ISU World No. 59 May 2016

INTERNATIONAL SKATING UNION OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER

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ISU NEWS

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SEASON REVIEW

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YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES REVIEW

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CONGRESS PREVIEW

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RESULTS

NO 59 MAY 2016

One of the most challenging dilemmas for the President, and the Executive Body, of an International Sports Federation (IF) is related to the direction the IF should take. The question is either to insist on keeping the traditions of the IF or to take an approach to modernize the Federation and the Sports it governs. To maintain or to change for the sake of it could prove to be a mistake without any return possible. A fine balance needs to be found. Changes, big or small, in order to modernize the Federation, should be in line with the final purpose to be attractive enough to earn more popularity and consequently earn more money.

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Having said that, sometimes a Federation needs to change drastically its sports or it runs the risk of just not being able to do anything than to maintain its sports as they were for many years. Today there are examples where Team Events constitute an important attraction because they consequently refer to a country and not to an individual which can be more appealing for some.

However the performance of certain exciting sports is clearly in front of us and to insist on maintaining the beauty of certain sports, without paying attention to new aspects or possibilities, that would render the sport suitable for more exposure, would be a mistake.

Careful assessment needs to be made in order to determine if the sacrifice of certain aspects of a sport could yield greater results.

A practical and wise advice would be to try to change over a certain period in order to permit new sports or disciplines to be conducted with another approach. It is difficult to say how long this period should go on for. It is suggested however that prompt action be taken in order to avoid the mistake related to the insistence to maintain the sports as they were in the past without adopting other initiatives.

As my final message in the ISU World, I would like to thank all those who have contributed to the success of the ISU and the development of all our sports over the years. It would be impossible to list all the names in such a short space, but I cannot fail to thank the ISU Council, the ISU Office Holders, the ISU Members and the ISU Secretariat who have relentlessly pushed the Federation and its sports forward.

The direction the ISU takes will be in the hands of the new President and Council and I wish them much success for the future.

Ottavio Cinquanta President, International Skating Union

MARTINA SABLIKOVA (CZE)

Czech Speed Skater Martina Sáblíková, is a specialist in long distances. She is the six-time European Champion, four-time World Allround Champion, won the 3000 m World title four times, the Olympic title once and the 5000 m World title eight times and Olympic title twice.

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ISU COUNCIL

The ISU Council met on April 9 -11, 2016 in Budapest (HUN). Due to the passing of Mr. David M. Dore and in line with the ISU Constitution, in particular Articles 9.1.d), 13.5 and 14.2, the Council confirmed Ms. Marie Lundmark (FIN) as the 1st Vice President Figure Skating and Ms. Maria Teresa Samaranch (ESP), being the non-elected candidate of the last election with the highest number of votes, as the 4th Council member Figure Skating for the period until the end of the 2016 Congress. Full Membership for the Figure Skating Branch was granted to the United Arab Emirates Ice Sports Federation.

The Council also confirmed the sites/venues of its previous provisional allotments of the 2018 ISU World Figure Skating Championships with the site to be Milan (ITA) and the ISU World Allround Speed Skating Championships with the site to be Amsterdam (NED). The ISU World Cup Speed Skating and Short Track Speed Skating Series 2016/17 calendars have also been approved along with the ISU Figure Skating Challenger Series 2016/17.

For this election Congress, the list of nominees grouped by elected positions containing the names of the nominees and the nominators will be published on the ISU website the day following the April 25, 2016 deadline. The order in which the candidates for the different positions will be listed will be determined by a draw in the presence of an ISU auditor.

The Council decided that the candidates for the position of ISU President will have the possibility to address the Congress delegates during maximum 5 minutes prior the beginning of the elections. For timing reasons, the same possibility cannot be granted to candidates for other positions.

The Council provisionally allotted the 2018 Congress to the Spanish Ice Sports Federation and to be held in Seville (ESP) on June 4 - 8, 2018.

The Council agreed to meet in Dubrovnik on June 5, 11 & 12, 2016.

For more information on the decisions of the Council see ISU Communication 2002.

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SPORTS DIRECTORATE The Lillehammer 2016 Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) were well attended and provided the young athletes both a valuable athletic and cultural experience as we head toward PyeongChang 2018. The competitive Season may be over, but the education phase now commences with athletes, Coaches, Judges and Technical Panel seminars all scheduled in preparation for the next competitive year.

ISU NEWS The ISU Ice Dance Development Training Seminar will start in Oberstdorf (GER). Shortly after the Seminar for Skaters and Coaches, similar events will be held for Pair Skaters in Berlin (GER) and for Synchronized Skaters in Vierumaki (FIN). The ISU Global Seminar in Frankfurt (GER) will take place in July.

In the Speed Skating Branch, the World Championships in Speed Skating and Short Track Speed Skating showed a very high level of performance. The 2016/17 ISU World Cup calendars in both disciplines have been submitted and approved by the ISU Council.

A number of inspection visits for the 2017 Championships are scheduled for the coming months.

The Sports Directors are also busy with the 2016 ISU Congress preparations. A number of proposals have been discussed and prepared with the respective Technical Committees.

ISU TECHNICAL COMMITTEES Single and Pair Skating

Members of the Single and Pair Skating Technical Committee (SPTC) served as Referees and Technical Controllers at some of the 22 International Competitions (including YOG) and four ISU Championships that took place between January and May 2016.

The SPTC also studied over 200 Reports. The Committee held three meetings, during the ISU European and World Figure Skating Championships and the spring meeting in Italy. One of the main subjects of these meetings was the ISU Congress proposals, including proposals from the SPTC. During the spring meeting, a lot of time was devoted to preparing the names of Officials to be nominated by the ISU President for service at the ISU Events next Season. In May SPTC Members together with other Officials served as moderators of one ISU Sponsored and two ISU Recognized Judges Seminars.

Ice Dance

Members of the Ice Dance Technical Committee (IDTC) participated as Referees and Technical Controllers at Events. Meetings were held with Coaches at all ISU Championships.

Congress Proposals prepared by the IDTC as well as some joint proposals with other Technical Committees were presented in Boston (USA). Communications on Technical Requirements, Educational DVDs of Key Points for the Pattern Dance Elements, and presentations for Judges and Referees Seminars are all ready for the new Season. During the IDTC spring meeting reports were reviewed and the Judges lists and preliminary assignments were updated. Judges and Referees Seminars

will be held in Gdansk (POL), Seoul (KOR) and Dortmund (GER) in the next few months.

A Development Training Seminar was held in Oberstdorf (GER) last April for Junior Couples and their Coaches. A Development Training Seminar for Skaters and Coaches from Asia, Oceania, the Pacific Region and South Africa will be held in Seoul (KOR) on August 14 - 20, 2016.

Synchronized Skating

It has been a busy season for the Synchronized Skating Technical Committee (SySTC) and a historic Season for Synchronized Skating with the inclusion of the discipline in the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Final and the inaugural Shanghai Trophy Event. The Junior World Challenge Cup and World Championships showed that the quality of skating continues to improve every Season. The SySTC have worked on a number of Proposals that will be submitted to the ISU Congress, to see the liberalization of the rules to allow teams freedom to include more Elements that will further enhance the audience appeal. Other proposed changes are designed to simplify the rules for Coaches as well as for the Technical Panels. The objective is to make the calling of the programs simpler and clearer to everyone.

The SySTC has been working closely with broadcast partners to understand how to make the discipline more appealing to television audiences.

Speed Skating

Speed Skating Technical Committee (SSTC) had technical representatives at five Championships, six World Cups and four Junior World Cups and a Technical Delegate at the YOG. The annual meeting with Coaches took place in Heerenveen (NED) on the occasion of the ISU World Cup final. A new competition format was held during the YOG. The mixed NOC Team Sprint was a success among the teams and for the spectators. Two Ladies and two Men composed a team all from different NOCs and based on the results from individual events producing even teams. The SSTC met in Minsk (BLR) during the European Championships and in Frankfurt last April to review the Congress Proposals and prepare reports and other documents for the ISU Congress. The SSTC, together with the Vice President and the Sports Director Speed Skating, work on the ISU Events calendar for 2016/17.

Short Track

A record number of Athletes participated in the ISU World Junior Championships.

193 skaters from 39 countries competed, showing the number of participants is on the rise. All ISU Championships were successful and the level of competition was high.

The inaugural ISU Shanghai Trophy, an event showcasing Short Track Speed Skating and Synchronized Skating, showed great potential.

The Short Track Speed Skating Technical Committee (STSSTC) met in Seoul (KOR) to finalize two projects initiated by the STSSTC: the Officials Database and the Race Repor System.

The goal is to use these two systems during the new season. The Committee also is working to determine the location of the annual Officials’ Seminar and various other meetings.

A large amount of work has also been ongoing to prepare the Congress Proposals.

HERMANN SCHIECHTL

It is with profound regret that the ISU learned of the death of Honorary Vice President Mr. Hermann Schiechtl on February 1st, 2016.

Mr. Schiechtl was elected to the ISU Ice Dance Technical Committee in 1957, then to the ISU Council in 1967. In 1980, he was elected Vice President of Figure Skating and served in this capacity until 1984. The ISU will remember Mr. Schiechtl with fondness.

DAVID DORE

It is with profound sadness that the ISU learned of the passing of ISU 1st VicePresident Figure Skating Mr. David Dore on April 8, 2016. At the time of his passing, Mr. Dore was the 1st Vice President Figure Skating of the ISU, a role he was elected to in 2002. Mr Dore was President of the Canadian Figure Skating Association from 1980 to 1984 and Director General from 1984 to 2002. He received the Olympic Order and was inducted into Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame. The ISU pays tribute to Mr. Dore and will remember him with affection.

FRED BENJAMIN

It is with deep sorrow that the ISU learned of the passing of Mr. Benjamin on April 20, 2016 at the age of 76. In 2002 Mr. Benjamin was elected at the 49th Ordinary Congress in Kyoto (JPN) to the Appeals Commission, which changed to the Disciplinary Commission in 2006, a position he held until his passing. Mr. Benjamin got involved as a parent of a Speed Skater and started officiating as a Starter at local competitions. He was President of US SpeedSkating from 2000 to 2002. Mr. Benjamin is survived by his wife, 3 children and 2 stepchildren. The ISU will remember Mr. Benjamin with affection.

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YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES

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The second edition of the Winter Youth Olympic Games (YOG) took place in Lillehammer (NOR) in February.

Sota Yamamoto (JPN) skated to gold in the Men’s event, edging out Deniss Vasilijevs (LAT).

