OL-Speed Skating: Short Track, 500 M Men, The 1994 Winter Olympics

Received from NTB at 22:32.

Hamar (NTB): Speed Skating Short Track Thursday, 500 m Men:

  Qualifying, 1. heat: 1) Richard Nizielski, Australia 44,86, 
2) Martin Johansson, Sweden 44,94, 3) John Coyle, USA 45,42, 4) 
Li Lianli, China 1.03,44.
  2. heat: 1) Marc Gagnon, Canada 44,69, 2) Steven Bradbury, 
Australia 45,43, 3) Erik Duyvelshoff, Netherlands 45,83, 4) Wilfred 
O'Reilly, United Kingdom 46,41.
  3. heat: 1) Derrick Campbell, Canada 44,72, 2) Lee Jun-Ho, 
South-Korea 45,41, 3) Bruno Loscos, France 45,54.
  4. heat: 1) Chae Ji-Hoon, South-Korea 44,36, 2) Jun Uematsu, 
Japan 44,50, 3) Bat-Orgil Batchuluun, Mongolia 48,63. 
Disqualified: Orazio Fagone, Italy.
  5. heat: 1) Li Jiajun, China 44,67, 2) Kim Ki-Hoon, South-Korea 
45,32, 3) Igor Oserov, Russia 45,48, 4) Andrew Thomas 
Nicholson, New Zealand 54,21.
  6. heat: 1) Mirko Vuillermin, Italy 44,29, 2) Frederic 
Blackburn, Canada 44,38, 3) Sergej Kobysev, Russia 44,54, 4) 
Eric Flaim, USA 44,71.
  7. heat: 1) Nicholas Gooch, United Kingdom 44,03, 2) Andrew 
Gabel, USA 44,31, 3) Michael McMillen, New Zealand 44,98, 4) 
Stephan Huygen, Belgium 45,04.
  8. heat: 1) Bjørnar Elgetun, Norway 44,01, 2) Satoru Terao, 
Japan 44,88, 3) Kieran Hansen, Australia 46,30, 4) Christopher 
Nicholson, New Zealand 1.03,43.
  The top two in each heat are qualified for Quarter Final Saturday.

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