Australia’s short track speed skaters will know at the end of the week if they have qualified a relay team for next year’s Winter Olympics in Italy.
Australia’s short track speed skaters will know at the end of the week if they have qualified a relay team for next year’s Winter Olympics in Italy.
The 5000m team finished 11th in a World Cup event in Holland at the weekend to join a three-way tie for seventh place after the two Games qualifying legs.
The top eight nations qualify for the Olympics in Torino in February 2006.
Australian short track officials believe Italy beat Australia by five points on aggregate to grab seventh place and Australia finished five points ahead of Great Britain on aggregate to land the vital eighth place.
Great Britain miss out on a countback.
Australia finished fifth in the first qualifying World Cup round in Italy last week, their best international result in over two years.
The relay squad of Mark McNee, Stephen Lee, Alex McEwan, Lachlan Hay, Ben Southee, Elliott Shriane, Jeremy Beck and Alex Merriman must wait till Friday when the results are officially confirmed by the International Skating Union.
Ice Skating Australia officials are also hopeful Emily Rosemond and Mark McNee will be heading for a place in the individual events in Torino once the complicated qualification calculation is completed.
Rosemond had a career-best 16th place in the 1000m at the Netherlands event.
The 5000m team finished 11th in a World Cup event in Holland at the weekend to join a three-way tie for seventh place after the two Games qualifying legs.
The top eight nations qualify for the Olympics in Torino in February 2006.
Australian short track officials believe Italy beat Australia by five points on aggregate to grab seventh place and Australia finished five points ahead of Great Britain on aggregate to land the vital eighth place.
Great Britain miss out on a countback.
Australia finished fifth in the first qualifying World Cup round in Italy last week, their best international result in over two years.
The relay squad of Mark McNee, Stephen Lee, Alex McEwan, Lachlan Hay, Ben Southee, Elliott Shriane, Jeremy Beck and Alex Merriman must wait till Friday when the results are officially confirmed by the International Skating Union.
Ice Skating Australia officials are also hopeful Emily Rosemond and Mark McNee will be heading for a place in the individual events in Torino once the complicated qualification calculation is completed.
Rosemond had a career-best 16th place in the 1000m at the Netherlands event.
