The European Short Track Speed Skating Championships is the largest annual continental competition, and is held just a month before the start of the Winter Olympic Games in Pyeongchang. The championship will be a very important testing stage sports uniform and a lead-up to the main start of the four-year anniversary for those who have medal ambitions in Korea.
The 22nd European Championship will attract best athletes Europe, it is expected that from 12 to 14 January 2018 at the EnergieVerbund Arena in Dresden (Germany) more than 130 athletes from 27 countries will take part in the competition.
Championship Europe will take place in Dresden for the third time. Only Turin has hosted the European Championship the same number of times. Modern ice palace, located in Sportpark Ostragehege, seats over 4,000 fans. The ice here is very good quality, which allowed the Chinese woman Wang Meng to set a world record for five hundred in Dresden in 2013.
European Championship schedule
For the second time in the 22-year history of the event, European Championship medal winners will be determined both at individual distances and in the all-around.
On Friday, January 12th there will be qualifying rounds. Saturday 13 January will see the men's and women's 1500m semi-finals and finals, followed by the 500m semi-finals and finals. At the end of the first competition day, the winners and runners-up in the two distances will receive their medals.
The European Championships continue on Sunday with the men's and women's 1000m semi-finals and finals. The 3000m super final will determine the all-around champions, followed by exciting relay races to cap off the weekend.
Broadcasts
Broadcasts of the European Championship will be available on the portal sportbox.ru and on the ISU Skating Channel (http://www.eurovisionsports.tv/isu/)
January 13 – beginning at 15.00 (Moscow time)
- Final 1500 meters (Women) – 15.50 hours.
- Final 1500 meters (Men) – 16.05 hours.
- 500 meters final (Women) – 17.48 hours.
- 500 meters final (Men) – 17.57 hours.
January 14 – beginning at 15.00 (Moscow time)
- Final 1000 meters (Women) – 16.24 hours.
- 1000 meters final (Men) – 16.35 hours.
- Superfinal 3000 meters (Women) – 17.00 h.
- Superfinal 3000 meters (Men) – 17.08 hours.
- 3000 meter relay final (Women) – 17.32 hours.
- 5000 meter relay final (Men) – 17.41 hours.
Women
Last year's world champion Eliza Christie from Great Britain will not participate in the current European Championships as she continues to recover from a hip injury that the athlete received while competing at the ISU World Cup in Budapest in September 2017. The best short track speed skater in the world last season aims to fully recover and reach peak form in a month in Pyeongchang.
Over the past decade, Italian legend Arianna Fontana has been on the podium 8 times in the women's section of the European Championships program, and she has won the main all-around title six times (2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2017).
She has faced stiff competition in recent years from Christie, who won gold in 2015 and 2016. However, last year home ice in Turin, in the absence of the British representative, 27-year-old Arianna Fontana again won the top title. Of course, in Dresden too, Fontana, recently selected as Italy's flag bearer at the Winter Olympics opening ceremony, will be keen to bolster her team's confidence in her star potential.
Fontana has been on the podium at this season's World Cup several times. She won silver medals in Budapest and Shanghai in the 500m, and bronze in Shanghai in the 1000m. Her teammate Martina Valcepina, 25, also impressed with her speed and strategy, taking bronze in the 500m at the ECM in Dordrecht and Seoul.
Other contenders for medals include two representatives of the Dutch national team, Suzanne Schulting and Jara van Kerkhof.
Men
In the men's part of the European Championships program over the past two years, there has been no equal to Semyon Elistratov, who replaced the Dutchman Shinki Knegt, the 2015 all-around champion, on the European throne.
Knegt is in excellent form this season. The 28-year-old Dutch short track speed skater has a good chance of winning olympic medals and consistently improves his results on the way to the Olympics, having 5 ECM medals to his name: bronze at 1500 m in Budapest, bronze (1500 m), silver (500 m) and gold (1000 m) in Dordrecht and silver (1500 m) in Shanghai.
Who will be his main opponent this weekend in Germany? Brilliant brothers from Hungary, Shaolin Sandor Liu and Shaoan Liu. Shaolin won gold at the ECM in Budapest in the 500m and 1000m in Seoul. The brothers also made the podium, finishing second (Shaolin) and third (Shao'an) respectively in Seoul (500m) and Shanghai (1000m). Often brothers help each other by jumping out from behind and making an unexpected dash.
