Team leaders should arrive in Gangneung on February 8, when their traditional meeting will take place, followed by a draw.
A day later, the opening ceremony will take place, after which sets of awards will be played at a distance of 3000 meters for women and 5000 meters for men.
On Friday, February 10, women and men will compete in the 500m, as well as in team races.
Then the fans are waiting for the competition at a distance of 1000 meters for women and men. In addition, the women will run 5,000 meters and the men 10,000 meters.
On the last day of the world championship, we are waiting for one and a half kilometer races, as well as mass starts.
Full World Cup schedule:
Thursday, February 9, 2017: opening ceremony, 3000 m for women, 5000 m for men;
Friday, February 10, 2017: 500 m for women, 500 m for men, team race for women, team race for men;
Saturday, February 11, 2017: 5000 m for women, 1000 m for men, 1000 m for women, 10000 for men;
Sunday, February 12, 2017: 1500 m for women, 1500 m for men, mass start for women, mass start for men.
Russians and competitors
The Russian Skating Union in early February named the composition of the team that will go to South Korea for the World Championships.
Women's The national team will be represented by Anna Yurakova, Olga Graf, Natalya Voronina, Olga Fatkulina, Nadezhda Aseeva, Ekaterina Lobysheva and Ekaterina Shikhova, while Elizaveta Kazelina will be a substitute.
IN male Ruslan Murashov, Alexey Esin, Artem Kuznetsov, Denis Yuskov, Sergey Gryaztsov, Sergey Trofimov, Danil Sinitsin and Danila Semerikov will perform part of the competition.
Women's Perspectives
Olga Fatkulina And Nadezhda Aseeva will represent Russia at a distance of 500 meters, where they will face a difficult struggle with athletes from Asia - the only ones who have a result of less than 38 seconds this season.
Fatkulina overcame the 500-meter race in 38.10 seconds at the end of December last year, but this will not be enough to fight for prizes, so some reserves will have to be found.
Aseeva does have a result of 38.61 seconds, so she is not among the favorites, but she is quite capable of competing for the top ten.
Olga Fatkulina
At a kilometer distance to Fatkulina will join Ekaterina Lobysheva And Ekaterina Shikhova, which are ranked among the middle peasants of the world championship.
Fatkulina is fifth in the World Cup at this distance, so she is able to compete for high places. Her main rivals will be an American Heather Richardson, Dutch Marrit Lenstra as well as Japanese Miho Takagi And Nao Kodaira.
At a distance of 1500 meters, our main hopes are connected with Olga Graf ranked sixth in the World Cup. However, it will be difficult for her to fight Heather Richardson, Marrit Lenstroy And Irene Wust- they all ran out of 1 minute 56 seconds. prospects Lobysheva And Shikhova foggy here.
Anna Yurakova comes second in the World Cup at distances of 3000 m and 5000 m, therefore it is deservedly considered a contender for the highest places. According to the points scored, she loses only to the Czech Martine Sablikova. Here they will play for Russia Natalia Voronina And Olga Graf.
In the team race Russia has the fourth result of the season in the world - 3 minutes 2.78 seconds. We only lose Holland, Japan And Germany which, however, can be resisted.
As for the mass start, we will not see the Russians here, and the main favorites will be the Korean Kim Bo Reum, Canadian Ivani Blonden, Italian Francesca Lollobrigida, American Mia Manganello and Chinese Lee Dan.
Male Perspectives
A distance of 500 meters for men is rightly considered Russian. It's been here for a long time Pavel Kulizhnikov holding the world record. However, he will not go to South Korea, as he does not have time to collect his better shape, so the honor of the flag will have to be defended Ruslan Murashov.
Murashov has the best result of the season in the world - 34.50 seconds. However, his main competitors, including the Dutchman Dai Dai Ntab, Chinese Tingyi Gao and American Mitchel Whitmore, not so far away. We also expect a good result from Artem Kuznetsov.
results Murashova at a distance of 1000 meters are not so good. He, like another Russian Denis Yuskov, this season has not yet run out of 1 minute 9 seconds, unlike seven athletes, one of whom is Kulizhnikov.
But Yuskov quite competitive at one and a half kilometers. It has a result of 1 minute 45.41 seconds. Only the Dutchman ran better this season Kjeld Neuss. Do not discount the American Joey Robe. Here we will cheer for the Russians Sergei Trofimov And Sergei Gryaztsov.