Dmitri Aliev (RUS) picked up the bronze medal.

Polina Tsurskaya (RUS) mined gold in the Ladies competition, with her teammate Maria Sotskova taking the silver. Elizabet Tursynbaeva (KAZ) earned the bronze.

Ekaterina Borisova/Dmitry Sopot (RUS) struck gold in the Pairs event. Anna Duskova/Martin Bidar (CZE) claimed the silver medal and Alina Ustimkina/Nikita Volodin (RUS) got the bronze medal. In Ice Dance, Anastasia Shilevaya/ Grigory Smirnov (RUS) danced to victory.

Chloe Lewis/Logan Bye (USA) took the silver medal and Anastasia Skoptcova/Kirill Aleshin (RUS) settled for the bronze.

Ashley Wagner (USA)

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In the mixed NOC event, a format unique to YOG, one skater/couple per discipline from different NOCs competed in one team. Team Desire claimed victory. Team Future came second. The bronze medal went to Team Discovery. See results page for details.

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS The ISU European Figure Skating Championships returned to Bratislava, Slovakia for the fourth time after 1958, 1966 and 2001.

Javier Fernandez (ESP) earned his fourth consecutive European title confidently with 302.77 points, becoming the first European skater (and second in history) to crack the 300 points barrier. Alexei Bychenko (ISR) and Maxim Kovtun (RUS) took the silver and bronze medals. Bychenko’s silver medal was the first medal for Israel at the European Championships and also the first ISU

Championships medal for an Israeli single skater. Florent Amodio (FRA) ended his distinguished career on a high note by finishing fourth overall with a career-best Free Skating. Newcomer Mikhail Kolyada (RUS) placed fifth in his debut.

Evgenia Medvedeva led a sweep of the Russian Ladies, taking the title in her debut at Europeans with 215.45 points. She was joined on the podium by Elena Radionova and Anna Pogorilaya, who were silver and bronze medalists a year ago as well.

Defending Champion Elizaveta Tuktamysheva (RUS) did not compete.

Angelina Kuchvalska (LAT) in fourth place earned the best result for a Latvian Lady so far. Roberta Rodeghiero (ITA) ranked fifth.

In the Pairs, Olympic Champions Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov (RUS), who sat out the post-Olympic year, returned in style

FIGURE SKATING to claim their fourth European title (222.66 points). Aliona Savchenko/Bruno Massot (GER) took the silver medal in their debut as a team. Savchenko is a four-time European Pairs Champion with former partner Robin Szolkowy. Evgenia Tarasova/ Vladimir Morozov (RUS) repeated as bronze medalists. Vanessa James/Morgan Cipres (FRA) finished fourth followed by Valentina Marchei/Ondrej Hotarek (ITA).

Ice Dancers Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron (FRA) defended their European title with 182.71 points ahead of Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte (ITA). Ekaterina Bobrova/ Dmitri Soloviev (RUS), who missed the past season due to injury, came back to take the bronze. Victoria Sinitsina/Nikita Katsalapov (RUS) placed fourth ahead of their teammates Alexandra Stepanova/Ivan Bukin (RUS).

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FOUR CONTINENTS CHAMPIONSHIPS The ISU Four Continents Figure Skating Championships were held in Chinese Taipei (TPE) for the third time.

Patrick Chan (CAN) won his third Four Continents title with 290.21 points, edging out Boyang Jin (CHN). Han Yan (CHN) repeated as bronze medalist. Shoma Uno (JPN) ranked fourth and Takahito Mura (JPN) came fifth.

Satoko Miyahara claimed her first ISU Championships title with 214.92 points. Mirai Nagasu (USA) celebrated a comeback and took the silver medal while Rika Hongo (JPN) earned the bronze like she had a year ago.

So Youn Park (KOR) was fourth followed by Gracie Gold (USA).

Pair skaters Wenjing Sui/Cong Han (CHN) won the title for the third time, scoring 221.91 points. Alexa Scimeca/Chris Knierim (USA) collected the silver and the bronze went to Xiaoyu Yu/Yang Jin (CHN).

Tarah Kayne/Daniel O’Shea (USA) placed fourth ahead of Lubov Iliushechkina/Dylan Moscovitch (CAN). Defending Four Continents Champions Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN) withdrew following the Short Program as she had been taken ill.

In Ice Dance Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (USA), claimed their first ISU Championships title with 181.62 points. Madison Chock/Evan Bates (USA) took their second consecutive silver medal while defending Four Continents Champions Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje (CAN)

Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot (GER)

settled for the bronze. Madison Hubbell/ Zachary Donohue (USA) ranked fourth followed by Piper Gilles/Paul Poirier (CAN).

WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS Debrecen (HUN) hosted the ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships for the first time.

History was made with the gold medals for Israel in the Men’s and for the Czech Republic in the Pairs event.

Daniel Samohin (ISR) rose from ninth after the Short Program to strike gold – the first ISU Championships title for Israel and the first medal at Junior Worlds for the country. He totaled 236.65 points. Nicolas Nadeau (CAN) pulled up from eighth to claim the silver and

Tomoki Hiwatashi (USA) earned the bronze.

Alexander Samarin (RUS) finished fourth and Vincent Zhou (USA) was fifth.

Marin Honda (JPN) skated to the Junior Ladies gold in what was her debut at the event (192.98 points). Maria Sotskova (RUS) took home the silver and Wakaba Higuchi (JPN) repeated as bronze medalist. Yuna Shiraiwa (JPN) came fourth and Elizabet Tursynbaeva (KAZ) placed fifth. Top favorite Polina Tsurskaya (RUS) withdrew before the Short Program due to injury and Alisa Fedichkina (RUS), who led after the Short Program, dropped out due to injury.

Czech Pair Skaters Anna Duskova/Martin Bidar claimed the gold and the first title for their country at the World Junior Championships

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(181.82 points). Anastasia Mishina/Vladislav Mirzoev (RUS) earned the silver medal and Ekaterina Borisova/Dmitry Sopot (RUS) picked up the bronze. Renata Oganesian/Mark Bardei (UKR) ranked fourth ahead of Chelsea Liu/Brian Johnson (USA).

In the Ice Dance, Lorraine McNamara/Quinn Caprenter (USA) were crowned World Junior Champions following their silver medal in 2015 (163.65 points). Rachel Parsons/Michael Parsons (USA) danced to the silver medal and Alla Loboda/Pavel Drozd (RUS) took the bronze. Elliana Pogrebinsky/Alex Benoit (USA) finished fourth followed by Anastasia Shpilevaya/Grigory Smirnov (RUS).

returned on the World podium after five years. Madison Chock/Evan Bates (USA) took the bronze. Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte (ITA) were fourth and Kaitlyn Weaver/ Andrew Poje (CAN) placed fifth.

WORLD SYNCHRONIZED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS The season for the synchronized teams concluded with the ISU World Synchronized Championships in Budapest (HUN) for the seniors and the Synchronized Skating Junior

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS Boston hosted the ISU World Figure Skating Championships for the first time, but the USA had hosted the event twelve times before.

Three World Champions defended their title.

Javier Fernandez (ESP) repeated as World Champion, skating to the gold with 314.93 points. Olympic Champion Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) settled for the silver like last year and Boyang Jin (CHN) became the first Chinese man to stand on the world podium. He also was the first man to perform a quadruple Lutz at the World Championships. Mikhail Kolyada (RUS) placed fourth and three-time World Champion Patrick Chan (CAN) was fifth.

Evgenia Medvedeva (RUS) topped a stellar season with the World title and a score of 223.86 points. Ashley Wagner (USA) took the silver, the first World medal for the U.S. ladies in ten years, and Anna Pogorilaya (RUS) claimed the bronze. Gracie Gold (USA) came fourth like in 2015 and Satoko Miyahara (JPN) ranked fifth.

Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN) defended their World title (231.99 points) and Wenjing Sui/Cong Han (CHN) collected their second consecutive silver medal. The bronze went to Aliona Savchenko/Bruno Massot (GER), who competed in their first Worlds as a team. Ksenia Stolbova/ Fedor Klimov (RUS) finished fourth ahead of Evgenia Tarasova/ Vladimir Morozov (RUS). Olympic Champions Tatiana Volosozhar/Maxim Trankov (RUS) slipped from third to sixth in the final result.

Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron (FRA) confidently danced to their second World title (194.46 points). Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (USA) claimed the silver and www.isu.org

Boyang Jin (CHN)

World Challenge Cup in Zagreb (CRO) for the juniors.

The ISU World Synchronized Championships were held in Budapest. Team Russia 1 (Paradise) claimed the first World title in the discipline for their country in what was the 17th edition of the event. The Russians scored 212.69 points. Team Finland 2 (The Rockettes) skated to the silver medal and Team USA 1 (The Haydenettes) clinched the bronze. Team Finland 1 (Team Unique) ranked fourth and Team Canada 1 (Les Supremes) came fifth.

SPEED SKATING YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES With the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic Games of 2018 in sight, Korea is rapidly emerging as a speed skating powerhouse. Korean skaters dominated the podium at the Lillehammer 2016 YOG. Min Seok Kim and Ji Woo Park spearheaded the Korean team, winning the 1500 m and the Mass Start events in the Men’s and the Ladies’ events respectively. Min Sun Kim (KOR) stormed to the gold medal in the 500 m. The 18-year-old sprinter is already called “Little Lee Sang-Hwa” back in Seoul. She was followed

by Chinese Ladies Mei Han and Huawei Li in the 500 m.

China’s Yanzhe Li won the Men’s 500 m, Kazuki Sakakibara (JPN) and Jae Woong Chung (KOR) were also on the podium. Min Seok Kim took 1500 m gold in, ahead of Daichi Horikawa (JPN) and Dan Baks (NED). In the Ladies 1500 m Park, Mei Han and Noemi Bonazza (ITA) medaled.

In the Men’s Mass Start the Korean edged out compatriot Jae Woong Chung and Allan Dahl Johansson (NOR) while Han and Min Sun Kim

Mika Poutala (FIN)

finished behind Park in the Ladies event. The Speed Skating event concluded with first ever mixed NOC Team Sprint. 13 teams composed of two Men and two Ladies from mixed NOCs raced together, over four laps. Mixed team six won the event in 1:57.85 giving Mongolia its first ever Olympic Winter Games medal. See results page for details.

WORLD CUP The 2015/16 ISU World Cup Speed Skating Series consisted of five legs and a Final in Heerenveen (NED). Calgary (CAN) was the first stop, then Salt Lake City (USA) for the second leg in November. In December skaters moved to Inzell (GER) and Heerenveen. The fifth leg took place in Stavanger (NOR) in January and finished with the Final.

