Speed Skating 2018 - 2019 Discussion Thread

[Dennis 738]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

46-year old Claudia Pechstein won the German 3k title in a rather decent 4:08

http://speedskatingresults.com/index.php?p=3&e=20027&r=8

It's impressive that she still wins national titles at age 46, but it worries me that in Inzell - where five Dutch skaters skated under 4:06 in the past month alone - no other German woman manages to skate sub 4:12. 

 

Germany was a country that used to dominate women's speed skating not that long ago.

[heywoodu 15,253]

2 minutes ago, Dennis said:

It's impressive that she still wins national titles at age 46, but it worries me that in Inzell - where five Dutch skaters skated under 4:06 in the past month alone - no other German woman manages to skate sub 4:12. 

 

Germany was a country that used to dominate women's speed skating not that long ago.

Yeah, and still Stephanie Beckert in 2nd place, who used to be amazing for a very short period of time 7-8 years ago and has not gotten anywhere close to that level since. 

[Dennis 738]

Kodaira already skated a 37,30 in Nagano this season, 0,17 slower than her track record. No one this season has come close.

[Dennis 738]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Yeah, and still Stephanie Beckert in 2nd place, who used to be amazing for a very short period of time 7-8 years ago and has not gotten anywhere close to that level since. 

Exactly, another 30-year old. Which is fine, if that 30-year old is world class, but 4:12 in Inzell isn't world class at all. And looking at the results, there are no youngsters coming through.

[Sindo 1,512]

21 hours ago, heywoodu said:

 

Top-5 qualifies, meaning Stollenga very surprisingly has qualified for the World Cup. That's really cool: she had so much troubles with her back, which even has been broken...then she came back, got injured again but never gave up and now it's rewarded  

 

Where did you get those results from ? I see the link results I was using until last year (https://live.isuresults.eu/home) is not showing results anymore

[heywoodu 15,253]

1 minute ago, Sindo said:

 

Where did you get those results from ? I see the link results I was using until last year (https://live.isuresults.eu/home) is not showing results anymore

Aah fuck, more change in federation websites 

Apparently results can be found here:

https://live.isuresults.eu/events

 

This picture just came from Twitter, I was surprised to see results of a national competition in that format  

[Dennis 738]

spee

14 minutes ago, Sindo said:

 

Where did you get those results from ? I see the link results I was using until last year (https://live.isuresults.eu/home) is not showing results anymore

www.speedskatingresults.com is a good website, especially to see recent national/world records

[heywoodu 15,253]

6:50.64 for Esmee Visser  

 

All-time top-25 to put it in perspective:

[dcro 10,210]

4 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

6:50.64 for Esmee Visser  

 

Wherever did you read 6:50.64? 

[Dennis 738]

3 minutes ago, dcro said:

 

Wherever did you read 6:50.64? 

She skated that time a few minutes ago. It's not included in the table yet.