Denis Yuskov
Danila Semerikov he will run at a distance of 5000 meters, but it will not be easy for him to catch even the top ten. The Dutch have the best results here - Sven Kramer, Jorrit Bergsma And Eric Jan Coyman.A similar situation is at 10 kilometers, where the New Zealander will fight the Dutch Peter Mikael, Canadian Ted-Jan Blumen and German Patrick Beckert.
in a team race Russia does not qualify for either the World Cup rankings or best results season. Nevertheless, our team is listed as the first among the substitutes, so it retains a chance to compete for medals.
In the mass start, the Korean has the best chance of winning Lee Seung Hoon, Italians Andrea Giovannini And Fabio Francolini, American Joey Robe and Dutch Jorrit Bergsma.
Broadcasts
It will be possible to follow the World Speed Skating Championships at separate distances on "Match! Arena". The TV channel will broadcast live from South Korea.
The 112th World Championships in speed skating in classic all-around among men and the 76th among women will be held March 9-11, 2018 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The competition will be attended by 24 athletes in the male and female parts of the program. The final distance will be attended by 8 athletes for men and women, who will be selected from the first 16 athletes based on the results of three distances. The selection will be carried out according to two lists: according to the results of performance at a distance of 5000 meters (3000 m for women) and according to the results of three distances. Competitors ranked first through eighth in both lists qualify directly.
This year one of the oldest sports tournaments planet, the ISU World Speed Skating Championship returns to its birthplace. Dutchman Jaap Eden won the first official championship World Skating Championships in Amsterdam 125 years ago. In 1893 the tournament was held on the Museum Square, this year it will take place on Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam, where the 1928 Games were held. This will be the first world speed skating championship since 2001, held on outdoors. Sven Kramer will be aiming for a record tenth title while Irene Wüst is aiming for her seventh title.
For the World Cup, a temporary artificial ice rink called The Coolste Baan van Nederland was created at the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam. Four years ago, the stadium was already experimenting with an ice track when the stadium hosted the national championship. Bert Bomsma, Ice Meister of the famous Thialf, prepared the ice for Amsterdam as well. The open rink championship is a more difficult challenge for both Ice Meister and skaters due to the uncertain and ever-changing weather conditions. 17 years ago in Budapest, at the last world championship on an open rink, the title was won by the legendary Rintje Riitsma (Netherlands) and Annie Friesinger (Germany). This time four-time champion Mira Riitsma is the tournament director.
List of participants
Despite Kramer's dominance of every major competition in the past decade, the Dutch record holder will face stiff competition in defending his title. Sverre Lunde Pedersen, who showed outstanding form when he dragged Norway to the gold medal in the Pyeongchang team race, could give a new impetus to the development of speed skating in Norway if he becomes the first Norwegian absolute champion in the all-around classic after Johan-Olaf Koss in 1994. Finding a second wind in Pyeongchang and the Olympic title, Howard Bekko, who already has four World Cup silver medals to his credit, should also not be prematurely discounted. In addition to the Norwegians, Canada's Ted-Jan Blumen will also be aiming for a podium spot. He knows how to beat Kramer by winning Olympic gold at ten. A new generation of Dutch people should also demonstrate their potential: Patrick Rust and Marcel Bosker.
The Russian national team is represented by Sergey Trofimov, Sergey Gryaztsov and Danila Semerikov.
In the women's part of the competition, the rivalry of veterans in the face of Irene Wust, Martina Sablikova and the new wave, which is represented by Miho Takagi, Antoinette de Jong, is expected. While Wüst is a 6-time world champion and Sablikova is 4-time, the youth only have one bronze medal each. Since 2009, no skater except Wüst and Sablikova have received the champion's laurel wreath. Olympic champion and the leader of the national team of the country of the rising sun Takagi can become the first Japanese world champion in the all-around in the history of speed skating.
The Russian team is represented by: Natalia Voronina, Yulia Skokova, Evgenia Lalenkova
Broadcasts
Live broadcasts of the championship four continents will be available on the following resources:
ISU Skating Channel
Sportsbox
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MATCH! Arena
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On foreign TV channels NOS.nl, cbc.ca broadcasts are available using VPN (hola.org).
