KAZ

149

7 Han-Song Kim

KOR

135

8 Hayato Nakamura

JPN

125

9 Henrik Fagerli Rukke

NOR

112

10 Bjørn Magnussen

NOR

112

Mass Start Ladies

Points

1 2 3 4 5

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NED GER GER KOR NED

190 186 178 159 152

Ladies 1500 m 1 Melissa Wijfje

NED

Time 2:04.15

Ladies 3000 m 1 Melissa Wijfje

NED

Time 4:22.58

2 Sanneke de Neeling

NED

2:05.29

2 Sanneke de Neeling

NED

4:26:46

3 Ji-Woo Park

KOR

2:06.80

3 Yelizaveta Kazelina

RUS

4:27.65

4 Nikola Zdràhalovà

CZE

2:06.89

4 Isabelle Weidemann

CAN

4:28:55

5 Yelizaveta Kazelina

RUS

2:07.40

5 Ji-Woo Park

KOR

4:29.49

Men 1500 m 1 Patrick Roest

NED

Time 1:52.31

Men 5000 m 1 Nils van der Poel

SWE

Time 6:46.57

2 Min-Seok Kim

KOR

1:53.26

2 Patrick Roest

NED

6:47.46

3 Emery Lehman

USA

1:53.82

3 Emery Lehman

USA

6:50.37

4 Sergey Trofimov

RUS

1:53.86

4 Marcel Bosker

NED

6:50.87

5 Marcel Bosker

NED

1:54.54

5 Min-Seok Kim

KOR

6:54.80

Ladies 1000 m

Points

Ladies 1500 m

Points

Ladies Team Pursuit

Time

1 Team Netherlands

3:14.57

2 Team Republic of Korea

3:17.96

3 Team Japan

3:18.85

4 Team Poland

3:21.23

Men Team Pursuit

Time

1 Team Netherlands

4:01.50

2 Team Republic of Korea

4:02.46

3 Team Japan

4:04.69

4 Team Canada

4:08.86

Ladies 3000 m

Points

1 Tessa Boogaard

NED

285

1 Melissa Wijfje

NED

350

1 Melissa Wijfje

NED

350

2 Aleksandra Kapruziak

POL

225

2 Yelizaveta Kazelina

RUS

280

2 Leia Behlau

GER

220

3 Sanneke de Neeling

NED

200

3 Ji-Woo Park

KOR

168

3 Ji-Woo Park

KOR

178

4 Darya Kachanova

RUS

196

4 Aleksandra Kapruziak

POL

147

4 Yelizaveta Kazelina

RUS

160

5 Nan Sun

CHN

144

5 Leia Behlau

GER

146

5 Isabelle Weidemann

CAN

145

6 Min-Sun Kim

KOR

142

6 Esmee Visser

NED

128

6 Karolina Bosiek

POL

136

7 Mei Han

CHN

128

7 Isabelle Weidemann

CAN

120

7 Nene Sakai

JPN

125

8 Marina Salnikova

RUS

104

8 Mei Han

CHN

114

8 Karolina Gasecka

POL

119

9 Melissa Wijfje

NED

100

9 Nene Sakai

JPN

110

9 Natálie Kerschbaummayr

CZE

108

10 Svetlana Maltseva

KAZ

92

10 Karolina Bosiek

POL

101

10 Esmee Visser

NED

97

Men 1000 m

Points

Men 1500 m

Points

Men 3000 m

Points

1 Wesly Dijs

NED

240

1 Patrick Roest

NED

350

1 Patrick Roest

NED

350

2 Stanislav Palkin

KAZ

227

2 Magnus Myhren KristensenNOR

220

2 Sergey Trofimov

RUS

250

3 Mikhail Kazelin

RUS

205

3 Marcel Bosker

NED

215

3 Marcel Bosker

NED

217

4 Hayato Nakamura

JPN

190

4 Wesly Dijs

NED

186

4 Linus Heidegger

AUT

197

5 Ignat Golovatyuk

BLR

154

5 Sergey Trofimov

RUS

181

5 Bin Zhou

CHN

144

6 Tatsuya Shinhama

JPN

150

6 Ki-Woong Park

KOR

170

6 Seitaro Ichinohe

JPN

140

7 Patrick Roest

NED

150

7 Hyun-Min Oh

KOR

135

7 Magnus Myhren Kristensen NOR

132

8 Magnus Myhren Kristensen NOR

111

8 Min-Seok Kim

KOR

120

8 Ki-Woong Park

KOR

120

9 Francesco Tescari

ITA

100

9 Chenglong Xu

CHN

101

9 Hyun-Min Oh

KOR

120

10 Henrik Fagerli Rukke

NOR

96

10 Ben Donnelly

CAN

98

10 Chenglong Xu

CHN

