2011 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships

2011 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships
Location	Courmayeur, Italy
Dates	25–27 February
Competitors	159 from 33 nations

The 2011 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 25 and 27 February 2011 in Courmayeur, Italy at the Forum Sport Center ice rink.^[1] The World Championships are organised by the ISU which also run world cups and championships in speed skating and figure skating.

This event was a qualification for the short track speed skating events at the 2012 Winter Youth Olympics.^[2]

Medal summary

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Italy)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	5	4	1	10
2	Italy*	2	0	1	3
3	Great Britain	1	2	0	3
4	China	1	1	6	8
5	France	1	0	0	1
6	Canada	0	1	1	2
7	Japan	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
Totals (8 entries)		10	10	9	29

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Overall	Seo Yi-ra  South Korea	89 pts	Jack Whelbourne  Great Britain	76 pts	Wu Dajing  China	40 pts
500 metres details	Liu Songbo  China	43.065	Wu Dajing  China	50.424	No Medal Awarded*	-
1000 metres details	Jack Whelbourne  Great Britain	1:26.049	Seo Yi-ra  South Korea	1:26.086	Shi Jingnan  China	1:26.312
1500 metres details	Seo Yi-ra  South Korea	2:20.410	Jack Whelbourne  Great Britain	2:20.592	Lee Hyo-been  South Korea	2:20.663
3000 metre relay details	France Thibault Crolet Vincent Giannitrapani Sébastien Lepape Alexis Yang	4:08.911	Japan Minto Sekai Keita Watanabe Hiroki Yokoyama Masashi Yoshikawa	4:09.923	Canada Patrick Duffy Pier-Olivier Gagnon Maxime Gauthier Alexandre St-Jean	4:15.867

• No medal was awarded in the men's 500 metre event, because the other two skaters were disqualified.^[3]

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Overall	Cheon Hee-jung  South Korea	68 pts	Ahn Se-jung  South Korea	68 pts	Martina Valcepina  Italy	50 pts
500 metres details	Martina Valcepina  Italy	45.136	Lara van Ruijven  Netherlands	45.470	Lin Meng  China	45.622
1000 metres details	Ahn Se-jung  South Korea	1:31.336	Noh Do-hee  South Korea	1:31.446	Xiao Han  China	1:31.527
1500 metres details	Cheon Hee-jung  South Korea	2:28.227	Ahn Se-jung  South Korea	2:28.316	Lin Meng  China	2:28.858
3000 metre relay details	Italy Yelenia Tota Arianna Valcepina Martina Valcepina Elena Viviani	4:20.004	Canada Laurie Marceau Cynthia Mascitto Ann-Véronique Michaud Courtney Shmyr	4:20.166	China Jin Jingzhu Lin Meng Xiao Han Zhang Shaoyang	4:32.995

Participating nations

159 athletes from 33 countries participated.^[4]

•  Argentina (2)
•  Australia (6)
•  Austria (2)
•  Belgium (4)
•  Belarus (4)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (3)
•  Bulgaria (7)
•  Canada (8)
•  China (8)
•  Chinese Taipei (2)
•  Croatia (5)
•  Czech Republic (3)
•  France (5)
•  Germany (7)
•  Great Britain (4)
•  Hong Kong (1)
•  Hungary (8)
•  India (1)
•  Italy (8)
•  Japan (8)
•  Kazakhstan (7)
•  Latvia (4)
•  Lithuania (1)
•  Netherlands (5)
•  New Zealand (1)
•  Poland (6)
•  Romania (6)
•  Russia (8)
•  Slovakia (2)
•  South Korea (8)
•  Sweden (1)
•  Ukraine (6)
•  United States (8)

See also

• Short track speed skating
• World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships

References

1. "World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships Announcement" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-06. Retrieved 2011-02-24.
2. "Qualification System 1 Winter Youth Olympic Games 2012" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-03-20. Retrieved 2011-02-24.
3. "ISU World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championship". Archived from the original on 2011-06-28. Retrieved 2011-02-28.
4. Entries^{[dead link‍]}

External links

• Results book^{[dead link‍]}