2016 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships

The 2016 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships took place from 29 to 31 January 2016 in Sofia, Bulgaria.

2016 World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships
Location	Sofia, Bulgaria
Venue	Winter Sports Palace
Dates	29–31 January
Competitors	191 from 39 nations
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Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China	8	1	4	13
2	South Korea	1	7	3	11
3	Netherlands	1	1	1	3
4	Hungary	0	1	0	1
5	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Russia	0	0	1	1
Totals (6 entries)		10	10	10	30

Men's events

The results of the Championships:^[1]

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Xu Hongzhi (CHN)	41.558	Shaoang Liu (HUN)	41.594	Steven Dubois (CAN)	41.719
1000 metres	Ren Ziwei (CHN)	1:25.191	Lim Yong-jin (KOR)	1:25.287	Ma Wei (CHN)	1:25.347
1500 metres	Lim Yong-jin (KOR)	2:29.887	Ren Ziwei (CHN)	2:30.102	Kim Si-un (KOR)	2:30.173
3000 metre relay	China Ma Wei Ren Ziwei Xu Hongzhi Yu Wei	3:59.809 WR	South Korea Hwang Dae-heon Kim Si-un Lee Seong-hun Lim Yong-jin	3:59.921	Russia Denis Ayrapetyan Daniil Eybog Artem Kozlov Pavel Sitnikov	4:03.466
Overall Classification	Ren Ziwei (CHN)	90 pts.	Lim Yong-jin (KOR)	68 pts.	Ma Wei (CHN)	47 pts.

Women's events

Event	Gold		Silver		Bronze
500 metres	Qu Chunyu (CHN)	43.827	Lee Yu-bin (KOR)	43.930	Zang Yize (CHN)	44.407
1000 metres	Qu Chunyu (CHN)	1:33.437	Lee Su-youn (KOR)	1:33.635	Lee Yu-bin (KOR)	1:33.762
1500 metres	Suzanne Schulting (NED)	2:32.532	Lee Su-youn (KOR)	2:32.532	Qu Chunyu (CHN)	2:32.677
3000 metre relay	China Li Jinyu Qu Chunyu Yu Miaohui Zang Yize	4:15.124	South Korea Lee Su-youn Lee Yu-bin Park Jung-hyun Yoon Jung-min	4:15.405	Netherlands Avalon Aardoom Tineke den Dulk Gioya Lancee Suzanne Schulting	4:17.670
Overall Classification	Qu Chunyu (CHN)	86 pts.	Suzanne Schulting (NED)	79 pts.	Lee Yu-bin (KOR)	55 pts.

Participating nations

•  Australia (4)
•  Austria (5)
•  Belarus (8)
•  Belgium (5)
•  Bosnia and Herzegovina (3)
•  Bulgaria (5)
•  Canada (8)
•  China (8)
•  Chinese Taipei (5)
•  Colombia (1)
•  Croatia (4)
•  Czech Republic (4)
•  France (8)
•  Germany (6)
•  Great Britain (2)
•  Hungary (8)
•  Hong Kong (1)
•  India (1)
•  Italy (8)
•  Japan (8)
•  Kazakhstan (8)
•  Latvia (4)
•  Lithuania (1)
•  Malaysia (2)
•  Netherlands (8)
•  New Zealand (3)
•  Norway (1)
•  Poland (8)
•  Romania (5)
•  Russia (8)
•  Serbia (1)
•  Slovakia (6)
•  Slovenia (1)
•  Spain (4)
•  South Korea (8)
•  Sweden (2)
•  Turkey (4)
•  Ukraine (7)
•  United States (8)

See also

• Short track speed skating
• World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships