2012 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships

2012 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships
2012 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships
	The logo of the 2012 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships
Location	Melbourne, Australia
Venue	Medibank Icehouse
Dates	24–26 February
Competitors	130 from 28 nations
	←Courmayeur 2011 Warsaw 2013→

Last updated May 18, 2024

The 2012 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 24 and 26 February in Melbourne, Australia at the Medibank Icehouse. This is the first time which the Championship was held during the summer and in the Southern Hemisphere.^[1] The World Championships are organised by the ISU which also run world cups and championships in speed skating and figure skating.

Medal summary

Medal table


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea	10	5	3	18
2	China	0	4	3	7
3	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
4	United States	0	0	2	2
5	Canada	0	0	1	1
5	Russia	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		10	10	10	30

Men's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Overall	Park Se-yeong South Korea	84 pts	Lee Hyo-been South Korea	81 pts	Han Tianyu China	63 pts
500 metres	Lee Hyo-been South Korea	42.108	Han Tianyu China	42.308	Alexandre St-Jean Canada	42.461
1000 metres	Park Se-yeong South Korea	1:27.571	Chen Dequan China	1:27.596	Lee Hyo-been South Korea	1:27.685
1500 metres	Park Se-yeong South Korea	2:20.059	Lee Hyo-been South Korea	2:20.087	John-Henry Krueger United States	2:21.480
3000 metre relay	South Korea Kim Do-kyoum Kim Joon-chun Lee Hyo-been Park Se-yeong	4:02.440	China Chen Dequan Chen Guang Han Tianyu Xu Fu	4:02.922	United States Adam Callister Claude Gilbert John-Henry Krueger James Rodowsky	4:06.420

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Overall	Shim Suk-hee South Korea	115 pts	Hwang Hyun-sun South Korea	76 pts	Ahn Se-jung South Korea	42 pts
500 metres	Shim Suk-hee South Korea	44.202	Agnė Sereikaitė Lithuania	44.998	Xue Wang China	45.035
1000 metres	Shim Suk-hee South Korea	1:30.208 JWR	Hwang Hyun-sun South Korea	1:30.314	Xue Wang China	1:30.465
1500 metres	Shim Suk-hee South Korea	2:21.987	Hwang Hyun-sun South Korea	2:22.069	Ahn Se-jung South Korea	2:22.183
3000 metre relay	South Korea Ahn Se-jung Cheon Hee-jung Hwang Hyun-sun Shim Suk-hee	4:14.800	China Guo Yihan Han Yutong Ji Xue Wang Xue	4:17.711	Russia Ekaterina Baranok Ekaterina Strelkova Yulia Kichapova Evgeniya Zakharova	4:23.275

Participating nations

Athletes from 28 countries participated in these championships, which is a decrease of five nations from the last year's competition.^[2] Malaysia ^[3] and Singapore made their debut appearance.

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References

↑ "Event Info". Archived from the original on 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
↑ "Entries". Archived from the original on 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2012-02-18.
↑ Isam Communication No. 063 ^{[ permanent dead link ]}

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[1] "Event Info". Archived from the original on 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2012-02-18.

[2] "Entries". Archived from the original on 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2012-02-18.

[3] Isam Communication No. 063 ^{[ permanent dead link ]}

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