Competition schedule (Moscow time)
| 21.30 | 500 meters (Women) |
| 22.15 | 3000 meters (Women) |
Skating rarely brings doping scandals. The most famous of the recent cases is Claudia Pechstein, who also performed in Kolomna. The legendary German was suspended from the Vancouver Olympics due to a hereditary blood disease, but then ISU officials admitted that it was their mistake, after which Claudia began to sue the international federation. There was also the disqualification of Denis Yuskov for marijuana, which was based on letters from colleagues in the national team and was canceled after the change in leadership of the TFR. Thunder from a clear sky in early March was a series of news that many Russian athletes were caught using mildronate, banned since January 1: Maria Sharapova, Ekaterina Bobrova, Alexander Markin, Semyon Elistratov, Pavel Kulizhnikov and many others. Athletes often represented sports where the use of doping does not provide a clear advantage (for example, volleyball), as in cyclic athletics or cross-country skiing. It is not yet clear how the story with Kulizhnikov will end, but reasonable people understand that speed skating is quite clean and the victories of Russian athletes are not in the nature of targeted doping. All the more surprising is the position of the leadership of the TFR, which made complete fools of themselves by inventing ridiculous conspiracies. If Alexey Kravtsov were a normal leader, he would have resigned long ago for the complete collapse of work (medicine + personnel policy in the short track and skating teams + PR). And so the whole positive effect from the Kolomna World Cup was destroyed.
01. Opening.
In speed skating, there are three world championships - at separate distances, in classic and. The first one is considered the most prestigious, since it completely repeats the program of the Olympic Games, where the all-around is not represented. The World Single Distance Championships have been held annually since 1996, with the exception, for obvious reasons, of the Olympic seasons. For Russia, the tournament in Kolomna was the second after the test pre-Olympic championship in Sochi in 2013.
At the tournament in Kolomna, 14 sets of medals were played: these are 10 usual distances (men - 500, 1000, 1500, 5000 and 10,000 meters; women - 500, 1000, 1500, 3000 and 5000 meters), as well as team races and mass starts . All this was more or less evenly distributed over four days. A total of 161 participants from 24 countries competed. The Russian national team was represented by 19 people (11 men and 8 women). There are a lot of world champions and the International Skating Union plans to alternate annually tournaments at separate distances and in all-around (sprint and classic, combining them into one), adding a European distance championship. Here, however, a very dubious decision. IN figure skating There is championship of four continents, which is not inferior to the championship of the Old World, but what then should athletes from the USA, Canada, Japan, Korea and China do?
03. Head coach Russian national team Konstantin Poltavets.
A year ago in Moscow passed. This is a more dynamic view, although less objective. In speed skating, you compete only with yourself and a stopwatch. This is what makes him great! What are you ready for, so much you run. Just a gift for coaches - the result in the palm of your hand. No judges, pushes and other factors. Running disciplines athletics more subjective, because there is wind, and a lot depends on the track (in skates, this is true at five hundred), and on rivals in the race. There are more leaders in long skates. In short track skating, everyone runs the same distances, but here there is a division into sprinters, stayers and middle-distance specialists.
04. Skating center "Kolomna" from the inside.
Major speed skating competitions are the struggle and victories of outstanding athletes. The Dutchmen became the triumphs of Kolomna, who won two distances each. Sven Kramer(5000 and 10,000) and Jorin Ter Mors(1000 and 1500), Russian Pavel Kulizhnikov(500 and 1000) and Czech Martina Sablikova(3000 and 5000). Significant victories won Denis Yuskov(1500) and Korean Lee Sang-hwa(500). For the first time in history, a double was made in the sprint - earlier, in one championship, an athlete did not win both distances (500 and 1000 meters). Sven Kramer became the 23-time world champion and such an achievement is beyond my head. In gymnastics, athletes are less titled. Full results are available on the official page of the tournament.
The short track is the domain of the Koreans, and in classic skating the Dutch have the lead. Everyone remembers how the Netherlands was in the group of leaders at the Sochi Olympics medal count. Except for one "bronze", all medals were won by skaters from the country of tulips (8-7-8). Speed skating is a cult thing for the Netherlands. in competition there full stands, most sponsors in the skating world are Dutch, and canal skating is a popular pastime in the winter. The dominance of athletes from the Netherlands is hardly annoying. Firstly, they do not win at all distances. Secondly, they behave quite adequately.
Russia has only three (or rather - as many as three) indoor skating centers - in Moscow, Chelyabinsk and Kolomna. In the city near Moscow, the palace appeared in 2006 and since then it has hosted the European Championship (2008), three stages of the World Cup, and also hosts most of the major all-Russian competitions. Kolomna is famous for its. By and large, except for the Kremlin and the skating center located next to it, there is nothing more interesting in the city. And the city does not have smart leaders either. In the days of the World Cup, then she drowned, after which she provided residents and guests with the opportunity to slide on the ice anywhere in the city. International competitions should be held in Russia, but for a start it would be worth bringing the cities into at least some order.
07. Arena outside.
The ticket program, as is often the case, was not fully understood. Tickets did not seem to be on sale long before the start of the competition, but they were quietly handed out to those who fussed and knew how to get them. On Thursday and Friday, the six-thousandth stands, in principle, were not completely filled, and on two days off they turned out to be crowded only at Kulizhnikov's races, after which they promptly emptied.