Russian national team
Russian short track speed skaters spent the first part of the season very unconvincingly. Formally, following the results of the World Cup, the Russian team completed the main task: it received three (the maximum number) tickets to the Games in each of the three men’s distances, two in each of the women’s and in both relay races. However, no high results were shown: Russian athletes took part in the main finals only a few times, and we won only three medals at four stages, all of them for women. In men best result Semyon Elistratov made it to the finals in the 1000 in Holland, which ended in a violation of the rules and disqualification.
Based on the results of the first part of the season, only Sofya Prosvirnova in the 500 and the women's relay team can be considered real contenders for European Championship medals.
The Russian national team at the European Championship will be represented by Viktor An, Semyon Elistratov, Alexander Shulginov, Denis Airapetyan and Pavel Sitnikov.
The women's half of the team was led by the country's strongest short track speed skater Sofya Prosvirnova. Together with her, the team included Ekaterina Efremenkova, Ekaterina Konstantinova, Tatyana Borodulina and Emina Malagich.
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DRESDEN (Germany), January 14 - RIA Novosti, Anatoly Samokhvalov. short track racing, which ended on Sunday in Dresden, Germany, brought Russian athletes eight medals, of which only one was gold - in the women's relay.
Medals were brought to the Russians at individual distances (two silvers - at 1500 and 1000 meters), (silver at 500 m), Sofya Prosvirnova (bronze at 500 m). The European champion in the all-around was the Dutchman Shinki Knegt, who won all three distances; Elistratov won the bronze medal. For women, Arianna Fontana from Italy became the absolute European champion for the second season in a row, Prosvirnova took bronze. On the last day of the tournament, the Russian women took gold in the relay race, the men won silver in this type of program.
Gold in women's relay
The Russian women's team consisting of Tatyana Borodulina, Emina Malagic, and Ekaterina Efremenkova actually contested highest award in the 3000 meter relay with the Hungarians, since the French women fell during the race, and the Germans a little earlier. Couldn't reach final A strong teams The Netherlands and Italy.
The men's relay team consisting of Semyon Elistratov, Denis Airapetyan, Victor An and Alexander Shulginov tried to the last to fight for gold, An acted as the finisher, but one and a half laps before the finish, Knegt brought the Dutch forward, as a result, the Russian short track speed skaters were left with silver, the third are Hungarians.
A gloomy double finale absolute champion Europe
On the last day, the athletes competed in the 1000 meter individual distance, after which they finally allocated places in the all-around in the 3000 meter Superfinal (there is no separate award in this discipline).
In the “thousand” category, only Elistratov made it to the finals among the Russians. Viktor An dropped out in the quarterfinals, finishing last against not the strongest opponents, and there were no apparent reasons to drop out of the fight. Denis Hayrapetyan was disqualified for a foul against Italian Tommaso Dotti.
Elistratov's main rival Knegt made two mistakes in the semifinals and finished only third, but then the judges saw a violation against him and allowed the leader of the Dutch team to the final. Two laps before the finish, Elistratov took the first position, but two turns later Knegt overtook the Russian and won his third personal victory out of three possible. Elistratov is second, third is Latvian Roberto Pukitis.
In the 3000-meter Superfinal, which serves to distribute places in the all-around, but for which there are no separate awards for success, Elistratov was unable to maintain second position in the all-around (last place in the race itself). The Russian scored 43 points and lost silver to Israeli Vladislav Bykanov (52), after whose victory in the Superfinal at the EnergieVerbund Arena, “Hava Nagila” began to play. Knegt earned 107 points.
Fontana - best second consecutive season
In the women's competition on Sunday, Ekaterina Konstantinova managed to shine, having performed well in the 1500 and 500 meter races. The athlete made it to the semi-finals with difficulty from third place, but there she made a tactically competent overtake and wedged herself into second position between two Dutch women - Suzanne Schulting and Lara van Ruijven.
The leader after the first two days of the tournament, Italian Martina Valcepina, was also left behind in that race. But in the final, the Russian tried to speed up too early and ended up fourth. The current absolute European champion, Italian, won, Schulting took second place, and German Anna Seidel took third place.
Efremenkova was content with final B, despite a promising race in the semi-finals, which actually ended in loss difficult situation, which was created by Fontana. Prosvirnova took advantage of the confusion, but fell at the turn - the judges considered that the Russian had no violations.
Prosvirnova was the only Russian representative in the Superfinal, which she won and finished third in the all-around with 49 points. Fontana had 84 points, while her compatriot Martina Valcepina, who won silver, had 70.
Sensational victory for Valcepina in a lorry
The first medals at the European Championships were played on Saturday at a distance of 1500 meters. First, the duel between Knegt and Elistratov took place in the semi-finals, which the Russian lost to his long-time opponent.
