2009 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships Explained

The 2009 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place between 5 and 8 March 2009 in Vienna, Austria. The World Championships are organised by the ISU which also run world cups and championships in speed skating and figure skating.

Results

Men

Overall*	Lee Ho-suk	89 points	J. R. Celski	65 points	Charles Hamelin	47 points
500 m	Charles Hamelin	41.680	Kwak Yoon-gy	41.739	Olivier Jean	41.855
1000 m	Lee Ho-suk	1:33.060	Apolo Anton Ohno	1:33.262	J. R. Celski	1:33.478
1500 m	Lee Ho-suk	2:20.967	Kwak Yoon-gy	2:21.078	J. R. Celski	2:21.133
5000 m relay		6:51.400		6:51.957		6:52.433

* 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.

Women

Overall*	Wang Meng	81 points	Kim Min-jung	76 points	Zhou Yang	63 points
500 m	Wang Meng	43.182	Liu Qiuhong	43.358	Jessica Gregg	43.437
1000 m	Wang Meng	1:29.878	Kim Min-jung	1:29.974	Shin Sae-bom	1:30.901
1500 m	Kim Min-jung	2:21.432	Zhou Yang	2:21.935	Shin Sae-bom	2:22.012
3000 m relay	Liu Qiuhong Wang Meng Zhang Hui Zhou Yang Fu Tianyu	4:10.531	Jung Ba-ra Kim Min-jung Shin Sae-bom Yang Shin-young Jung Eun-ju	4:11.837	Jessica Gregg Jessica Hewitt Valérie Maltais Kalyna Roberge Anne Maltais	4:12.506

2009 World Short Track Speed Skating Championships Explained

Results

Men

Women

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