Brittany Bowe (USA) and Kjeld Nuis (NED) accumulated the most points throughout the season to take the Grand World Cup.

500 m Ladies Heather Richardson-Bergsma won the 500 m World Cup. Although she did not win a single

500 m race this season, she was rewarded for consistency, having won four bronze and four silver medals (848 points). China’s Hong Zhang went into the Final as the leader, but could not keep up with Richardson and Bowe in Heerenveen. After four race wins this season Zhang ended up second in the ranking with 842 points. Bowe won both races in the Final and climbed to third place with 785 points.

Sang-Hwa Lee (KOR) missed out on the last two World Cups and finished fourth after having won four races in the previous events.

1000 m Ladies Brittany Bowe was sovereign in this season’s 1000 m World Cup. Richardson started the series beating her compatriot’s World Record (1:12.51) in Calgary, but Bowe recaptured the record in Salt Lake City with 1:12.18. She went on winning five 1000 m races to gather 710 points. Richardson came second with 508 points and Marrit Leenstra (NED), who grabbed one silver and two bronze medals, finished third with 465 points.

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Bowe and Richardson kept on trading World Records in the 1500 m. While Richardson started with a 1000 m World Record in Calgary only to see Bowe breaking ita week later, it was the other way around in the 1500 m. Bowe set 1:51.59 in Calgary, but Richardson clocked 1:50.85 in Salt Lake City. At the end of the season Bowe eventually took the 1500 m World Cup. With three wins and three silver medals she collected 590 points. Richardson won two races and came second three times to gather 501 points. Leenstra came third three times to end up third with 396 points.

3000/5000 m Ladies Despite being absent at the World Cup Final Martina Sáblíková (CZE) grabbed the 3000/5000 m World Cup for the 10th consecutive season to equal Gunda NiemannStirnemann (GER) on a record 10th win. Having won five races Sáblíková had an unassailable lead with 500 points and could not be beaten.

Natalya Voronina (RUS) took advantage of Sáblíková absence to win the Final and finished second in the ranking with 450 points.

Irene Schouten grabbed the overall bronze with 361 points.

Mass Start Ladies Irene Schouten (NED) took her first Mass Start World Cup after having finished second behind Ivanie Blondin (CAN) last season. The Dutch lady secured the World Cup with a spectacular win during the Final. She collided with arch rival Blondin in the 4th of 16 laps, crashed, got back up, fought her way back to the pack with the help of teammate Carien Kleibeuker, and beat Blondin in the final sprint. With three wins in total Schouten collected 466 points. Blondin came second three times and third twice to finish on 420 points for silver. Misaki Oshigiri (JPN), who won one of the five races finished third with 271 points.

Team Pursuit Ladies The Team Pursuit for ladies was a two-team battle between Japan and the Netherlands throughout the season, with Japan going into the Final. The Dutch ladies only won the first race of the series and came second in the remaining three. Japan sealed their World Cup win with gold in the Heerenveen (430 points).

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Marrit Leenstra (NED)

Team Sprint Ladies Newly added to the World Cup program this season, it is the Chinese who did the honors of taking the first ever World Cup in this event.

Having won two of four races China finished with 330 points. Netherlands came second with 314 points and Japan third with 290.

500 m Men Pavel Kulizhnikov (RUS) started the World Cup season by breaking the 500 m World Record of

34.03 by three hundredth. A week thereafter he became the first man to break the 34 second barrier when he set 33.98 in Salt Lake City.

Kulizhnikov won seven out of eight 500 m World Cup races he started, but was absent in the Final. His compatriot Ruslan Murashov (RUS) failed to take advantage, finishing second in the Final race of the season. Both Kulizhnikov and Murashov ended up with 705 points. The World Cup thus went to Kulizhnikov who collected more wins throughout the season. Gilmore Junio (CAN) was third with 637 points.

SPEED SKATING 1000 m Men Kjeld Nuis (NED) was the most consistent 1000 m skater this season. He took his second 1000 m World Cup after having won the trophy in 2013. He gathered 630 points. Kulizhnikov was second with 480 points and Gerben Jorritsma (NED) third with 396 points.

1500 m Men Denis Yuskov (RUS) beat Nuis in an ultimate battle for the 1500 m World Cup at the World Cup Final. Throughout the season the Russian had to fight his way back into the ranking after when he was disqualified in Salt Lake City for forgetting his transponder. With gold in Heerenveen he brought his total points up to 530. Nuis finished second with 456 and Joey Mantia (USA) ended third with 405 points.

5000/10,000 m Men Sven Kramer (NED) took his career third long distance World Cup after a tight finish with compatriot Jorrit Bergsma in the final 5000 m race. Both Kramer and Bergsma collected 530 points, but Kramer took four wins along the way. Bergsma only grabbed gold in the absence of Kramer at the World Cup event in Inzell. Sverre Lunde Pedersen (NOR) finished third with 369 points. Ted-Jan Bloemen (CAN) skated in 12:36.30 to break Sven Kramer’s 10,000 m World Record in Salt Lake City.

Bloemen missed two World Cup races due to injury and finished fourth in the ranking with 330 points.

Mass Start Arjan Stroetinga (NED) took his career second Mass Start World Cup. He won twice and gathered 404 points. Bart Swings (BEL) also won twice, including at the Final, but he chose not to start at the Inzell World Cup. He finished second in the ranking with 380 points. Fabio Francolini (ITA) came third with 378 points.

Team Pursuit Men The Men’s Team Pursuit was a two horse race between the Netherlands and Norway this season. The Dutch crashed in the first World Cup, in which the Norwegians did not start, but in the following three events Netherlands took gold and Norway silver. Netherlands thus won the World Cup with 350 points, ahead of Norway (280) and Poland (279). Canada, who won the first race in Calgary, finished seventh with 135 points.

Team Sprint Men The Netherlands won the inaugural Team Sprint World Cup. They won both the first and the last of four races to collect 390 points.

Canada won the two races in between, but only ended up with the bronze medal (320 points) behind Russia (334), who took two bronze and two silver medals in the series.

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS The ISU European Speed Skating Championships took place in Minsk (BLR) in January.

Martina Sáblíková secured her fifth career European title in style, winning the 3000 m, 1500 m and the 5000 m. Defending champion Ireen Wüst (NED) had to settle for silver and Antoinette de Jong (NED) took bronze.

Sven Kramer won a record-extending eighth European title. Bart Swings grabbed silver and Jan Blokhuijsen (NED) took bronze.

WORLD SINGLE DISTANCES CHAMPIONSHIPS Sven Kramer (NED) took his fourth world title in the 10,000 m on the first day of the ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships 2016 in Kolomna (RUS) in February.

Ted-Jan Bloemen (CAN) took silver to grab Canada’s first medal in the longest distance for Men. Martina Sáblíková (CZE) edged out Ireen Wüst (NED) by 0.08 seconds to take the Ladies 3000 m gold.

On a spectacular second day of the event Denis Yuskov retained his crown in the Race of Kings. He took 1500 m gold on home ice and became the first male Speed Skater to win three consecutive world titles in the 1500 m.

Jorien ter Mors (NED) took 1000 m gold before Richardson-Bergsma and Bowe and Martina Sáblíková (CZE) won a record-extending eighth 5000 m title. The Dutch men conquered Team Pursuit gold.

On the third day Pavel Kulizhnikov crushed the 1000 m track record and took the title. The enthusiastic Russian crowd also cheered for World Champions Sven Kramer (NED) in the Men’s 5000 m, Sang-Hwa Lee (KOR) in the Ladies’ 500 m, and the Dutch Ladies in the Team Pursuit.

Kulizhnikov struck again on the final day of the Championships. He managed to shrug off his initial nerves when he retained his 500 m title after a superb second run in 34.42 m. Jorien ter Mors (NED) took the Ladies 1500 m title, again

beating Richardson-Bergsma and Bowe, and in the conclusive Mass Start races SeungHoon Lee (KOR) took the Men’s title and Ivanie Blondin (CAN) the Ladies’.

WORLD SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIPS Brittany Bowe and Pavel Kulizhnikov successfully defended their World Sprint titles at the 47th ISU World Sprint Speed Skating Championships in Seoul (KOR). After a challenging first day they both made their mark with a superb 500 m on the final day of the event. In the ladies’ tournament Heather RichardsonBergsma finished second and Jorien ter Mors (NED) third. On the Men’s side Kjeld Nuis took silver and Kai Verbij grabbed the bronze behind Kulizhnikov.

WORLD ALLROUND CHAMPIONSHIPS Berlin (GER) hosted this season’s ISU World Allround Speed Skating Championships in March.

Sven Kramer secured a record-extending eighth World Title. The Dutch thus finally managed to equal Norway, who held its outright lead in the medal table since 1908. Sverre Lunde Pedersen did everything he could but he finished second.

Blokhuijsen took the bronze medal.

In the Ladies’ event Sábliková defeated Wüst in a hard fought battle to take her career fourth World Allround Title. With silver Wüst became the second woman to win a medal at ten consecutive World Allround Championships.

Antoinette de Jong finished in third place.

WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS Elizaveta Kazelina became the first female Russian World Junior Champion, when she powered to the title with three distance wins in Changchun (CHN) in March. After two consecutive Dutch victories in the Men’s event, Benjamin Donnelly (CAN) took the title.

Daria Kachanova (RUS) claimed the junior World title in 500 m and the titles in the 1500 m, 1000 m and 3000 m went to Kazelina.

In the Men’s Ignat Golovatsyuk (BLR) took the 500 m title. Min Seok Kim (KOR) won the 1500 m and Donnelly won both the 1000 m and the 5000 m.

Ayano Sato (JPN) claimed the honors in the Ladies Mass Start and Korea’s Min Seok Kim took the Men’s Mass Start title. Russia won the Ladies’ and the Men’s Team Sprint and the Team Pursuit titles went to the Korean Men and the Dutch Ladies.

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SHORT TRACK YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES

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The Winter Youth Olympics Games medals in the following five events were up for grabs: Ladies 500 m, Men 500 m, Ladies 1000 m, Men 1000 m and the Mixed NOC Team Relay.

Korea took five medals (4 gold, 1 silver), China (1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze), Hungary (2 silver, 1 bronze) and Japan (2 silver, 1 bronze) all tallied three medals. Bulgaria won two medals (2 bronze). Belgium, France, Norway, Australia, the Netherlands, Germany, Kazakhstan and Latvia each earned one medal each.