100

Ladies Team Events 1 Republic of Korea 2 Netherlands 3 Poland 4 Germany 5 Japan

Points 290 290 196 177 155

Mass Start Men 1 2 3 4 5

Patrick Roest Hyun-Min Oh Marcel Bosker Anton Kapustin Linus Heidegger

NED KOR NED BLR AUT

Points 275 220 205 158 154

Men Team Events 1 Republic of Korea 2 Russia 3 Netherlands 4 China 5 Belarus

Points 280 255 220 185 184

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SHORT TRACK

Ladies 500 m Time

Men 500 m Time

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1 Kexin Fan

CHN

56400

1 Dmitry Migunov

RUS

46078

Ladies Points

2 Ji-Soo Jeon

KOR

31714

2 Dajing Wu

CHN

36737

1 Elise Christie

GBR

89

3 Marianne St-Gelais

CAN

30581

3 Yoon-Gy Kwak

KOR

27977

2 Sofia Prosvirnova

RUS

79

4 Elise Christie

GBR

30016

4 John-Henry Krueger

USA

25742

3 Patrycja Maliszewska

POL

52

21178

4 Arianna Fontana

ITA

36

FRA

28

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5 Yue Lin

CHN

28858

5 Viktor Knoch

HUN

6 Arianna Fontana

ITA

28000

6 Sjinkie Knegt

NED

19439

5 Veronique Pierron

7 Sofia Prosvirnova

RUS

22189

7 Jingnan Shi

CHN

18470

Men Points

8 Kasandra Bradette

CAN

16279

8 Charles Hamelin

CAN

16077

1 Sjinkie Knegt

NED

97

9 Yang Liu

CHN

13095

9 Vladimir Grigorev

RUS

16060

2 Victor An

RUS

71

10 Patrycja Maliszewska

POL

12331

10 Shaolin Sandor Liu

HUN

13844

3 Semen Elistratov

RUS

60

4 Vladislav Bykanov

ISR

45

5 Freek van der Wart

NED

32

Ladies 1000 m

Time

Men 1000 m

Time

Ladies Relay

Time

1 Suk Hee Shim

KOR

39745

1 Semen Elistratov

RUS

36000

1 Russia

4:18.084

2 Marianne St-Gelais

CAN

30800

2 Sjinkie Knegt

NED

35211

2 Netherlands

4:18.174

3 Minjeong Choi

KOR

29277

3 Da Woon Sin

KOR

33198

3 Hungary

4:18.658

4 Elise Christie

GBR

29096

4 Charles Hamelin

CAN

24590

4 Italy

4:18.748

5 Kexin Fan

CHN

21423

5 Victor An

RUS

21280

6 Alang Kim

KOR

20621

6 Dajing Wu

CHN

20662

7 Kim Boutin

CAN

17835

7 Shaolin Sandor Liu

HUN

19543

8 Yutong Han

CHN

15120

8 Patrick Duffy

CAN

19443

9 Jiaying Tao

CHN

14843

9 Yi Ra Seo

KOR

17140

10 Veronique Pierron

FRA

13368

10 Se Yeong Park

KOR

12096

Ladies 1500 m

Time

Men 1500 m

Time

Men Relay

Time

1 Russia

7:04.153

2 Hungary

7:04.492

3 Netherlands

7:04.850

4 Italy

7:05.246

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1 Minjeong Choi

KOR

45898

1 Da Woon Sin

KOR

54400

2 Suk Hee Shim

KOR

34438

2 Dequan Chen

CHN

27773

Ladies

3 Yutong Han

CHN

28240

3 Charles Hamelin

CAN

24497

1 Sangjeong Kong

KOR

78

2 Jiyoo Kim

KOR

68

3 Hakyung Son

KOR

68

4 Yize Zang

CHN

36

5 Ekaterina Strelkova

RUS

34

Points

4 Arianna Fontana

ITA

27677

4 Se Yeong Park

KOR

24400

5 Jiaying Tao

CHN

23856

5 Jung-Su Lee

KOR

21738

6 Deanna Lockett

AUS

19217

6 John-Henry Krueger

USA

18309

7 Do Hee Noh

KOR

18721

7 Tianyu Han

CHN

16942

8 Alang Kim

KOR

16000

8 Semen Elistratov

RUS

15401

Men

9 Kim Boutin

CAN

15819

9 Ruslan Zakharov

RUS

14721

1 Dagyeom Kim

KOR

81

