Short track speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics – Women's 3000 metre relay

Women's 3000 metre relay
at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
Women's 3000 metre relay; at the XXI Olympic Winter Games
	Pictogram for short track speed skating
Venue	Pacific Coliseum
Dates	February 13, 24
Competitors	from 8 nations
Teams	8
Winning time	4:06.610
Medalists
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The finals in the women's 3000 metre relay in short track speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics took place on 24 February, at the Pacific Coliseum. In the final, the event was controversially won by the Chinese team, which set a new world record. The South Korean team initially finished first but was disqualified due to illegal contact which was deemed to have impeded a Chinese skater.^[1]^[2]

Results[]

Semifinals[]

Rank	Semifinal	Country	Athletes	Time	Notes
1	1	South Korea	Cho Ha-ri Kim Min-jung Lee Eun-byul Park Seung-hi	4:10.753	QA
2	1	United States	Kimberly Derrick Alyson Dudek Lana Gehring Katherine Reutter	4:15.376	QA
3	1	Netherlands	Liesbeth Mau Asam Jorien ter Mors Annita van Doorn Maaike Vos	4:16.520	QB
4	1	Italy	Arianna Fontana Cecilia Maffei Martina Valcepina Katia Zini	4:23.950	QB
1	2	China	Sun Linlin Wang Meng Zhang Hui Zhou Yang	4:08.797	QA, OR
2	2	Canada	Jessica Gregg Kalyna Roberge Marianne St-Gelais Tania Vicent	4:11.476	QA
3	2	Japan	Ayuko Ito Mika Ozawa Yui Sakai Biba Sakurai	4:13.752	QB
4	2	Hungary	Rózsa Darázs Bernadett Heidum Erika Huszár Andrea Keszler	4:17.487	QB

Finals[]

Final B (Classification Round)[]

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time
4	Netherlands	Sanne van Kerkhof Jorien ter Mors Annita van Doorn Maaike Vos	4:16.120
5	Hungary	Rózsa Darázs Bernadett Heidum Erika Huszár Andrea Keszler	4:17.937
6	Italy	Lucia Peretti Cecilia Maffei Martina Valcepina Katia Zini	4:18.559
7	Japan	Ayuko Ito Hiroko Sadakane Yui Sakai Biba Sakurai	4:28.745

Final A (Medal Round)[]

Rank	Country	Athletes	Time	Notes
	China	Sun Linlin Wang Meng Zhang Hui Zhou Yang	4:06.610	WR
	Canada	Jessica Gregg Kalyna Roberge Marianne St-Gelais Tania Vicent	4:09.137
	United States	Allison Baver Alyson Dudek Lana Gehring Katherine Reutter	4:14.081
–	South Korea	Cho Ha-ri Kim Min-jung Lee Eun-byul Park Seung-hi		DSQ

References[]

^ AP Associated Press, "China wins women's 3,000-meter relay after DQ Archived 2010-02-28 at the Wayback Machine" February 25, 2010.
^ Chase, Chris, "Controversy: S. Korea DQ'd in short track relay, China gets gold", Yahoo! News, February 24, 2010.

External links[]

2010 Winter Olympics results: Ladies' 3000 m Relay Semifinals, from http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-13.
2010 Winter Olympics results: Ladies' 3000 m Relay Finals, from http://www.vancouver2010.com/; retrieved 2010-02-13.

[1] AP Associated Press, "China wins women's 3,000-meter relay after DQ Archived 2010-02-28 at the Wayback Machine" February 25, 2010.

[2] Chase, Chris, "Controversy: S. Korea DQ'd in short track relay, China gets gold", Yahoo! News, February 24, 2010.

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Short track speed skating at the 2010 Winter Olympics

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1000 m	men	women
1500 m	men	women
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