Results Ladies' 3000m relay short track speed skating
Date: Mercredi, février 22 @ 21:51:05 PST :: Topic: Torino 2006
TURIN, Feb 22 (Reuters) - South Korea's short track skating
team won gold in the women's 3,000 metre relay at the Winter
Olympics on Wednesday, the fourth time in a row they have taken
the title, but the biggest cheers went to Italy.
The home team, who had lagged during most of the race,
popped up into the bronze position when China, who crossed the
line third, were disqualified for blocking.
Canada, who have won bronze in the last two Olympics,
upgraded to silver after spending most of the race battling at
the front of the pack with China and South Korea.
As the Chinese disqualification was announced, the crowd in
the Palavela rink screamed with joy, yelling "I-ta-lia". The
team skated back onto the ice holding the national flag, crying
at having won Italy's first short track medal in Turin.
| Race Order | Rank | Team | Result |
| FINALS B
| 1 |  USA - United States of America
151 BAVER Allison
152 DERRICK Kimberly
154 HALLISEY Caroline
155 KIM Hyo-Jung
| 4:18.740 |
| 2 |  FRA - France
115 BOUVIER Stephanie
116 CHOI Min Kyung
117 GOLLIN Myrtille
118 LECOMPERE Celine
| 4:18.971 |
| 3 |  GER - Germany
123 KLEIN Aika
124 KUNZE Yvonne
125 PRIEBST Christin
126 RUDOLPH Susanne
| 4:24.896 |
| 4 |  JPN - Japan
135 KAMINO Yuka
136 OZAWA Mika
137 TANAKA Chikage
139 YAMADA Nobuko
| 4:35.096 |
| FINALS A
| 1 |  KOR - Republic of Korea
140 BYUN Chun-Sa
141 CHOI Eun-Kyung
142 JEON Da-Hye
143 JIN Sun-Yu
| 4:17.040 |
| 2 |  CAN - Canada
104 KRAUS Alanna
105 LEBLANC-BOUCHER Anouk
107 ROBERGE Kalyna
108 VICENT Tania
| 4:17.336 |
| 3 |  ITA - Italy
130 CAPURSO Marta
131 FONTANA Arianna
133 ZINI Katia
134 ZINI Mara
| 4:20.030 |
| |  CHN - People's Republic of China
109 CHENG Xiaolei
110 FU Tianyu
111 WANG Meng
112 YANG (A) Yang
| DQ |
Source: Reuters, Torino 2006
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