2012–13 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup
The short track speed skating World Cup 2012/13 ( Sponsors Name: Samsung ISU World Cup Short Track 2012/13 ) is one of the International Skating Union (ISU ) held in short track speed skating competition series. The competitions were held in the period from 21 October 2012 Calgary was the first competition station until 10 February 2013, the World Cup final in Dresden. World Cup will be awarded only in the individual disciplines, as opposed to most other winter sports, there is no overall World Cup standings.
- 2.2.1 Calgary
- 2.2.2 Montreal
- 2.2.3 Nagoya
- 2.2.4 Shanghai
- 2.2.5 Sochi
- 2.2.6 Dresden
Venues
The series of events of the World Cup consisted of six events, which can be divided both temporally as well as geographically into three two series (as you can well see the latter also on the adjacent map of the world ). The first two events were held in late October in North America, namely in the two Canadian cities, Calgary and Montreal. The second two-game series took place in early December in East Asia with the Japanese city of Nagoya and the Chinese Shanghai as venues. Finally, in early February was followed by the third and final two-game series in Europe with the Sochi, Russia, site of the Olympic Games the following year, and with the World Cup final in Dresden.
At each event, ladies and gentlemen, the individual routes ran once each 500 meters, 1000 meters and 1500 meters. Alternately, one of these three routes was ever run at each event for a second time, in the first and fourth event, the 1000 meters, in the second and fifth event, the 500 meters and in the third and sixth event, the 1500 meters. Thus, each individual section was run a total of eight times. In addition, during men and women in each venue in each case a relay race over 3000 meters or 5000 meters. Finally, there was at each event, separately for men and women, a country rating. In the country ranking, the World Cup points from the relay race and each of the two best athletes or athletes were included with their World Cup points from the individual race. Counted only countries that have each achieved in all five competitions at least one World Cup point.