Short Track#ShortTrack #OneHandDown
2018 ISU
The second leg of the Short Track World Cup took place at the Salt Lake City weekend. Next stage from 7 to 9 December in Almaty.
Monday 12 November 2018 4 minutes reading time
The Chinese Wu Dajing confirms the ruler of the 500 meters where he puts the fifth consecutive win in the World Cup, three first places in this season to which are added the two victories in the last two stages of last season, interspersed dall'Oro olympic of PyeongChang. The superiority of the twenty-four year old Jjamusi is almost embarrassing, the Chinese competes with him in all the race rounds and in the final he imposes himself in world record time on the Olympic Bronze, the Korean Lim Hyo Jun, and on the Hungarian of Chinese father. Shaoang Liu. The Azzurri Mattia Antonioli, Marco Giordano and Andrea Cassinelli fail to qualify for the main draw.
In the 1000 meter Saturday race, the victory goes to the Hungarian Shaolin Sandor Liu despite failing to try the team of the Magyars to launch Shaoang Liu towards the crystal ball after the victory of Calgary. On the second step of the podium the Chinese Ren Ziwei and on the third the Korean Park Ji Won while Shaoang Liu is penalized. The outcome is completely different in the Sunday race which sees the victory of the Korean Hong Kyung-Hwan which precedes the thirty-three-year-old Frenchman Thibaut Fauconnet and the Russian Denis Ayrapetyan. The best of the Azzurri is Yuri Confortola who in the second race closes to fourth place the final B for the ninth overall square.
In the 1500 meters the Olympic Silver is imposed on the distance, the Dutchman Sjinkie Knegt who wins the victory in front of the Korean Lee June Seo and the 21 year old Canadian Steven Dubois who hits the podium at the second stage of the World Cup in his career. Tommaso Dotti reaches the semi-finals where he suffers a penalty. In the men's relay the Hungarians Csaba Burjan, Shaoang Liu, Shaolin Sandor Liu and Alex Varnyu double the victory of Calgary; second place for China and third place for Russia, with Mattia Antonioli, Andrea Cassinelli, Yuri Confortola and Tommaso Dotti who hit the final closing in fourth place.
In the women's 500 meters, after the victory of Calgary, the Polish Natalia Maliszewska precedes on the woolen thread the Dutch Suzanne Schulting and the Chinese Fan Kexin, five times world champion on the distance. Martina Valcepina, growing, reaches the final and closes in fourth position
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