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Sports | March 22, 2010, Monday // 08:42

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Bulgaria: China, South Korea Heroes at Short Track Worlds in Sofia

Ho-Suk Lee (R) of Korea, Wenhao Liang (C) of China and J.R. Celski of the US (L) in action during the Men 1000m finals race at Samsung ISU World Cup short-track in Sofia, Bulgaria, 21 March 2010. Photo by EPA/BGNES

China and South Korea swept the podium and won every gold medal on Sunday at the short track speedskating world championships in the Bulgarian capital Sofia.

South Korea's Lee Ho-suk won the men's 1,000 meters in 1 minute, 34.198 seconds, ahead of teammate Kwak Yoon-gy (1:34.231) and J.R. Celski of the U.S. (1:34.290). The trio finished in the same order in the 3,000, with Lee winning his third gold.

Defending champion Wang Meng of China took the women's 1,000 in 1:31.603, beating South Korea's Cho Ha-ri (1:31.695) and Katherine Reutter of the U.S. (1:31.747).

Park Seung-hi led a top-three sweep for South Korea in the 3,000, with Cho Ha-ri and Lee Eun-byul.

South Korea won the men's 5,000 relay and the women's 3,000 relay.

South Korean skaters dominated the sport events on Friday, while Saturday turned out to be a wonderful day for the Chinese (two gold medals) and Canadians (two silver and two bronze medals).

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