ISU World No. 62 May 2017

INTERNATIONAL SKATING UNION OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER

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MARKETING, PROMOTION & DIGITALIZATION

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Dear Skating Friends, New records, new elements, new passing maneuvers.

The Skaters raised the bar again in the past season. We can look back with great pleasure on the many ISU Events full of exciting performances and memorable experiences.

We can also memorize the first edition of the ISU Conferences with ISU Members and Office Holders. The ISU Council is grateful for the high attendance and fruitful exchange of thoughts and ideas. Regarding Development, we discussed the new policy, important themes and examples of projects in interactive sessions. The Development Commission also had one-on-one meetings with present Members to discuss their specific needs. Regarding marketing, promotion & digitalization, Infront and IMG outlined developments in the (sports) market and opportunities for the ISU. The attendees also discussed several topics, such as ISU media & PR initiatives, possible rule changes, event promotion and presentation.

Elaborating on this, it is clear that today’s sports fans have many interests competing for their attention. They are also never without a mobile device. We have to keep this in mind. Our shared mission is that we continue to captivate the current generation and future generations with Ice Skating. Key questions for all of us are: how can we increase the fan base and how can we increase the experience and engagement for fans in the stadium and through media ?

The ISU and its Members must work hard on this together. It is vital to review our ‘products’ and focus on promotion. I would like to mention two examples that we are working on at the moment.

In line with the discussions at the ISU Conferences, we are implementing a new fan-centric digital strategy. The key is to increase content for fans on continuously updated ISU platforms.

The strategy should also support Members and OC’s and showcase the Athletes and their stories. The new ISU website will be launched in time for the Olympic season. www.isu.org will be split into two sections: a fan page and inside ISU. The aim is to create a real skating experience, make it more appealing to fans and have a better tool for the ISU Skating Family.

Once launched the website will not be finished, but constantly evolving. An ISU App which stimulates fan engagement lies ahead as well.

Furthermore, we must anticipate the needs of Partners. Media and sponsors are extremely important for the promotion of our sport. We need to offer valuable opportunities for interactions with their target groups. At the 2016 ISU Congress, I promised that I would go the extra mile - together with the ISU Council and staff - to find new title sponsors that fit our mission. I am pleased to announce that the ISU has a new sponsorship deal. Audi is the new title sponsor for the Audi ISU World Cup Short Track Speed Skating series as of season 2017/18.

Just as Skaters are continuously aiming for better performances, and use innovative methods to reach their goals, so does the ISU as an organization. We need to constantly move forward together. It is as they say: no change, no progress.

Jan Dijkema ISU President

The ISU Council met on March 25 - 27 in Helsinki (FIN) on the occasion of the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2017. The Council granted provisional ISU Membership to the Cambodia Ice Skating Federation (CISF) bringing the total number of ISU Members to 92. The Council also approved the calendar for the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series 2017/18 and 2018/19 and selected 10 International Figure Skating Competitions for the ISU Figure Skating Challenger Series for the season 2017/18. The ISU Junior World Cup Speed Skating Series 2017/18 has also been approved. The annual Judges Draw for the 2017/18 Figure Skating Championships will be held on October 12, 2017 in Lausanne (SUI).

Based on experience gained during the season 2016/17 and on feedback from the organizing ISU Members of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating events as well as TV rights holders for the series, the Council decided to change the provision of the starting order/draw related to the six individual events, restricted to the Short Program/Dance only (refer to Article 17.1.q of the ISU Constitution).

The Council mandated a Working Group to work on an ISU Sustainability/Good Governance survey and evaluation and to make specific proposals in order to improve the ISU’s governance record.

Finally the ISU Council reviewed the “Ultimate Skating” initiative (ISU Communication 2053).

It agreed that before pursuing this project, its purpose and possible impact on Synchronized Skating must be better evaluated, consequently the Ultimate Skating project is on hold. In regard to Synchronized Skating, the Council mandated the Technical Committee to conduct tests at four International Competitions with teams composed of less than 16 skaters.

The Council agreed to meet on June 2 - 4, 2017 in Amsterdam (NED) and on October 15 - 17, 2017 in Lausanne (SUI). For more information on the decisions of the Council see ISU Communication 2085.

ISU SPORTS DIRECTORS ELISE CHRISTIE (GBR)

Short Track Speed Skater from Great Britain, won the European Short Track Speed Skating title in 2015 and 2016. In 2017 Christie became the first British and European woman to win a World title when she was crowned the 1000 m, 1500 m and Overall World Champion.

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The Figure Skating Olympic test event took place in Gangneung Ice Arena last February and a number of season’s bests and highest scores were broken during this pre-Olympic season. With the competitive season over, a number of educational workshops and

ISU NEWS seminars will be held. In the next four months most will experience continuing education in the form of Judges Seminars, Technical Panel Seminars and Development Seminars.

In the Speed Skating Branch, the Gangneung Olympic Oval was tested during the ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships. In Short Track Speed Skating, the new initiatives that were implemented at the beginning of the season will be analyzed and it will be decided if and how they will continue during the Olympic season. A Referee seminar will take place in Frankfurt on June 9 - 11, 2017.

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ISU TECHNICAL COMMITTEES Speed Skating The Speed Skating Technical Committee (SSTC) covered ISU Technical Representative functions at five ISU Championships, six World Cups and one Junior World Cup. The SSTC held its meeting in conjunction with the ISU World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships in Gangneung (KOR). The main goal of the meeting was to finalize the schedule and program for the 2017/18 Olympic season, including the six World Cups (four of which are Olympic Qualifying events) and the four Junior World Cup Speed Skating events. On March 25 the SSTC launched within the ISU Online Entry Speed Skating System, the ISU Officials section which will be in a test mode for the coming months.

Short Track The Short Track Speed Skating Technical Committee (STSSTC) is pleased with the preOlympic season. A record number of competitors participated in the ISU World Junior Championship in both genders. 50% of the distance world records have been broken and Singapore, Norway, Germany and Hungary all hosted very successful regional seminars. The ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships were held in Rotterdam (NED) with great success.

The STSSTC, in collaboration with the Short Track community, are in the final stage of creating a new mix gender team event that will be tested over the next few years.

Synchronized Skating The level of difficulty of the programs at the ISU World Junior and World Synchronized Skating Championships continue to increase both technically and creatively. The Synchronized Skating Technical Committee (SySTC) conducted trial

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judging at the World Junior and ISU Judges exams at the World Championships. With the support of the Sport Directors and Development Commission, a Novice and Junior Development Camp will be held once again in Vierumaki (FIN).

This camp has been successful in the past with participation from Indonesia, Australia, China, many European countries and North America.

The SySTC will also run seminars for Officials in Sweden, China and Australia.

Single and Pair Skating The Single & Pair Skating Technical Committee (SPTC) members served as Referees and Technical Controllers at various ISU Championships. The committee members studied all the Referees and Technical Controllers Reports and together with the Official Assessment Commission (OAC) they evaluated the judging at the different Championships. In collaboration with the ISU Vice President and ISU Sport Directors, the SPTC started to test the proposed -5 to +5 Grades of Execution (GOE) and the related scale of value.

Although the outcome is encouraging so far, further information and the results of the test will be made available in due time. The SPTC is also preparing the Global seminar that will be held in Frankfurt (GER) in July.

Ice Dance Members of the Ice Dance Technical Committee (IDTC) participated as Referees and Technical Controllers at all ISU Championships. Coaches meetings were held to discuss potential Congress proposals and to present the Technical Requirements for 2017/18 (see ISU Communication 20176) and the rhythms for 2018/19. During the IDTC meeting held in May, the reports of Technical Controllers and Referees were reviewed and the Judge’s lists were updated. A Judges and Referees Seminars was held in April in the USA with another scheduled for in June in China. The ISU Ice Dance Development Training Seminar for Junior and Novice Couples was held in Oberstdorf (GER) in April.

ISU MEMBER CONFERENCES Following the request of the 2016 ISU Congress, the ISU Council organized two ISU Member Conferences, in Rotterdam (NED) for the Speed Skating Branch and in Helsinki (FIN) for the Figure Skating Branch. The agenda of the inaugural Member Conferences included development, marketing, promotion and PR and all information is available on the ISU Extranet.

ISU NEWS ISU MEDICAL COMMISSION

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Members of the ISU Medical Commission (MC) were present at 15 events across all ISU disciplines. The MC Chair conducted a workshop on all ISU disciplines to POCOG’s medical team so appropriate care can be provided during the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. The Chair also attended the IOC Injury Prevention Conference and IOC International Federation Medical Chairperson meeting in Monaco last March. The ISU attended the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Conference. Finally a seminar was held during the ISU World Figure Skating Championships to discuss injury prevention, Anti-Doping, Athlete Biological Passports and education for Athletes and Coaches.

ISU DISCIPLINARY COMMISSION Last January the SPTC filed three complaints with the ISU Disciplinary Commission (DC) against a Referee and two Judges regarding the violation of the duties of Referees and Judges. The full decisions of the DC are published on the ISU website http://www.isu. org/en/about-isu/isu-disciplinary-commissiondecisions-and-cases. The DC met on the occasion of the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2017. The new members of the Commission, Albert Hazelhoff (NED) and Jean-François Monette (CAN) were introduced to the work of the Commission and discussed previous and current cases.

ISU DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION The mission of the ISU Development Commission (DVC) is to broaden interest in Figure Skating and Speed Skating sports by increasing their popularity, improving their quality and growing the number of participants throughout the world. The task of the DVC is to support ISU Members with their development projects and coaches’ education, to help create regional collaboration, have more effective training and encourage innovative ideas to develop the sports.

The DVC works closely with the ISU Vice Presidents, Sport Directors and Technical Committees.

ISU ATHLETES COMMISSION Elections for the five member ISU Athletes Commission took place at the respective disciplines’ World Championships. Nathalie Lindqvist (SWE - Synchronized Skating), www.isu.org

Luiza Zlotkowska (POL - Speed Skating), Viktor Knoch (HUN - Short Track Speed Skating), Alper Uçar (TUR - Ice Dance) and John Coughlin (USA - Single & Pair Skating) were elected.

