1998–99 ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup

The 1998–99 Short Track Speed Skating World Cup was a multi-race tournament in short track speed skating. The season began on 25 September 1998 and ended on 6 December 1998.

Men

Events

Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	2nd place	3rd place
25-27 September 1998	Montreal	500 m	Fabio Carta	Li Jiajun	Simon Van Vossel
		1000 m	Li Jiajun	Nicola Franceschina
		1500 m	Satoru Terao	Fabio Carta	Nicky Gooch
		3000 m	Li Jiajun	Satoru Terao	Fabio Carta
		5000 m relay	China	Italy	Japan
2-4 October 1998	Saratoga Springs	500 m	Fabio Carta	Daniel Weinstein	Li Jiajun
		1000 m	Fabio Carta	Satoru Terao	Dave Versteeg
		1500 m	Li Jiajun	Michele Antonioli	Nicola Franceschina
		3000 m	Li Jiajun	Nicola Franceschina	Fabio Carta
		5000 m relay	Italy	Canada	Japan
30 October - 1 November 1998	Zoetermeer	500 m	Kim Dong-Sung	Fabio Carta	Mathieu Turcotte
		1000 m	Nicola Franceschina	Fabio Carta	Kim Dong-Sung
		1500 m	Kim Dong-Sung	Nicola Franceschina	Lee Seung-Jae
		3000 m	An Jung-Hyun	Fabio Carta	Kim Dong-Sung
		5000 m relay	South Korea	Italy
6-8 November 1998	Székesfehérvár	500 m	Fabio Carta	Marc Gagnon	Lee Seung-Jae
		1000 m	Apolo Anton Ohno	Kim Dong-Sung	Lee Seung-Jae
		1500 m	Kim Dong-Sung	Fabio Carta	Apolo Anton Ohno
		3000 m	Kim Dong-Sung	Fabio Carta	Michele Antonioli
		5000 m relay	Italy	Canada	Hungary
27-28 November 1998	Nobeyama	500 m	Li Jiajun	Takafumi Nishitani	Satoru Terao
		1000 m	Kim Dong-Sung	Satoru Terao	Takafumi Nishitani
		1500 m	Kim Dong-Sung	Simon Van Vossel	Lee Jun-Hwan
		3000 m	Kim Dong-Sung	Li Jiajun	Feng Kai
		5000 m relay	China	Japan	Canada
4-6 December 1998	Beijing	500 m	Li Jiajun	An Yulong	Satoru Terao Takafumi Nishitani
		1000 m	Li Jiajun	Satoru Terao	Kim Dong-Sung
		1500 m	Li Jiajun	Satoru Terao	An Yulong
		3000 m	Lee Jun-Hwan	Simon Van Vossel	Takafumi Nishitani
		5000 m relay	Japan	China	United States
22-24 January 1999 European Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany
19-21 March 1999 World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria
5-7 April 1999 World Team Championships in St. Louis, United States

World Cup Rankings

Overall

Rank	Name	Points
1	Li Jiajun	98
2	Fabio Carta	97
3	Kim Dong-Sung	93
4	Satoru Terao	92
5	Nicola Franceschina	84
6	Simon Van Vossel	80
7	Feng Kai	77
8	Apolo Anton Ohno	71
9	Nicky Gooch	71
10	Daniel Weinstein	68

500 m

Rank	Name	Points
1	Fabio Carta	99
2	Li Jiajun	97
3	Takafumi Nishitani	86
4	Feng Kai	84
5	Satoru Terao	78
6	Kim Dong-Sung	75
7	Simon Van Vossel	74
8	An Yulong	72
9	Daniel Weinstein	72
10	Nicola Franceschina	68

1000 m

Rank	Name	Points
1	Kim Dong-Sung	95
2	Fabio Carta	93
3	Satoru Terao	89
4	Li Jiajun	85
5	Nicola Franceschina	85
6	Feng Kai	79
7	Lee Seung-Jae	75
8	Mathieu Turcotte	74
9	Apolo Anton Ohno	71
10	Dave Versteeg	62