In the Ladies’ 500 m, Yize Zang (CHN) was crowned YOG Champion. Petra Jaszapati (HUN) earned the silver and Katrin Manoilova (BUL) earned bronze. Jiyoo Kim (KOR) won the Ladies 1000 m, Suyoun Lee (KOR) earned a second silver medal and Anna Seidel (GER) finished third to earn bronze.

In the Men’s events, Kyunghwan Hong (KOR) took the gold in the 500 m, Kazuki Yoshinaga (JPN) took silver and Wei Ma (CHN) claimed the bronze. In the 1000 m event, Daeheon Hwang (KOR) won gold, finishing ahead of Wei Ma (CHN). Shaoang Liu (HUN) took bronze.

The Mixed NOC 3000 m Team Relay was won

by Team B, Team C finished second and Team F took bronze. See results page for details.

WORLD CUP The ISU World Cup Short Track Speed Skating series started in the Fall with two rounds in Canada (Montreal and Toronto) and then traveled to Asia (Japan and China). The series finished in Europe (Germany and Netherlands). The final World Cup stopped in Dordrecht (NED) where the World Cup overall winners were honored.

Marianne St-Gelais (CAN) accumulated 48.800 points to win the 500 m World Cup title. St-Gelais finished on the podium at each of the World Cup stops in this distance. Elise Christie (GBR) accumulated 45.216 points to finish second while Kexin Fan (CHN) finished third with 43.198 points.

Minjeong Choi (KOR) won the 1000 m World Cup with a total of 36.000 points. Valerie Maltais (CAN) finished second with 29.019 points followed by Suk Hee Shim (KOR) (26.400 points).

Korean skaters took the top three spots in the ladies 1500 m World Cup classification.

Minjeong Choi took the title (48.000 points) ahead of teammates Suk Hee Shim (36.000 www.isu.org

Suk Hee Shim (KOR)

points) and Do Hee Noh (23.020 points).

With 40.000 points, Korea won the Ladies Relay World Cup title. Canada came second (27.520 points) and China third (26.240 points).

On the Men’s side, Dmitry Migunov (RUS) earned 31.810 points finishing first in the overall World Cup ranking in the 500 m, beating a pair of Canadian skaters, Charles Hamelin (30.352 points) and Samuel Girard 825.616 points 9.

The Men’s 1000 m World Cup title was won by another Russian skater, Semen Elistratov (37.200 points). Charle Cournoyer (CAN) tallied 34.599 points finishing second ahead of teammate Charles Hamelin (25.120 points).

Yoon-Gy Kwak (KOR) won the 1500 m title with 45.920 points. Sjinkie Knegt (NED) final points came to 43.677 earning him the second place. Jiwon Park (KOR) ranks third (30.593 points).

In the Men’s Relay, Canada claimed the World Cup title with 30.800 points. Netherlands earned 30.096 points taking second place and China finished third with 29.520 points.

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS This year’s ISU European Short Track Speed Skating Championships were held in Sochi (RUS). Reigning Ladies’ European champion Elise Christie successfully defended her title.

She dominated the Championships by winning the 500 m, 1000 m and 1500 m events. Her teammate Charlotte Gilmartin took the silver medal and Suzanne Schulting (NED) won the bronze medal.

On the Men’s side, Semen Elistratov clinched championship title. Elistratov finished on the podium in three individual distances with

wins in the 1000 m and 1500 m events.

Shaolin Sandor Liu (HUN) finished second while Vincent Jeanne (FRA) won his first ISU Champion medal with bronze. Both the Ladies and Men Relays were won by the Netherlands. Russia and Italy trailed behind in the Ladies 3000 m Relay. Hungary and Great Britain finished second and third in the Men’s 5000 m Relay.

WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS The ISU World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships 2016 were held in Sofia (BLR) for the first time in history. China claimed the overall title in both the Ladies and Men competition.

Chunyu Qu (CHN) became the 2016 Ladies World Junior Champion. Suzanne Schulting earned silver and Yubin Lee (KOR) won bronze.

In the Men’s competition, Ziwei Ren (CHN) was crowned the champion. Yongjin Lim (KOR) took silver and Wei Ma clinched bronze.

China finished first in the Ladies 3000 m Relay final, crossing the line ahead of Korea. The Netherlands took bronze. In the Men’s 3000 m Relay final, China broke a World Record in 3:59.809 and also took the gold medal. Korea won the silver, finishing ahead of Russia who earned bronze.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS The Short Track Speed Skating season ended in Seoul (KOR) with the ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships. Single Distance medals and the Overall Championships medals were up for grabs. The Overall champion was determined by the skater who

ISU CONGRESS PREVIEW accumulated the most points after skating the four distances: 1500 m, 500 m, 1000 m and 3000 m Super Final. Points were awarded in descending order to skaters who competed in the final of each distance; commencing with first place 34, 21, 13, 8, 5, 3, 2, and 1 points.

Minjeong Choi finished the Championships with one gold and one silver medal and the overall title of World Champion. Marianne St-Gelais finished second overall while Elise Christie finished with the bronze overall medal.

In the Ladies 500 m, Kexin Fan defended her 500 m individual title with a dominant gold medal performance. Marianne St-Gelais took silver while Chunyu Qu took bronze. In the Ladies 1000 m event, Minjeong Choi claimed the gold medal, followed by Elise Christie and Kassandra Bradette (CAN) claimed bronze.

Marianne St-Gelais was crowned 1500 m World Champion, Minjeong Choi finished second while Elise Christie was the bronze medalist.

The Ladies 3000 m Relay was won by Korea, cheered on by the home crowd. Canada earned the silver medal while Russia took bronze.

On the Men’s side, Tianyu Han (CHN) was crowned the World champion. Charles Hamelin finished in second place overall for the third time in his career. Shaolin Sandor Liu (HUN) finished with the overall bronze.

The Men’s 500 m final saw two Hungarian skaters on the podium for the first time in history at the World Championships: Shaolin Sandor Liu won the gold and his brother Shaoang Liu earned bronze. Dajing Wu (CHN) claimed the silver medal.

Charles Hamelin won the Men’s 1000 m ahead of teammate Samuel Girard, Dajing Wu finished third.

Tianyu Han became 1500 m World Champion while Shaoang Liu took silver. Se Yeong Park (KOR) took bronze.

Reigning World Men 5000 m Relay Champions, China successfully defended its title.

Canada claimed silver while Korea won bronze.

Congress Program

Monday June 6 Congress Opening – full Congress / Workshops on Technical Rules Tuesday June 7 Full Congress

The International Skating Union travels to Dubrovnik (CRO) for the 56th ISU Ordinary Congress on June 6 - 10, 2016. Over 350 delegates are expected to meet at the Sheraton Hotel, including ISU Office Holders and delegations from Member Federations.

Every Congress sees major decisions about the future and direction of the ISU. In 2016 not only will over 300 proposals have been submitted and voted, but also elections will take place. The Congress begins on June 6 & 7 with different reports and discussions and decisions on proposals concerning the Constitution and General Regulations. Joint Members for Figure Skating and Speed Skating have two votes on each proposal whereas Members for Figure Skating or Speed Skating alone are entitled to one vote.

Proposals require a two thirds majority of Members in favor in order to be accepted.

Workshops focusing on Technical Rules are planned for the Monday. Subsequently, Wednesday and Thursday will be dedicated to parallel Figure Skating and Speed Skating sessions. To conclude a plenary session and the elections will take place on Friday June 10.

The Elections will follow the procedure as per Article 29 of the ISU Constitution and General Regulations.

THE PROPOSALS

Some of the most important proposals from the ISU Council, Sports Directorate and Technical Committees are summarized briefly below.

The full agenda has been published in Communication 2004 on www.isu.org.

General ISU Membership – Better define and clarify the minimum requirements for ISU Membership.

Athletes Commission – Introduce an Athletes Commission in order to be in line with the IOC Agenda 2020.

Development – Monitor the Development Program activities through a Commission Eligibility Rules – Taking into account the decision of the European Commission in October 2015 to open an investigation on the ISU eligibility rules, it is proposed to adjust and reform the current ISU eligibility rules.

Wednesday June 8 – Thursday June 9 Section meetings – Figure Skating and Speed Skating Branches Friday June 10 Full Congress, Elections and Closing Banquet

Rule 109 – Amendment of Rule 109 in relation to citizenship/Membership affiliation of Skaters to make it consistent, and to eliminate the legally problematic permit requirement.

Harmonization – Amendment of different detailed provisions in favor of consistency among ISU sport disciplines.

Speed Skating Championships - Restructure ISU Speed Skating Championships by reducing the number of Championships per season European Championships format - Hold the European Championships in different formats, Allround and Sprint combination the season before and after the Olympic Winter Games, and Single Distances and Team Events the other seasons.

Team Sprint - Introduction of Team Sprint Events at ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships as of the season 2018/19.

Short Track Speed Skating Competition formats - Introduction of new formats allowed in International Competitions such as Mixed Team events, Points Race, Elimination Phase, etc.

Officials - Increase the number of ISU Officials entitled to officiate at ISU Events.

Starting procedure - Full revision of the starting procedure.

Single & Pair Skating and Ice Dance Harmonize rules within the disciplines and with Free Skating/Dance. Duration of all Short Program/Dance: 2 min. 40 sec. plus/minus 10 sec.

Starting order – Amend the draw procedure in order to have the top three finishers, in the best two groups, of the Short Program/Dance skate within the last three starting numbers of their groups in the Free Skating/Dance.

Competitions – In order to make competitions shorter it is proposed to reduce the duration of warm-ups in Singles, Pairs and Ice Dance as from season 2018/19. Short Programs/Dance 4 minutes, Free Skating/Dance 5 minutes.

Synchronized Skating Harmonization – Harmonize the Special Regulations and Technical Rules with other Figure Skating Disciplines.

Simplification – Make the process of calling Elements more straightforward for both Coaches and Technical Panels.

Liberalization - Allow more creativity and freedom in the construction and choreography of programs.