According to Article 20/1 of the ISU Constitution, the ISU Council appointed the following non active Skaters to their respective Technical Committees: Nathalie Pechalat (FRA - IDTC), Roberta Giuliani (ITA - SySTC), Beixing Wang (CHN - SSTC) and Christoph Milz (GER - STSSTC). Additionally in line with Article 20/2.e) of the ISU Constitution, the Council also appointed the following Coaches to the respective Technical Committees: Patrick Meier (SUI - SPTC), Maurizio Margaglio (ITA - IDTC), Catherine Dalton (CAN - SySTC), Oystein Haugen (NOR - SSTC) and Wim De Deyne (BEL - STSSTC).

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

ISU SECRETARIAT

Evgenia Medvedeva defended her title and achieved a new highest score in the Ladies Free Skating with 150.79 points and overall with 229.71 points, surpassing the highest score set by Yuna Kim (KOR) six years ago at the Olympic Winter Games 2010. Two-time bronze medalist Anna Pogorilaya (RUS) skated to the silver medal. Carolina Kostner (ITA), who returned to competition after sitting out two seasons, earned the bronze medal, her tenth European medal. 2016 World Junior silver medalist Maria Sotskova (RUS) placed fourth in her debut at Europeans and Laurine Lecavelier (FRA) was fifth.

The ISU welcomes Alexia Gaussin as the new Development Administrator and Internal Controller. We congratulate Ms. Gaussin on her new appointment who replaces Mr. Rafael Saya to whom we wish much success in the future.

ISU GOLD AWARD OF MERIT During the ISU World Figure Skating Championships 2017 held in Helsinki, the ISU awarded Dr. David Mitchell (ISU Medical Commission member 1988 - 2014) and Prof.

Harm Kuipers (ISU Medical Commission member 2000-2017) with the ISU Gold Award of Merit, to recognize their invaluable contribution to ISU sports.

DAVID DORE Mr. David Dore was made ISU Honorary Vice President post mortum.

DONALD H. GILCHRIST It is with profound sadness that the ISU learned of the passing of Mr. Gilchrist on March 14, 2017. Mr. Gilchrist was a former Canadian Champion in Pair Skating.

He was on the ISU SPTC as a substitute Member (1953 - 1969) then as a Committee Member (1969 - 1971 and 1973 - 1980). In 1980 Mr. Gilchrist was elected ISU Council member, a position he held until he retired in 1992 and was subsequently elected ISU Honorary Member. The ISU pays tribute to Donald H. Gilchrist’s devoted service to the ISU and Figure Skating.

Held in Ostrava (CZE) for the first time, the ISU European Figure Skating Championships hosted 166 Skaters from 33 ISU Member countries. Russia was the most successful Member, earning six medals including two gold. France and Italy took two medals, Germany and Spain one each.

Javier Fernandez (ESP) remains unbeaten in Europe, claiming his fifth consecutive European title with 294.84 points. Maxim Kovtun (RUS) picked up the silver medal, his third medal at Europeans while bronze medalist Mikhail Kolyada (RUS) was on the podium for the first time. Jorik Hendrickx (BEL) came fourth followed by 2016 silver medalist Alexei Bychenko (ISR).

In the Pairs, two-time European bronze medalists Evgenia Tarasova/Vladimir Morozov (RUS) this time rose to the top of the podium with 227.58 points. Aliona Savchenko/Bruno Massot (GER) repeated as silver medalists and Vanessa James/Morgan Cipres (FRA) claimed their first ISU Championships medal, the bronze. Ksenia Stolbova/Fedor Klimov (RUS) who had missed the Grand Prix series due to injury, finished fourth and newcomers Natalia Zabiiako/Alexander Enbert (RUS) ranked fifth.

Ice Dancers Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron (FRA) danced to their third consecutive European title with 189.67 points.

The silver went to Anna Cappellini/Luca Lanotte (ITA) and the bronze to Ekaterina Bobrova/Dmitri Soloviev (RUS) and so the ice dance podium was an exact repeat of last year. Isabella Tobias/Ilia Tkachenko (ISR) came fourth followed by Alexandra Stepanova/Ivan Bukin (RUS).

FIGURE SKATING FOUR CONTINENTS CHAMPIONSHIPS Held in Gangneung (KOR) for the second time, the Championships served as an important test event for the Olympic Winter Games 2018.

111 Skaters from 14 ISU Members competed in the new Gangneung Ice Arena. Canada and the USA were the most successful nations and collected four medals each, including one gold each. Japan confirmed its strength in Single Skating with three medals and the remaining gold medal went to China.

Nathan Chen (USA) skated off with the title in his debut at the ISU Four Continents Championships and became the first skater to land five quadruple jumps in one program in an international event. The 17-year-old also joined the 300+ points club with his total score of 307.46 points. Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) had to settle for the silver medal and Shoma Uno (JPN) took the bronze. Defending champion Patrick Chan (CAN) placed fourth this time and last year’s silver medalist Boyang Jin (CHN) was fifth.

In the Ladies event, Mai Mihara (JPN), who also competed in her first ISU Four Continents Championships, claimed the title with 200.85 points. Gabrielle Daleman (CAN) won her first

Wenjing Sui Cong Han (CHN)

ISU Championships medal, the silver, and Mirai Nagasu (USA) this time earned the bronze. Kaetlyn Osmond (CAN) finished fourth ahead of Dabin Choi (KOR).

Pair Skaters Wenjing Sui/Cong Han (CHN) took their fourth Four Continents title, scoring 225.03 points. The couple made a remarkable comeback following Sui’s surgery and had to miss the Grand Prix. The silver medal went to Meagan Duhamel/Eric Radford (CAN).

Bronze medalists Liubov Ilyushechkina/Dylan Moscovitch (CAN) stepped on to an ISU Championships podium for the first time together. Xiaoyu Yu/Hao Zhang (CHN) ranked fourth in their Four Continents debut as a team followed by Cheng Peng/Yan Jin (CHN), who also debuted as a team in the event.

In the Ice Dance event, Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir (CAN) continued their successful comeback after taking a break of two seasons with another win. The Canadians accumulated 196.95 points and dethroned defending champions Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (USA), who settled for the silver. 2016 silver medalists Madison Chock/Evan Bates (USA) were on the Four Continents podium for the fourth time, this time as bronze medalists.

Madison Hubbell/Zachary Donohue (USA) came fourth like a year ago and Kaitlyn Weaver/Andrew Poje (CAN) were fifth.

WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS Taipei City (TPE) hosted the ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships for the first time.

184 Skaters from 43 ISU Members participated in the event. Australia claimed a historic gold medal in the Pairs event. Russia topped the medal table with five medals including one gold, followed by the USA with three medals (including two gold), Japan with two medals, Australia and China with one medal each.

Vincent Zhou (USA) jumped from fifth place in the Short Program on to the top of the podium and totaled 258.11 points. Dmitri Aliev (RUS) and Alexander Samarin (RUS) picked up the silver and bronze medals. All three men were on the Junior World podium for the first time.

Alexander Petrov (RUS) ranked fourth and Jun Hwan Cha (KOR) finished fifth. Defending champion Daniel Samohin (ISR) was only 16th in the Short Program, but moved up to sixth with the second-best Free Skating.

Alina Zagitova (RUS) continued her dominance in the Junior Ladies this season and skated to the gold medal with 208.60 points. Defending champion Marin Honda (JPN) claimed the silver medal and Kaori Sakamoto (JPN) took the bronze. Eunsoo Lim (KOR) placed fourth followed by Yuna Shiraiwa (JPN).

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Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd (RUS)

Australia’s Pair Skaters Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya/Harley Windsor made history by taking the first Figure Skating Championships title for their country. Australia’s only medal so far dated back to 1976 when Elizabeth and Peter Cain had taken the Pairs bronze at the World Junior Championships. Alexandrovskaya/Windsor accumulated 163.98 points to edge out Aleksandra Boikova/Dmitri Kozlovskii (RUS). Yumeng Gao/Zhong Xie (CHN) secured the bronze medal. All three teams competed in their first season together. Amina Atakhanova/ Ilia Spiridonov (RUS) won the Free Skating, and moved up from eighth to fourth place. Evelyn Walsh/Trennt Michaud (CAN) came fifth.

The top three Ice Dance teams from 2016 returned, but with different results. Last year’s silver medalists Rachel Parsons/Michael Parsons (USA) struck gold (164.83 points), overtaking 2016 bronze medalists Alla Loboda/Pavel Drozd (RUS) by 0.46 points.

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bronze went to Christina Carreira/Anthony Ponomarenko (USA). Ponomarenko is the son of 1992 Olympic Ice Dance Champions Marina Klimova and Sergei Ponomarenko (URS).

Anastasia Shpilevaya/Grigory Smirnov (RUS) finished fourth ahead of Anastasia Skoptcova/ Kirill Aleshin (RUS). Defending champions Lorraine McNamara/Quinn Carpenter (USA) came seventh.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS The ISU World Figure Skating Championships returned to Helsinki (FIN) for the third time (1999 and 1983). 193 Skaters representing 36 ISU Members competed in the Championships.

Skaters from six ISU Members took home the medals: Canada was the most successful Member with three medals (one gold), Japan, Russia and China had two medals each (one gold each) while France, Germany and the USA each claimed one medal.

Yuzuru Hanyu (JPN) recaptured the title he had won back in 2014, setting a new highest

score in the Free Skating (223.20 points).

Overall he racked up 321.59 points to pull up from fifth place after the Short Program to first. Shoma Uno (JPN) picked up his first World Championships medal, the silver, while Boyang Jin (CHN) repeated as bronze medalist. Defending champion Javier Fernandez (ESP) led after the Short Program, but dropped to fourth in what was a very competitive event. Three-time World Champion Patrick Chan (CAN) was fifth like a year ago.