1500 m

Rank	Name	Points
1	Kim Dong-Sung	89
2	Fabio Carta	89
3	Satoru Terao	83
4	Simon Van Vossel	81
5	Michele Antonioli	80
6	Apolo Anton Ohno	76
7	Mathieu Turcotte	76
8	Feng Kai	74
9	Nicola Franceschina	73
10	Nicky Gooch	73

5000 m relay

Rank	Name	Points
1	Italy	98
2	China	96
3	Japan	95
4	Canada	93
5	United States	90
6	Hungary	84
7	Great Britain	83
8	South Korea	68
9	Germany	57
10	Netherlands	56

Women

Events

Date	Place	Discipline	Winner	2nd place	3rd place
25-27 September 1998	Montreal	500 m	Yang Yang (A)	Yang Yang (S)	Annie Perreault
		1000 m	Wang Chunlu	Marinella Canclini	Yang Yang (S)
		1500 m	Evgenia Radanova	Yang Yang (A)	Yang Yang (S)
		3000 m	Yang Yang (A)	Evgenia Radanova	Wang Chunlu
		3000 m relay	China	Italy	United States
2-4 October 1998	Saratoga Springs	500 m	Wang Chunlu	Yang Yang (S)	Yang Yang (A)
		1000 m	Yang Yang (A)	Wang Chunlu	Yang Yang (S)
		1500 m	Yang Yang (A)	Evgenia Radanova	Marinella Canclini
		3000 m	Yang Yang (A)	Evgenia Radanova	Yang Yang (S)
		3000 m relay	China	Italy	United States
30 October - 1 November 1998	Zoetermeer	500 m	Evgenia Radanova	Amy Peterson	Joo Min-Jin
		1000 m	Marinella Canclini	Evgenia Radanova	Choi Min-kyung
		1500 m	Park Hye-Won	Evgenia Radanova	Marinella Canclini
		3000 m	Joo Min-Jin	Evgenia Radanova	Danielle Molendijk
		3000 m relay	South Korea	United States	Netherlands
6-8 November 1998	Székesfehérvár	500 m	Evgenia Radanova	Choi Min-kyung	Amy Peterson
		1000 m	Evgenia Radanova	Choi Min-kyung	Joo Min-Jin
		1500 m	Evgenia Radanova	Amy Peterson	Danielle Molendijk
		3000 m	Choi Min-kyung	Joo Min-Jin	Amy Peterson
		3000 m relay	South Korea	Bulgaria	Italy
27-28 November 1998	Nobeyama	500 m	Wang Chunlu	Yang Yang (S)	Choi Min-kyung
		1000 m	Yang Yang (A)	Yang Yang (S)	Choi Min-kyung
		1500 m	Yang Yang (A)	Yang Yang (S)	Wang Chunlu
		3000 m	Yang Yang (A)	Choi Min-kyung	An Sang-Mi
		3000 m relay	China	Canada	United States
4-6 December 1998	Beijing	500 m	Yang Yang (A)	Wang Chunlu	Choi Min-kyung
		1000 m	Yang Yang (A)	Yang Yang (S)	Wang Chunlu
		1500 m	Yang Yang (A)	Choi Min-kyung	Yang Yang (S)
		3000 m	Yang Yang (A)	Choi Min-kyung	Yang Yang (S)
		3000 m relay	China	South Korea	Canada
22-24 January 1999 European Championships in Oberstdorf, Germany
19-21 March 1999 World Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria
5-7 April 1999 World Team Championships in St. Louis, United States

World Cup Rankings

Overall

Rank	Name	Points
1	Yang Yang (A)	100
2	Evgenia Radanova	98
3	Yang Yang (S)	93
4	Choi Min-kyung	92
5	Marinella Canclini	87
6	Amy Peterson	85
7	Erin Porter	76
8	Annie Perreault	74
9	Ikue Teshigawara	74
10	Wang Chunlu	67