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FIGURE SKATING

LILLEHAMMER 2016 YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES

Ladies Gold

Polina Tsurskaya

Silver Maria Sotskova

12

Points

Mixed NOC Team Event

RUS

186.04

Gold

RUS

169.50

Team Desire

Points

Dmitri Aliev

RUS

Men

Xiangning Li

CHN

Ladies

23

USA

Pairs

Bronze Elizabet Tursynbaeva

KAZ

167.88

4

Yuna Shiraiwa

JPN

166.66

Sarah Rose / Joseph Goodpaster

5

Diana Nikitina

LAT

165.60

Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin RUS

Ice Dance

Silver

Men

Points

Team Future

Ivan Shmuratko

UKR

Men

Diana Nikitina

LAT

Ladies

20

JPN

215.52

Silver Deniss Vasiljevs

LAT

214.43

Anna Duskova / Martin Bidar

CZE

Pairs

Bronze Dmitri Aliev

RUS

209.77

4

Roman Sadovsky

CAN

205.69

Julia Wagret / Mathieu Couyras

FRA

Ice Dance

5

Jun Hwan Cha

KOR

198.90

Bronze Team Discovery

Deniss Vasiljevs

LAT

Men

Fruzsina Medgyesi

HUN

Ladies

Yumeng Gao / Bowen Li

CHN

Pairs

Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha

CAN

Ice Dance

Kai Xiang Chew

MAS

Men

Gold

Sota Yamamoto

Pairs

Points

Gold

Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot

RUS

168.66

Silver

Anna Duskova / Martin Bidar

CZE

166.13

Team Motivation

18

Bronze Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin

RUS

152.77

4

4

Justine Brasseur / Mathieu Ostiguy

CAN

140.59

5

Ying Zhao / Zhong Xie

CHN

139.06

Ji Hyun Byun

KOR

Ladies

Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot

RUS

Pairs

G Damuleviciute / D Kizala

LTU

Ice Dance

Lauri Lankila

FIN

Men

Ice Dance Points 141.88

5

Silver Chloe Lewis / Logan Bye

USA

136.37

Bronze Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin

RUS

134.62

Yuna Shiraiwa

JPN

Ladies

4

Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha

CAN

125.87

Ying Zhao / Zhong Xie

CHN

Pairs

5

Anzhelika Yurchenko / Volodymyr Byelikov

UKR

114.96

Maria Golubtsova / Kirill Belobrov

UKR

Ice Dance

Gold

Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov RUS

Team Focus

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ISU EUROPEAN FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, JANUARY 25 - 31 2016, BRATISLAVA (SVK)

Ladies Points

Men

Points

Pairs Points

1 Evgenia Medvedeva

RUS 215.45

1 Javier Fernandez

ESP 302.77

1 Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov RUS 222.66

2 Elena Radionova

RUS 209.99

2 Alexei Bychenko

ISR 242.56

2 Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot

3 Anna Pogorilaya

RUS 187.05

3 Maxim Kovtun

RUS 242.21

3 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov RUS 197.55

4 Angelina Kuchvalska

LAT 176.99

4 Florent Amodio

FRA 240.96

4 Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres

FRA 185.55

5 Roberta Rodeghiero

ITA

5 Mikhail Kolyada

RUS 236.58

5 Valentina Marchei / Ondrej Hotarek

ITA

182.61

6 Maé-Bérénice Meite

FRA 161.23

6 Ivan Righini

ITA

236.36

6 Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise

ITA

178.97

7 Nathalie Weinzierl

GER 160.64

7 Daniel Samohin

ISR

232.08

7 Kristina Astakhova / Alexei Rogonov

RUS 174.72

8 Viveca Lindfors

FIN

8 Alexander Petrov

RUS 229.69

8 Mari Vartmann / Ruben Blommaert

GER 171.30

9 Joshi Helgesson

SWE 153.29

9 Jorik Hendrickx

BEL 221.39

9 Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer

AUT 149.07

10 Laurine Lecavelier

FRA 152.34

10 Michal Brezina

CZE 211.81

10 Tatiana Danilova / Mikalai Kamianchuk BLR 147.36

170.76

155.49

GER 200.78

ISU FOUR CONTINENTS FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, FEBRUARY 16 - 21 2016, TAIPEI CITY (TPE)

Ladies Points

Men

Points

Pairs Points

1 Satoko Miyahara

JPN 214.91

1 Patrick Chan

CAN 290.21

1 Wenjing Sui / Cong Han

CHN 221.91

2 Mirai Nagasu

USA 193.86

2 Boyang Jin

CHN 289.83

2 Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim

USA 207.96

3 Rika Hongo

JPN 181.78

3 Han Yan

CHN 271.55

4 So Youn Park

KOR 178.92

4 Shoma Uno

JPN 269.81

3 Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin

CHN 187.33

5 Gracie Gold

USA 178.39

5 Takahito Mura

JPN 268.43

4 Tarah Kayne / Daniel O Shea

USA 182.02

6 Kaetlyn Osmond

CAN 175.63

6 Keiji Tanaka

JPN 222.70

7 Kanako Murakami

JPN 175.12

7 Max Aaron

USA 220.94

8 Da Bin Choi

KOR 173.71

8 Grant Hochstein

5 Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch CAN 179.67 6 Marissa Castelli / Mervin Tran

USA 175.08

USA 216.34

7 Tae Ok Ryom / Ju Sik Kim

PRK 157.24 CAN 148.82 JPN 145.33

9 Na Hyun Kim

KOR 170.70

9 Michael Christian Martinez

PHI

211.59

8 Vanessa Grenier / Maxime Deschamps

10 Zijun Li

CHN 167.88

10 Jin Seo Kim

KOR 201.43

9 Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau Audet

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SYNCHRONIZED SKATING

ISU SYNCHRONIZED SKATING JUNIOR WORLD CHALLENGE CUP, MARCH 10 - 12 2016, ZAGREB (CRO)

ISU WORLD JUNIOR FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 14 - 20 2016, DEBRECEN (HUN)

Teams Points

Ladies Points

Men Points

1 Marin Honda

JPN 192.98

1 Daniel Samohin

ISR 236.65

2 Maria Sotskova

RUS 188.72

2 Nicolas Nadeau

CAN 224.76

3 Wakaba Higuchi

JPN 183.73

3 Tomoki Hiwatashi

USA 222.52

4 Yuna Shiraiwa

JPN 171.59

4 Alexander Samarin

RUS 222.11

5 Elizabet Tursynbaeva

KAZ 170.83

5 Vincent Zhou

USA 221.19

6 Tyler Pierce

USA 167.19

6 Dmitri Aliev

RUS 211.18

7 Angelina Kuchvalska

LAT 161.29

7 Jun Hwan Cha

KOR 207.11

8 Ivett Toth

HUN 153.70

8 Deniss Vasiljevs

LAT 204.75

9 Ha Nul Kim

KOR 150.36

9 Kevin Aymoz

FRA 197.76

10 Diana Nikitina

LAT 149.02

10 He Zhang

CHN 195.70

1 Team Canada 1 2 Team Finland 1 3 Team Russia 1 4 Team USA 1 5 Team Finland 2 6 Team Russia 2 7 Team USA 2 8 Team Canada 2 9 Team Sweden 1 10 Team Germany

179.44 172.91 169.93 167.17 162.15 158.73 149.65 149.47 136.89 122.95

ISU WORLD SYNCHRONIZED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, APRIL 8 - 9 2016, BUDAPEST (HUN)

Pairs Points

Ice Dance Points

1 Anna Duskova / Martin Bidar

1 Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter USA 163.65

CZE 181.82

2 Anastasia Mishina / Vladislav Mirzoev RUS 172.60

2 Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons

USA 162.74

Teams Points

3 Ekaterina Borisova / Dmitry Sopot

RUS 169.00

3 Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd

RUS 151.19

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

4 Renata Oganesian / Mark Bardei

UKR 155.08

4 Elliana Pogrebinsky / Alex Benoit

USA 146.83

5 Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnson

USA 147.73

5 Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov

RUS 146.55

6 Bianca Manacorda / Niccolo Macii

ITA

6 Betina Popova / Yuri Vlasenko

RUS 146.21

7 Justine Brasseur / Mathieu Ostiguy

CAN 138.67

7 Angélique Abachkina / Louis Thauron

FRA 145.25

8 Bryn Hoffman / Bryce Chudak

CAN 138.12

8 Marie-Jade Lauriault / Romain Le Gac

FRA 144.26

9 Lindsay Weinstein / Jacob Simon

USA 137.58

9 Mackenzie Bent / Dmitre Razgulajevs

CAN 138.61

10 Joy Weinberg / Maximiliano Fernandez

USA 135.71

10 Sara Ghislandi / Giona Terzo Ortenzi

ITA

Team Russia 1 Team Finland 2 Team USA 1 Team Finland 1 Team Canada 1 Team Sweden 1 Team Canada 2 Team Russia 2 Team USA 2 Team Sweden 2

212.69 207.84 206.95 206.65 201.07 197.58 196.06 176.20 175.00 159.37

Ice Dance Points 1 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron FRA 182.71

141.76

131.18

ISU WORLD FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 28 - APRIL 4 2016, BOSTON (USA)

Ladies Points

Men Points

1 Evgenia Medvedeva

RUS 223.86

1 Javier Fernandez

ESP 314.93

2 Ashley Wagner

USA 215.39

2 Yuzuru Hanyu

JPN 295.17

RUS 213.69

3 Boyang Jin

CHN 270.99

2 Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte

ITA 178.01

3 Anna Pogorilaya

3 Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev

RUS 176.50

4 Gracie Gold

USA 211.29

4 Mikhail Kolyada

RUS 267.97

4 Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov

RUS 172.65

5 Satoko Miyahara

JPN 210.61

5 Patrick Chan

CAN 266.75

5 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin

RUS 165.55

6 Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland

GBR 162.75

6 Elena Radionova

RUS 209.81

6 Adam Rippon

USA 264.44

7 Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri

ITA 162.58

7 Mao Asada

JPN 200.30

7 Shoma Uno

JPN 264.25

8 Federica Testa / Lukas Csolley

SVK 158.05

8 Rika Hongo

JPN 199.15

8 Max Aaron

USA 254.14

9 Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sorensen DEN 152.79

9 Gabrielle Daleman

CAN 195.68

9 Michal Brezina

CZE 237.99

10 Isabella Tobias / Ilia Tkachenko

10 Mirai Nagasu

USA 186.65

10 Grant Hochstein

USA 237.25

ISR 151.67

Pairs Points

Ice Dance Points

1 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford

CAN 231.99

1 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron FRA 194.46

Ice Dance Points

2 Wenjing Sui / Cong Han

CHN 224.47

2 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

USA 188.43

1 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

USA 181.62

2 Madison Chock / Evan Bates

USA 174.64

3 Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot

GER 216.17

3 Madison Chock / Evan Bates

USA 185.77

3 Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

CAN 173.85

4 Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov

RUS 214.48

4 Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte

ITA 182.72

4 Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue

USA 172.29

5 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov

RUS 206.27

5 Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

CAN 182.01

5 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier

CAN 162.19

6 Tatiana Volosozhar / Maxim Trankov

RUS 205.81

6 Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue

USA 176.81

7 Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch

CAN 199.52

6 Elisabeth Paradis / Francois-Xavier Ouellette CAN 146.94

7 Penny Coomes / Nicholas Buckland

GBR 173.17

8 Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro CAN 190.90

8 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier

CAN 173.07

CHN 135.57

9 Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim

USA 190.06

9 Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov

RUS 168.97

KOR 128.27

10 Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres

FRA 185.83

10 Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri

ITA 167.91

7 Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed

JPN 145.83

8 Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin

KOR 138.42

9 Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu 10 Ho Jung Lee / Richard Kang In Kam