Evgenia Medvedeva (RUS) remained unbeaten and defended her World title, achieving a new highest score in the Free Skating (154.40 points) and overall (233.41 points). The silver and bronze medals went to Canadians Kaetlyn Osmond and Gabrielle Daleman creating history, it was the first time Canada had two Ladies on a World podium. Karen Chen (USA) ranked fourth in her debut at the World Championships and Mai Mihara another debutant, placed fifth.

FIGURE SKATING In the Pairs, Wenjing Sui/Cong Han (CHN) added the gold medal to their resume after two silvers (2015 and 2016) with a score of 232.06 points. 2016 World bronze medalists Aliona Savchenko/Bruno Massot (GER) moved up to claim the silver this year while Evgenia Tarasova/Vladimir Morozov (RUS) skated to their first World medal, the bronze. Xiaoyu Yu/Hao Zhang (CHN) finished fourth and Ksenia Stolbova/Fedor Klimov (RUS) pulled up from 13th after the Short Program to fifth place.

WORLD JUNIOR & WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS The season for the Synchronized Skating teams concluded with the ISU World Synchronized Championships in Colorado Springs (USA) and the ISU World Junior Synchronized Skating Championships in Mississauga (CAN).

Team Paradise (RUS) defended their World title at the World Championships in what was the 18th edition of the event. The Russians scored 208.70 points and narrowly edged out Marigold Ice Unity (FIN).

Tessa Virtue/Scott Moir (CAN) crowned their comeback season with their third World title and two new highest scores in the Short Dance (82.43 points) and overall (198.62 points). Two-time World Champions Gabriella Papadakis/Guillaume Cizeron (FRA) earned the silver medal, but won the Free Dance portion with a new highest score (119.15 points). Maia Shibutani/Alex Shibutani (USA) claimed the bronze medal this time. Kaitlyn Weaver/ Andrew Poje (CAN) came fourth followed by Ekaterina Bobrova/Dmitri Soloviev (RUS).

The ISU World Figure Skating Championships served also as a qualifying event for the Olympic Winter Games 2018 with 24 quota places available for Singles, 16 for Pair Skating and 19 for Ice Dance. Twenty-four ISU Members earned quota places in Helsinki.

Six additional spots for Singles, four for Pair Skating and five for Ice Dance will be at stake at the Nebelhorn Trophy (GER) in September 2017.

ISU WORLD TEAM TROPHY The fifth edition of the ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating took place in Tokyo (JPN) and concluded the Figure Skating season. A total of 28 000 spectators followed the three day event. The top six ranked teams in the ISU World Team Standings qualified for the event which included Teams Canada, Russia, USA, Japan, China and France.

Japan recaptured the title they had won once before in 2012. Japan totaled 109 points over the three days of competition.

Team Russia moved up again to second place to claim the silver medal with 105 points while three-time and defending champions team USA earned the bronze with 97 points.

Gabriella Daleman (CAN)

The bronze went to Nexxice (CAN). Team USA - The Haydenettes placed fourth and RCKT (FIN) slipped from third to fifth.

24 teams representing 19 ISU Members competed in Colorado Springs.

Team Junost (RUS) won the title at the World Junior Championships in March. Team Fintastic (FIN) repeated as silver medalist and the defending champions Team Musketeers (FIN) earned the bronze. It was the third edition of the Championships that was a biennial event, but from now on is an annual event.

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EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS

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The ISU European Speed Skating Championships had a new format this year. The inaugural European Sprint Championships were combined with the European Allround Championships for Men and Ladies’ in Heerenveen (NED). The record winning Champion Sven Kramer (NED) took his ninth European Allround title, winning his beloved 10,000 m in front of an enthralled home crowd. Compatriot Jan Blokhuijsen took silver and Belgian Bart Swings won bronze.

Kai Verbij won the first ever Men’s European Sprint title. The Dutchman finished fourth in the first 500 m, second in the first 1000 m, second in the second 500 m, and third in the final 1000 m to seal his title. Kjeld Nuis (NED) took silver and Nico Ihle (GER) bronze.

The Ladies’ Allround title went to Ireen Wüst (NED). She was a class of her own winning the 500 m, the 3000 m, the 1500 m, and coming second in the 5000 m. Martina Sáblíková (CZE) was second and Antoinette de Jong (NED) third.

With four second place finishes Karolina Erbanova won the inaugural Ladies’ European Sprint title. The Czech sprinter defeated Jorien ter Mors (NED) and Olga Fatkulina (RUS).

WORLD SINGLE DISTANCES CHAMPIONSHIPS

The Championships was the first international competition to be held at the Gangneung Olympic Oval and served as the official test event for the 2018 Olympic Winter Games.

The athletes were pleased to find out that the ice was superfast in Korea.

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Kjeld Nuis won his career first World Title after two silver and two bronze medals in the 1000 m.

The 27-year-old Dutchman defeated Canada’s Vincent De Haitre and Kai Verbij. On the final day he also added 1500 m gold, with Denis Yuskov (RUS) and Sven Kramer claiming silver and bronze.

Sven Kramer won two gold medals too. The Dutchman held off countryman Jorrit Bergsma to win his eighth 5000 m World Title on Day 1.

New-Zealand’s Peter Michael sealed the bronze, confirming his rise to the ranks of the medal contenders over the course of the season.

In the 10,000 m Bergsma again challenged Kramer, but the reigning Olympic Champion had to bow his head. Kramer won in a Dutch national record, after a thrilling World Record attempt by Bergsma to end up with another silver medal.

Germany’s Patrick Beckert skated to bronze.

Peter Michael won a second medal in the Team Pursuit, when he finished second together with countrymen Shane Dobbin and Reyon Kay. www.isu.org

Nico Ihle (GER)

Dutch Douwe de Vries, Jorrit Bergsma and Jan Blokhuiijsen won gold, and Norway’s Sindre Henriksen, Simen Spieler Nilsen and Sverre Lunde Pedersen took bronze.

The 500 m meant redemption for Jan Smeekens, who came back from a back injury. German Nico Ihle took silver and Ruslan Murashov (RUS) bronze.

Joey Mantia (USA) won gold in the Mass Start, after an exciting race in which attack proved to be a successful tactic. Six men broke away from the pack early, with Mantia coming out on top and fellow escapees Alexis Contin (FRA) and Olivier Jean (CAN) coming second and third.

Ladies

The American Sprinter Heather Bergsma, proved impossible to beat when she won gold medals in the 1000 m and the 1500 m, and bronze in the Mass Start. Bergsma was impressive in the 1000 m, with Nao Kodaira (JPN) finishing 0.49 seconds adrift in second place. Defending champion Jorien ter Mors (NED) had to settle for bronze.

In the 1500 m Bergsma fought an epic battle with Ireen Wüst (NED). The American stayed ahead by just a 0.11 margin on the finish line, with the slower starting Dutch woman catching up on her quickly in the final lap. Miho Takagi finished more than a second adrift to take bronze.

Kodaira dominated the 500 m the whole season

and won her career first world title, when she defeated home favorite Sang-Hwa Lee and China’s Jing Yu. Wüst took her first gold medal at the Gangneung Olympic Oval, when she defeated Martina Sáblíkova and Antoinette de Jong (NED) in the 3000 m on Day 1. Together with De Jong and Marrit Leenstra, Wüst also grabbed Team Pursuit Gold on Day 2. Japan and Russia took silver and bronze.

Martina Sáblíková won her ninth 5000 m title.

She has won her first title in 2007 and retained it every year since. Claudia Pechstein (GER) won the silver medal and Ivanie Blondin (CAN) skated to grab the bronze medal. In the Ladies’ Mass Start Bo-Reum Kim gave the home crowd their long awaited first gold medal of the Championships on the final day.

The Korean outsprinted Nana Takagi (JPN) and Heather Bergsma, who took silver and bronze.

WORLD SPRINT CHAMPIONSHIPS

At the ISU World Sprint Speed Skating Championships in Calgary (CAN), Nao Kodaira made history by becoming the first Japanese lady to win the title. Kai Verbij (NED) survived a nerve wrecking miss stroke in the final 1000 m to grab his first career World Sprint Title. Both Kodaira and Verbij skated a World Record in the sprint combination.

SPEED SKATING Heather Bergsma and Jorien ter Mors took silver and bronze in the Ladies’ competition, whereas Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen (NOR) and Kjeld Nuis took the remaining silverware in the Men’s competition.

WORLD ALLROUND CHAMPIONSHIPS

At the ISU World Allround Speed Skating Championships in Hamar (NOR), Dutch Ireen Wüst managed to recapture the World Allround title after a two-year reign by Martina Sáblíkova. The Czech came second and Miho Takagi (JPN) hung in to take the bronze medal. In the Men’s competition Sven Kramer topped an all Dutch podium, with Patrick Roest and Jan Blokhuijsen taking silver and bronze. Kramer’s record extending ninth World Allround title was never in doubt after he firmly took the lead in the classification after the 5000 m on the first day.

WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS

Dutch skaters Chris Huizinga and Jutta Leerdam grabbed the Men’s and Ladies’ Allround gold at the ISU World Junior Speed Skating Championships at the artificial outdoor rink of Oulunkylä Sport Park in Helsinki. Norway’s Allan Dahl Johansson (1000 m and 1500 m) and Russia’s Daria Kachanova (500 m and 1000 m) both grabbed two single distance titles. Apart from the Allround title Huizinga also won the 5000 m and the Mass Start. Japan’s Koki Kubo took gold in the Men’s 500 m. Jutta Leerdam added the separate 1500 m title to her Allround crown and her compatriots Joy Beune and Elisa Dul won the 3000 m and the Mass Start.

WORLD CUP

Kjeld Nuis and Heather Bergsma convincingly won the Men’s and Ladies’ Grand World Cup on the last day of the 2016/17 season. The 2016/17 Speed Skating season came to a close on March 11-12 in Stavanger (NOR) where the ISU World Cup Speed Skating Final took place. The circuit consisted of six events across Asia and Europe.

500 m Ladies

Nao Kodaira dominated the Ladies’ 500 m from the start of the season until the very end. Being absent in Astana, the Japanese sprinter won all eight World Cup 500 m races she skated to lead a Japanese podium sweep in the 500 m World Cup. Maki Tsuji took home silver and Erina Kamiya grabbed bronze.

