Evgenya Radanova and Marina Georgieva-Nikolova took presitigious places in the rankings at the 1000 metres start in the Short track skating World Cup in Nagano (Japan).

Marina Georgieva-Nikolova directly went to the quarter finals, but dropped off with a third place in the second series with her time – 1:33.378 minutes.

Radanova finished first in the B finals with a timing of 1:33.742 minutes. Before that, she was first in the third series, second in the second quarter final series and last in the second semi-final series with timing 1:32.327 minutes.