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SPEED SKATING

LILLEHAMMER 2016 YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES Men 500 m combined times

Mixed NOC Team Sprint

Time

Yanzhe Li

CHN

1:11.95

Gold

Min Sun Kim

KOR

1:18.66

Gold Team 6 Bonazza Noemi

Silver Kazuki Sakakibara

JPN

1:13.97

Silver

Mei Han

CHN

1:19.44

Sumiya Buyantogtokh MGL

Bronze Jae Woong Chung

KOR

1:14.13

Bronze

Huawei Li

CHN

1:19.75

Jae Woong Chung

KOR

4

Samuli Suomalainen

FIN

1:14.17

4

Ji Woo Park

KOR

1:20.71

Hanyang Shen

CHN

5

Min Seok Kim

KOR

1:14.22

5

Isabelle Van Elst

NED

1:21.27

Silver Team 9 Elisa Dul

Gold

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Ladies 500 m combined times

Men 1500 m Gold

Time

Min Seok Kim

Ladies 1500 m

Time

KOR

1:51.35

Gold

Ji Woo Park

KOR

2:03.53

Silver Daichi Horikawa

JPN

1:52.96

Silver

Mei Han

CHN

2:04.48

Bronze Daan Baks

NED

1:53.29

Bronze Noemi Bonazza

ITA

2:05.49

4

Allan Dahl Johansson

NOR

1:53.37

4

Natalie Kerschbaummayr

CZE

2:05.54

5

Austin Kleba

USA

1:53.87

5

Karolina Bosiek

POL

2:06.24

Gold

Min Seok Kim

Silver Jae Woong Chung

Points

Karolina Gasecka

POL

Austin Kleba

USA

Anvar Mukhamadeyev KAZ

Bronze Team 10 Chiara Cristelli

30

Gold

KOR

20

Silver Mei Han

Ji Woo Park

Mihaela Hogas

ROU

Ole Jeske

GER

Allan Dahl Johansson NOR

Team 12 Lea Scholz

GER

Yauheniya Varabyova

Points

Daichi Horikawa

JPN

KOR

30

Lukas Mann

GER

CHN

20

5

Elena Samkova

Bronze Allan Dahl Johansson

NOR

10

KOR

10

4

Yevgeny Bolgov

BLR

5

4

Elisa Dul

NED

5

Jaakko Hautamaki

5

Ole Jeske

GER

3

5

Viktoria Schinnerl

AUT

3

Min Seok Kim

1:57.85

1:58.80

1:58.87

1:58.95

BLR

Team 13 Sofya Napolskikh

Bronze Min Sun Kim

ITA

Mass Start Ladies

KOR

NED

4

Mass Start Men

ITA

RUS

1:58.97

RUS FIN KOR

ISU WORLD CUP SPEED SKATING – FINAL STANDINGS

Ladies 500 m

Points

Ladies 1000 m

Points

Ladies 1500 m

Points

1 Heather Richardson-Bergsma USA

848

1 Brittany Bowe

USA

710

1 Brittany Bowe

USA

590

2 Hong Zhang

CHN

842

2 Heather Richardson-Bergsma

USA

508

2 Heather Richardson-Bergsma

USA

501

3 Brittany Bowe

USA

785

3 Marrit Leenstra

NED

465

3 Marrit Leenstra

NED

396

4 Sang-Hwa Lee

KOR

680

4 Vanessa Bittner

AUT

381

4 Martina Sábliková

CZE

350

5 Jing Yu

CHN

579

5 Jorien ter Mors

NED

280

5 Ida Njåtun

NOR

329

6 Heather McLean

CAN

567

6 Olga Fatkulina

RUS

257

6 Miho Takagi

JPN

242

7 Vanessa Bittner

AUT

514

7 Qishi Li

CHN

251

7 Antoinette de Jong

NED

230

8 Jorien ter Mors

NED

415

8 Karolina Erbanová

CZE

234

8 Misaki Oshigiri

JPN

214

9 Karolina Erbanová

CZE

413

9 Hong Zhang

CHN

227

9 Marije Joling

NED

209

10 Olga Fatkulina

RUS

379

10 Miho Takagi

JPN

220

10 Ayaka Kikuchi

JPN

197

Men 500 m Points

Men 1000 m

1 Pavel Kulizhnikov

RUS

705

1 Kjeld Nuis

NED

630

1 Denis Yuskov

RUS

530

2 Ruslan Murashov

RUS

705

2 Pavel Kulizhnikov

RUS

480

2 Kjeld Nuis

NED

456

3 Gilmore Junio

CAN

637

3 Gerben Jorritsma

NED

396

3 Joey Mantia

USA

405

4 Mika Poutala

FIN

577

4 Kai Verbij

NED

365

4 Bart Swings

BEL

364

5 Alex Boisvert-Lacroix

CAN

508

5 Denis Yuskov

RUS

359

5 Sverre Lunde Pedersen

NOR

329

6 Artur Was

POL

492

6 Joey Mantia

USA

346

6 Håvard Bøkko

NOR

264

7 Kai Verbij

NED

487

7 Aleksey Yesin

RUS

298

7 Thomas Krol

NED

253

8 William Dutton

CAN

468

8 Shani Davis

USA

291

8 Shani Davis

USA

246

9 Laurent Dubreuil

CAN

464

9 Vincent De Haitre

CAN

249

9 Jan Szymanski

POL

209

10 Ronald Mulder

NED

458

10 Thomas Krol

NED

238

10 Konrad Niedzwiedzki

POL

185

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Men 1500 m

Points

Ladies Team Sprint

Points

1 China 2 Netherlands 3 Japan 4 Russia 5 Canada 6 Belarus 7 Republic of Korea

330 314 290 160 130 90 45

Men Team Sprint Points 1 Netherlands 2 Russia 3 Canada 4 Poland 5 USA 6 China 7 Japan 8 Germany 9 Kazakhstan

390 334 320 225 125 120 60 50 50

10 Republic of Korea

45

ISU EUROPEAN SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, JANUARY 9 - 10 2016, MINSK (BLR)

Ladies Points Ladies Points 1 Martina Sábliková

CZE

161.455

1 Brittany Bowe

2 Ireen Wüst

NED

163.188

2 Heather Richardson-Bergsma USA 151.945

3 Antoinette de Jong

NED

164.043

3 Jorien ter Mors

NED 152.340

4 Marije Joling

NED

164.163

4 Marrit Leenstra

NED 153.635

5 Natalya Voronina

RUS

165.566

5 Hong Zhang

CHN 153.940

Men

Points

USA 151.595

Men Points

1 Sven Kramer

NED

150.102

1 Pavel Kulizhnikov

RUS 139.245

2 Bart Swings

BEL

150.464

2 Kjeld Nuis

NED 139.995

3 Jan Blokhuijsen

NED

151.176

3 Kai Verbij

NED 140.420

4 Håvard Bøkko

NOR

152.842

4 Nico Ihle

GER 140.620

5 Andrea Giovannini

ITA

153.484

5 Tae-Yun Kim

KOR 140.660

Ladies Overall Ranking Points 1 Brittany Bowe

ISU WORLD SPRINT SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, FEBRUARY 27 - 28 2016, SEOUL (KOR)

Men Overall Ranking Points

USA

1660

1

Kjeld Nuis

NED

1076

2 Heather Richardson-Bergsma USA

1389

2

Bart Swings

BEL

1014

3 Martina Sábliková

CZE

1070

3

Pavel Kulizhnikov

RUS

830

4 Irene Schouten

NED

766

4

Denis Yuskov

RUS

829

5 Marrit Leenstra

NED

741

5

Jorrit Bergsma

NED

780

Ladies 3000 m / 5000 m Points

Mass Start Ladies

1 Martina Sábliková

CZE

500

1 Irene Schouten

NED

466

1 Japan

430

2 Natalya Voronina

RUS

450

2 Ivanie Blondin

CAN

420

2 Netherlands

380

3 Irene Schouten

NED

361

3 Misaki Oshigiri

JPN

271

3 Russia

290

4 Olga Graf

RUS

354

4 Miho Takagi

JPN

229

4 Poland

269

5 Marije Joling

NED

320

5 Jiachen Hao

CHN

203

5 Canada

155

6 Jorien Voorhuis

NED

275

6 Heather Richardson-Bergsma

USA

183

6 Germany

140

7 Claudia Pechstein

GER

240

7 Luiza Zlotkowska

POL

165

7 China

115

8 Annouk van der Weijden

NED

228

8 Jing Liu

CHN

161

8 Republic of Korea

90

9 Ivanie Blondin

CAN

183

9 Janneke Ensing

NED

157

9 Czech Republic

65

10 Misaki Oshigiri

JPN

179

10 Do-Young Park

KOR

150

10 USA

25

Points

Ladies Team Pursuit

Points

Men Team Pursuit Points

Men 5000 m / 10,000 m Points

Mass Start Men

1 Sven Kramer

NED

530

1 Arjan Stroetinga

NED

404

1 Netherlands

350

2 Jorrit Bergsma

NED

530

2 Bart Swings

BEL

380

2 Norway

280

3 Sverre Lunde Pedersen

NOR

369

3 Fabio Francolini

ITA

378

3 Poland

279

4 Ted-Jan Bloemen

CAN

330

4 Jorrit Bergsma

NED

326

4 Italy

260

5 Patrick Beckert

GER

273

5 Alexis Contin

FRA

242

5 Republic of Korea

200

6 Bart Swings

BEL

260

6 Andrea Giovannini

ITA

158

6 Russia

150

7 Douwe de Vries

NED

226

7 Jordan Belchos

CAN

147

7 Canada

135

8 Arjan Stroetinga

NED

215

8 Reyon Kay

NZL

144

8 Japan

120

9 Erik Jan Kooiman

NED

200

9 Seung-Hoon Lee

KOR

123

9 Germany

110

10 Andrea Giovannini

ITA

160

10 Robert Watson

CAN

123

10 USA

105

Points

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SPEED SKATING

ISU WORLD SINGLE DISTANCES SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, FEBRUARY 11 - 14 2016, KOLOMNA (RUS) Men 500 m combined times