1000 m Ladies

Defending World Cup Champion Brittany Bowe (USA) suffered a concussion in the run-up to the season and missed both the start and the end of the season. Her compatriot Heather Bergsma was left without major opposition and she was unbeaten in all her six World Cup 1000 m races this season.

Miho Takagi (JPN) came second in the 1000 m World Cup and Marrit Leenstra third.

1500 m Ladies

Although not as dominant as in the 1000 m, Bergsma also sealed the 1500 m World Cup. She won three of her five races including at the World Cup Final. Ireen Wüst also won two 1500 m races, but she skipped Astana (KAZ) and the Final, only to end up fourth in the 1500 m classification. Marrit Leenstra (NED), who collected three silver medals and one bronze medal, finished second in the final classification. Japan’s Miho Takagi took advantage of Bergsma’s absence in Astana, to end up third in the classification.

3000 / 5000 m Ladies

Martina Sáblíková added an eleventh consecutive overall long distance World Cup win to her impressive tally. The Czech champion won four 3000 m races and the 5000 m race in Heerenveen. Ireen Wüst was the only one to beat Sáblíková in the 3000 m this season, when she took gold in Berlin.

Wüst was no contender for the final classification however. Russian Anna Yurakova finished second in the ranking, and Antoinette de Jong (NED) third.

Mass start Ladies

Bo-Reum Kim won this season’s Mass Start World Cup, with two race wins, two bronze medals and a silver medal in the Final. Last season’s overall winner Irene Schouten (NED) took gold in Stavanger, but she had missed the first two World Cup legs and finished fourth in the classification. Francesca Lollobrigida (ITA) saw consistency rewarded, finishing second after one silver medal and three bronzes. Ivanie Blondin (CAN) won two races, but she ended up in third place, 20 points behind Lollobrigida.

Team Pursuit & Team Sprint Ladies

Japan retained the Team Pursuit World Cup with three consecutive race wins in Astana, Heerenveen and Stavanger. The Netherlands came second once more and Russia ended up third. The podium in the team sprint was exactly the same.

500 m Men

Dai Dai Ntab was this season’s sprinting revelation and he won the 500 m World Cup in spectacular fashion. At the World Cup Final the Dutchman managed to win twice to take over Russia’s Ruslan Murashov in extremis.

Murashov had to settle for overall silver and Ronald Mulder (NED) took the bronze.

1000 m Men

Kjeld Nuis retained his 1000 m title undisputed. He won five races and was absent in Astana. Canada’s Vincent De Haitre won only one race, but he ended up second thanks to a consistent season and Dutchman Kai Verbij carried home the bronze medal.

1500 m Men

After his 1000 m victory Nuis also won the 1500 m World Cup. He overtook Russia’s Denis Yuskov, when he won the Final with Yuskov finishing fourth in the final race.

Patrick Roest took the bronze medal after finishing second in Stavanger.

5000 / 10,000 m Men

Jorrit Bergsma carried home the long distance World Cup. He won the 10,000 m in Heerenveen and the 5000 m at the Final, after two silver medals behind Sven Kramer following the Asian legs of the circuit, but Kramer decided to skip the rest of the World Cup season. Ted-Jan Bloemen (CAN) finished second in the World Cup and Peter Michael, who won the 5000 m in Astana, claimed bronze.

Mass start Men

Seung-Hoon Lee won the Men’s Mass Start World Cup. The Korean won the first race in Harbin and the Final in Stavanger, outsprinting Jorrit Bergsma and Bart Swings (BEL) on the final straight. Andrea Giovannini (ITA) took gold in Astana and collected enough points for the silver medal, with Bergsma finishing third in the ranking.

Team Pursuit and Team Sprint Men

Netherlands came out on top after having won the Men’s first two legs and the Final Team Pursuit. Norway finished second with one victory in Heerenveen and bronze medal winners Japan also won one race in Astana.

Canada beat defending champions Netherlands in the Team Sprint World Cup. The Canadian Sprinters won the first leg and retained their top rank with two silvers medals in the remaining races. The Netherlands took overall silver after winning the Final and Germany finished in third place.

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WORLD CUP The ISU World Cup Short Track Speed Skating circuit 2016/17 consisted of six events and concluded in Minsk (BLR) where the overall winners were honored.

Men

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Dajing Wu (CHN) finished first in the 500 m overall World Cup ranking, beating Abizal Azhgaliyev (KAZ) and Shaolin Sandor Liu (HUN).

Wu earned 38,001 points while Azhgaliyev earned 34,433 points and Liu accumulated 33,774 points. The men’s 1000 m World Cup title was won by Shaoang Liu (HUN) who earned 28,669 points. Thibaut Fauconnet (FRA) finished second with 27,517 points ahead of Nurbergen Zhumagaziyev (KAZ) (27,486 points).

Sjinkie Knegt (NED) won the 1500 m title with three wins, five podiums and 44,400 points.

He finished ahead of Jung Su Lee (KOR) who earned 35,217 points and Semen Elistratov (RUS) (28,059 points). In the Men’s Relay, Netherlands claimed the World Cup title with 34,000 points. China finished second overall with 30,240 points while Hungary finished third, equal on points.

Ladies Marianne St-Gelais (CAN) accumulated 37,021 points to win the 500 m World Cup title. St-Gelais finished on the podium four

times and earned two wins during the World Cup season in this distance. Elise Christie (GBR) accumulated 35,264 points to finish second, while Kexin Fan (CHN) finished third with 33,616 points. Suzanne Schulting (NED) won the 1000 m World Cup title with a total of 29,198 points and three podium finishes in this distance. Minjeong Choi (KOR) finished second with 28,000 points and Elise Christie (GBR) third with 21,678 points.

Suk Hee Shim (KOR) took four wins in the first four World Cup events of the season to win the ladies 1500 m World Cup classification with 40,000 points. Suzanne Schulting (NED) finished second with 25,716 points while Kim Boutin (CAN) finished third with 24,747 points. Korea won the Ladies Relay World Cup title with the maximum number of points; 40,000. Netherlands finished second with 34,000 points and Canada finished third with 27,200 points.

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS This year’s ISU European Short Track Speed Skating Championships was held in Torino (ITA).

Arianna Fontana was crowned European Short Track Speed Skating champion for the sixth time in her career (79 points), beating a pair of Russian skaters; Sofia Prosvinorva (73 points) bronze medalist Ekaterina Konstantinova (39 points). Elise Christie

decided not to participate in order to concentrate on training for the World Championships. The Italian Ladies were crowned European Champions in the 3000 m Relay ahead of Hungary and the Netherlands.

Semen Elistratov (RUS) successfully defended his European title (86 points). Elistratov finished on the podium in two individual distances (gold in the 1500 m and silver in the 1000 m) and won the 3000 m Super Final.

Shaolin Sandor Liu (HUN) earned the silver medal (71 points), while two-time European Champion, Sjinkie Knegt (NED), finished with the bronze medal (54 points). The Dutchmen won the European 5000 m Relay title, Russia won silver and Italy finished third.

WORLD JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIPS The ISU World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships 2017 were held in Innsbruck (AUT) for the first time. Seven World Records were set during these Championships. Yu Bin Lee (KOR) became the Ladies World Junior Champion with 104 points. She finished first in two individual distances (500 m and 1500 m) and in the 1500 m Super Final. Whi Min Seo (KOR) earned silver with 61 points, while Sofia Prosvirnova (RUS) earned bronze with 42 points. China won the Ladies 3000 m Relay final, crossing the line ahead of Russia and Japan took the bronze medal.

In the Men’s competition, Shaoang Liu (HUN) was crowned the champion with 123 points.

He won all three individual distances (1500 m, 500 m and 1000 m) and finished second in the 1500 m Super Final. Si Un Kim (KOR) earned silver with 56 points while Kazuki Yoshinaga (JPN) earned bronze with 39 points. In the Relay events, Korea broke the World Record with a time of 3:57.047 and finished first.

China took the silver medal, finishing ahead of the United States.

WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

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The Short Track Speed Skating season ended in Rotterdam (NED) with the ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships 2017.

Single distance medals and the overall championships medals were up for grabs.

The Overall champion was determined by the skater who accumulated the most points after skating the four distances: 1500 m, 500 m, 1000 m and 3000 m Super Final.

SHORT TRACK

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Yi Ra Seo (KOR)

Elise Christie (GBR) finished the Championships with 89 points and two individual distance World titles (1500 m and 1000 m) to clinch the overall title of World Champion. This was her first career World Championship title. Marianne St-Gelais (CAN) finished second overall (68 points) while Suk Hee Shim (KOR) finished third overall with 52 points. In the Ladies 500 m, Kexin Fan (CHN) defended her 500 m world title for a third consecutive year. St-Gelais took silver while Ji Yoo Kim (KOR) took the bronze medal. In the Ladies 1000 m event, Christie claimed the gold medal, followed by St-Gelais and Suzanne Schulting (NED) claimed bronze. In the Ladies 1500 m event, Christie took her second individual distance gold medal of the Championships. St-Gelais won her second silver medal while Suk Hee Shim finished in third place. The 3000 m Super Final is not a medal event, however it

is the last opportunity to gain valuable points towards the overall result. Suk Hee Shim won the Ladies 3000 m Super Final earning enough points to win the bronze overall medal. Teammate Ji Yoo Kim finished second in the Super Final but ranked fourth overall while Christie finished in third place which secured her overall World title. China won the Ladies 3000 m Relay, with Hungary earning the silver medal and Japan earning the bronze medal.

On the Men’s side, Yi Ra Seo (KOR) was crowned the World Champion for the first time in his career, accumulating 81 points.

Sjinkie Knegt (NED) won silver in front of a home crowd with 73 points while Samuel Girard (CAN) finished in third place overall with 37 points. The Men’s 500 m final saw Knegt take the gold medal on home ice.