GANNEUN ( South Korea), Feb 12 - R-Sport, Veronika Gibadieva. Russian skaters won three medals at the World Single Distance Championships, which ended in South Korea's Gangneung.
The winners of the tournament, which took place on olympic ice rink Games-2018, were Denis Yuskov (silver, 1500 m) and Ruslan Murashov (bronze, 500 m), as well as Natalya Voronina, Olga Graf and Ekaterina Shikhova, who won bronze in the team race.
Sprint
At the current World Championships, for the first time, medals at a distance of 500 m were played according to the results of one race, and not two, as it was before. "Initially, I was against this idea," recalled the coach of Russian sprinters Dmitry Dorofeev. There was no one to defend the title - the reigning world champion Pavel Kulizhnikov remained in Russia and is working on recovery from injury. But the Russian team included the leader of the World Cup at this distance, Ruslan Murashov, who, as he himself admitted, immediately realized how unlucky he was with the draw.
Silver and two bronze medals for the Russian Federation: the results of the World Cup in speed skating at separate distances >>>
Murashova summed up the first step. “It seems like I overclocked well, but I expected more, there was a failure at the first step. I worked on the bugs, changed the position a little, it’s still unusual. All this has affected,” he said.
Murashov eventually became the third, and the Dutchman Jan Smeekens won gold for the first time in his career. In the women's sprint, the Russians remained out of the fight for medals, and the entire 500m podium was taken by representatives of Asia - Nao Kodaira (Japan), Lee San Hwa (South Korea) and Yu Jing (China), respectively. Olympic medalist in this type of program Olga Fatkulina became the 12th. “I’m thinking about what I did wrong. I don’t understand yet, I’m scrolling through this whole situation inside myself. I can’t find excuses for running at five hundred yet,” she said.
Length and team
On long distances in the Russian team, Anna Yurakova was the closest to the podium, who had already climbed the podium at the World Cup stages this season. At a distance of 5000 meters in Gangneung, she became fourth, 0.13 seconds behind the podium. “At such a distance, this gap cannot even be called a loss. She did well, this is a good result a year before the Games,” Alexei Kravtsov, president of the Russian Skating Union (SKR), assessed her performance.
But the Russians “ran” to bronze in the team race. At the same time, the team made its debut at the World Cup with a new line-up. "Katya Shikhova with us last time I ran the team race in the World Cup final, but then she was only gaining her condition after missing the post-Olympic season," said coach Pavel Abratkevich.
"We were very tuned in to this team race, especially since the competition is now much higher. It is felt that everyone is tuning in to the Olympics, because there are fewer participants here and it seems like the medal could be closer. In this regard, of course, it is important to show good results at a distance of 3000 m. We have a reserve, and we will work on it," Olga Graf, the bronze medalist of the 2014 Games in this type of program, promised.
Yuskov's silver, Cramer's and Bergsma's gold double
On the last day of the competition, the team counted, first of all, on the three-time 1500-meter world champion Denis Yuskov, who won silver for the team at this distance. Yuskov lost to the Dutchman Kjeld Neiss, with whom he ran in the same pair.
“It was my best lorry of the season in every way. Acceleration, lap 1 and lap 2 were ok, and lap 3 was good too. Kjeld was just faster today. I would say it wasn’t me who lost today.” "and Kjeld won. On the other hand, this result is a very, very good motivation for the next year before the Olympics. This season I won the World Cup once, and Kjeld was not there. So no surprises. Everything is fine, though, Of course, I really wanted to win the fourth title in a row on the lorry, but the series was interrupted," Yuskov said after the finish.
"Well, the Dutch, they just made a little mistake this season, I hope so," added Yuskov, referring to the statistics according to which the "orange" in Gangneung held their most successful single-distance world championship in their history in terms of the number of victories.
Two of the eight gold medals of the Dutch on account of Sven Kramer, who won the 5000 m and 10000 m. On the "top ten", ahead of Jorrit Bergsma, Kramer was completely close to the world record, but on the first day of the competition he noted that he felt the wind in his back , and this could affect the result, especially the "length". Also, the Dutch won both team races, and Kjeld Neiss, who had never won the World Championships at separate distances, won the 1000 m besides the lorry. that next year I will return home from Gangneung with the same medal," she admitted.
There were a lot of interesting things in Kannene: Czech Martina Sablikova won the ninth gold medal at some distances in her career, 44-year-old German Claudia Pechstein - 30th medal, and does not intend to stop there. The New Zealanders were twice on the podium, and Heather Bergsma became the first skater in history to win gold in this tournament in the 500m, 1000m and 1500m.
