Ice skating: Asians dominate at worlds

China and South Korea dominated to win every gold medal yesterday at the short track speedskating world championships.

South Korea's Lee Ho-suk won the men's 1000 metres in 1 minute, 34.198 seconds, ahead of teammate Kwak Yoon-gy (1:34.231) and J.R. Celsky of the United States (1:34.290).

The trio finished in the same order in the 3000, with Lee winning his third gold. Defending champion Wang Meng of China took the women's 1000 race in 1:31.603, beating South Korea's Cho Ha-ri (1:31.695) and Katherine Reutter of the United States (1:31.747).

Park Seung-Hi led a top-three sweep for South Korea in the 3000, with Cho Ha-Ri and Lee Eun-Byul.

South Korea won the men's 5000 relay and the women's 3000 relay.