Dajing Wu (CHN) claimed the silver medal

while Yi Ra Seo (KOR) earned the bronze medal. Seo however took the 1000 m World title. Shaoang Liu (HUN) is 1000 m silver medalist and Charles Hamelin (CAN) finished in third place. Da Woon Sin (KOR) won the 1500 m gold medal, while Girard took silver and Seo earned his third individual medal in as many individual distances with a bronze medal in the 1500 m. In the 3000 m Super Final, Knegt finished first which contributed to his total of overall points to earn the World silver overall title. Although Seo finished second in the Super Final, he had accumulated enough points with the other distances to be crowned World Short Track Speed Skating Champion. Victor An (RUS) finished third, however he ranked seventh in the overall rankings. The Men’s 5000 m relay was won by the Netherlands, cheered on by the home crowd. China earned silver while Hungary earned bronze.

FIGURE SKATING

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ISU EUROPEAN FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, JANUARY 25 - 29 2017, OSTRAVA (CZE)

ISU FOUR CONTINENTS FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, FEBRUARY 14 - 19 2017, GANGNEUNG (KOR)

ISU WORLD JUNIOR FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 15 - 19 2017, TAIPEI CITY (TPE)

Ladies Points

Ladies Points

Ladies Points

1 Evgenia Medvedeva

RUS 229.71

1 Mai Mihara

JPN 200.85

1 Alina Zagitova

RUS 208.60

2 Anna Pogorilaya

RUS 211.39

2 Gabrielle Daleman

CAN 196.91

2 Marin Honda

JPN 201.61

3 Carolina Kostner

ITA 210.52

3 Mirai Nagasu

USA 194.95

3 Kaori Sakamoto

JPN 195.54

4 Maria Sotskova

RUS 192.52

4 Kaetlyn Osmond

CAN 184.17

4 Eunsoo Lim

KOR 180.81

5 Laurine Lecavelier

FRA 188.10

5 Dabin Choi

KOR 182.41

5 Yuna Shiraiwa

JPN 174.38

6 Nicole Rajicova

SVK 179.70

6 Mariah Bell

USA 177.10

6 Stanislava Konstantinova

RUS 162.84

7 Loena Hendrickx

BEL 172.71

7 Zijun Li

CHN 177.05

7 Bradie Tennell

USA 161.36

8 Ivett Toth

HUN 172.65

8 Elizabet Tursynbaeva

KAZ 176.65

8 Lea Johanna Dastich

GER 157.11

9 Roberta Rodeghiero

ITA

9 Wakaba Higuchi

JPN 172.05

9 Yi Christy Leung

HKG 156.26

10 Nicole Schott

GER 160.63

10 Rika Hongo

JPN 167.42

10 Polina Tsurkaya

RUS 155.91

Men Points

161.00

Men

Points

Men

Points

1 Javier Fernandez

ESP 294.84

1 Nathan Chen

USA 307.46

1 Vincent Zhou

USA 258.11

2 Maxim Kovtun

RUS 266.80

2 Yuzuru Hanyu

JPN 303.71

2 Dmitri Aliev

RUS 247.31

3 Mikhail Kolyada

RUS 250.18

3 Shoma Uno

JPN 288.05

3 Alexander Samarin

RUS 245.53

4 Jorik Hendrickx

BEL 242.56

4 Patrick Chan

CAN 267.98

4 Alexander Petrov

RUS 243.47

5 Alexei Bychenko

ISR

5 Boyang Jin

CHN 267.51

5 Jun Hwan Cha

KOR 242.45

6 Moris Kvitelashvili

GEO 238.20

239.24

6 Jason Brown

USA 245.85

6 Daniel Samohin

ISR

7 Deniss Vasiljevs

LAT 235.20

7 Misha Ge

UZB 239.41

7 Kevin Aymoz

FRA 218.63

232.63

8 Alexander Samarin

RUS 230.87

8 Nam Nguyen

CAN 237.08

8 Alexei Krasnozhon

USA 211.47

9 Chafik Besseghier

FRA 227.59

9 Grant Hochstein

USA 235.72

9 Kazuki Tomono

JPN 211.28

10 Paul Fentz

GER 225.85

10 Han Yan

CHN 235.45

10 Yaroslav Paniot

UKR 208.57

Pairs Points

Pairs Points

Pairs Points

1 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov RUS 227.58

1 Wenjing Sui / Cong Han

CHN 225.03

2 Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot

2 Alexa Scimeca / Chris Knierim

CAN 212.23

1 Ekaterina Alexandrovskaya / Harley Windsor

GER 222.35

AUS 163.98

3 Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres

FRA 220.02

3 Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch CAN 205.31

2 Aleksandra Boikova / Dmitrii Kozlovskii

4 Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov

RUS 216.51

4 Xiaoyu Yu / Yang Jin

CHN 203.40

3 Yumeng Gao / Zhong Xie

CHN 161.09

5 Natalia Zabiiako / Alexander Enbert

RUS 200.75

5 Cheng Peng / Yang Jin

CHN 202.92

4 Amina Atakhanova / Ilia Spiridonov

RUS 157.76

5 Evelyn Walsh / Trennt Michaud

CAN 150.74

6 Alina Ustimkina / Nikita Volodin

RUS 145.69

7 Chelsea Liu / Brian Johnsonn

USA 138.95

191.93

6 Valentina Marchei / Ondrej Hotarek

ITA

7 Anna Duskova / Martin Bidar

CZE 189.09

7 Kirsten Moore-Towers / Michael Marinaro CAN 192.35

8 Nicole Della Monica / Matteo Guarise

ITA

8 Haven Denney / Brandon Frazier

USA 179.45

8 Su Yeon Kim / Hyungtae Kim

KOR 135.29

9 Miriam Ziegler / Severin Kiefer

AUT 165.63

9 Ashley Cain / Timothy Leduc

USA 168.87

9 Lori-Ann Matte / Thierry Ferland

CAN 128.29

10 Tatiana Danilova / Mikalai Kamianchuk BLR 151.55

10 Sumire Suto / Francis Boudreau-Audet

JPN 164.96

10 Nica Digerness / Danny Neudecker

USA 127.49

Ice Dance Points

Ice Dance Points

Ice Dance Points

1 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron

1 Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir

CAN 196.95

1 Rachel Parsons / Michael Parsons USA 164.83

FRA 189.67

2 Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte

ITA 186.64

2 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

USA 191.85

2 Alla Loboda / Pavel Drozd

RUS 164.37

3 Madison Chock / Evan Bates

USA 185.58

4 Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue

USA 180.82

3 Christina Carreira / Anthony Ponomarenko

USA 154.68

180.99

3 Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev RUS 186.56 4 Isabella Tobias / Ilia Tkachenko

ISR

169.29

6 Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim

USA 193.91

RUS 161.93

4 Anastasia Shpilevaya / Grigory Smirnov RUS 152.66

5 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin

RUS 166.93

5 Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

CAN 180.09

6 Charlene Guignard / Marco Fabbri

ITA

6 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier

CAN 170.14

7 Shiyue Wang / Xinyu Liu

CHN 154.23

8 Yura Min / Alexander Gamelin

KOR 144.69 JPN 140.38 KOR 128.55

10 Ria Schwendinger / Valentin Wunderlich GER 131.77

7 Laurence Fournier Beaudry / Nikolaj Sorensen 8 Natalia Kaliszek / Maksym Spodyriev

163.68

DEN 160.68 POL 156.02

9 Alexandra Nazarova / Maxim Nikitin

UKR 154.65

9 Kana Muramoto / Chris Reed

10 Victoria Sinitsina / Nikita Katsalapov

RUS 154.51

10 Hong Chen / Yan Zhao

5 Anastasia Skoptcova / Kirill Aleshin

RUS 152.53

6 Marjorie Lajoie / Zachary Lagha

CAN 148.26

7 Lorraine McNamara / Quinn Carpenter

USA 148.11

8 Angelique Abachkina / Louis Thauron

FRA 140.61

9 Nicole Kuzmichova / Alexandr Sinicyn

CZE 134.17

SYNCHRONIZED SKATING

ISU WORLD FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 29 - APRIL 02 2017, HELSINKI (FIN)

ISU WORLD JUNIOR SYNCHRONIZED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 10 - 11 2017, MISSISSAUGA (CAN)

ISU WORLD SYNCHRONIZED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, APRIL 7 - 8 2017, COLORADO SPRINGS (USA)

Ladies Points

Teams Points

Teams Points

1 Team Russia 2

168.83

1 Team Russia – Paradise

2 Team Finland 1

158.06

2 Team Finland – Marigold IceUnity 208.58

3 Team Finland 2

156.24

3 Team Canada – Nexxice

197.54

4 Team USA 1

156.06

4 Team USA – Haydenettes

194.43

5 Team Canada 1

155.97

5 Team Finland – RCKT

193.87

6 Team Canada 2

154.36

6 Team Russia – Tatarstan

187.33

7 Team USA 2

152.56

7 Team Sweden – Team Surprise

180.47

8 Team Russia 1

145.59

8 Team Canada – Les Supremes

179.42

9 Team Sweden 2

131.53

9 Team USA – Crystallettes

163.00

10 Team Sweden 1

120.98

10 Team Germany – Team Berlin 1

155.29

1 Evgenia Medvedeva

RUS 233.41

2 Kaetlyn Osmond

CAN 218.13

3 Gabrielle Daleman

CAN 213.52

4 Karen Chen

USA 199.29

5 Mai Mihara

JPN 197.88

6 Carolina Kostner

ITA

196.83

7 Ashley Wagner

USA 193.54

8 Maria Sotskova

RUS 192.20

9 Elizabet Tursynbaeva

KAZ 191.99

10 Dabin Choi

KOR 191.11

Men Points 1 Yuzuru Hanyu

JPN 321.59

2 Shoma Uno

JPN 319.31

3 Boyang Jin

CHN 303.58

4 Javier Fernandez

ESP 301.19

5 Patrick Chan

CAN 295.16

6 Nathan Chen

USA 290.72

7 Jason Brown

USA 269.57

8 Mikhail Kolyada

RUS 257.47

9 Kevin Reynolds

CAN 253.84

10 Alexei Bychenko

ISR

208.70

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Pairs Points 1 Wenjing Sui / Cong Han

