Tough Day 2 for Team France in Budapest

Text: Carl Savard

Photo:Tony Chung (@SHORTTRACKHD)

A second day with a bit less tribulations in Budapest as the skaters were battling to join the top part of the rankings for this weekend’s action on 1000m and the relay event. While the 1500m and 500m races yesterday looked liked a roller-coaster, as a whole today was more like a merry-go-round. Here are some details on today’s competition and the upcoming waves for this weekend main event on 1000m and the relay.

Tough day for Team France Other than Tifany Huot-Marchand from France having a mishap and not being able to continue to the next round, the preliminary round went pretty smoothly for all the top skaters. Overall, France had a pretty tough day tough as Véronique Pierron was penalised in the second round and Thibaut Fauconnet wasn’t able to qualify for this weekend’s top group. Fauconnet had amazing results on 1000m last year, but he had a pretty tight group of skaters fighting in his heat today. Liu Shaoang from Hungary and Ryosuke Sakazume from Japan advance to the quarter-finals while world champion Seo Yi Ra from Korea couldn't do better than the Frenchman in this heat and won't battle with the bests on 1000m this weekend. The only bright moment for team France today was the women’s relay team qualifying for the semi-finals.

Canadian results Five of the six canadian skaters competing on 1000m today were able to qualify for the quarter-finals that will be held on Sunday. Kasandra Bradette missed her qualification finishing third behind Italy’s Arianna Fontana and Great-Brittain’s Charlotte Gilmartin. It is with no surprise that both canadian relay team qualified for the big show this weekend.  

Here are the semi-finals heat on the relay for tomorrow and the quarter-finals ones for the 1000m on Sunday.

Women's 3000m relay semi-finals for Saturday

Heat 1

1-ITALY   2-NETHERLANDS   3-CANADA   4-JAPAN

  

Heat 2
1-KOREA

2-HUNGARY

3-RUSSIA

4-FRANCE

Men's 5000m relay semi-finals for Saturday

Heat 1

1-KOREA

2-USA

3-RUSSIA

4-CHINA

Heat 2

1-NETHERLANDS

2-CANADA

3-JAPAN

4-HUNGARY

5-KAZAKHSTAN

Women's 1000m quarter-finals for Sunday

Heat 1 1-CHOI Min Jeong KOR 2-EFREMENKOVA Ekaterina RUS 3-THOMSON Kathryn GBR 4-van KERKHOF Yara NED 5-FONTANA Arianna ITA Heat 2 1-BOUTIN Kim CAN 2-KIKUCHI Sumire JPN 3-FAN Kexin CHN 4-SCHULTING Suzanne NED 5-LI Jinyu CHN Heat 3 1-SHIM Suk Hee KOR 2-CHRISTIE Elise GBR 3-MALTAIS Valerie CAN 4-JASZAPATI Petra HUN 5-GILMARTIN Charlotte GBR Heat 4 1-KIM A Lang KOR 2-van RUIJVEN Lara NED 3-SEIDEL Anna GER 4-PROSVIRNOVA Sofia RUS 5-KOOREMAN Jessica USA

Men's 1000m quarter-finals for Sunday

Heat 1     

1-OSHINAGA Kazuki      JPN

2-ZVEJNIEKS Roberts    LAT

3-CONFORTOLA Yuri ITA

4-WU Dajing                   CHN

5-KNEGT Sjinkie             NED

6-LIM Hyo Jun                KOR

Heat 2      

1-PIVIROTTO Ryan USA

2-LIU Shaolin Sandor HUN

3-REN Ziwei                  CHN

4-SAKAZUME Ryosuke JPN

5-HAN Tianyu                CHN

Heat 3      

1-HAMELIN Charles       CAN

2-CELSKI J R                 USA

3-GIRARD Samuel         CAN

4-HWANG Dae Heon KOR

5-AN Victor                     RUS

Heat 4      

1-COURNOYER Charle CAN

2-BYKANOV Vladislav ISR

3-ELISTRATOV Semen RUS

4-LIU Shaoang              HUN

5-WATANABE Keita JPN

6-PUKITIS Roberto  LAT