16

Time

ISU WORLD JUNIOR SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 11 - 13 2016, CHANGCHUN (CHN)

Ladies 500 m combined times

Time

1

Pavel Kulizhnikov

RUS

1:09.02

1

Sang-Hwa Lee

KOR 1:14.85

2

Ruslan Murashov

RUS

1:09.68

2

Brittany Bowe

USA 1:15.66

3

Alex Boisvert-Lacroix

CAN

1:09.78

3

Hong Zhang

CHN 1:15.68

Jorien ter Mors

NED 1:15.72

Heather Richardson-Bergsma

USA 1:15.78

4

Mika Poutala

FIN

1:09.79

4

5

Aleksey Yesin

RUS

1:09.80

5

Men 1000 m

Time

Time

Pavel Kulizhnikov

RUS

1:08.33

1

Jorien ter Mors

2

Denis Yuskov

RUS

1:08.43

2

Heather Richardson-Bergsma USA 1:14.94

3

Kjeld Nuis

NED

1:08.47

3

Brittany Bowe

USA 1:15.01

4

Aleksey Yesin

RUS

1:08.81

4

Vanessa Bittner

AUT 1:15.51

5

Shani Davis

USA

1:09.01

5

Hong Zhang

CHN 1:15.70

Time

NED 1:14.73

Ladies 1500 m

Time

1

Denis Yuskov

RUS

1:44.13

1

Jorien ter Mors

2

Kjeld Nuis

NED

1:45.66

2

Heather Richardson-Bergsma USA 1:54.67

3

Thomas Krol

NED

1:45.75

3

Brittany Bowe

USA 1:55.09

4

Bart Swings

BEL

1:46.21

4

Ireen Wüst

NED 1:55.93

5

Shani Davis

USA

1:46.49

5

Martina Sábliková

CZE

Men 5000 m

Time

NED 1:53.92

1:56.06

Ladies 3000 m

Time

1

Sven Kramer

NED

6:10.31

1

Martina Sábliková

CZE

2

Jorrit Bergsma

NED

6:10.66

2

Ireen Wüst

NED 4:03.13

3

Sverre Lunde Pedersen NOR

6:15.08

3

Antoinette de Jong

NED 4:04.25

4

Patrick Beckert

GER

6:18.45

4

Claudia Pechstein

GER

4:05.09

5

Ted-Jan Bloemen

CAN

6:18.81

5

Marije Joling

NED

4:06.62

Men 10,000 m

Time

Ladies 5000 m

4:03.05

Time

1

Sven Kramer

NED

12:56.77

1

Martina Sábliková

CZE

2

Ted-Jan Bloemen

CAN

12:59.69

2

Carien Kleibeuker

NED 6:54.96

3

Erik Jan Kooiman

NED

13:02.15

3

Irene Schouten

NED 6:55.93

4

Patrick Beckert

GER

13:09.42

4

Claudia Pechstein

GER

5

Jordan Belchos

CAN

13:10.99

5

Isabelle Weidemann

CAN 7:08.35

Team Pursuit Men

Time

Team Pursuit Ladies

6:58.99

1

Netherlands

3:40.04

1 Netherlands

2:58.12

2

Norway

3:41.26

2

2:58.31

3

Canada

3:43.28

3

Russia

3:02.61

4

Italy

3:43.29

4

Germany

3:02.94

5

Republic of Korea

3:43.77

5

Poland

3:03.77

TIme

Mass Start Ladies

Mass Start Men

1 2 3 4 5

Elizaveta Kazelina Esther kiel Béatrice Lamarche Mei Han Ji Woo Park

RUS CHN KOR NED CAN

161.816 163.931 164.204 164.667 165.051 Time

RUS NED CAN CHN KOR

2:00.68 2:02.24 2:02.48 2:02.63 2:02.95

Men Allround 1 2 3 4 5

Benjamin Donnelly Min Seok Kim Marcel Bosker Marten Liiv Hyun Min Oh

Points

CAN KOR NED EST KOR

147.715 148.193 150.028 150.389 150.513

Men 1500 m 1 2 3 4 5

Min Seok Kim Benjamin Donnelly Marcel Bosker Hyun Min Oh Marten Liiv

KOR CAN NED KOR EST

Time 1:48.46 1:48.56 1:50.28 1:50.31 1:50.65

ISU WORLD ALLROUND SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 5 - 6 2016, BERLIN (GER)

Ladies Points 1 Martina Sábliková

CZE

159.042

2 Ireen Wüst

NED

159.732

3 Antoinette de Jong

NED

161.380

4 Linda de Vries

NED

162.467

5 Misaki Oshigiri

JPN

162.737

Men Points 1 Sven Kramer

Time

1 Seung-Hoon Lee

KOR

7:18.26

1 Ivanie Blondin

CAN

8:17.53

2 Arjan Stroetinga

NED

7:18.32

2 Bo-Reum Kim

KOR

8:17.66

3 Alexis Contin

FRA

7:18.41

3 Miho Takagi

JPN

8:17.68

4 Fabio Francolini

ITA

7:19.35

4 Francesca Lollobrigida

ITA

8:18.92

5 Shota Nakamura

JPN

7:38.49

5 Jelena Peeters

BEL

8:22.29

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Elizaveta Kazelina Mei Han Ji Woo Park Esther Kiel Béatrice Lamarche

6:51.09

Time

Japan

1 2 3 4 5

Points

Ladies 1500 m

Ladies 1000 m

1

Men 1500 m

Ladies Allround

NED

148.995

2 Sverre Lunde Pedersen NOR

149.483

3 Jan Blokhuijsen

NED

149.672

4 Håvard Bøkko

NOR

150.915

5 Ted-Jan Bloemen

CAN

151.972

Ladies 500 m 1 2 3 4 5

Daria Kachanova Min-Jo Kim Elizaveta Kazelina Mei Han Xue Lin

RUS KOR RUS CHN CHN

Ladies 3000 m 1 2 3 4 5

Elizaveta Kazelina Ji Woo Park Esther Kiel Ayano Sato Femke Markus

RUS KOR NED JPN NED

Time 39.09 39.55 39.794 39.796 39.80 Time 4:15.90 4:16.54 4:16.57 4:17.28 4:20.47

Ignat Golovatsyuk Christopher Fiola Tao Yang Tatsuya Shinhama Niek Deelstra

BLR CAN CHN JPN NED

Men 5000 m 1 2 3 4 5

Benjamin Donnelly Min Seok Kim Chris Huizinga Marcel Bosker Hyun Min Oh

1 2 3 4 5

Elizaveta Kazelina Daria Kachanova Mei Han Ji Woo Park Béatrice Lamarche

RUS RUS CHN KOR CAN

Ladies Team Pursuit 11 Netherlands 2 Republic of Korea 3 Japan 4 China 5 Canada

CAN KOR NED NED KOR

35.72 35.97 36.03 36.10 36.211 Time 6:33.84 6:35.20 6:36.00 6:36.83 6:39.38

1 2 3 4 5

Benjamin Donnelly Min Seok Kim Marten Liiv Ignat Golovatsyuk Mikhail Kazelin

Time 1:18.30 1:19.25 1:19.55 1:19.57 1:19.63 Time 3:10.83 3:12.38 3:13.29 3:14.55 3:16.35

Men 1000 m

Men 500 m combined times 1 2 3 4 5

Ladies 1000 m

CAN KOR EST BLR RUS

Men Team Pursuit

Time 1:10.85 1:10.98 1:11.15 1:11.60 1:11.66 Time

1 Republic of Korea 2 Canada 3 China 4 Netherlands 5 Norway

3:54.47 3:58.29 3:59.11 3:59.93 4:00.15

Mass Start Men 1 2 3 4 5

Points

KOR CAN CAN FIN USA

30 20 10 5 3

Mass Start Ladies

Points

1 2 3 4 5

Min Seok Kim Christophe Fiola Benjamin Donnelly Samuli Suomalainen Austin Kleba

Ayano Sato Esther Kiel Béatrice Lamarche Femke Markus Gloria Malfatti

JPN NED CAN NED ITA

Men Team Sprint

30 20 10 5 3 Time

1 Russia 2 China 3 Belarus 4 Canada 5 Kazakhstan

1:23.09 1:24.84 1:25.00 1:25.02 1:25.42

Ladies Team Sprint

Time

1 Russia 2 Japan 3 Poland 4 China 5 Canada

1:31.00 1:31.45 1:33.08 1:33.15 1:33.41

ISU JUNIOR WORLD CUP SPEED SKATING – FINAL STANDINGS

Ladies 500 m 1 2 3 4 5

Daria Kachanova Xiaoxuan Shi Xue Lin Min-Jo Kim Kaja Ziomek

RUS CHN CHN KOR POL

Ladies 1000 m 1 2 3 4 5

Rio Yamada Mei Han Daria Kachanova Kaja Ziomek Xue Lin

Ladies 1500 m 1 2 3 4 5

Mei Han Ji-Woo Park Ayano Sato Esther Kiel Karolina Bosiek

JPN CHN RUS POL CHN

CHN KOR JPN NED POL

Ladies 3000 m 1 2 3 4 5

Ji-Woo Park Ayano Sato Mei Han Esther Kiel Viola Feichtner

KOR JPN CHN NED AUT

Points 282 220 205 190 178 Points 250 250 237 170 150 Points 330 300 275 161 158 Points 330 300 260 235 194

Men 500 m Points

Mass Start Men

1 2 3 4 5

1 2 3 4 5

Viktor Mushtakov Mikhail Kazelin Marten Liiv Ignat Golovatsyuk Tatsuya Shinhama

RUS RUS EST BLR JPN

Men 1000 m 1 2 3 4 5

Viktor Mushtakov Marten Liiv Mikhail Kazelin Joep Baks Stanislav Palkin

RUS EST RUS NED KAZ

Men 1500 m 1 2 3 4 5

Marcel Bosker Viktor Mushtakov Min-Seok Kim Marten Liiv Ki-Woong Park

NED RUS KOR EST KOR

Men 3000 m 1 2 3 4 5

Marcel Bosker Allan Dahl Johansson Min-Seok Kim Yegor Yunin Hyun-Min Oh

NED NOR KOR RUS KOR

330 300 220 184 184 Points 335 306 300 218 200 Points 360 286 230 209 190 Points 390 258 230 164 145

