Canada's short track power couple strike gold at World Cup

Canada's top speed skating couple was golden in the men's and women's 1,000-metre events at a World Cup short-track competition on Saturday.

Olympic medallists Charles Hamelin and Marianne St-Gelais, who are engaged, won their respective finals at the Dresden, Germany, competition.

Hamelin won his final in one minute, 23.171 seconds, ahead of Russia's Semen Elistratov, who finished in 1:22.607. Hamelin also shared the podium with fellow Canadian Charle Cournoyer, who won bronze in 1:24.605.

Elistratov's quater-final time of 1:22.607 set a new world record in the event.

St-Gelais topped the women's podium ahead of China's Jiaying Tao and Hungary's Petra Jaszapati with a 1:30.717 performance. Her teammate Jamie McDonald finished fifth.

Canada's men's 5,000m relay team of Hamelin, Cournoyer, Francois Hamelin and Samuel Girard qualified for Sunday's final.

The women's 3,000m team of St-Gelais, MacDonald, Valerie Maltais and Kasandra Bradette was disqualified in the semifinals.

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