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7 novembre 2019
Speed Skating Canada gets a new look
7 août 2019
2018-2019 Short Track Season Summary: Canada
Here’s a look back at team Canada's 2018-2019 World cup season in short track speed skating.
By Florence Gauthier
Photo: Danny Kim (@dk_st)
Boutin keeps going
After missing the first two World Cups, Kim Boutin came back and won two individual medals in the third and kept that pace during the second part of the season. In three World Cups, she won two silver medals in the 1500m, one bronze in the 500m and added one gold and one bronze in the 1000m. As for the other ladies, thanks to her consistency and gold medal in Salt Lake City, Alyson Charles finished 3rd overall in the 1000m.
Two individual medals for Blais - Dubois impressive
Cédrik Blais's efforts paid off on February 3rd when he won his first individual World Cup medal, a bronze in the 500m. He returned to the podium the following weekend when he finished 3rd in the same distance. After a first individual medal last November, Steven Dubois did not stop. In Turin, he won the bronze in the 1000m and the 1500m. In the overall standings, Dubois managed to climb to second place, behind Kim Gun Woo of South Korea, in the 1500m.
Good rankings in the relays
The men won the gold medal in the relay in Dresden and the silver in Almaty, which allowed them to finish in 2nd place in the overall standings. For the women, their two bronze medals put them in 4th place at the end of the season. For the first year of the distance, the mixed relay team finished 3rd overall thanks to a gold medal in Almaty and a silver medal in Turin.
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17 juillet 2019
History: World short track championships in Montréal
The International Skating Union recently attributed the 2022 World short track championships to Montréal. Here is a look back at the past editions presented in Montreal.
By Jackob Savard
Photo: Tony Chung (shorttrackhd)
It will be the fifth time that Montreal will welcome the short track speed skating world championships and the fourth time at the end of an Olympic season. Montreal held these championships for the first time in 1987 and were also in charge of the 2002, 2014 and 2018 editions.
1987 - Canadian and Japanese performances
Canadian Michel Daignault finished atop of the podium of the 1987 World championships tied with Japanese skater Toshinobu Kawai. Dutch skater Charles Veldhoven finished third overall. Japanese Eiko Shishii was the winner in the ladies’ competition finishing ahead of Canadian star Nathalie Lambert. Eiko Shishii's teammate Mariko Kinoshita finished third.
2002 - A sixth consecutive title for Yang Yang (A)
In 2002, Chinese skater Yang Yang (A) won her sixth consecutive overall world champion title. She still holds the record for most World championships wins in career for a woman. Korean Ko Gi-hyun and Bulgarian Evgenia Radanova completed the ladies’ podium. The men’s competition was won by Korean Kim Dong-sung. Ahn Hyun-soo, also from Korea, finished second and Italian Fabio Carto took third.
2014 - Ahn Hyun-soo’s revival
The 2014 edition of these championships was won by Russian Viktor Ahn, who had already won five titles from 2003 to 2007 under the name of Ahn Hyun-soo while representing Korea. American J.R. Celski who skated an impressive 3000m and Canadian Charles Hamelin who won the 1500m finished second and third of the men’s ranking. In the ladies’ competition, Shim Suk-hee and Park Seung-hi took the first two positions finishing ahead of Canada's Valérie Maltais. One of the most spectacular relay races in a World Championships was raced at the 2014 World Championships when the Netherlands claimed a surprising victory thanks to a crazy last lap from Sjinkie Knegt. You can relive moments of this historic race HERE.
2018 - Charles Hamelin makes history
The most recent World Championships held in Montréal were one for the history books as Canada's Charles Hamelin won his first overall world champion title in career at the age of 33. Hungarian Liu Shaolin Sandor took the second position while Korean Hwang Dae-heon took third with his explosive 500m victory. In the ladies' portion of the competition, Korean Choi Min-jeong won the third World champion title of her young career in front of her teammate Shim Suk-hee and Chinese Li Jinyu. These Championships were also Marianne St-Gelais’s last international competition.
It would be hard to predict which athletes will end the 2022 Worlds at the top but we can already confirm that it will be an action packed weekend with the best speed skaters still pumped up following the 2022 Beijing Olympics.