CHN 232.06

2 Aliona Savchenko / Bruno Massot

GER 230.30

3 Evgenia Tarasova / Vladimir Morozov RUS 219.03 4 Xiaoyu Yu / Hao Zhang

CHN 211.51

5 Ksenia Stolbova / Fedor Klimov

RUS 206.72

6 Lubov Iliushechkina / Dylan Moscovitch

CAN 206.19

7 Meagan Duhamel / Eric Radford

CAN 206.06

8 Vanessa James / Morgan Cipres

FRA 204.68

9 Valentina Marchei / Ondrej Hotarek

ITA

10 Alexa Scimeca Knierim / Chris Knierim

USA 202.37

203.92

Ice Dance Points 1 Tessa Virtue / Scott Moir

CAN 198.62

2 Gabriella Papadakis / Guillaume Cizeron

FRA 196.04

3 Maia Shibutani / Alex Shibutani

USA 185.18

4 Kaitlyn Weaver / Andrew Poje

CAN 184.81

Team Russia - Paradise

5 Ekaterina Bobrova / Dmitri Soloviev

RUS 184.06

ISU WORLD TEAM TROPHY, APRIL 20 - 23 2017, TOKYO (JPN)

6 Anna Cappellini / Luca Lanotte

ITA

Teams Points

7 Madison Chock / Evan Bates

USA 182.04

1 Japan

109

4 Canada

87

8 Piper Gilles / Paul Poirier

CAN 178.99

2 Russia

105

5 China

80

9 Madison Hubbell / Zachary Donohue

USA 177.70

97

6 France

62

10 Alexandra Stepanova / Ivan Bukin

RUS 174.70

183.73

3 USA

Points

SPEED SKATING

ISU WORLD CUP SPEED SKATING – FINAL STANDINGS Ladies Overall Ranking

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1 2 3 4 5

Heather Bergsma Miho Takagi Martina Sáblíková Nao Kodaira Marrit Leenstra

USA JPN CZE JPN NED

Points

1217 960 864 860 760

Men Overall Ranking 1 2 3 4 5

Kjeld Nuis Jorrit Bergsma Kai Verbij Joey Mantia Peter Michael

NED NED NED USA NZL

Points

930 700 507 490 486

Points Ladies 500 m

Points Men 500 m

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Nao Kodaira Maki Tsuji Erina Kamiya Marsha Hudey Karolina Erbanova Jing Yu Heather Bergsma Olga Fatkulina Arisa Go Sang-Hwa Lee

JPN JPN JPN CAN CZE CHN USA RUS JPN KOR

900 585 527 477 471 452 428 386 364 307

Dai Dai Ntab Ruslan Murashov Ronald Mulder Kai Verbij Jan Smeekens Pavel Kulizhnikov Nico Ihle Mika Poutala Laurent Dubreuil Tsubasa Hasegawa

NED RUS NED NED NED RUS GER FIN CAN JPN

585 557 541 477 454 425 377 362 354 348

Ladies 1000 m Points

Points Men 1000 m

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Heather Bergsma Miho Takagi Marrit Leenstra Nao Kodaira Karolina Erbanova Hege Bøkko Olga Fatkulina Yekaterina Shikhova Hong Zhang Jorien ter Mors

USA JPN NED JPN CZE NOR RUS RUS CHN NED

650 476 451 395 262 257 237 181 153 150

Kjeld Nuis Vincent De Haitre Kai Verbij Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen Nico Ihle Shani Davis Thomas Krol Mika Poutala Pavel Kulizhnikov Takuro Oda

NED CAN NED NOR GER USA NED FIN RUS JPN

550 440 394 391 390 279 223 222 220 195

Ladies 1500 m Points

Points Men 1500 m

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Heather Bergsma Marrit Leenstra Miho Takagi Ireen Wüst Martina Sáblíková Olga Graf Antoinette de Jong Melissa Wijfje Misaki Oshigiri Yekaterina Shikhova

USA NED JPN NED CZE RUS NED NED JPN RUS

Ladies 3000 m / 5000 m

480 460 430 350 279 260 235 217 178 176 Points

Kjeld Nuis Denis Yuskov Patrick Roest Sverre Lunde Pedersen Joey Mantia Bart Swings Shota Nakamura Thomas Krol Shani Davis Vincent De Haitre

NED RUS NED NOR USA BEL JPB NED USA CAN

Men 5000 / 10,000 m

455 430 345 335 298 251 223 202 198 182 Points

Ladies Mass Start

Points

1 Bo-Reum Kim

KOR

460

2 Francesca Lollobrigida

ITA

364

3 Ivanie Blondin

CAN

344

4 Irene Schouten

NED

251

5 Mia Manganello

USA

198

6 Dan Li

CHN

170

7 Nana Takagi

JPN

156

8 Claudia Pechstein

GER

154

9 Annouk van der Weijden

NED

150

10 Miho Takagi

JPN

139

Ladies Team Pursuit 1 Japan 2 Netherlands 3 Russia 4 Germany 5 Poland 6 Republic of Korea 7 China 8 USA 9 Czech Republic 10 Canada

Ladies Team Sprint

Points

430 430 384 340 225 205 150 115 80 50 Points

1 Japan

320

2 Netherlands

290

3 Russia

160

4 Norway

104

5 Canada

60

6 China

60

ISU EUROPEAN ALLROUND SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, JANUARY 6 - 8 2017, HEERENVEEN (NED)

Ladies Points 1 Ireen Wüst

NED

161.125

2 Martina Sábliková

CZE

162.288

3 Antoinette de Jong

NED

162.645

1 Martina Sábliková

CZE

630

1 Jorrit Bergsma

NED

480

4 Yvonne Nauta

NED

164.267

2 Anna Yurakova

RUS

395

2 Ted-Jan Bloemen

CAN

413

5 Olga Graf

RUS

164.732

3 Antoinette de Jong

NED

360

3 Peter Michael

NZL

338

4 Melissa Wijfje

NED

324

4 Erik Jan Kooiman

NED

314

Men

5 Claudia Pechstein

GER

279

5 Patrick Beckert

GER

286

1 Sven Kramer

NED

148.699

6 Marije Joling

NED

269

6 Douwe de Vries

NED

261

7 Bente Kraus

GER

226

7 Bart Swings

BEL

251

2 Jan Blokhuijsen

NED

149.816

8 Ivanie Blondin

CAN

221

8 Patrick Roest

NED

215

3 Bart Swings

BEL

151.293

9 Ireen Wüst

NED

190

9 Sven Kramer

NED

200

4 Sverre Lunde Pedersen

NOR

151.933

10 Olga Graf

RUS

161

10 Andrea Giovannini

ITA

185

5 Douwe de Vries

NED

152.251

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Points

Men Mass Start Points 1 Seung-Hoon Lee

KOR

412

2 Andrea Giovannini

ITA

280

3 Jorrit Bergsma

NED

270

4 Bart Swings

BEL

247

5 Peter Michael

NZL

226

6 Joey Mantia

USA

210

7 Ryosuke Tsuchiya

JPN

192

8 Evert Hoolwerf

NED

190

9 KC Boutiette

USA

170

10 Fabio Francolini

ITA

157

Men Team Pursuit 1 Netherlands 2 Norway 3 Japan 4 Italy 5 Canada 6 Republic of Korea 7 New Zealand 8 Poland 9 Russia 10 China

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

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Points

430 390 374 320 286 210 195 165 110 102 Points

300 260 234 100 100 85 80 70 70

ISU EUROPEAN SPRINT SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, JANUARY 6 - 8 2017, HEERENVEEN (NED)

ISU WORLD SPRINT SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, FEBRUARY 25 - 26 2017, CALGARY (CAN)

ISU WORLD ALLROUND SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 4 - 5 2017, HAMAR (NOR)

Ladies Points

Ladies Points

Ladies Points

1 Karolina Erbanova

CZE

152.180

1 Nao Kodaira

JPN

146.390

1 Ireen Wüst

NED

160.020

2 Jorien ter Mors

NED

152.270

2 Heather Bergsma

USA

147.185

2 Martina Sáblíková

CZE

160.651

3 Olga Fatkulina

RUS

152.535

3 Jorien ter Mors

NED

147.495

3 Miho Takagi

JPN

160.853

4 Marrit Leenstra

NED

153.580

4 Karolina Erbanova

CZE

147.970

4 Antoinette de Jong

NED

161.373

5 Hege Bøkko

NOR

154.595

5 Hege Bøkko

NOR

149.310

5 Olga Graf

RUS

163.067

Men Points

Men Points

Men Points

1 Kai Verbij

NED

139.230

NED

1 Sven Kramer

NED

148.425

2 Kjeld Nuis

NED

139.700

1 Kai Verbij 2 Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen

2 Patrick Roest

NED

149.128

3 Nico Ihle

GER

139.785

3 Kjeld Nuis

NED

136.300

3 Jan Blokhuijsen

NED

149.698

4 Alexey Yesin

RUS

139.890

4 Ronald Mulder

NED

136.410

4 Sverre Lunde Pedersen

NOR

150.539

5 Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen

NOR

140.040

5 Mika Poutala

FIN

136.635

5 Bart Swings

BEL

150.590

136.065

NOR 136.280

SPEED SKATING

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ISU WORLD SINGLE DISTANCES SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, FEBRUARY 9 - 12 2017, GANGNEUNG (KOR)

ISU WORLD JUNIOR SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, FEBRUARY 17 - 19, 2017, HELSINKI (FIN)

