Speed Skating ISU Single Distances World Championships 2019

[Dennis 759]

Herzog!  

 

Kodaira losing her first 500m since March 2016.

Edited February 8, 2019 by Dennis

[OlympicsFan 860]

Great winner, super fast times!

As someone who has been supporting Bittner for many years now i am very excited about this, winning on her home track must be very special for her.

[Dennis 759]

Nice surprises so far this tournament with Pedersen winning and Herzog beating Kodaira. Although I really like Kodaira, it’s good to see someone breaking her dominance. 

[Dennis 759]

Insane men’s 500m: 19 men under 35 seconds. 

 

And another surprising winner! Loving these championships so far. No Dutch winner on an individual distance so far. 

[Dennis 759]

Draws for today:

 

Women's 5.000m:

1.  Magdalena Czyszczon - Elena Sokhryakova 
2.  Carien Kleibeuker -  Lemi Williamson
3.  Nene Sakai -  Claudia Pechstein
4.  Isabelle Weidemann -  Esmee Visser
5.  Maryna Zuyeva -  Natalia Voronina
6.  Martina Sáblíková -  Ivanie Blondin

Kleibeuker can always surprise, Pechstein didn't compete in the 3.000m and I'm not sure why that was, Weidemann has been doing great all season, Visser just skated a PB and Sáblíková and Voronina did great on the 3.000m. Could be the first individual gold for the Dutch with Visser winning.

 

Men's 1.000m:

1.  Yuto Fujino -  Jin-Su Kim
2.  Marten Liiv -  Piotr Michalski
3.  Laurent Dubreuil - Kimani Griffin
4.  Denis Yuskov - Mathias Vosté
5.  Allan Dahl Johansson - Zhongyan Ning
6.  Masaya Yamada - Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu
7.  Joey Mantia - Tatsuya Shinhama
8.  Tae-Yun Kim - Nico Ihle
9.  Joel Dufter - Ignat Golovatsiuk
10.  Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen - Thomas Krol
11.  Kai Verbij -  Viktor Mushtakov
12.  Kjeld Nuis -  Pavel Kulizhnikov

Yuskov in pair 4 already, which is definitely an outsider and could put the pressure on the rest, but the favorites are in the last three pairs. The 500m has shown that everyone can win as the level was insane. 

 

Women's 1.000m:

1.  Yu-Ting Huang -  Sanneke de Neeling 
2.  Anne Gulbrandsen -  Noemi Bonazza

3.  Hyun-Yung Kim -  Gabriele Hirschbichler

4.  Kimi Goetz -  Heather Mclean

5.  Xin Zhao -  Jingzhu Jin

6.  Hege Bøkko -  Antoinette de Jong

7.  Natalia Czerwonka -  Maki Tsuji

8.  Yekaterina Aydova -  Qishi Li

9.  Jutta Leerdam -  Yekaterina Shikhova

10.  Miho Takagi -  Olga Fatkulina

11.  Brittany Bowe -  Nao Kodaira

12.  Daria Kachanova - Vanessa Herzog

Bowe, Takagi and Leerdam are the only three with a sub 1:14 time this year, but Kodaira is the WR holder. Shikhova and Li are outsiders for me. Herzog is usually better at the 500m, but the world title might have given her wings. Excited to see how this pans out.

 

Men's 10.000m:

1.  Takahiro Ito - Ryosuke Tsuchiya
2.  Michele Malfatti - Graeme Fish
3.  Ole Bjørnsmoen Næss - Peter Michael
4.  Jorrit Bergsma - Alexander Rumyantsev
5.  Patrick Beckert - Davide Ghiotto
6.  Danila Semerikov - Patrick Roest

The top 11 skaters on the 10.000m this year are all Dutch with Bergsma leading the world ranking, but his 5.000m was poor. First non-Dutch skater is Fish, but he skated his time on the fast track of Calgary. Beckert, Rumyantsev and Tsuchiya are next and could all challenge for a medal.

Edited February 9, 2019 by Dennis

[heywoodu 16,004]

12 minutes ago, Dennis said:

1.  Brittany Bowe - Ireen Wüst

 

Wüst has withdrawn from the 1000 to focus completely on the 1500 of tomorrow.

[Dennis 759]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Wüst has withdrawn from the 1000 to focus completely on the 1500 of tomorrow.

I missed that. 

 

Draw has just been adjusted. Will update my post.

[heywoodu 16,004]

Didn't Pechstein skip the 3k to focus on the 5k because of some back issues? A quick search also brought up something about the European court for human rights and something they said shortly before the world champs, but I am really not interested enough in the whole Pechstein drama to spend time on reading that in German  

[dcro 10,210]

False start in 5000m...

[heywoodu 16,004]

1 minute ago, dcro said:

False start in 5000m...

Almost as rare as falling in a 10km six laps before the end while very much on the way to a rare world allround title  (Pedersen in Amsterdam a few years ago)