2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships

The 2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 11 and 13 March 2011 at the Sheffield Arena in Sheffield, England. The World Championships were organised by the ISU which also runs world cups and championships in speed skating and figure skating.

2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships
Venue	Sheffield Arena
Dates	11–13 March
Competitors	124 from 31 nations
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Schedule

Date	Time	Program
11 March	17:35	1500 m women
	17:40	1500 m men
12 March	17:10	500 m women
	17:15	500 m men
13 March	15:35	1000 m women
	15:40	1000 m men
	16:20	3000 m women
	16:30	3000 m men
	16:55	3000 m relay women
	17:05	5000 m relay men

Results

* First place is awarded 34 points, second is awarded 21 points, third is awarded 13 points, fourth is awarded 8 points, fifth is awarded 5 points, sixth is awarded 3 points, seventh is awarded 2 points, and eighth is awarded 1 point in the finals of each individual race to determine the overall world champion. The leader after the first 1000m in the 3000m Super-Final is awarded extra 5 points. The relays do not count for the overall classification.

Men

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Overall*	Noh Jin-kyu  South Korea	102 points	Charles Hamelin  Canada	50 points	Liang Wenhao  China	47 points
500 m details	Simon Cho  United States	42.307	Olivier Jean  Canada	42.429	Liang Wenhao  China	42.493
1000 m details	Noh Jin-kyu  South Korea	1:28.552	Charles Hamelin  Canada	1:28.663	Liang Wenhao  China	1:29.203
1500 m details	Noh Jin-kyu  South Korea	2:18.291	Charles Hamelin  Canada	2:18.676	Jeff Simon  United States	2:18.725
5000 m relay details	Canada Michael Gilday Charles Hamelin François Hamelin Olivier Jean	6:52.731	Germany Robert Becker Paul Herrmann Christoph Milz Robert Seifert Torsten Kröger	6:54.693	United States Kyle Carr Travis Jayner Anthony Lobello Jeff Simon Simon Cho	7:01.659

Women

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Overall*	Cho Ha-ri  South Korea	81 points	Katherine Reutter  United States	68 points	Arianna Fontana  Italy	57 points
500 m details	Fan Kexin  China	44.620	Arianna Fontana  Italy	44.687	Liu Qiuhong  China	44.784
1000 m details	Cho Ha-ri  South Korea	1:38.895	Arianna Fontana  Italy	1:40.306	Katherine Reutter  United States	2:23.268
1500 m details	Katherine Reutter  United States	2:33.978	Park Seung-hi  South Korea	2:34.218	Cho Ha-ri  South Korea	2:34.336
3000 m relay details	China Fan Kexin Li Jianrou Liu Qiuhong Zhang Hui Xiao Han	4:16.295	Netherlands Jorien ter Mors Annita van Doorn Sanne van Kerkhof Yara van Kerkhof	4:17.725	Canada Marie-Ève Drolet Jessica Hewitt Valérie Maltais Marianne St-Gelais	4:18.043

Medal table

7 nations won at least one medal, which represents the highest total ever.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	5	1	1	7
2	United States	2	1	3	6
3	China	2	0	4	6
4	Canada	1	4	1	6
5	Italy	0	2	1	3
6	Germany	0	1	0	1
	Netherlands	0	1	0	1
Totals (7 entries)		10	10	10	30

Entries per Event

Each nation can enter up to a maximum of 2 athletes per event, the nations listed below can enter up to three athletes per gender for that respective gender.^[1]

Athletes	Men	Ladies
3	Canada  China  France  South Korea  United States	Canada  China  South Korea

Participating countries

124 athletes from 31 nations will compete.^[2]

•  Argentina (1)
•  Australia (2)
•  Austria (1)
•  Belarus (4)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (1)
•  Bulgaria (4)
•  Canada (8)
•  China (9)
•  Chinese Taipei (2)
•  Croatia (1)
•  Czech Republic (1)
•  France (4)
•  Germany (7)
•  Great Britain (6)
•  Hong Kong (2)
•  Hungary (4)
•  Israel (1)
•  Italy (6)
•  Japan (6)
•  Latvia (1)
•  Netherlands (8)
•  New Zealand (1)
•  Poland (4)
•  Romania (3)
•  Russia (6)
•  Slovakia (3)
•  South Korea (10)
•  Spain (4)
•  Turkey (1)
•  Ukraine (4)
•  United States (9)

References

1. 2011 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships - Announcement^{[permanent dead link‍]}
2. "2011 ISU World Short Track Championships, Sheffield, GBR - Entries". Archived from the original on 22 August 2019. Retrieved 10 March 2011.

External links

• Official website
• ISU Results^{[dead link‍]}
• Results book^{[dead link‍]}