At 17:00, the finals of the day took place in the FIRS Kaohsiung Roller Speed Skating Arena, crowded by fans coming from all over the world to support their heroes. Because of the rain, the Lap Circuit competitions have been delayed to tomorrow and will be competed soon after the Lap Circuit Junior Women and Men races.

20.000m Elimination Junior Women/Men

The Final of 20.000 m Elimination Junior Women was truly amazing and, by giving all the way, the athletes ensured to the public emotions and suspence. The race started with a low rhythm that, as usual, become faster in the elimination laps. Around the middle of the competition, Chinese Taipei, Korea, Colombia and Venezuela took the top of the group and guided the race until the end. At 1 lap to go, the Colombians, Karen Bermudez and Luz Karime Garzon, tried the last sprint and being successful in getting both the Gold and the Silver Medal; The third place went to the Korean Goeun Jeong.
The first half of the Junior Men competition was quite balanced, with all the athletes in a tight group and many consecutive changes into the leading head: The rhythm was very high in a fair and increasingly spectacular race. At 17 laps to go, athletes from Colombia, Japan and Spain have been involved in a fall but they were able to come back to the competition. At ten laps to the end, Italy imposed a quicker rhythm and at 3 laps to the end the two Italians were leading the group followed by the Venezuelan athlete. In the last lap, Daniel Niero (ITA) started the last sprint closed followed by the Quentin Giraudeau (FRA) who got the Silver Medal and the Chinese Taipei athlete, Wei-Lin Tai who won the Bronze.

10.000, Point Senior Women/Men

An heavy rain started to fall down right before the beginning of the 10.000 Points competitions and, of course, it modified the approach to the race: the athletes started to divide themselves into different groups depending on their skills on a wet surface and on the wheels they were using.
In the Senior Ladies, the Korean Garam Yu dominated the competition with 31 points, followed by Clemence Halbout (FRA) with 22 points and Yi-Hsuan Liu (TPE) with 13 points. 
In the Senior Men, Jorge Bolanos (ECU) easily managed the weather conditions and, with 18 points won the Gold Medal. The second and third position were quite close each other: Silver Medal for Ewen Fernandez (FRA) with 13 points and Riccardo Bugari (ITA) with 11 points.

As every day, all the competitions have been broadcasted live on FIRS WebTv. Please, follow the links below for more informations. In the downloads section on the bottom you can find the complete daily results.

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