INTERNATIONAL SKATING UNION Communication No. 2028 (revised version July 28, 2016 - List of assigned Helmet numbers for the season 2016/17) Personalized helmets and dedicated numbers for Short Track Speed Skating (Including enforcement of rule 102 paragraph 6 in regards to helmets) Following ISU Communication No. 1954 regarding initiatives and measures for the promotion of Short Track Speed Skating and new rules adopted at the ISU Congress in Dubrovnik the following measures will be in place as of the upcoming 2016/17 season. 1. Personalized Helmets ISU Rule 295, paragraph 13.a) was amended by the ISU Congress 2016 as follows: quote “If no helmet covers are supplied, the Skaters may display artistic design on their helmets. Further requirements will be specified in an ISU Communication.” unquote The following principles shall therefore apply: In order to identify the Skaters within the teams during races and to present the personality and character of each Skater, personalized designs and artworks on the Short Track Speed Skating helmets may be used. a) During ISU Events starting with season 2016/17, no traditional helmet covers will be used, with the exception of the ISU World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships. b) However, the ISU may decide, at its own discretion, at any time that helmet covers are to be used. For ISU Championships the indications in Rule 295, paragraph 12.b) remain valid. c) Skaters are allowed to use unique designs and artworks on their personal Short Track Speed Skating helmets. d) If standard colors are used (i.e. no unique design/artwork), the ISU Members should possibly assign a different color to each Skater forming their team. e) ISU Members are requested to submit by September 30th, 2016 the artworks and designs to the ISU Secretariat for final approval considering the following limitations: i. The Short Track Speed Skating helmets must respect the safety standard and shape in accordance with ISU Statutes. ii. No obscene or provocative designs and artworks may be used on Short Track Speed Skating helmets. iii. The designs and artworks shall not include or refer, in any way, to criminal, racist or religious symbols. iv. No fluorescent colors may be used. 1 v. The designs and artworks shall not use colors and/or patterns that are representing or referring to a commercial brand, logo, pattern or artwork. vi. The designs and artworks on a Short Track Speed Skating helmets may include national country flags. vii. No words or slogans of any kind, character or typography may be used. viii. No personal sponsor logos and advertising markings are allowed on Short Track Speed Skating helmets. ix. An area of 40 cm2 on the front part of the Short Track Speed Skating helmets shall be available for an ISU sponsor’s logo. This area will be used by the ISU using a sticker with the sponsor logo. The ISU may also decide to put its own logo or the assigned athlete's number in this area. This sticker might cover part of the design or artwork of the helmet. x. Special reference is made to Rule 102 paragraph 6.b).ii) concerning the helmets manufacturers trademark, which cannot exceed twenty (20) cm2. The ISU will approve at its sole discretion, the personalized helmet designs and artworks within the deadline given in paragraph 1.e). No appeal or protest will be accepted. Approvals might in exceptional cases be given on site of the ISU Events by the ISU Sports Director Speed Skating (if present) or alternatively by the Representative of the ISU Short Track Speed Skating Technical Committee. In case no approval is given, the concerned design/artwork will have to be partly or fully covered with a tape. The ISU does not accept responsibility for damages incurred when taping/covering the design/artwork on the helmet. 2. Use of Dedicated Helmet Numbers The principles that were instore for the 2015/16 season shall apply also during the 2016/17 season: a) Dedicated helmet numbers will be used in all ISU Events (ISU Championships and ISU World Cup Short Track Competitions) except for the ISU World Junior Short Track Speed Skating Championships. b) These dedicated helmet numbers are assigned based on the overall results of the 2016 ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, starting with number 1 (one) for the World Short Track Speed Skating Champions Ladies and Men, and continuing with progressive numbering until the last listed Skater. c) For all Skaters that did not participate in the individual races of the 2016 ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships, the 1000m overall World Cup Classification of the 2015/16 ISU World Cup Short Track Speed Skating has been taken into account. d) Skaters who did not participate in any ISU World Cup Short Track Competition and/or ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships or have been newly entered in ISU Events will receive the next available numbers after the numbers already assigned. e) The same principle as in the above paragraphs a), b), c) and d) will apply for the subsequent skating seasons. f) The black numbers on white surface will be glued as oval stickers of the size of 8 x 14cm (height and length) on the left and right side of the personal helmets and shall not be removed during the whole season. The ISU does not accept responsibility for damages to the design/artwork on the helmet incurred when applying these numbers 2 g) These numbers (stickers) will be provided by the ISU based on the below list at the first ISU Event of the season, or for those Skaters not attending the first ISU Event, the number (sticker) will be distributed at the first Event of the season the Skater is attending. After each season and based on the overall results of the ISU World Short Track Speed Skating Championships and the ISU World Cup Short Track Competitions, new numbers will be assigned for the following season according to the above provisions. List of assigned dedicated Helmet numbers for the season 2016/17 Ladies 2016/17 season Men 2016/17 season 1 CHOI Minjeong KOR 1 HAN Tianyu CHN 2 ST-GELAIS Marianne CAN 2 HAMELIN Charles CAN 3 CHRISTIE Elise GBR 3 LIU Shaolin Sandor HUN 4 FAN Kexin CHN 4 PARK Se Yeong KOR 5 SCHULTING Suzanne NED 5 LIU Shaoang HUN 6 GUO Yihan CHN 6 WU Dajing CHN 7 QU Chunyu CHN 7 GIRARD Samuel CAN 8 BRADETTE Kasandra CAN 8 SEO Yi Ra KOR 9 SAKAI Yui JPN 9 WHELBOURNE Jack GBR 10 GILMARTIN Charlotte GBR 10 SHI Jingnan CHN 11 van KERKHOF Yara NED 11 KWAK Yoon-Gy KOR 12 SEJPALOVA Michaela CZE 12 NIKISHA Denis KAZ 13 SHIM Suk Hee KOR 13 KRUEGER John-Henry USA 14 MALTAIS Valerie CAN 14 LEPAPE Sebastien FRA 15 ZAKHAROVA Evgeniya RUS 15 BYKANOV Vladislav ISR 16 SAITO Hitomi JPN 16 VISCARDI Davide ITA 17 PERETTI Lucia ITA 17 PUKITIS Roberto LAT 18 BACSKAI Sara Luca HUN 18 van der WART Freek NED 19 SEIDEL Anna GER 19 GRIGOREV Vladimir RUS 20 SMITH Jessica USA 20 CARROLL Keith USA 21 NOH Do Hee KOR 21 ZHUMAGAZIYEV Nurbergen KAZ 22 PIERRON Veronique FRA 22 ALMEY Jens BEL 23 JASZAPATI Petra HUN 23 MIGUNOV Dmitry RUS 24 LOCKETT Deanna AUS 24 SCHUBERT Christoph GER 25 VALCEPINA Arianna ITA 25 SHOEBRIDGE Richard GBR 26 DESMET Hanne BEL 26 EREN Menderes TUR 27 MALAGICH Emina RUS 27 KNOCH Viktor HUN 28 WARAKOMSKA Magdalena POL 28 VISSER Dennis NED 29 GOETZ Kimberly USA 29 JUNG Hyun Woo (Andy) AUS 30 GAWLICA Oliwia POL 30 SPIEGL Felix GER 31 HUOT MARCHAND Tifany FRA 31 de LAAT Itzhak NED 32 PORUBSKA Alica SVK 32 YOSHINAGA Kazuki JPN 33 NOVOTNA Katerina CZE 33 BIGGS Zachary NZL 3 34 TALAYEVA Volha BLR 34 SAKAZUME Ryosuke JPN 35 BURIC Katarina CRO 35 BODA Pierre AUS 36 DOLGOPOLOVA Mariya UKR 36 ZVEJNIEKS Roberts LAT 37 YAKIMOVA Anna BUL 37 RYZHOU Yauheni BLR 38 MANOILOVA Katrin BUL 38 NG Lucas SIN 39 TAO Jiaying CHN 39 BRANKOVIC Edin BIH 40 ZANG Yize CHN 40 JEANNE Vincent FRA 41 KIM Alang KOR 41 WONG de Vin MAS 42 MACDONALD Jamie CAN 42 MOJSILOVIC Ivan SRB 43 van RUIJVEN Lara NED 43 DOTTI Tommaso ITA 44 HARRIS-GAUTHIER Namasthee CAN 44 KOLENC Martin CRO 45 PHANEUF Audrey CAN 45 ANIKIEJ Rafal POL 46 TER MORS Jorien NED 46 NASRI Klaudio BUL 47 BORODULINA Tatiana RUS 47 SU Jun-Peng TPE 48 YANG Yang CHN 48 ANDERMANN Dominic AUT 49 BOUTIN Kim CAN 49 HANDEI Volodymyr UKR 50 PROSVIRNOVA Sofia RUS 50 TSANG Kei Wing Kelvin HKG 51 de VRIES Rianne NED 51 KOZLOV Artem RUS 52 LIU Yang CHN 52 ELISTRATOV Semen RUS 53 MONVOISIN Aurelie FRA 53 COURNOYER Charle CAN 54 WALTER Bianca GER 54 PARK Jiwon KOR 55 STRELKOVA Ekaterina RUS 55 DUFFY Patrick CAN 56 LI Hongshuang CHN 56 KIM Joon Chun KOR 57 WATANABE Aoi JPN 57 FATHOULLIN Alexander CAN 58 VIVIANI Elena ITA 58 IWASA Dan JPN 59 CHOI Jihyun KOR 59 KRUEGER Cole USA 60 KONSTANTINOVA Ekaterina RUS 60 LEE Jung-Su KOR 61 MALISZEWSKA Natalia POL 61 HAMELIN Francois CAN 62 NANRI Toko JPN 62 KNEGT Sjinkie NED 63 ITO Ayuko JPN 63 CONFORTOLA Yuri ITA 64 KIKUCHI Sumire JPN 64 XU Fu CHN 65 HEIDUM Bernadett HUN 65 FAUCONNET Thibaut FRA 66 ZHOU Yang CHN 66 CREVELING Chris USA 67 YIN Qi CHN 67 SHAO Shuai CHN 68 LEE Eun-Byul KOR 68 MURATAKE Hironobu JPN 69 KESZLER Andrea HUN 69 KIM Hanwool KOR 70 SIGHEL Arianna ITA 70 CHEN Guang CHN 71 XU Moyuan CHN 71 SONG Haochen CHN 72 THOMSON Kathryn GBR 72 CELSKI J R USA 73 MALISZEWSKA Patrycja POL 73 OGURO Yoshiaki JPN 74 TOMBOLATO Federica ITA 74 YOKOYAMA Hiroki JPN 75 SZILICZEI-NEMET Rebeka HUN 75 ZAKHAROV Ruslan RUS 76 BURKHOLDER Lexi USA 76 REN Haobo CHN 4 77 MAFFEI Cecilia ITA 77 TRAN Aaron USA 78 SANTOS Kristen USA 78 KURGINIAN Viacheslav RUS 79 KIKUCHI Moemi JPN 79 KROEGER Torsten GER 80 GRZADKOWSKA Monika POL 80 CHEETHAM Joshua GBR 81 VANKOVA Petra CZE 81 TREACY Farrell GBR 82 KOOYSTRA Roza