The 2026-2027 International Skating Union Short Track Speed Skating World Tour Shanghai Station will begin

China News Service, Shanghai, October 19th (Reporter Miao Lu) The Shanghai Station Organizing Committee of the 2026-2027 International Skating Union Short Track Speed ​​Skating World Tour (hereinafter referred to as the "Short Track World Tour") announced on the 19th that the Shanghai Station of the Short Track World Tour will kick off at the Shanghai Pudong Development Bank Oriental Sports Center from November 27th to 29th. There are a total of 7 events in the Short Track World Tour this season. As the fourth stop, Shanghai Station has important significance as a link between the past and the future.

This event is hosted by the International Skating Union and hosted by the Winter Sports Management Center of the State Sports General Administration, the Chinese Skating Association, the Shanghai Sports Bureau, and the Pudong New Area People's Government. The Short Track World Tour was formerly known as the Short Track Speed ​​Skating World Cup and will be renamed from the 2024-2025 season. The Oriental Sports Center has hosted this event from 2011 to 2019. This is also the return of this ISU short track speed skating A-level event after 7 years.

The Shanghai Station of the Short Track World Tour has a total of 6 individual events including men's and women's 500m, 1000m, and 1500m, as well as 3 relay events including women's 3000m relay, men's 5000m relay, and 2000m mixed team relay. A total of 9 gold medals will be produced, of which November 27 is the qualifying round for each event, and November 28th to 29th is the revival and main competition rounds.

After the Milan Winter Olympics, the International Skating Union revised some rules for the Short Track Speed Skating World Tour. These new rules will be implemented in this season's competitions, including foul accumulation (if there are 3 fouls accumulated during the series, the athlete will not be allowed to register for the highest-ranked event in the next race of the series; if there are 5 fouls accumulated, the athlete will be the next race). The athletes are not allowed to register for the two highest-ranked events; if they have accumulated 7 fouls, the athlete will not be allowed to register for any individual events in the next stop), incentive quotas (if a country or region has 3 athletes in the top 40 in the world for a certain event, 4 contestants can be registered in the event), etc., these will make the results of the competition full of more suspense and further enhance the viewing experience of the event.

This competition is the debut of Wu Dajing, the head coach of the Chinese short track speed skating team, at home. Through the selection of the China Cup Short Track Speed ​​Skating Elite League, four male athletes including Sun Long, Zhang Zixia, Zhang Baihao, and Li Kun, and four female athletes including Song Jiarui, Zhang Jianing, Wang Ye, and Zhang Yan have qualified for the Shanghai Station of the Short Track World Tour.

In addition to the Shanghai station, the 2026-2027 Short Track World Tour will have six sub-stations in Vancouver, Canada, Montreal, Canada, Seoul, South Korea, Beijing, China, Gdansk, Poland, and Tilburg, the Netherlands.