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Canada's Perreault captures gold in women's 500m short track
 Ikue Teshigawara |
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Annie Perreault of Canada captured the gold medal in the women's 500-meter short track speed skating event of the Nagano Olympic Winter Games on Thursday while favorite Isabelle Charest suffered a crushing blow after falling in the final and being disqualified.
Perreault won the gold medal with a time of 46.568 seconds at the White Ring ice arena in Nagano edging Yang Yang (S) of China who took the silver with a time of 46.627.
Lee Kyung Chun of Korea, the top finisher in the group B final, was awarded the bronze medal when Charest was disqualified for impeding in the group A final and Wang Chunlu did not finish the race.
''This is a great moment in my life, its like a dream. I feel bad for Isabelle. She's the world champion and a great skater but in our sport mistakes like that can happen,'' said Perreault.
Chunlu Wang of China was upended when Charest fell and did not finish the race.
Japan's Ikue Teshigawara, skating in the group B final for 5th-8th place, got off to a slow start and could not catch up to the leaders finishing fourth in 46.889. That later translated into a sixth place finish for the four-time national champion.
In the semifinal of the men's 5000-meter relay, China finished first while Canada came in second to advance to the group A final of Saturday's finals along with Korea and Italy.
Japan's Yugo Shinohara fell, dashing his team's hopes of advancing to the medal final. Instead, Japan will be in group B along with Australia, Britain and the United States.
In the men's 500-meter qualifying round, three Japanese skaters advanced to Saturday's quarterfinals.
Gold medal hope Satoru Terao got off to a good start and maintained his lead to finish first advancing to the quarterfinals with a time of 42.948.
Hitoshi Uematsu and Takafumi Nishitani also qualified for the quarterfinals with times of 43.428 and 43.348, respectively. (Kyodo News)
Results of short-track speed skating women's 500 meters finals Thursday in the 18th Olympic Winter Games at White Ring, Nagano:
Final A (1st to 4th place)
1. Annie Perreault, Canada 46.568 seconds
2. Yang Yang, China 46.627
Isabelle Charest, Canada Disqualified
Wang Chunlu, China Did not finish
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Final B (5th to 8th place)
1. Chun Lee Kyung, South Korea 46.335
2. Choi Min Kyung, South Korea 46.504
3. Mara Urbani, Italy 46.687
4. Ikue Teshigawara, Japan 46.889
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Final standings
1. Annie Perreault, Canada
2. Yang Yang, China
3. Chun Lee Kyung, South Korea
4. Choi Min Kyung, South Korea
5. Mara Urbani, Italy
6. Ikue Teshigawara, Japan
Results of short-track speed skating men's 5,000-meter relay
heats Thursday in the 18th Olympic Winter Games at White Ring, Nagano
(top two teams advance to the final):
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Race 1
1. Canada (Eric Bedard, Derrick Campbell, Francois Drolet, Marc
Gagnon) 7 minutes, 5.766 seconds (O)
2. China (Li Jiajun, Feng Kai, Yuan Ye, An Yulong)
7:05.797 (O)
3. Britain (Nicholas Gooch, Matthew Jasper, Robert Mitchell, Matthew
Rowe) 7:11.955
4. Japan (Satoru Terao, Naoya Tamura, Takehiro Kodera, Yugo
Shinohara) 7:17.223
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Race 2
1. South Korea (Chae Ji Hoon, Lee Jun Hwan, Lee Ho Eung, Kim Dong
Sung) 7:07.457
2. Italy (Michele Antonioli, Maurizio Carnino, Fabio Carta, Nicola
Franceschina) 7:07.770
3. Australia (Steven Bradbury, Richard Goerlitz, Kieran Hansen,
Richard Nizielski) 7:11.691
4. United States (Andrew Gabel, Thomas O'Hare, Rusty Smith, Eric
Flaim) 7:16.724
(O=Olympic record)
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