unless stated): 500m men: Olivier Jean 41.073 Gong Qiuwen 41.516 Daan Breeuwsma 41.667 Standings (after 5 of 8 races): (1) Jean 3000 points (2) Liang Wenhao 2164 (3) Jon Eley 1919 1500m men: Noh Jin-Kyu 2:09.041 (WR) Charles Hamelin 2:09.098 Kwak Yoon-Gy 2:09.548 Standings (after 5 of 8 races): (1) Noh 4000 points (2) Kwak 2240 (3) Hamelin 1826 500m women: Fan Kexin 43.873 Liu Qiuhong 43.959 Jessica Smith 45.338 Standings (after 5 of 8 races): (1) Martina Valcepina 3302 points (2) Liu 2494 (3) Fan 2050 1500m women: Cho Ha-Ri 2:22.473 Katherine Reutter 2:22.764 Xiao Han 2:23.061 Standings (after 5 of 8 races): (1) Cho 2952 points (2) Reutter 2800 (3) Lee Eun-Byul 2537 Skeleton World Cup in La Plagne, France: Women: Mellisa Hollingsworth 2:06.09 (1:03.00, 1:03.09) Anne O'Shea 2:06.46 (1:03.27, 1:03.19) Katie Uhlaender 2:06.64 (1:03.43, 1:03.21) Standings (after 2 of 8 races): (1) Hollingsworth 425 points (2) Olga Potylitsina 393 (3) Anja Huber 384 Ski jumping Men's World Cup in Harrachov, Czech Republic: HS 142 Team: (Tom Hilde, Bjørn Einar Romøren, Vegard Sklett, Anders Bardal) 993.7 points (Thomas Morgenstern, David Zauner, Andreas Kofler, Gregor Schlierenzauer) 956.0 (Jernej Damjan, Jure Šinkovec, Peter Prevc, Robert Kranjec) 888.6 Snooker UK Championship in York, England, Semi-finals: Ricky Walden 7–9 Mark Allen Surfing Men's World Tour: Billabong Pipeline Masters in Pipeline, Hawaii, United States: (1) Kieren Perrow (2) Joel Parkinson (3) Michel Bourez & Kelly Slater Final Standings: (1) Slater 67,100 points (2) Parkinson 56,100 (3) Owen Wright 47,900 Swimming European Short Course Championships in Szczecin, Poland: 100m freestyle men: Sergey Fesikov 46.56 Luca Dotto 46.89 Krisztián Takács 47.46 1500m freestyle men: Mateusz Sawrymowicz 14:29.81 Mads Glæsner 14:29.88 Sergiy Frolov 14:35.22 50m breaststroke men: Fabio Scozzoli 26.25 Damir Dugonjič 26.34 Alexander Dale Oen 26.49 200m butterfly men: László Cseh 1:50.87 Nikolay Skvortsov 1:51.21 Joe Roebuck 1:51.62 400m freestyle women: Mireia Belmonte García 3:56.39 Lotte Friis 3:58.02 Melanie Costa Schmid 4:00.30 50m backstroke women: Anastasia Zuyeva 26.23 Georgia Davies 26.93 Simona Baumrtová 26.94 100m individual medley women: Theresa Michalak 59.05 Zsuzsanna Jakabos 59.72 Mie Østergaard Nielsen 1:00.10 4 × 50 m medley relay women: (Nielsen, Rikke Møller Pedersen, Jeanette Ottesen, Pernille Blume) 1:46.48 (Zuyeva, Valentina Artemyeva, Irina Bespalova, Margarita Nesterova) 1:47.08 (Aleksandra Urbańczyk, Ewa Ścieszko, Anna Dowgiert, Katarzyna Wilk) 1:48.70 December 9, 2011 (Friday) Biathlon World Cup 2 in Hochfilzen, Austria: 10 km Sprint Men (all 0+0): Carl Johan Bergman 24:41.9 Andrei Makoveev 24:51.1