2009 World Short Track Speed Skating Team Championships

The 2009 World Short Track Speed Skating Team Championships was the 19th edition of the World Short Track Speed Skating Team Championships, which took place on 14-15 March 2009 in Heerenveen, Netherlands.

Location	Heerenveen, Netherlands
Start date	14 March 2009
End date	15 March 2009
Competitors	79 from 8 nations
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Teams were divided into two brackets of four: the best team from each bracket qualified directly for the final, while the two next teams entered for the repechage round and the last was eliminated. The best two teams in the repechage round qualified for the final. Thus, the final consisted of four teams. Each team was represented by four athletes at both 500 m and 1000 m as well as by two athletes at 3000 m. There were four heats at both 500 m and 1000 m, whereby each heat consisted of athletes representing different countries. There was one heat at 3000 m.

Medal winners

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men	South Korea Lee Jung-su Sung Si-bak Lee Ho-suk Kwak Yoon-gy Park Jin-hwan	Canada François-Louis Tremblay Marc-André Monette Charles Hamelin Olivier Jean François Hamelin	United States Apolo Anton Ohno Travis Jayner Jordan Malone John Celski Jeff Simon
Women	China Wang Meng Fu Tianyu Zhou Yang Liu Qiuhong Zhang Hui	South Korea Kim Min-jung Jung Ba-ra Yang Shin-young Shin Sae-bom	United States Jessica Smith Kimberly Derrick Lana Gehring Katherine Reutter Alyson Dudek

Results

Men

Rank	Nation	Total
	South Korea	36
	Canada	34
	United States	27
4	China	21
5	Japan	Rep.
6	Germany
7	Italy	DNQ
8	Netherlands

Women

Rank	Nation	Total
	China	46
	South Korea	29
	United States	24
4	Canada	22
5	Italy	Rep.
6	Netherlands
7	Germany	DNQ
8	Japan

External links

• Results I
• Results II
• Results book