Points

NED NOR KOR AUT BLR

328 260 250 127 127

Mass Start Ladies

Points

1 2 3 4 5

Marcel Bosker Allan Dahl Johansson Min-Seok Kim Mathias Hauer Yevgeniy Bolgov

Ayano Sato Esther Kiel Gloria Malfatti Noemi Bonazza Cho-Won Park

Team Event Ladies 1 Netherlands 2 Italy 3 Poland 4 Japan 5 Republic of Korea

Team Event Men 1 Netherlands 2 Russia 3 Japan 4 Belarus 5 Republic of Korea

JPN NED ITA ITA KOR

350 270 230 209 205 Points 370 285 267 250 220 Points 330 270 255 255 250

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SHORT TRACK

LILLEHAMMER 2016 YOUTH OLYMPIC GAMES Ladies 500 m

Time

46.648

HUN

No Time

Bronze Katrin Manoilova ** BUL

46.337

Bronze Wei Ma

4

Angelina Tarasova ** RUS

47.861

4

Stijn Desmet

5

Shione Kaminaga ** JPN

47.916

5

Pavel Sitnikov

RUS

42.731

Silver Petra Jaszapati *

18

Men 500 m

CHN

Gold

Yize Zang *

Time

Kyunghwan Hong

KOR

41.885

Gold Team 2 Ane By Farstad

NOR

Silver Kazuki Yoshinaga

JPN

41.969

Jiyoo Kim

KOR

CHN

42.129

Stijn Desmet

BEL

BEL

42.716

Quentin Fercoq

FRA

Gold

* Final A - ** Final B

Ladies 1000 m Time

Men 1000 m

Gold

KOR

1:34.041

Gold

Silver Suyoun Lee

KOR

1:34.118

Bronze Anna Seidel

GER

1:34.323

4 5

Jiyoo Kim

Petra Jaszapati Yize Zang

HUN CHN

1:34.431 1:41.596

Mixed NOC Team Relay Time

KOR

1:28.022

Silver Wei Ma

CHN

1:28.082

Bronze Shaoang Liu

HUN

4 5

Daeheon Hwang

Time

Shigehiro Kiichi Andras Sziklasi

JPN HUN

Silver Team 3 Petra Jaszapati

HUN

Julia Moore

AUS

Tjerk De Boer

NED

Kiichi Shigehiro

JPN

BronzeTeam 6 Katrin Manoilova

BUL

1:28.187

Anita Nagay

KAZ

1:28.718

Karlis Kruzbergs

LAT

1:29.324

Kazuki Yoshinaga

JPN

4:14.413

4:14.495

4:17.181

ISU WORLD CUP SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING – FINAL STANDINGS

Ladies 500 m

Points

Ladies 1000 m

Points

Ladies 1500 m

1 Marianne St-Gelais

CAN

48800

1 Minjeong Choi

KOR

36000

1 Minjeong Choi

KOR

48000

2 Elise Christie

GBR

45216

2 Valerie Maltais

CAN

29019

2 Suk Hee Shim

KOR

36000

3 Kexin Fan

CHN

43198

3 Suk Hee Shim

KOR

26400

3 Do Hee Noh

KOR

23020

4 Lara van Ruijven

NED

24138

4 Marianne St-Gelais

CAN

26000

4 Valerie Maltais

CAN

21900

5 Minjeong Choi

KOR

23120

5 Jiaying Tao

CHN

25970

5 Alang Kim

KOR

20274

6 Natalia Maliszewska

POL

18599

6 Elise Christie

GBR

24418

6 Marianne St-Gelais

CAN

19677

7 Audrey Phaneuf

CAN

16360

7 Do Hee Noh

KOR

15305

7 Suzanne Schulting

NED

19177

8 Sofia Prosvirnova

RUS

15142

8 Yize Zang

CHN

12124

8 Namasthee Harris-Gauthier CAN

17816

9 Anna Seidel

GER

12576

9 Véronique Pierron

FRA

12052

9 Jiaying Tao

CHN

16501

10 Yara van Kerkhof

NED

11411

10 Alang Kim

KOR

11355

10 Anna Seidel

GER

15732

Points

Men 500 m Points

Men 1000 m

Points

Men 1500 m

Points

1 Dmitry Migunov

RUS

31810

1 Semen Elistratov

RUS

37200

1 Yoon-Gy Kwak

KOR

45920

2 Charles Hamelin

CAN

30352

2 Charle Cournoyer

CAN

34599

2 Sjinkie Knegt

NED

43677

3 Samuel Girard

CAN

25616

3 Charles Hamelin

CAN

25120

3 Jiwon Park

KOR

30593

4 Dajing Wu

CHN

23280

4 Shaolin Sandor Liu

HUN

17678

4 Francois Hamelin

CAN

17311

5 Francois Hamelin

CAN

20700

5 Yoon-Gy Kwak

KOR

16415

5 Se Yeong Park

KOR

16778

6 Artem Kozlov

RUS

19718

6 Jingnan Shi

CHN

15309

6 Semen Elistratov

RUS

15707

7 Shaolin Sandor Liu

HUN

19555

7 Samuel Girard

CAN

13401

7 Yi Ra Seo

KOR

15697

8 Sebastien Lepape

FRA

17296

8 Yi Ra Seo

KOR

13313

8 Charles Hamelin

CAN

13457

9 Yoon-Gy Kwak

KOR

16497

9 Jiwon Park

KOR

13099

9 Fu Xu

CHN

12984

10 Viktor Knoch

HUN

14630

10 Freek van der Wart

NED

10755

10 Alexander Fathoullin

CAN

12096

Ladies Relay

Points

Men Relay

Points 30800

1 Republic of Korea

40000

1 Canada

2 Canada

27520

2 Netherlands

30096

3 China

26240

3 China

29520

4 Russia

25920

4 Russia

27373

5 Italy

25242

5 Hungary

25616

6 Netherlands

18688

6 Republic of Korea

23360

7 France

17050

7 Italy

15471

8 Japan

13739

8 USA

14919

9 Hungary

12430

9 Kazakhstan

11796

10 Poland

6795

10 France

8341

ISU EUROPEAN SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, JANUARY 22 - 24 2016, SOCHI (RUS) Ladies 1 2 3 4 5

Elise Christie Charlotte Gilmartin Suzanne Schulting Lara van Ruijven Ekaterina Konstantinova

GBR GBR NED NED RUS

Time

1 Netherlands 2 Russia 3 Italy 4 Hungary 5 Germany

4:12.556 4:14.949 4:15.219 4:15.669 4:19.927

Men Semen Elistratov Shaolin Sandor Liu Vincent Jeanne Sjinkie Knegt Sebastien Lepape

Points

RUS HUN FRA NED FRA

91 50 44 40 32

Men Relay 1 2 3 4 5

Points 112 47 42 35 32

Ladies Relay

1 2 3 4 5

ISU WORLD SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 11 - 13 2016, SEOUL (KOR)

Time

Netherlands * Hungary * Great Britain * Russia * Italy **

7:12.495 7:12.634 7:17.390 7:17.441 6:56.955

* Final A - ** Final B

ISU WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, JANUARY 29 - 31 2016, SOFIA (BUL) Ladies 1 2 3 4 5

Chunyu Qu Suzanne Schulting Yubin Lee Suyoun Lee Yize Zang

4:15.124 4:15.405 4:17.670 4:22.455

Men

Men Relay 1 China 2 Republic of Korea 3 Russia 4 Japan * World Record

86 79 55 43 30 Time

1 China 2 Republic of Korea 3 Netherlands 4 Poland

Ziwei Ren Yongjin Lim Wei Ma Shaoang Liu Hongzhi Xu

Time

Men Relay

Time

1 Republic of Korea

4:19.545

1 China

7:05.539

2 Canada

4:20.193

2 Canada

7:05.622

3 Russia

4:24.945

3 Republic of Korea

7:05.652

PEN

4 Hungary

7:05.941

Points

Men

Points

4 China

Ladies 1 Minjeong Choi

KOR

66

1 Tianyu Han

CHN

68

2 Marianne St-Gelais CAN

63

2 Charles Hamelin

CAN

48

3 Elise Christie

GBR

47

3 Shaolin Sandor Liu

HUN

41

4 Kexin Fan

CHN

44

4 Se Yeong Park

KOR

39

5 Suzanne Schulting

NED

40

5 Shaoang Liu

HUN

39

Ladies 500 m 1 Kexin Fan

Time

Men 500 m

Time

CHN

43.258

1 Shaolin Sandor Liu

HUN

41.485

2 Marianne St-Gelais CAN

43.317

2 Dajing Wu

CHN

41.550

3 Chunyu Qu

43.389

3 Shaoang Liu

HUN

41.994

CHN

Points CHN NED KOR KOR CHN

Ladies Relay

1 2 3 4 5

Ladies Relay

CHN KOR CHN HUN CHN

Ladies 1000 m

Time

Men 1000 m

Time

1 Minjeong Choi

KOR

1:31.933

1 Charles Hamelin

CAN

1:24.436

2 Elise Christie

GBR

1:31.980

2 Samuel Girard

CAN

1:24.787

3 Kasandra Bradette

CAN

1:32.607

3 Dajing Wu

CHN

1:24.868

Ladies 1500 m

Time

Men 1500 m

Time

1 Marianne St-Gelais CAN

2:36.844

1 Tianyu Han

CHN

2:17.355

2 Minjeong Choi

KOR

2:37.073

2 Shaoang Liu

HUN

2:17.470

3 Elise Christie

GBR

2:37.123

3 Se Yeong Park

KOR

2:17.582

Points 90 68 47 36 34 Time 3:59.809* 3:59.921 4:03.466 4:06.110

Ladies 3000 m

Time

Men 3000 m

Time

1 Suzanne Schulting

NED

4:57.883

1 Tianyu Han

CHN

4:49.450

2 Yihan Guo

CHN

4:58.690

2 Se Yeong Park

KOR

4:49.939

3 Elise Christie

GBR

5:14.360

3 Charles Hamelin

CAN

4:50.314

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PAST MASTER

VALENTIN PISEEV (RUS): BORN 1941 Mr. Piseev started Figure Skating at a young age and once retired from competitive skating he worked as a Coach for a number of years. He then became a Figure Skating Judge at European and World Figure Skating Championships and also at the 1972 and 1976 Olympic Winter Games.

In 1977, he was elected as an ISU Single and Pair Skating Technical Committee member, a position he held until 1986. In 1989, he was elected President of the Figure Skating Federation of the USSR until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He was President of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia from 1992 to 2010 and then Director General from 2010 to 2014. He was elected Honorary President of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia in 2014