Everyone was pleased with the fact that the ice on the rink is fast - closer in quality to Calgary than to Seoul. And in general, everything on the Olympic arena of the 2018 Games was held at a decent level.
“We can say that the arena is 90% ready to host the Olympic Games,” German Panov, an honorary member of the International Skating Union, told the R-Sport agency. “Of course, a number of points will be worked out for the Olympics. We will once again express all our wishes to the organizers. Additionally, we will come here with an inspection in May, then on August 28 to test all the technologies again."
Well, then the Olympics are just a stone's throw away.
Skating ( speed run on skates) - olympic view a sport in which it is necessary to overcome a certain distance on skates faster than rivals. Currently, speed skating competitions are held on vicious circle. Speed skating competitions are held separately for men and women.
The history of the emergence and development of speed skating
Speed skating is one of the most ancient sports. Archaeological finds indicate that people used the prototypes of skates more than 3,000 years ago. For the first time in the literature about skates, the monk Stephanius mentioned in the work “The Chronicle of the Noble City of London” in 1174.
In 1742, the first skating clubs began to appear in Scotland.
In 1763, the first skating competitions were officially recorded, but at that time there were no clearly defined rules and it was just a race.
In 1772, the first rules for speed skating appeared.
Since 1830, skating clubs began to appear in England, America and Russia. In 1879, the first national championship was organized in England.
In 1889, the first World Ice Skating Championships were held in the Netherlands. The winner was Russian athlete Alexander Panshin.
In 1892, the International Skating Union (International Skating Federation) was founded, which gave the competitions of 1889 the status of professional ones and such competitions began to be held annually. The International Skating Union organizes and conducts speed skating competitions.
European Championships for men have been held since 1893, and for women since 1970.
Speed skating has been part of the program of the Winter Olympic Games since their inception. Initially, the races were held at four distances - 500, 1500, 5000, 10,000 meters and in the all-around.
In 1967, the International Skating Union took under its auspices the short track, which began to be competed in 1981. In 1992, short track speed skating was included in the program of the Olympic Games.
Speed skating rules
In competitions, athletes run in pairs counterclockwise. At the start, one skater is on the outside lane and the other on the inside, and after completing each lap, the skaters must change lanes. When changing lanes, there are situations when athletes find themselves on a straight line next to each other. If this happens, then the athlete on the inner lane must let the runner on the outer lane pass. Failure to comply with this rule will result in disqualification. Team races and mass start take place exclusively on the inside track.
In short track skating, athletes also move counter-clockwise, but up to six athletes can take part in the race. Skaters are not allowed to interfere with or help other participants in any way, as well as to knock down the chips that limit the track and to take the foot forward at the finish line, tearing the skate off the ice.
Speed skating track
The track for speed skating is an oval 400 or much less 333 meters long. The inner turning radius is 25-26 meters. Straight sections of the route are approximately equal to 100 meters.
The speed skating track has two lanes (internal and external). One of the straight sections is transitional for the athletes, on this section there is a change of lanes at each lap.
The short track track is 111.12 meters long, with a turning radius of 8 meters and a distance between roundings of 28.85 meters. Usually the track for short track is marked on the hockey field.
Equipment for skaters
For speed skating, they came up with special skates-claps (clap-skate) - special skates for classic running. The blade on such skates is fixed with a special spring hinge and only on the front of the boot. This is done specifically to increase the repulsion phase, and, therefore, allows you to achieve higher speed.
The suit (overalls) for speed skating must repeat the natural shape of the athlete's body. Inserts or elements that change the shape of the body are prohibited. Athletes may wear shin, ankle and knee protection underneath their overalls to protect against injury.
A protective helmet in speed skating must follow the shape of the head.
In short track, athletes additionally wear goggles, gloves, knee pads, and neck protection.
Refereeing
Part panel of judges in international competitions include:
- referee;
- referee assistants;
- starters with assistants;
- judge at the finish line;
- timekeepers (manual timing);
- timekeepers (automatic timing);
- lap counters;
- judges on the track - one at each turn (at the championships of the International Skating Union and at Olympic Games- 2 at each turn);
- transition judge;
- necessary substitutes for referees;
- ice technical expert.
speed skating competition
- The Olympic Games are the most prestigious speed skating championship, held once every four years.
- World Championship (WCH) in speed skating - a series of sports international competitions held International Union skaters.
- European Speed Skating Championship.
- World Cup - Winter Series sports competitions in speed skating held under the auspices of the International Skating Federation.
- National championships.
