Speed Skating 2021 - 2022 Discussion Thread

[NearPup 3,045]

Rodriguez won a bronze medal in the women's 500m at the Four Continent Championships, which is South America's first ever medal at a senior ISU championship of any kind.

 

(Just don't look too deeply at the depth of the competition)

 

also won it's first ever medal at a senior ISU championship in the event.

[NearPup 3,045]

Ted-Jan Bloemen becomes the first person outside of Europe to be a World and continental champion after winning the 5000m (again, don't look up the opposition). Not really much of an achievement given how new the Four continents championship is, but this is still a neat little piece of trivia.

[NearPup 3,045]

In case anyone else wants to suffer through this complete abomination of a race:

 

 

[Dennis 712]

14 hours ago, NearPup said:

In case anyone else wants to suffer through this complete abomination of a race:

 

 

The video is unavailable for me. What race was it?

[NearPup 3,045]

Just now, Dennis said:

The video is unavailable for me. What race was it?

Women’s mass start at the four continents championship. An 11 minute snoozer with six skaters.

[Monzanator 4,499]

The mass starts in speed skating are usually boring as hell. Short track's appeal is focused on the word "short". Long track mass start is a failed attempt to create competition & excitement.

[Dennis 712]

Rather boring European Championships this weekend held in  Heerenveen. The last international test for most European athletes before the Games.

 

A lot of Russians were in quarantine leading up to the tournament as the their team manager, sprint coach, and Olga Fatkulina (reigning European Champion 500m) were all tested positive soon after arrival in the Netherlands at the start of this week. Therefore the whole Russian team had to stay in their hotel rooms for 5 days, and even missed the first day of the event. Other Russians, including most elite male sprinters had decided last week to stay in Russia. 

 

 Nils van der Poel had already decided not to compete.

 

Medals:

 

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 500m	Piotr Michalski (34.60)	Merijn Scheperkamp (34.61)	Dai Dai N'tab (34.76)
Men's 1.000m	Thomas Krol (1:07.77)	Kjeld Nuis (1:07.86)	Kai Verbij (1:07.94)
Men's 1.500m	Kjeld Nuis (1:43.60)	Thomas Krol (1:43.91)	Allan Dahl Johansson (1:44.16)
Men's 5.000m	Patrick Roest (6:11.54)	Jorrit Bergsma (6:13.47)	Hallgeir Engebråten (6:13.67)
Men's Team Pursuit	Bosker, Kramer & Roest (3:37.97)	Engebråten, Johansson & Pedersen (3:38.92)	Ghiotto, Giovannini & Malfatti (3:43.41)
Men's Team Sprint	Scheperkamp, Snel & Verbij (1:19.71)	Lorentzen, Magnussen & Rukke (1:19.83)	Kania, Michalski & Zurek (1:20.54)
Men's Mass Start	Bart Swings	Livio Wenger	Ruslan Zakharov
Women's 500m	Femke Kok (37.32)	Angelina Golikova (37.43)	Daria Kachanova (37.58)
Women's 1.000m	Jutta Leerdam (1:13.60)	Femke Kok (1:14.80)	Daria Kachanova (1:14.94)
Women's 1.500m	Antoinette de Jong (1:53.81)	Ireen Wüst (1:54.08)	Francesca Lollobrigida (1:54.50)
Women's 3.000m	Irene Schouten (3:56.62)	Antoinette de Jong (3:59.79)	Francesca Lollobrigida (4:00.61)
Women's Team Pursuit	De Jong, Schouten & Wüst (2:54.12)	Bøhm, Haugen & Wiklund (2:58.54)	Golubeva, Lalenkova & Voronina (2:59.32)
Women''s Team Sprint	Bosiek, Wójcik & Ziomek (1:27.26)	Nifantava, Sloeva & Varabyova (1:31.18)	Farstad, Ripsrud & Samsonsen (1:31.43)
Women's Mass Start	Irene Schouten	Marijke Groenewoud	Elizaveta Golubeva

Only 8 countries won a medal, a record low.

[Nickyc707 382]

1 hour ago, Dennis said:

Rather boring European Championships this weekend held in  Heerenveen. The last international test for most European athletes before the Games.

 

A lot of Russians were in quarantine leading up to the tournament as the their team manager, sprint coach, and Olga Fatkulina (reigning European Champion 500m) were all tested positive soon after arrival in the Netherlands at the start of this week. Therefore the whole Russian team had to stay in their hotel rooms for 5 days, and even missed the first day of the event. Other Russians, including most elite male sprinters had decided last week to stay in Russia. 

 

 Nils van der Poel had already decided not to compete.

 

Medals:

 

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Men's 500m	Piotr Michalski (34.60)	Merijn Scheperkamp (34.61)	Dai Dai N'tab (34.76)
Men's 1.000m	Thomas Krol (1:07.77)	Kjeld Nuis (1:07.86)	Kai Verbij (1:07.94)
Men's 1.500m	Kjeld Nuis (1:43.60)	Thomas Krol (1:43.91)	Allan Dahl Johansson (1:44.16)
Men's 5.000m	Patrick Roest (6:11.54)	Jorrit Bergsma (6:13.47)	Hallgeir Engebråten (6:13.67)
Men's Team Pursuit	Bosker, Kramer & Roest (3:37.97)	Engebråten, Johansson & Pedersen (3:38.92)	Ghiotto, Giovannini & Malfatti (3:43.41)
Men's Team Sprint	Scheperkamp, Snel & Verbij (1:19.71)	Lorentzen, Magnussen & Rukke (1:19.83)	Kania, Michalski & Zurek (1:20.54)
Men's Mass Start	Bart Swings	Livio Wenger	Ruslan Zakharov
Women's 500m	Femke Kok (37.32)	Angelina Golikova (37.43)	Daria Kachanova (37.58)
Women's 1.000m	Jutta Leerdam (1:13.60)	Femke Kok (1:14.80)	Daria Kachanova (1:14.94)
Women's 1.500m	Antoinette de Jong (1:53.81)	Ireen Wüst (1:54.08)	Francesca Lollobrigida (1:54.50)
Women's 3.000m	Irene Schouten (3:56.62)	Antoinette de Jong (3:59.79)	Francesca Lollobrigida (4:00.61)
Women's Team Pursuit	De Jong, Schouten & Wüst (2:54.12)	Bøhm, Haugen & Wiklund (2:58.54)	Golubeva, Lalenkova & Voronina (2:59.32)
Women''s Team Sprint	Bosiek, Wójcik & Ziomek (1:27.26)	Nifantava, Sloeva & Varabyova (1:31.18)	Farstad, Ripsrud & Samsonsen (1:31.43)
Women's Mass Start	Irene Schouten	Marijke Groenewoud	Elizaveta Golubeva

Only 8 countries won a medal, a record low.

GB had a 4th place in the men's 1000m which is their best finish in the 130 years of the EC, so they at least were happy at the week's events.

[heywoodu 15,135]

1 hour ago, Dennis said:

Only 8 countries won a medal, a record low.

To be fair, it's not like this event has much of a history  

[Dennis 712]

13 hours ago, heywoodu said:

To be fair, it's not like this event has much of a history  

No, that’s true. But at least countries like Germany, Austria, Czech Republic or Finland were able to win a medal or two.