10 Ekaterina Strelkova

RUS

15143

10 Yoon-Gy Kwak

KOR

13120

2 Jiwon Park

KOR

69

3 Shaolin Sandor Liu

HUN

42

4 Dan Iwasa

JPN

37

5 Ziwei Ren

CHN

29

Points

Ladies Relay

Points

Men Relay

Points

1 Republic of Korea

38000

1 Netherlands

34400

Ladies Relay

2 China

36000

2 Republic of Korea

33120

1 Republic of Korea

4:18.210

3 Canada

29200

3 China

30800

2 Russia

4:19.006

3 Japan

4:20.713

4 Canada

4:31.945

4 Italy

25216

4 Hungary

22193

5 Russia

23040

5 Russia

20894

6 France

15575

6 Canada

20593

7 Japan

12615

7 USA

15483

8 Hungary

12387

8 Great Britain

12848

9 USA

11272

9 Italy

11672

10 Poland

6795

10 France

10853

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Time

Men Relay

Time

1 Republic of Korea

4:01.909

2 China

4:02.205

3 Russia

4:02.701

4 Hungary

4:18.749

ISU WORLD SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 13 - 15 2015, MOSCOW (RUS)

Ladies Points

Ladies 1000 m

1 Minjeong Choi

KOR

89

1 Minjeong Choi

KOR

1:32.730

2 Arianna Fontana

ITA

68

2 Elise Christie

GBR

1:32.782

3 Suk Hee Shim

KOR

47

3 Arianna Fontana

ITA

1:32.903

4 Elise Christie

GBR

45

5 Kexin Fan

CHN

41

Ladies 500 m

Time

Time

Ladies 3000 m

Time

1 Minjeong Choi

KOR

5:40.480

2 Suk Hee Shim

KOR

5:40.908

3 Alang Kim

KOR

5:41.071

19 Ladies 1500 m Time

Time Ladies Relay 1 Republic of Korea 2 China 3 Italy 4 Japan

4:18.550 4:18.595 4:20.916 4:21.676

5 Hungary

4:27.362

1 Kexin Fan

CHN

43.866

1 Arianna Fontana

ITA

2:31.392

2 Elise Christie

GBR

44.139

2 Suk Hee Shim

KOR

2:31.472

3 Arianna Fontana

ITA

53.723

3 Minjeong Choi

KOR

2:31.502

Men Points

Men 1000 m Time

Men 3000 m Time

1 Sjinkie Knegt

NED

63

1 Se Yeong Park

KOR

1:25.155

1 Sjinkie Knegt

NED

5:05.321

2 Se Yeong Park

KOR

63

2 Charles Hamelin

CAN

1:25.189

2 Se Yeong Park

KOR

5:05.344

3 Dajing Wu

CHN

55

3 Jingnan Shi

CHN

1:25.225

3 Dajing Wu

CHN

5:06.093

4 Charles Hamelin

CAN

45

5 Semen Elistratov

RUS

41

Men 500 m

Time

Men 1500 m Time

Time Men Relay 1 China 2 Hungary 3 Netherlands 4 Republic of Korea

1 Dajing Wu

CHN

41.032

1 Semen Elistratov

RUS

2:18.096

2 Shaolin Sandor Liu

HUN

41.133

2 Sjinkie Knegt

NED

2:18.104

3 Tianyu Han

CHN

41.202

3 Charles Hamelin

CAN

2:18.117

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PAST MASTER

WILLIAM MARKLAND (USA) 1939-2007 William Markland started his sporting career as a Skater then became a Coach and an advocate for Short Track Speed Skating.

He later became a member of the ISU Short Track Speed Skating Technical Committee for eighteen years from 1980/98 and later as Chairperson of the same Committee for 4 years from 1998 to 2002. He also served as an ISU Referee and spearheaded the Organizing Committee of the first World Short Track Speed Skating Championships.

Markland passed away in 2007 at the age of 67 in his native Champaign, Illinois, USA. He greatly contributed to the development of Short Track Speed Skating and has left a lasting impression on the sport.