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


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

 

:CAN 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)

 

:KOR 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)

 

:JPN 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)

 

:POL 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)

 

:NOR 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)

 

:USA 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)

 

:GER 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)

 

:AUT 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)

 

:CZE 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)

 

:POR 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)

 

:ROU Romania

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

 

 

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

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

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 :d 

 

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 :d 

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ISU Four Continents Speed Skating Championships | Hachinohe City, Japan :JPN

 

Day 1

 

Women’s Team Sprint

1. :CAN Canada (1:27.87)

2. :KOR South Korea (1:29.26)

3. :KAZ Kazakstan (1:30.36)

 

Men’s Team Sprint

1. :USA United States (1:19.43)

2. :CHN China (1:19.78)

3. :CAN Canada (1:20.32)

 

Women’s 1500m

1. :JPN Miho Takagi (1:54.86)

2. :CHN Mei Han (1:56.83)

3. :CAN Ivanie Blondin (1:57.99)

 

Men’s 1500m 

1. :USA Jordan Stolz (1:44.45)

2. :CHN Zhongyang Ning (1:45.84)

3. :JPN Taiyo Nonomura (1:46.01)

 

Day 2

 

Women’s 500m 

1. :USA Erin Jackson (38.16)

2. :JPN Kurumi Inagawa (38.26)

3. :KOR Min-Sun Kim (38.30)

 

Men’s 500m

1. :USA Jordan Stolz (34.47)

2. :CAN Laurent Dubreuil (34.68)

3. :JPN Tatsuya Shinhama (34.82)

 

Women’s 5000m 

1. :JPN Momoka Horikawa (4:06.91)

2. :CAN Isabelle Weidemann (4:08.01)

3. :CAN Ivanie Blondin (4:08.09)

 

Men’s 5000m

1. :CAN Graeme Fish (6:18.06)

2. :JPN Riku Tsuchiya (6:23.40)

3. :JPN Seitaro Ichinohe (6:24.11)

 

Full Results

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

ISU Four Continents Speed Skating Championships | Hachinohe City, Japan :JPN

 

Day 3

 

Women’s Team Pursuit

1. :CHN China (3:02.20)

2. :JPN Japan (3:04.02)

3. :KOR South Korea (3:12.28)

 

:CAN DNF and neither them nor Japan won gold :yikes:

 

Men’s Team Pursuit

1. :USA United States (3:43.13)

2. :JPN Japan (3:44.47)

3. :CAN Canada (3:47.43)

 

Women’s 1000m

1. :USA Brittany Bowe (1:15.65)

2. :KAZ Nadezkha Morozova (1:17.16)

3. :USA Kimi Goetz (1:17.23)

 

Men’s 1000m

1. :USA Jordan Stolz (1:08.04)

2. :JPN Tatsuya Shinhama (1:08.38)

3. :CAN Laurent Dubreuil (1:09.04)

 

Women’s Mass Start

1. :CAN Ivanie Blondin (63 SP/9:23.28)

2. :USA Mia Manganello (41 SP/9:28.36)

3. :KOR Ji-Woo Park (20 SP/9:28.39)

 

Men’s Mass Start

1. :KAZ Vitaliy Chshigolev (62 SP/8:22.05)

2. :CAN David De La Rue (45 SP/8:22.13)

3. :CAN Hayden Meyeur (22 SP/8:22.77)

 

Full Results

2 hours ago, Josh said:

 

 

Men’s Mass Start

1. :KAZ Vitaliy Chshigolev (62 SP/8:22.05)

2. :CAN David De La Rue (45 SP/8:22.13)

3. :CAN Hayden Meyeur (22 SP/8:22.77)

 

Full Results

It's always so much fun when a breakaway actually works in the mass start.

 

Also, notable that Stolz actually won four gold medals - he also competed in the team pursuit.

Edited by NearPup
  • 3 weeks later...

Poland has a great talent in the women's divisions. Hanna Mazur is being very impressive in the junior World Cup so far, riding 39's as a 16 year old in super slow Tomaszow is really impressive.

https://live.isuresults.eu/events/2025_POL_0002/competition/17/results

 

She's also got some endurance, judging by her second place in the mass start today.

Edited by heywoodu

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Purely for scientific interest....

 

Dutch speed skating world champion Joy Beune has broken records after posing for the cover of Playboy magazine for the first time in her homeland.

 

Not the first winter sports person to do this, Janine Flock was in :AUT playboy, and someone less well known as well.

 

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-14186077/Dutch-world-champion-speed-skater-Joy-Beune-25-breaks-records-posing-cover-Playboy-magazine.html

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