Ladies 500 m

Time

Men 500 m Time

Ladies Points

1 Nao Kodaira

37.13

1 Jan Smeekens

34.58

1 Jutta Leerdam

NED

171.973

2 Joy Beune

NED

172.443

3 Sanne In ‘t Hof

NED

173.376

4 Nan Sun

CHN

175.181

5 Béatrice Lamarche

CAN

176.050

JPN

NED

2 Sang-Hwa Lee

KOR

37.48

2 Nico Ihle

GER

34.66

3 Jing Yu

CHN

37.57

3 Ruslan Murashov

RUS

34.76

4 Karolina Erbanova

CZE

37.80

4 Mitchell Whitmore

USA

34.80

5 Heather McLean

CAN

37.86

5 Ronald Mulder

NED

34.85

Ladies 1000 m

Time

Men 1000 m

Time

1 Heather Bergsma

USA

1:13.94

1 Kjeld Nuis

NED

1:08.26

2 Nao Kodaira

JPN

1:14.43

2 Vincent De Haitre

CAN

1:08.54

3 Jorien ter Mors

NED

1:14.66

3 Kai Verbij

NED

1:08.78

4 Marrit Leenstra

NED

1:15.06

4 Nico Ihle

GER

1:08.89

5 Karolina Erbanova

CZE

1:15.14

5 Shani Davis

USA

1:08.98

Ladies 1500 m

Time

Men 1500 m

Time

Ladies 500 m

Time

1 Daria Kachanova

RUS

39.90

2 Nan Sun

CHN

40.95

3 Jutta Leerdam

NED

41.10

4 Kaja Ziomek

POL

41.43

5 Isabelle van Elst

NED

41.48

Ladies 1000 m

Time

1 Daria Kachanova

RUS

1:21.87

2 Joy Beune

NED

1:23.06

3 Béatrice Lamarche

CAN

1:23.52

1 Heather Bergsma

USA

1:54.08

1 Kjeld Nuis

NED

1:44.36

4 Nan Sun

CHN

1:23.82

2 Ireen Wüst

NED

1:54.19

2 Denis Yuskov

RUS

1:44.67

5 Isabelle van Elst

NED

1:24.07

3 Miho Takagi

JPN

1:55.12

3 Sven Kramer

NED

1:45.50

4 Marrit Leenstra

NED

1:55.85

4 Vincent De Haitre

CAN

1:45.79

5 Jorien ter Mors

NED

Ladies 3000 m

1:56.18

Time

5 Min Seok Kim

KOR

Men 5000 m

1:46.05

Time

1 Ireen Wüst

NED

3:59.05

1 Sven Kramer

NED

6:06.82

2 Martina Sáblíková

CZE

3:59.65

2 Jorrit Bergsma

NED

6:09.33

3 Antoinette de Jong

NED

4:01.99

3 Peter Michael

NZL

6:11.67

4 Ivanie Blondin

CAN

4:02.45

4 Douwe de Vries

NED

6:13.70

5 Yvonne Nauta

NED

4:02.56

5 Ted-Jan Bloemen

CAN

6:14.73

Ladies 5000 m

Time

Time Men 10,000 m

1 Martina Sábliková

CZE

6:52.38

1 Sven Kramer

NED

12:38.89

2 Claudia Pechstein

GER

6:53.93

2 Jorrit Bergsma

NED

12:43.95

3 Ivanie Blondin

CAN

6:57.14

3 Patrick Beckert

GER

12:52.76

4 Anna Yurakova

RUS

6:57.27

4 Ted-Jan Bloemen

CAN

12:54.63

5 Antoinette de Jong

NED

6:59.33

5 Davide Ghiotto

ITA

13:01.38

Ladies Mass Start

Points Time

Men Mass Start

Points Time

1 Bo-Reum Kim

KOR

60

8:00.79

1 Joey Mantia

USA

60

7:40.16

2 Nana Takagi

JPN

40

8:00.90

2 Alexis Contin

FRA

41

7:41.11

3 Heather Bergsma

USA

20

8:01.36

3 Olivier Jean

CAN

27

7:47.62

4 Francesca Lollobrigida

ITA

5

8:01.62

4 Vitaly Mikhailov

BLR

8

7:47.75

5 Dan Guo

CHN

5

8:04.04

5 Armin Hager

AUT

8

7:52.00

Team Pursuit Ladies

Time

Team Pursuit Men

Time

Ladies 1500 m

Time

1 Jutta Leerdam

NED

2:07.29

2 Sanne In ‘t Hof

NED

2:08.09

3 Daria Kachanova

RUS

2:08.33

4 Joy Beune

NED

2:08.43

5 Noemi Bonazza

ITA

2:10.86

Ladies 3000 m

Time

1 Joy Beune

NED

4:35.90

2 Sanne In ‘t Hof

NED

4:37.14

3 Jutta Leerdam

NED

4:38.27

4 Yuna Yoshimura

JPN

4:41.40

5 Ragne Wiklund

NOR

4:42.04

Ladies Mass Start

Points

1 Elisa Dul

NED

30

2 Sanne In ‘t Hof

NED

21

3 Béatrice Lamarche

CAN

10

4 Lea-Sophie Scholz

GER

5

5 Tabea Theurich

GER

3

Team Pursuit Ladies

Time

1 Netherlands

3:23.43

2 Japan

3:26.04

3 Italy

3:27.08

4 Canada

3:27.22

5 China

3:27.80

Team Sprint Ladies

Time

1 Netherlands

2:55.85

1 Netherlands

3:40.66

1 China

1:34.86

2 Japan

2:56.50

2 New Zealand

3:41.08

2 Italy

1:35.18

3 Russia

3:00.51

3 Norway

3:41.60

3 Republic of Korea

1:35.54

4 Germany

3:02.88

4 Canada

3:41.68

4 Russia

1:35.56

5 Republic of Korea

3:02.95

5 Japan

3:42.77

5 Canada

1:37.47

ISU JUNIOR WORLD CUP SPEED SKATING – FINAL STANDINGS

Ladies 500 m Men

Points

Points

RUS

350

1 Tao Yang

CHN

350

2 Nan Sun

CHN

255

2 Xuefeng Sun

CHN

260

158.064

3 Jutta Leerdam

NED

180

3 Ruslan Zakharov

RUS

210

158.286

4 Kaja Ziomek

POL

159

4 Seonghyeon Park

KOR

159

5 Isabelle van Elst

NED

148

5 Koki Kubo

JPN

155

NED

155.443

2 Allan Dahl Johansson

NOR

156.518

3 Tyson Langelaar

CAN

4 Alemasi Kahanbai

CHN

5 Riki Hayashi

JPN

158.305

Men 500 m

Time

1 Koki Kubo

JPN

36.86

2 Xuefeng Sun

CHN

36.90

3 Ruslan Zakharov

RUS

37.31

4 Jae Woong Chung

KOR

37.34

5 Samuli Suomalainen

FIN

37.44 Time

1 Allan Dahl Johansson

NOR

1:14.25

2 Koki Kubo

JPN

1:14.29

3 Tyson Langelaar

CAN

1:14.91

4 David La Rue

CAN

1:15.05

5 Chris Huizinga

NED

1:15.18

Men 1500 m

Men 500 m

1 Darya Kachanova

1 Chris Huizinga

Men 1000 m

Points

Time

Ladies 1000 m

Points

Men 1000 m

Points

1 Daria Kachanova

RUS

320

1 Yanan Jin

CHN

255

2 Nan Sun

CHN

255

2 Koki Kubo

JPN

250

3 Jutta Leerdam

NED

230

3 Thijs Govers

NED

191

4 Elisa Dul

NED

184

4 Tao Yang

CHN

189

5 Noemi Bonazza

ITA

169

5 Seonghyeon Park

KOR

160

Ladies 1500 m

Points

Men 1500 m

Points

1 Sanne In ‘t Hof

NED

226

1 Hyun Min Oh

KOR

320

2 Noemi Bonazza

ITA

225

2 Alemasi Kahanbai

CHN

300

3 Joy Beune

NED

218

3 Yegor Yunin

RUS

200

1 Allan Dahl Johansson

NOR

1:54.05

2 Chris Huizinga

NED

1:55.12

3 Tyson Langelaar

CAN

1:55.66

4 Daria Kachanova

RUS

160

4 Yanan Jin

CHN

167

4 Yegor Yunin

RUS

1:56.04

5 Yuna Yoshimura

JPN

130

5 Riki Hayashi

JPN

117

5 Alemasi Kahanbai

CHN

1:56.57

Men 5000 m

Time

1 Chris Huizinga

NED

6:46.40

2 Marwin Talsma

NED

6:56.45

3 Graeme Fish

CAN

6:58.48

4 Hyun Min Oh

KOR

7:01.75

5 Riku Tsuchiya

JPN

7:02.04

Men Mass Start

Points

Ladies 3000 m

Points

Men 3000 m

Points

1 Sanne In ‘t Hof

NED

310

1 Marwin Talsma

NED

330

2 Karolina Bosiek

POL

290

2 Alemasi Kahanbai

CHN

300

3 Viola Feichtner

AUT

205

3 Hyun Min Ohr

KOR

199

4 Yuna Yoshimura

JPN

185

4 Riku Tsuchiya

JPN

135

5 Karolina Gasecka

POL

174

5 Yegor Yunin

RUS

128

Ladies Mass Start

Points

1 Chris Huizinga

NED

30

2 Hyun Min Oh

KOR

20

3 Graeme Fish

CAN

10

4 Ole Jeske

GER

5

1 Miryeong Jeon

KOR

310

1 Hyun Min Oh

KOR

300

5 Samuli Suomalainen

FIN

3

2 Elisa Dul

NED

200

2 Oliver Lindenskov

DEN

175

Team Pursuit Men

Time

3 Sanne In ‘t Hof

NED

175

3 Jeremias Marx

GER

160

1 Japan

4:09.65

4 Natalia Jabrzyk

POL

161

4 Kohki Takamisawa

JPN

105

2 Netherlands

4:11.08

3 Norway

4:14.09

5 Moe Kitahara

JPN

120

5 David Karlingsjö

SWE

103

4 China

4:14.98

5 Canada

4:15.21

Team Events Men

Points

Team Sprint Men

Time

Men Mass Start

Points

Team Events Ladies

Points

1 Netherlands

250

1 Norway

230

1 Netherlands

1:25.65

2 Poland

235

2 Netherlands

210

2 Canada

1:25.94

3 Germany

1:26.10

3 Russia

227

3 Japan

200

4 Japan

1:26.46

4 Italy

205

4 Republic of Korea

200

5 China

1:26.49

5 Japan

190

5 China

175

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SHORT TRACK

ISU WORLD CUP SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING – FINAL STANDINGS

