Speed Skating 2021 - 2022 Discussion Thread

[heywoodu 15,145]

Jesus, the Canadians are in shape. Tiny bit early, but alright  

 

 

[dcro 10,210]

They probably just opened some windows of the oval. 

[intoronto 5,645]

None of those times are personal bests except McDougall... so there is room for improvement.

[intoronto 5,645]

 

[NearPup 3,052]

National Championship Men's 10,000m results:

1. Ted-Jan Bloemen - 12.41.55 (TR)
2. Graeme Fish - 12:49.33
3. Jordan Belchos - 13:02.75

[heywoodu 15,145]

15 hours ago, intoronto said:

None of those times are personal bests except McDougall... so there is room for improvement.

Most of their PB's were skated on the significantly faster Salt Lake City though. Times like these (and Weidemann's 6:46.81 5km record of last night) halfway in October are incredible though. Either a great sign, or a sign of peaking way too hard, way too early, time will tell  

[heywoodu 15,145]

By the way, Bloemen was on WR pace until roughly 8km.

 

 

I thought the top-3 mentioned here was just that, the top-3, but apparently that was the full result...the women's 5k even had only two participants, only one of which can be seen as internationally competitive. That's....not a whole lot, even the men's 5k only had eight participants.

[NearPup 3,052]

6 hours ago, heywoodu said:

I thought the top-3 mentioned here was just that, the top-3, but apparently that was the full result...the women's 5k even had only two participants, only one of which can be seen as internationally competitive. That's....not a whole lot, even the men's 5k only had eight participants.

Pretty common in North America. 2018 US Olympic trials had only four participants in the women's 5000m and two participants (including a 53 year old) in the men's 10000m.

[heywoodu 15,145]

15 hours ago, NearPup said:

Pretty common in North America. 2018 US Olympic trials had only four participants in the women's 5000m and two participants (including a 53 year old) in the men's 10000m.

Good chance there'll be a fresh young 51-year old competing this season  

[heywoodu 15,145]

Fast times in Salt Lake City, with a 37.08 for Erin Jackson placing her in tied-16th place all-time. Maria Victoria Rodriguez' breaks her own Argentinian NR, Shruti Kotwal obliterates her Indian NR.

https://speedskatingresults.com/index.php?p=3&e=24143&r=1

 

Also a Brazilian record in the men's 5k, Marcelo Donadio's NR has been obliterated by 26 seconds  

https://speedskatingresults.com/index.php?p=3&e=24143&r=4