2008 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships

2008 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships
2008 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships
Venue	Ventspils, Latvia
Dates	18–20 January
	←2007 Sheffield 2009 Turin→

Last updated December 07, 2024

The 2008 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 18 and 20 January 2008 in Ventspils, Latvia.

Medal summary

Medal table

* Host nation (Latvia)

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Jon Eley (GBR)	42.945	Nicola Rodigari (ITA)	43.073	Tyson Heung (GER)	43.161
1000 metres	Niels Kerstholt (NED)	1:26.625	Haralds Silovs (LAT)	1:26.659	Gábor Galambos (HUN)	1:27.192
1500 metres	Haralds Silovs (LAT)	2:16.377	Vyacheslav Kurginyan (RUS)	2:16.471	Ruslan Zakharov (RUS)	2:16.545
5000 metre relay	Italy Fabio Carta Yuri Confortola Nicola Rodigari Roberto Serra Claudio Rinaldi	6:57.853	Great Britain Jon Eley Tom Iveson Paul Stanley Paul Worth Anthony Douglas	6:58.408	France Maxime Chataignier Thibaut Fauconnet Jeremy Masson Stéphane Périer	6:59.256
Overall Classification	Haralds Silovs (LAT)	89 pts.	Niels Kerstholt (NED)	47 pts.	Nicola Rodigari (ITA)	42 pts.

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Annita van Doorn (NED)	46.072	Erika Huszár (HUN)	46.076	Evgenia Radanova (BUL)	46.115
1000 metres	Evgenia Radanova (BUL)	1:38.046	Arianna Fontana (ITA)	1:38.059	Nina Evteeva (RUS)	1:38.532
1500 metres	Arianna Fontana (ITA)	2:28.559	Nina Evteeva (RUS)	2:28.990	Kateřina Novotná (CZE)	2:29.059
3000 metre relay	Great Britain Elise Christie Charlotte Gilmartin Sarah Lindsay Joanna Williams Alex Whelbourne	4:23.172	Bulgaria Daniela Ivanova Marina Georgieva-Nikolova Gergana Patsova Evgenia Radanova	4:23.243	Germany Tina Grassow Aika Klein Christin Priebst Susanne Rudolph	4:23.417
Overall Classification	Arianna Fontana (ITA)	89 pts.	Evgenia Radanova (BUL)	58 pts.	Nina Evteeva (RUS)	47 pts.

External links

Related Research Articles

Haralds Silovs is a Latvian long track and former short track speed skater, who became the 2008 and 2011 European champion in short track. He has participated in three Winter Olympics. In 2018, he finished fourth at speed skating 1500 metres event.

The 2012 European Speed Skating Championships was the 37th continental speed skating event for women and the 106th for men, that was held at the City Park Ice Rink in Budapest, Hungary, from 6 to 8 January 2012. The competition was also a qualifying event for the 2012 World Allround Speed Skating Championships as the entry quotas were allocated according to the results of the European Championships.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Annita van Doorn</span> Dutch speed skater (born 1983)

Annita van Doorn is a Dutch Short track speed skater. She made her international debut in 2003 at the World Championships for teams. Van Doorn was the first Dutch short track speed skater with a victory on a World Cup distance. She took a lap on her competitors on the 3000 meters and won the super final, surprisingly, at her second World Cup competition. In 2008, she became European Champion in the 500 meters in Ventspils, Latvia. In the overall classification she ended as 5th. She won bronze medals at the European Championships with the relay team in 2007, 2009 en 2010. In 2009 Van Doorn won her first Dutch title.

The 2015 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 23 and 25 January 2015 in Dordrecht, the Netherlands.

The 2016 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 22 and 24 January 2016 in Sochi, Russia.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2017 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships</span>

The 2017 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place from 13–15 January 2017 in Turin, Italy.

The 2018 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place, for the third time, from 12 to 14 January 2018 in Dresden, Germany.

The 2019 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place, for the fourth time, from 11 to 13 January 2019 in Dordrecht, Netherlands.

The 2003 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 17 and 19 January 2003 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The 2004 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 16 and 18 January 2004 in Zoetermeer, Netherlands.

The 2005 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 14 and 16 January 2005 in Turin, Italy.

The 2006 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 20 and 22 January 2006 in Krynica-Zdrój, Poland.

The 2007 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 19 and 21 January 2007 in Sheffield, United Kingdom.

The 2009 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 16 and 18 January 2009 in Turin, Italy.

The 2010 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 22 and 24 January 2010 in Dresden, Germany.

The 2011 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 14 and 16 January 2011 in Heerenveen, Netherlands.

The 2012 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 27 and 29 January 2012 in Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic.

The 2022 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships were the 46th edition, held from April 8 to 10, 2022 at Maurice Richard Arena in Montreal, Canada. World Short Track Speed Skating Championships have been contested since 1976.

The 2013 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 18 and 20 January 2013 at the Malmö Arena in Malmö, Sweden.

The 2014 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 17 and 19 January 2014 in Dresden, Germany.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.