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8 juillet 2019
Charle Cournoyer announces his retirement
Two-time olympic medalist Charle Cournoyer officialized his retirement from short track speed skating today.
By Jackob Savard
Photo: Danny Kim (@dk_st)
After Alison Desmarais, Samuel Girard, Kasandra Bradette and Jamie Macdonald announcing in the last few weeks that they were retiring, Canada is now losing Charle Cournoyer. He’s been a member of the senior national team since 2011 and collected 32 international medals during his career. He participated in the 2014 Olympics in Sochi winning a bronze medal on 500m and the 2018 Olympics in Pyeongchang winning another bronze medal with the relay team. During the 2018-2019 season, Cournoyer collected three World cup medals.
Here's a little "Speed interviewing" segment we did with Cournoyer prior to the Pyeongchang 2018 games:
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Charle Cournoyer annonce officiellement sa retraite
Le double médaillé olympique Charle Cournoyer vient d’officialiser sa retraite du patinage de vitesse courte piste.
Par Jackob Savard
Photo: Danny Kim (@dk_st)
Après l’annonce des retraites d’Alison Desmarais, Samuel Girard, Kasandra Bradette et Jamie Macdonald, c’est maintenant le double médaillé olympique natif de Boucherville Charle Cournoyer qui accroche ses patins. Sur l’équipe nationale senior depuis 2011, il a remporté 32 médailles sur la scène internationale en carrière en plus de participer aux Jeux de Sotchi et de Pyeongchang. Il a remporté une médaille de bronze sur 500m en 2014 et au relais en 2018 lors de ces participations olympiques. En 2018-2019, Cournoyer a récolté trois médailles en Coupe du monde.
Voici notre segment "Entrevue de vitesse" réalisé avec Cournoyer avant les Jeux de Pyeongchang.
9 mai 2019
Alison Desmarais retires from short track speed skating
British Columbia's 21-year-old skater Alison Desmarais announced her retirement from speed skating yesterday.
By Jackob Savard
Photo: Bill Christ
The 2018-2019 season was Desmarais’s first on the international circuit as she took part in the first three World cup events held in Calgary, Salt Lake City and Almaty. At her first World cup event in career, she won a bronze medal in the ladies’ 3000m relay.
Here’s what she had to say about her retirement:
‘’After another incredible skating season I’ve decided to make it my last. From my first day on speed skates to my last day of racing my motivation has always been my all consuming love of the sport. This season I noticed my constant smile being replaced with daily uncontrollable tears and training felt more like a chore than a joy. I’ve always known, to me, sport is not worth the smile on my face or the joy in my heart, so although I still very much love this sport I also know it’s time for change. This is goodbye to high performance short track, but certainly not goodbye to skating all together, as I plan to stay involved with other aspects of the sport. At heart I am and likely always will be a short track speed skater!
I’d like to extend a massive THANK YOU to all the clubs/training centres I call home, to every coach I’ve ever had, to my sponsors and the communities around me, to my family, my friends who are more like siblings and all my teammates along the way. I can’t imagine where I’d be without every one of you and your support of me and my dreams. I’m so proud of where I came from and how far I went but mostly I’m happy that I loved the entire journey, here’s hoping I love the next adventure just as much!’’
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15 mars 2019
A look back at the Canadian selections: Sébastien Gagnon and Claudia Gagnon victorious
The best Canadian skaters who were not at the World championships took part in the Canadian national selections last weekend in Calgary.
Par Jackob Savard
Photo: Bill Christ
Precious points used to select the 2019-2020 Canadian national team were on the table last weekend at the Calgary Olympic Oval. All the distances (500m, 1000m and 1500m) were raced two times each and the worst result on any distance of every skater was removed to create the final ranking.
Sébastien Gagnon shined in the second half of the competition
Sébastien Gagnon, a current member of the Canadian national team found himself winning the overall ranking at the end of this three days competition. Twenty-three-year-old Gagnon saw his results getting better and better all through the weekend to climb the ranking and finish on a perfect note winning both the 500m (podium on the picture) and 1000m on Sunday. ''Even if it was an important competition, I just wanted to have fun. It's only before the last race that I started figuring I could win and that I wanted to win. I am proud that I was able to prove to myself that I could win races and competitions'' said Gagnon.
