Speed Skating ISU World Championships 2023

[Josh 11,129]

Men’s 10000m  

 

Final Results: 

 

Gold- Davide Ghiotto  

Silver- Jorrit Bergsma    

Bronze- Ted-Jan Bloemen   

 

Full Results Here

[Josh 11,129]

Women’s 5000m  

 

Final Results: 

 

Gold- Irene Schouten   

Silver- Ragne Wiklund   

Bronze- Martina Sáblíková  

 

Full Results Here

[heywoodu 15,355]

  On 3/5/2023 at 9:45 PM, dcro said:

Meh, this 10k was strangely uneventful. I fell asleep twice.

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Ghiotto's 10k was enough to keep me awake for the whole night if I'd wanted, damn  

 

One of the best examples of why long distances have so much more potential to be awesome than the short distances where it's over before you get into it.

 

It also helps this was in Heerenveen, and not the rather soulless venues like Calgary and Tomaszow we've seen earlier this season.

Edited March 6, 2023 by heywoodu

[rafalgorka 1,634]

A star is born

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/sports/olympics/jordan-stolz-speedskating-world-championships.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[OlympicsFan 860]

  On 3/6/2023 at 7:06 PM, rafalgorka said:

A star is born

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/05/sports/olympics/jordan-stolz-speedskating-world-championships.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

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His father is german. Too bad we aren't Italy, otherwise we would have bought him and Germany would be a speed skating powerhouse again. We might have a similar case in swimming in the near future: Kaii Winkler's father is from Germany as well and Kaii might become really good in the 100 free.

Edited March 7, 2023 by OlympicsFan

[Andry84 104]

  On 3/7/2023 at 3:09 PM, OlympicsFan said:

His father is german. Too bad we aren't Italy, otherwise we would have bought him and Germany would be a speed skating powerhouse again. We might have a similar case in swimming in the near future: Kaii Winkler's father is from Germany as well and Kaii might become really good in the 100 free.

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Italy doesnt buy anyone, only some tier 3 athletes come competing for Italy because they find more difficult to make the team in their country. Look at Tokyo medal table, there is only the bronze medal of Conyedo won by a foreign athletes, 1 bronze medal among 40 medals......I think Andy Diaz Is the First very strong athlete that comes to Italy in many years ( After Chamizo 8 or 9 years ago Who married an italian girl). Zane Weir Is completely different, he Is a product of italian system, when he started asking for italian citizenship ( he had an italian grandfather) in 2019, he was a fantastic 19.50 thrower , then he came to Italy, trained in Italy with italian coach and other italian athletes, with italian facilities and became a 22 metres thrower . Many others , especially in athletics, are Born and raised in Italy or came here when they were 5 or 6 years old children, they are more italian than me, I dont think anybody could say that Ovtcharov Is Ukrainian and not German.

Edited March 7, 2023 by Andry84