500 m

Rank	Name	Points
1	Wang Chunlu	96
2	Yang Yang (A)	94
3	Choi Min-kyung	92
4	Evgenia Radanova	89
5	Yang Yang (S)	87
6	Amy Peterson	86
7	Christine Boudrias	78
8	Erin Porter	74
9	Annie Perreault	71
10	Marinella Canclini	68

1000 m

Rank	Name	Points
1	Yang Yang (S)	94
2	Yang Yang (A)	93
3	Evgenia Radanova	93
4	Choi Min-kyung	91
5	Marinella Canclini	87
6	Wang Chunlu	84
7	Amy Peterson	83
8	Danielle Molendijk	77
9	Sachi Ozawa	77
10	Ikue Teshigawara	67

1500 m

Rank	Name	Points
1	Yang Yang (A)	99
2	Evgenia Radanova	98
3	Choi Min-kyung	87
4	Amy Peterson	85
5	Marinella Canclini	83
6	Erin Porter	83
7	Ikue Teshigawara	76
8	Yang Yang (S)	70
9	Danielle Molendijk	64
10	Tania Vicent	62

5000 m relay

Rank	Name	Points
1	China	100
2	South Korea	96
3	Italy	93
4	United States	93
5	Canada	91
6	Japan	84
7	Netherlands	83
8	Bulgaria	45
9	Chinese Taipei	20
10	Hungary	19

Podium summary


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	China (CHN)	29	13	13	55
2	South Korea (KOR)	15	8	14	37
3	Italy (ITA)	8	15	7	30
4	Bulgaria (BUL)	5	7	0	12
5	Japan (JPN)	2	7	7	16
6	United States (USA)	1	4	7	12
7	Canada (CAN)	0	4	1	5
8	Belgium (BEL)	0	2	4	6
9	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	4	4
10	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
10	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
Totals (11 entries)		60	60	59	179

References

Results

v t e ISU Short Track Speed Skating World Cup
Seasons	1998–99 1999–00 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
Men's winners	1998–99: Li Jiajun 1999–2000: Kim Dong-sung 2000–01: Apolo Ohno 2001–02: Kim Dong-sung 2002–03: Apolo Ohno 2003–04: Ahn Hyun-soo 2004–05: Apolo Ohno 2005–06: Ahn Hyun-soo 2006–07: Tyson Heung 2007–08: Lee Ho-suk 2008–09: Sung Si-bak 2009–10: Lee Jung-su 2010–11: ~~Thibaut Fauconnet~~ 2011–12: Noh Jin-kyu 2012–13: Noh Jin-kyu 2013–14: Charles Hamelin 2014–15: Sin Da-woon 2015–16: Kwak Yoon-gy 2016–17: Shaoang Liu 2017–18: Hwang Dae-heon 2018–19: Lim Hyo-jun 2019–20: Park Ji-won 2022–23: Park Ji-won
Women's winners	1998–99: Yang Yang 1999–2000: Yang Yang 2000–01: Yang Yang 2001–02: Yang Yang 2002–03: Fu Tianyu 2003–04: Choi Eun-kyung 2004–05: Wang Meng 2005–06: Jin Sun-yu 2006–07: Byun Chun-sa 2007–08: Jin Sun-yu 2008–09: Wang Meng 2009–10: Wang Meng 2010–11: Katherine Reutter 2011–12: Arianna Fontana 2012–13: Shim Suk-hee 2013–14: Shim Suk-hee 2014–15: Shim Suk-hee 2015–16: Choi Min-jeong 2016–17: Suzanne Schulting 2017–18: Choi Min-jeong 2018–19: Suzanne Schulting 2019–20: Suzanne Schulting 2022–23: Suzanne Schulting
International Skating Union World Short Track Speed Skating Championships

v t e 1998–99 World Cup seasons in the winter sports
Alpine skiing Biathlon Bobsleigh Cross-country skiing Figure skating Freestyle skiing Luge Nordic combined Short track Skeleton Ski jumping / Ski flying Snowboarding Speed skating