Ontario’s Alphonse Ouimette, who’s been training with the ladies’ national team this season, had a great competition getting on four podiums on a possibility of six. His constancy helped him finish second overall just behind Gagnon. National development team member Jordan Pierre-Gilles finished third overall with his solid performances on 500m and 1000m. William Dandjinou, who recently participated in the World junior championships and Canada Games, finished in fourth place. The main highlight of his competition was his victory in the 500m (1). Keegan Christ from Saskatchewan and Manuel Falardeau from Quebec finished fifth and sixth both winning one of the six events of the weekend.
Ontario’s Alphonse Ouimette, who’s been training with the ladies’ national team this season, had a great competition getting on four podiums on a possibility of six. His constancy helped him finish second overall just behind Gagnon. National development team member Jordan Pierre-Gilles finished third overall with his solid performances on 500m and 1000m. William Dandjinou, who recently participated in the World junior championships and Canada Games, finished in fourth place. The main highlight of his competition was his victory in the 500m (1). Keegan Christ from Saskatchewan and Manuel Falardeau from Quebec finished fifth and sixth both winning one of the six events of the weekend.
Claudia Gagnon won the ladies’ classification
National team member Claudia Gagnon from Saguenay, Quebec won the ladies’ overall ranking winning four of the six distances. The skater who raced in her first few World cup events this season added a second and a sixth place to her four wins. Pyeongchang 2018 olympian Jamie Macdonald finished second in the overall classification with one gold and three silver medals. Former national team member Genève Bélanger, who’s been challenged by injuries in the last two years, ended her comeback season with a third position at the canadian selections. She got on three podiums during the weekend and will most likely take back her spot on the national team. Danaé Blais and Audrey Phaneuf, both on the national team, finished fourth and fifth respectively. Blais, who like Gagnon took part in her first World cups in career this season won this weekend’s 1000m (2). New-Brunswick’s skater Rikki Doak finished in sixth place overall, thanks to her two bronze medals on 500m.
This weekend’s full results are available HERE
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23 février 2019
Canada Games: Team Quebec dominates the short track competitions
Quebec skaters were very strong in the short track speed skating events of the 2019 Canada Winter Games in Red Deer, Alberta.
By Jackob Savard
During this five-day competition, every skater competed on 500m, 1000m, 1500m and 3000m points race. They also battled in the team relay event.
Team Quebec at the top
The men’s team from Quebec won every gold medals and eleven medals out of the thirteen available. William Dandjinou and Nicolas Perreault both won three gold medals and two silver medals in five events. Dandjinou established a new Canada Winter Games record on 500m. Their teammate Manuel Falardeau will come back home with two individual bronze medals and a gold in the relay. Falardeau smashed the Canada Games record on 1500m with a time of 2:12.920. A performance that almost got him a new Canadian junior record who's been stuck at 2:12.702 since 2005. Will Falardeau try to beat this record at the Canadian national selections in a couple of weeks in Calgary?
It was a similar situation in the ladies’ competition as Quebec’s girls won ten out of thirteen medals including three of the five gold medals up for grab. Juliette Brindamour collected a medal in every distances. She got three gold medals, a silver and a bronze. Roxanne Beaudry, Kélian Quevillon and Léa Chamberland-Dostie all won at least one individual medal and participated in Team Quebec’s victory in the ladies’ relay.
Other provinces on the podiums
Albertan skaters offered great performances at home. Matej Pederson and Brendan Yamada both won an individual bronze medal and led their team to relay silver. Yamada finished in the top 5 on every distances. Their teammate Mathias Bathe had a great 1000m and finished fifth. Hee Won Son took gold and led her team to relay silver in the ladies’ competition.
Ontario’s Claudia Heeney, recently a World junior championship medalist, continued her great season collecting a silver medal on 500m and the gold medal in the 3000m points race.
The men’s team from New-Brunswick took bronze in the men’s relay while it was British Columbia who took bronze in the ladies’ relay.
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