Dropping two or more places in a short track race and being level or better by the line. It is the thing people who know the sport watch for and the one broadcast never names, and it happens in roughly a third of all starts. Places inherited from a penalty ahead do not count — a drop that recovers is racing, not contact.
| # | skater | races | recoveries | rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Minjeong Choi KOR | 20 | 8 | 40.0% |
| 2 | Thomas Nadalini ITA | 20 | 8 | 40.0% |
| 3 | Jens van 't Wout NED | 21 | 8 | 38.1% |
| 4 | Jianing Zhang CHN | 22 | 6 | 27.3% |
| 5 | Florence Brunelle CAN | 20 | 5 | 25.0% |
| 6 | Bohao Zhang CHN | 21 | 3 | 14.3% |
| 7 | Courtney Sarault CAN | 22 | 3 | 13.6% |
| 8 | Rina Yamana JPN | 20 | 2 | 10.0% |
| 9 | Furkan Akar TUR | 23 | 1 | 4.3% |
a recovery is dropping two or more places during a race and being back level or better by the line. It deliberately excludes places inherited from a penalty ahead: the same filter that keeps noise out of the penalty detector is the whole substance of this board. counted over races whose laps carry a position for every lap, which is not every competition — 2007 stored none at all and 2006 very few — so the races column is the honest denominator rather than a skater’s whole career. Individual races only. At least 20 such races to appear. This view counts 2026/2027 only: 3 competitions so far.
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