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

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Some surprises on day one in Budapest

Text: Carl Savard

Photo: Tony Chung (@SHORTTRACKHD)

Action started this morning in Budapest as short track speed skaters from all around the world reunited to start their new season. For some of them, this season will culminate with a participation in the Olympic games in Pyeongchang this coming winter. Here is a fast review of today's action as skaters were in the qualifying phase of the competition to get their spot to battle in the upper part of the standings on 1500m and 500m.

Surprises

Netherland's rising star Suzanne Schulting was penalised on both distances today and men's legend Victor An didn’t pass the heat stage on 1500m. On 500m, Germany's Anna Seidel fell in the preliminaries while Kasandra Bradette from Canada did the same in the heat stage. Russia's Semen Elistratov will not be in the quarter-finals on 500m as he finished fourth in a “heat of death” behind Budapest's own Liu Shaolin Sándor, Canada's Samuel Girard and american star J.R.Celski. Another crazy heat on 500m was the one composed of Liu Shaoang, Charle Cournoyer, Abzal Azhgaliyev, Keita Watanabe and World champion Seo Yi Ra. Shaoang fell while Cournoyer and Seo Yi Ra were beaten by Azhgaliyev and Watanabe. Not necessarily what most fan would have bet on.

The athletes will be back in action tomorrow for the first part of the competition on 1000m and the team relay event.

Saturday's semi-final’s heats for the women on 1500m

Heat 1

1-Kim BOUTIN CAN

2-Charlotte GILMARTIN GBR

3-Valerie MALTAIS CAN

4-Petra JASZAPATI HUN

5-Yuki KIKUCHI JPN

6-Jessica KOOREMAN USA

7-Lana GEHRING USA

8-Yara van KERKHOF NED

Heat 2

1-Elise CHRISTIE GBR

2-Tifany HUOT MARCHAND FRA

3-Jorien ter MORS NED

4-A Lang KIM KOR

5-Iong A KIM KAZ

6-Deanna LOCKETT AUS

7-Kathryn THOMSON GBR

8-Ekaterina EFREMENKOVA RUS

Heat 3

1-Sumire KIKUCHI JPN

2-Min Jeong CHOI KOR

3-Arianna FONTANA ITA

4-Bianca WALTER GER

5-Shione KAMINAGA JPN

6-Suk Hee SHIM KOR

7-Yutong HAN CHN

8-Jamie MACDONALD CAN

Saturday's quarter-final’s heats for the women on 500m

Heat 1

1-Elise CHRISTIE GBR

2-Chunyu QU CHN

3-Lucia PERETTI ITA

4-Yize ZANG CHN

5-Marianne ST-GELAIS CAN

Heat 2

1-Arianna FONTANA ITA

2-Yara van KERKHOF NED

3-Charlotte GILMARTIN GBR

4-Maame BINEY USA

5-Selma POUTSMA FRA

6-Sumire KIKUCHI JPN

Heat 3

1-Kexin FAN CHN

2-Petra JASZAPATI HUN

3-Suk Hee SHIM KOR

4-Martina VALCEPINA ITA

5-Lara van RUIJVEN NED

Heat 4

1-Min Jeong CHOI KOR

2-Sofia PROSVIRNOVA RUS

3-Jamie MACDONALD CAN

4-Andrea KESZLER HUN

5-Veronique PIERRON FRA

Saturday's semi-final’s heats for the men on 1500m

Heat 1

1-Yi Ra SEO KOR

2-Sjinkie KNEGT NED

3-Shaolin Sandor LIU HUN

4-Charle COURNOYER CAN

5-Charles HAMELIN CAN

6-Sebastien LEPAPE FRA

7-Jens ALMEY BEL

8-Jingnan SHI CHN

Heat 2

1-Nurbergen ZHUMAGAZIYEV KAZ

2-Tianyu HAN CHN

3-Vladislav BYKANOV ISR

4-Dae Heon HWANG KOR

5-Kai AN CHN

6-Keita WATANABE JPN

7-John-Henry KRUEGER USA

Heat 3

1-Samuel GIRARD CAN

2-Roberts KRUZBERGS LAT

3-J R CELSKI USA

4-Hyo Jun LIM KOR

5-Shaoang LIU HUN

6-Hiroki YOKOYAMA JPN

7-Thibaut FAUCONNET FRA

Saturday's quarter-final’s heats for the men on 500m

Heat 1

1-Denis NIKISHA KAZ

2-Hyun Woo Andy JUNG AUS

3-Ziwei REN CHN

4-Keita WATANABE JPN

5-Dae Heon HWANG KOR

Heat 2

1-John-Henry KRUEGER USA

2-Samuel GIRARD CAN

3-Ryosuke SAKAZUME JPN

4-Dajing WU CHN

5-J R CELSKI USA

Heat 3

1-Charles HAMELIN CAN

2-Shaolin Sandor LIU HUN

3-Dylan HOOGERWERF NED

4-Sjinkie KNEGT NED

5-Nurbergen ZHUMAGAZIYEV KAZ

Heat 4

1-Hyo Jun LIM KOR

2-Abzal AZHGALIYEV KAZ

3-Hongzhi XU CHN

4-Csaba BURJAN HUN

5-Bartosz KONOPKO POL

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