Wang Meng

Canadian Olivier Jean wins gold at World Cup short track speed skating event

BEIJING - Canadian Olivier Jean won a gold medal in the 500 metres at a World Cup short track speedskating event on Sunday. Charles Hamelin of Ste-Julie, Que., added a bronze in the 1000 metres and...

China's Liu takes women's 500m at ISU World Cup short-track

China's Liu Qiuhong gifted the host a second gold here on Sunday as the world number two led a podium sweep for China in the 500 meters in a short-track speed skating event of the ISU World Cup. The 20-year-old Liu, who was the...

China's Wang Meng shatters world record on home ice at ISU World Cup

Chinese Wang Meng was crowned at the women's 500 meters race with a new world record here on Saturday at the China Open speed skating event. Wang, the Turin Olympic gold medalist, got off to a fast start and clinched the gold...

Hamelin's gold sets standard for short track skating team

Nov 29, 2008

Three medals for the men in Beijing, while women shut out Canada's Charles Hamelin took gold in Beijing on Saturday night. (Jonathan Hayward/Canadian Press) Charles Hamelin led a three-medal night for Canada at a World Cup...

Borodulina wins medal

Australian short track speed skater Tatiana Borodulina has collected her first medal of the 2008/09 World Cup season and the second of her career, winning bronze in Beijing. Borodulina won her preliminary round in the 500m...

Golden girls dare not disappoint at World Cup stop

China's short track team has its sights firmly set on Vancouver 2010 and plans on adding to its season haul of eight gold medals at the upcoming World Cup stop in Beijing from Friday. "The Summer Olympic Games are over and now...

Wang warms to captain's role

Olympic champion Wang Meng can be as frosty as her hometown of Harbin but the new captain of China's women's short track speedskating team says she has reined in her bad temper, forgotten old spats with her coach and is ready...