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Ladies 500 m Time

Men 500 m Time

1 Marianne St-Gelais

CAN

37021

1 Dajing Wu

CHN

38001

2 Elise Christie

GBR

35264

2 Abzal Azhgaliyev

KAZ

34433

3 Kexin Fan

CHN

33616

3 Shaolin Sandor Liu

HUN

33774

4 Arianna Fontana

ITA

33213

4 Denis Nikisha

KAZ

23420

5 Minjeong Choi

KOR

26000

5 Samuel Girard

CAN

20632

6 Kasandra Bradette

CAN

21807

6 Shaoang Liu

HUN

20174

7 Yara van Kerkhof

NED

20775

7 Victor An

RUS

17921

8 Jamie Macdonald

CAN

20241

8 Daeheon Hwang

KOR

14374

9 Ye Jin Kim

KOR

18000

9 Semen Elistratov

RUS

13120

10 Natalia Maliszewska

POL

16575

10 Sjinkie Knegt

NED

12801

Ladies 1000 m

Time

Men 1000 m

ISU EUROPEAN SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, JANUARY 13 - 15 2017, TORINO (ITA)

Ladies Points 1 Arianna Fontana

ITA

79

2 Sofia Prosvirnova

RUS

73

3 Ekaterina Konstantinova RUS

39

4 Rianne de Vries

NED

39

5 Lucia Peretti

ITA

26

Time

1 Suzanne Schulting

NED

29198

1 Shaoang Liu

HUN

28669

2 Min Jeong Choi

KOR

28000

2 Thibaut Fauconnet

FRA

27517

3 Elise Christie

GBR

21678

3 Nurbergen Zhumagaziyev KAZ

27486

4 Ji Yoo Kim

KOR

19678

4 Daeheon Hwang

KOR

26000

5 Valerie Maltais

CAN

19566

5 Kyoung Won Lim

KOR

22619

6 Marianne St-Gelais

CAN

17474

6 Charle Cournoyer

CAN

20588

7 Yihan Guo

CHN

16192

7 Seung Soo Han

KOR

14797

8 Suk Hee Shim

KOR

15742

8 J R Celski

USA

13180

9 Yutong Han

CHN

14540

9 Semen Elistratov

RUS

11171

10 Rianne de Vries

NED

13704

10 Vladislav Bykanov

ISR

11078

Ladies 500 m

Time

1 Rianne de Vries

NED

44.263

2 Martina Valcepina

ITA

44.320

3 Charlotte Gilmartin

GBR

44.548

Ladies 1000 m Time Ladies 1500 m

Time

Men 1500 m

Time

1 Suk Hee Shim

KOR

40000

1 Sjinkie Knegt

NED

44400

2 Suzanne Schulting

NED

25716

2 Jung Su Lee

KOR

35217

3 Kim Boutin

CAN

24747

3 Semen Elistratov

RUS

28059

4 Charlotte Gilmartin

GBR

22597

4 John-Henry Krueger

USA

24431

5 Ekaterina Efremenkova

RUS

21688

5 Vladislav Bykanov

ISR

24311

6 Ah-Reum Noh

KOR

20621

6 Kyung Hwan Hong

KOR

20188

7 Min Jeong Choi

KOR

18000

7 Shaolin Sandor Liu

HUN

18887

8 Ji Yoo Kim

KOR

17858

8 Da Woon Sin

KOR

16025

9 Marianne St-Gelais

CAN

16000

9 Csaba Burjan

HUN

15813

10 Yutong Han

CHN

15232

10 Samuel Girard

CAN

15121

Ladies Relay

Points

Men Relay

Points

1 Republic of Korea

40000

1 Netherlands

34000

2 Netherlands

34000

2 China

30240

3 Canada

27200

3 Hungary

30240

4 Italy

24192

4 Russia

26192

5 China

19456

5 Republic of Korea

23296

6 Hungary

17869

6 Canada

22336

7 Russia

16633

7 Kazakhstan

19354

8 Japan

12591

8 USA

12912

9 USA

10073

9 France

12452

9337

10 Japan

7655

10 Great Britain

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1 Sofia Prosvirnova

RUS

1:31.546

2 Andrea Keszler

HUN

1:31.551

3 Ekaterina Konstantinova RUS

1:32.214

Ladies 1500 m

Time

1 Arianna Fontana

ITA

2:28.884

2 Sofia Prosvirnova

RUS

2:29.134

3 Lucia Peretti

ITA

2:29.231

Ladies Relay Time 1 Italy

4:17.166

2 Hungary

4:17.195

3 Netherlands

4:18.446

ISU WORLD JUNIOR SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, JANUARY 27 - 29 2017, INNSBRUCK (AUT)

Ladies Men Points 1 Semen Elistratov

RUS

86

2 Shaolin Sandor Liu

HUN

71

3 Sjinkie Knegt

NED

54

4 Shaoang Liu 5 Dylan Hoogerwerf

HUN

45

NED

22

Points

Men

Points

1 Yu Bin lee

KOR

104

1 Shaoang Liu

HUN

123

2 Whi Min Seo

KOR

61

2 Si Un Kim

KOR

56

3 Sofia Prosvirnova

RUS

42

3 Kazuki Yoshinaga

JPN

39

4 Soo Lim Han

KOR

39

4 Thomas Insuk Hong

USA

31

5 Jinyu Li

CHN

39

5 Alexander Shulginov

RUS

26

Ladies Relay

Time

Men Relay

Time

1 China

4:13.625

1 Republic of Korea

3:57.047

2 Russia

4:14.270

2 China

3:58.312

3 Japan

4:14.347

3 USA

3:59.000

4 Canada

4:15.313

4 Japan

4:01.867

ISU WORLD SHORT TRACK SPEED SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS, MARCH 10 - 12 2017, ROTTERDAM (NED)

Men 500 m 1 Sjinkie Knegt 2 Dylan Hoogerwerf 3 Victor An

NED NED RUS

Time 41.168 41.549 41.834

Men 1000 m Time

Ladies Points

Men

1 Elise Christie

GBR

89

1 Yi Ra Seo

KOR

81

2 Marianne St-Gelais

CAN

68

2 Sjinkie Knegt

NED

73

3 Suk Hee Shim

KOR

52

3 Samuel Girard

CAN

37

4 Ji Yoo Kim

KOR

39

4 Da Woon Sin

KOR

34

5 Kexin Fan

CHN

36

5 Shaoang Liu

HUN

26

Ladies 500 m

Time

Men 500 m

Time

1 Kexin Fan

CHN

43.605

1 Sjinkie Knegt

NED

41.832

2 Marianne St-Gelais

CAN

43.630

2 Dajing Wu

CHN

41.891

3 Yi Ra Seo

KOR

42.036

Men 1000 m

Time

1 Shaolin Sandor Liu

HUN

1:25.964

3 Ji Yoo Kim

KOR

43.744

2 Shaoang Liu

HUN

1:26.061

Ladies 1000 m

Time

3 Semen Elistratov

RUS

1:41.207

Men 1500 m Time 1 Semen Elistratov

RUS

2:20.608

2 Shaoang Liu

HUN

2:20.808

3 Vladislav Bykanov

ISR

2:20.822

Men Relay Time 1 Netherlands

6:56.809

2 Russia

6:56.889

3 Italy

7:00.168

Points

1 Elise Christie

GBR

1:30.818

1 Yi Ra Seo

KOR

1:25.550

2 Marianne St-Gelais

CAN

1:31.145

2 Shaoang Liu

HUN

1:25.732

3 Suzanne Schulting

NED

1:31.597

3 Charles Hamelin

CAN

1:25.829

Ladies 1500 m

Time

Men 1500 m

Time

1 Elise Christie

GBR

2:54.369

1 Da Woon Sin

KOR

2:16.919

2 Marianne St-Gelais

CAN

2:54.381

2 Samuel Girard

CAN

2:16.982

3 Suk Hee Shim

KOR

2:54.424

3 Yi Ra Seo

KOR

2:17.051

Ladies 3000 m

Time

Men 3000 m

Time

1 Suk Hee Shim

KOR

5:12.382

1 Sjinkie Knegt

NED

4:47.344

2 Ji Yoo Kim

KOR

5:12.464

2 Yi Ra Seo

KOR

4:47.594

3 Elise Christie

GBR

5:12.542

3 Victor An

RUS

4:48.362

Ladies Relay Time

Men Relay

Time

1 China

4:14.058

1 Netherlands

7:06.826

2 Hungary

4:14.627

2 China

7:07.523

3 Japan

4:16.668

3 Hungary

7:07.544

4 Netherlands

4:22.347

4 Russia

PEN

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PAST MASTER

VIKTOR PETRENKO (UKR): BORN 1969 Olympic Winter Games Men Gold Medal 1992 Men Silver Medal 1988 ISU World Figure Skating Championships Men Gold 1992 Men Silver 1991, 1990 Men Bronze 1988 ISU European Figure Skating Championships Men Gold 1994, 1991, 1990 Men Silver 1992 Men Bronze 1988, 1987 ISU World Junior Figure Skating Championships Men Gold 1984 Viktor Petrenko started his competitive career at the age of 10 and in 1984 won the World Junior Figure Skating title at the age of 14.

During his career, Petrenko represented the Soviet Union, the Unified Team and the Ukraine and in 1992 he was the first Olympic flag bearer for Ukraine. He won the European title back-to-back in 1990 and 1991 and went on to earn a gold medal at the 1992 Olympic Winter Games in Albertville (FRA). A month after the Olympic Winter Games he won the World Figure Skating title in Oakland (USA).

Although Petrenko clinched the European title in 1994, he finished fourth at the Lillehammer Olympic Winter Games and retired shortly after. Following his retirement from competitive skating, he went on to do shows and is now a coach based in the USA. Petrenko’s trademark was his humorous routines that were greatly enjoyed by the spectators. He also convinced his coach Galina Zmievskaya to work with Oksana Baiul (UKR) who went on to win the Olympic title in 1994 and the World title in 1993.