Speed Skating Discussion | Qualification to Winter Olympic Games Milano-Cortina 2026 Road to Milano-Cortina 2026

[Dennis 712]

We've had some national championships already this season. Here are the national champions so far:

 

 Canada

• Women:
  • Carolina Hiller (500m)
  • Ivanie Blondin (1.000m, 1.500m, 3.000m)
  • Laura Hall (5.000m)
  • Valerie Maltais (Mass Start)
• Men:
  • Laurent Dubreuil (500m)
  • Connor Howe (1.000m, 1.500m)
  • Graeme Fish (5.000m, 10.000m)
  • Hayden Mayeur (Mass Start)

 

 South Korea

• Women:
  • Kim Min-Sun (500m, 1.000m)
  • Park Ji-Woo (1.500m, 3.000m)
  • Jeong Yu-Na (5.000m)
• Men
  • Kim Jun-Ho (500m)
  • Cha Min-Kyu (1.000m)
  • Oh Hyun-Min (1.500m)
  • Lee Seung-Hoon (5.000m)
  • Park Sung-Yun (10.000m)

 

 Japan

• Women:
  • Yukino Yoshida (500m)
  • Miho Takagi (1.000m, 1.500m, 3.000m)
  • Momoka Horikawa (5.000m, Mass Start)
• Men:
  • Tatsuya Shinhama (500m, 1.000m)
  • Taiyo Nonomura (1.500m)
  • Seitaro Ichinohe (5.000m, 10.000m)
  • Shoumu Sasaki (Mass Start)

 

 Poland

• Women:
  • Andzelika Wójcik (500m)
  • Natalia Jabrzyk (1.000m, 1.500m, 5.000m)
  • Zofia Braun (3.000m)
  • Liwia Kubin (Mass Start)
• Men:
  • Piotr Michalski (500m)
  • Damian Zurek (1.000m, 1.500m)
  • Szymon Palka (5.000m, 10.000m, Mass Start)

 

 Norway

• Women:
  • Julie Nistad Samsonsen (500m)
  • Ragne Wiklund (1.500m, 3.000m)
  • Aurora Grinden Løvås (Mass Start)
• Men:
  • Bjørn Magnussen (500m)
  • Sander Eitrem (1.500m, 5.000m)
  • Allan Dahl Johnasson (Mass Start)

 

 United States of America

• Women:
  • Kimi Goetz (500m)
  • Brittany Bowe (1.000m, 1.500m)
  • Greta Myers (3.000m)
  • Rebecca Simmons (5.000m)
• Men:
  • Jordan Stolz (500m, 1.000m, 1.500m)
  • Casey Dawson (5.000m)
  • Kelin Dunfee (10.000m)

 

 Germany

• Women:
  • Anna Ostlender (500m, 1.000m)
  • Lea Sophie Scholz (1.500m)
  • Maira Jasch (3.000m)
  • Josie Hofmann (5.000m)
  • Michelle Uhrig (Mass Start)
• Men:
  • Hendrik Dombek (500m)
  • Moritz Klein (1.000m)
  • Stefan Emele (1.500m)
  • Patrick Beckert (5.000m)
  • Fridtjof Petzold (10.000m)
  • Tom Rudolph (Mass Start)

 

 Austria

• Women:
  • Vanessa Herzog (500m)
  • Jeannine Rosner (1.000m, 3.000m)
  • Anna Molnar (1.500m)
• Men:
  • Ignaz Gschwentner (500m, 1.000m)
  • Julian Zimmerling (3.000m)

 

 Czechia

• Women:
  • Nikola Zdráhalová (500m, 1.000m, Allround)
  • Martina Sáblíková (1.500m, 3.000m)
• Men:
  • Prokop Stodola (500m, 1.000m, 1.500m)
  • Tadeáš Procházka (5.000m)

 

 Portugal

• Women:
  • Francisca Gomes Henriques (500m)
  • Jéssica Carolina Santos Rodrigues (1.000m, 1.500m, 3.000m, Allround)
• Men:
  • Martim José Coelho Vieira (500m)
  • Afonso Henrique Pestana Silva (1.000m, 1.500m, 5.000m, Allround)
  • Miguel Amores Monteiro (3.000m)

 

 Romania

• Women:
  • Mihaela Hogas (Sprint)
• Men:
  • Cosmin Nedelea (Sprint)

 

 

Notable results (other than the times mentioned in this thread by others):

• Unkown skater  Hanna Damaratskaya skated 37,65 in the women's 500m in  Kolomna, the 2nd time of the season so far.
• Yevgeniy Koshkin finished in  34,56 in the men's 500m in Inzell, the 3rd time of the season so far.
•  Sanne in 't Hof skated a 6.54,97 in the women's 5.000m in  Heerenveen, more than 10 seconds faster than the number 2 time of the season.

[heywoodu 15,133]

Meanwhile at the Dutch World Cup qualifiers, we can kind of see that Ghiotto's unofficial WR on the 10k might not survive for very long  

 

Lots of especially younger guys are destroying their PB's (both on 5k and 10k) with the 'new' thing of skating the entire race with both arms on the back, including in the turns. I assume Ghiotto used that as well, as it's said to be 0.3 to 0.4 seconds of advantage per lap, which is incredible. 

 

Average times in especially the longer distances are going to drop so much  

[Josh 10,486]

ISU Four Continents Speed Skating Championships | Hachinohe City, Japan

 

Day 1

 

Women’s Team Sprint

1.  Canada (1:27.87)

2.  South Korea (1:29.26)

3.  Kazakstan (1:30.36)

 

Men’s Team Sprint

1.  United States (1:19.43)

2.  China (1:19.78)

3.  Canada (1:20.32)

 

Women’s 1500m

1.  Miho Takagi (1:54.86)

2.  Mei Han (1:56.83)

3.  Ivanie Blondin (1:57.99)

 

Men’s 1500m 

1.  Jordan Stolz (1:44.45)

2.  Zhongyang Ning (1:45.84)

3.  Taiyo Nonomura (1:46.01)

 

Day 2

 

Women’s 500m 

1.  Erin Jackson (38.16)

2.  Kurumi Inagawa (38.26)

3.  Min-Sun Kim (38.30)

 

Men’s 500m

1.  Jordan Stolz (34.47)

2.  Laurent Dubreuil (34.68)

3.  Tatsuya Shinhama (34.82)

 

Women’s 5000m 

1.  Momoka Horikawa (4:06.91)

2.  Isabelle Weidemann (4:08.01)

3.  Ivanie Blondin (4:08.09)

 

Men’s 5000m

1.  Graeme Fish (6:18.06)

2.  Riku Tsuchiya (6:23.40)

3.  Seitaro Ichinohe (6:24.11)

 

Full Results

[intoronto 5,635]

Canada's women's team pursuit just crashed at the 4c's 

[NearPup 3,044]

Jordan Stolz is still looking pretty, pretty good

[NearPup 3,044]

In what must be one of the great miracles of the entire season, the men's mass start in the 4c's was... entertaining :O