17 January 2013
- From 18-20 of january the ISU European Short Track Speed Skating Championships will be held in Malm�-Sweden. Over 130 skaters from 27 countries have been entered for this event. Sweden has a long history in Speed skating. It is a country with many lakes, a lot of snow and a lot of natural ice. It is the home country of many famous skaters from the past like Hasse B�rjes, G�ran Claesson, and Thomas Gustafson in Long track and Martin Johanson and Daniel Jansson in Short track. It is also the country and the city of Malm� which hosted the first official European Championships in 1997, after a serie of Europe Cup competitions was held in Leeuwarden, Schotland and Oberstdorf. Sweden organised in Short Track also the 2003 edition of the Worldcup and in 2004 a Worldchampionship. For this year the 17th edition of the European Championships has a higher level then ever before so it looks like Malm� will be for the shorttrack family a very important and exciting weekend.
