DRESDEN, Germany (AP) ― Simon Cho won gold in the 500 meters at the short track speedskating World Cup on Sunday, a day after the American lost a race by one hundredth of a second.
Cho won in 41.070 seconds. Wenhao Liang of China was second in 41.196, and Thibaut Fauconnet of France followed in 41.250.
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Simon Cho competes to win the men’s 500m finals. (AFP-Yonhap News) |
Cho won the overall event, finishing with 3,978 points after eight races, with Fauconnet second and Liang third.
China’s Weilong Song claimed first place in the 1,000 meters in 1:25.553, while Fauconnet claimed the overall event with 4,220 points.
In the women’s 500 meters, Canada’s Marianne St-Gelais won in 43.091 seconds to overtake Qiuhong Liu of China in the overall event with 5,000 points.