In the final, the representative of Israel Bykanov interfered with both, and Knegt was the first to overcome this “live” barrier, Elistratov was the second, but already before the last turn it was clear that the Dutchman was winning the first medal of the championship. Elistratov is second, Bykanov is third. Hayrapetyan tried to stay behind Elistratov, but finished fourth.
Viktor An was too clever with tactics in the semi-finals, and when he was forced to “run to the fire”, he fell without violating the rules on anyone’s part and stopped fighting.
In the final of the women's "one and a half" race, Russia was represented by Efremenkova, who performed a beautiful semi-final with two overtakings - first along the outer radius and then along the inner one, which allowed her to take the lead two laps before the finish and break away from her rivals.
The Chelyabinsk short speed skater started the final race successfully and had a real chance of winning gold. At the decisive moment, she tactically correctly blocked the path of Fontana, who was walking along the “big” path, but the Dutchwoman Schulting took the inner path to overtake the Russian. Efremenkova had the skill to not give up her position in a difficult situation, but Schulting broke the rules and “kicked” the Russian woman onto the ice. The Dutchwoman received a disqualification, Efremenkova - fifth place.
An unexpected victory due to incidents along the distance was won by Valcepina, the second by the Dutchwoman Jara van Kerkhof, the third by the not the strongest of the Hungarians, Sara Luka Bacskai.
Prosvirnova, who got into the semi-finals in a race that could have been the final if a different lot had been drawn (among the participants were three Dutch women - Schulting, Lara van Ruijven and van Kerkhof, as well as the Frenchwoman Veronique Pierron and the Polish Natalia Maliszewska), took third place and ended up only in final B , where she finished first, followed by Konstantinova, who made mistakes in the semifinals.
Viktor Ahn's only personal medal
On the same Saturday evening, athletes competed for awards at a distance of 500 meters. The intrigue in the sprint began for the Russians in the quarterfinals, when Elistratov and An got into the same heat. An, who knows how to “sit out” last until the critical moment, this time after a failure in the “one and a half” acted more simply, took the lead, but two laps before the finish he was overtaken by the Frenchman Thibaut Fauconnet, who did not give up first position until the end of the race. An qualified from second place. Elistratov finished third and did not even reach the semifinals.
Ahn eventually made it to the finals, where he fought to the last with both Knegt and the Frenchman Sebastien Lepape. From lap to lap Victor tried to close the gap with Knegt, but he maintained a tiny advantage. An has silver, Lepap has bronze. Hayrapetyan fell in the quarterfinals.
Prosvirnova fought in the main final for gold, but the Italian duo Valcepina - Fontana confidently walked ahead. Valchepina, who was lucky a little earlier in the “one and a half”, finished first, the more titled Fontana was second, and Prosvirnova was pushed aside by the Dutchwoman Van Ruijven just before the finish. As it turned out, she violated the rules, so the Russian woman won bronze. Efremenkova and Konstantinova dropped out of the fight at the quarterfinal stage.
The head coach of the Russian short track speed skating team, Andrei Maksimov, assessed the team's performance in Dresden as good.
“If we sum it up, in some places it worked, in others it didn’t. Of course, the first final day was a mess, the girls didn’t succeed in the 1500 meters. On the second day they caught up and set the final point in the relay. The guys didn’t succeed either, we were in the lead, but on the last day we won silver in the relay, and that’s also not bad,” the coach told reporters. “The European Championship is one of the stages of preparation for. Olympic Games. I hope everything will go well for us at the Olympics."
Elistratov called his all-around result normal and added that he could improve before the Olympics.
“I always say that everything is fine with me, whether I win or not. We are going the right way. In the 3000-meter Superfinal, my task was to preserve my strength as much as possible, because I understood that in the individual all-around I would not win 100 percent, since Shinki definitely became the first,” the athlete told RIA Novosti.
“My task was to save strength for the relay, because I was confident in the team, in the guys. I knew that we could win, and I told Andrei Ivanovich (Maksimov) about this. I just saved my strength in the Superfinal. At this stage, third A place in the all-around is a normal result for me. I can still improve significantly before the Olympics,” he added.
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The European Short Track Speed Skating Championships, which ended on Sunday in Dresden, Germany, brought the Russian team one gold medal, four silver and three bronze medals.
3:04 15.01.2018
The European Short Track Speed Skating Championships, which ended on Sunday in Dresden, Germany, brought the Russian team one gold medal. On the last day of the competition, the Russian team became first in the women's relay at a distance of 3000 m.
