Speed Skating ISU Single Distances World Championships 2019

[heywoodu 16,004]

Awesome world title for Wüst, after spending half the season visiting best friend and former world champion Paulien van Deutekom on her deathbed several times per week, followed by Van Deutekom's death at 37, this is a really, really cool win.

[heywoodu 16,004]

5 minutes ago, dcro said:

Where is Leenstra? Tired of 4th places?

She announced her retirement during the summer  

[Dennis 759]

5 minutes ago, dcro said:

Where is Leenstra? Tired of 4th places?

She decided to stop skating to focus on her studies. 

 

Wüst! 

 

Expected top 5, but these times are incredible!

[heywoodu 16,004]

It's not like Wüst never shows emotions, but I've never seen her this emotional.

[heywoodu 16,004]

19-year old unknown Ning Zhongyang of China nearly breaks the track record and destroys his PB by almost two seconds  

[heywoodu 16,004]

1:42.58 for Thomas Krol, what the heck  

[Function CR Lee 468]

17 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

19-year old unknown Ning Zhongyang of China nearly breaks the track record and destroys his PB by almost two seconds  

 

This is the first time that Ning Zhongyan to run a 1500m race in international competition.

[heywoodu 16,004]

Just now, Function CR Lee said:

 

This is the first time that Ning Zhongyan to run a 1500m race in international competition.

Yeah, the Dutch commentator mentioned that the only win he had so far was in a local competition in the Netherlands  (like a billion Chinese skaters he often trains here)

[Dennis 759]

Krol and Pedersen both beating Nuis and Yuskov is a surprise to me. 

 

And I was going to say that China needed some hard work leading up to 2022 as all Chinese skaters seemed to perform worse than last year, but that 19 year old skated an incredible time for a junior.