Schulting Defends Short Track Title With Gold, American Santos Finished Fourth
Feb 11, 2022, 6:54 AM
Suzanne Schulting of Team Netherlands, Minjeong Choi of Team South Korea, Arianna Fontana of Team Italy and Kristen Santos of Team United States compete during the Women's 1000m Final A on day seven of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at Capital Indoor Stadium on February 11, 2022 in Beijing, China. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)
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Suzanne Schulting of the Netherlands has defended her title in 1,000-meter short track speedskating.
She set the world and Olympic records in the quarterfinals. She wasn’t as fast in the final Friday, finishing in 1 minute, 28.391 seconds.
Choi Minjeong of South Korea took silver. Hanne Desmet of Belgium earned bronze.
Arianna Fontana of Italy was penalized for a lane change that caused contact with American Kristen Santos. Both skaters went down and slid on their sides into the padding.
Fontana was chasing an 11th career medal, having already won two medals in Beijing.
Schulting was the silver medalist behind Fontana in the 500.
American Kristen Santos qualified fastest for the 1,000-meter final in short track speedskating at the Beijing Olympics.
What a move by Kristen Santos!
She executes her strategy perfectly in semifinal 2 to win and move on to the 1000m final.
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Santos’ time Friday of 1 minute, 26.783 seconds topped defending champion Suzanne Schulting of the Netherlands. Schulting was timed in 1:28.108.
Schulting set the world and Olympic record of 1:26.514 earlier in the quarterfinals.
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Also making the A final later Friday are 10-time Olympic medalist Arianna Fontana of Italy, Choi Minjeong of South Korea and Hanne Desmet of Belgium.
American teammates Maame Biney and Corinne Stoddard made the B final.
Defending Olympic champion Wu Dajing of China has easily qualified in the heats of 500-meter short track speedskating.
Also moving on to the quarterfinals on Sunday are Ren Ziwei of China, Steven Dubois of Canada and Hwang Daeheon of South Korea. Liu Shaolin Sandor and his brother, world champion Liu Shaoang, of Hungary moved on. Their American-born teammate, John-Henry Krueger, qualified, too.
Lee Juneseo of South Korea crashed and was penalized in his heat.
American Ryan Pivirotto was eliminated.