This gold became the only one for Russian team at the last tournament. Also, domestic short track speed skaters have four silver medals and three bronze medals. Semyon Elistratov took second at distances of 1000 and 1500 m, Viktor An won another silver at 500 m. Sofia Prosvirnova won two bronze medals (500 m and all-around), Elistratov also took third place in the all-around.
In the medal standings of the tournament in Dresden, the Russian team came third, losing to the Netherlands team, which has five gold and two silver medals, and the Italian team (four gold and two silver). Russian short track speed skaters failed to repeat last year's success at the European Championships in Turin, Italy, where they won three gold, three silver and four bronze awards and won the medal standings.
"The team has the resources to perform successfully at the Games"
Summing up the results of the tournament in a conversation with TASS, head coach national team Andrei Maksimov noted that the team needs to work on tactics before the 2018 Games.
“The European Championship is one of the stages of preparation for the Olympics, we won’t draw any conclusions yet. Before the Games we need to do tactical work, and with physical condition We're fine. You can give an excellent mark when everyone has gold medals, and everything is fine with us,” the specialist said.
On the first day of the European Championship, Russian short track speed skaters were able to win only two silver and one bronze.
“On Saturday, we didn’t do well for the girls at the 1500 m distance - we were counting on prizes, but a number of tactical mistakes did not allow them to take part in the final. At 500 m, everything seemed to work out well, Sonya [Prosvirnova] won bronze, but we We always want a little more. After returning home, we will analyze the championship, watch the videos and correct the mistakes we made here,” Maksimov said.
On the eve of the European Championship, the Russian team held a training camp in South Korea. According to the President of the Russian Skating Union (SKR) Alexei Kravtsov, which he expressed to TASS, this training camp affected the performance of domestic short track skaters in Germany.
“The team performed well, but, of course, not brilliantly, as everyone has become accustomed to lately. Past championship Europe became a certain stage of preparation for the Olympic Games, and this preparation was not easy, because the guys only returned from a rather intense training camp in Korea on December 31, they have not yet fully recovered, but there is a reserve in terms of physics,” Kravtsov noted.
“We also performed quite confidently in the personal events, not without mistakes, but short track is short track. In general, everything is fine,” he said.
The final training camps for Russian short track speed skaters before the Games will be held in Seoul.
“I see that the guys at the training camp improved in those components that there were questions about during the World Cup. I expect that by the beginning of the Olympic Games the guys will add more, they have the resources for a successful performance in Pyeongchang,” Kravtsov concluded.
The 2018 Olympic Games will be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from February 9 to 25. The short track speed skating competition will take place from February 10 to 22.
The final training camps for Russian short track speed skaters before the Games will be held in Seoul. “I see that the guys at the training camp improved in those components that there were questions about during the World Cup. I hope that by the beginning of the Olympic Games the guys will add more, they have the resources for a successful performance in Pyeongchang,” concluded Kravtsov.
The 2018 Olympic Games will be held in Pyeongchang, South Korea, from February 9 to 25. The short track speed skating competition will take place from February 10 to 22.
On January 14, 2018, the European Short Track Speed Skating Championships ended in the German city of Dresden. On the last day of the competition, the Russian team became first in the women's relay at a distance of 3000 m. This gold was the only one for the Russian team at the last tournament. Also, domestic short track speed skaters have four silver and three bronze medals. Semyon Elistratov took second at distances of 1000 and 1500 m, Viktor An won another silver at 500 m. Sofia Prosvirnova won two bronze medals (500 m and all-around), Elistratov also took third place in the all-around.
In the medal standings of the tournament in Dresden, the Russian team came third, losing to the Netherlands team, which has five gold and two silver medals, and the Italian team (four gold and two silver). Russian short track speed skaters were unable to repeat last year's success at the European Championships in Turin, Italy, where they won three gold, three silver and four bronze medals and won the medal standings.
Summing up the results of the tournament, head coach of the national team Andrei Maksimov noted that the team needs to work on tactics before the 2018 Games. “The European Championship is one of the stages of preparation for the Olympics, we won’t draw any conclusions yet. Before the Games we need to do tactical work, but with our physical condition everything is fine. You can give an excellent mark when everyone has gold medals, and we are doing well,” said the coach.
On the eve of the European Championship, the Russian team held a training camp in South Korea. According to the President of the Russian Skating Union (SKR) Alexei Kravtsov, this training camp affected the performance of domestic short track skaters in Germany. “The team performed well, but, of course, not brilliantly, as everyone has become accustomed to lately. The last European Championship became a certain stage of preparation for the Olympic Games, and this preparation was not easy, because the guys only returned from a rather intense training camp in Korea on December 31, they have not yet fully recovered, but there is a reserve in terms of physics,” Kravtsov noted.
