Dennis

Update on national records skated after the World Single Distances Championships in Inzell, which is the biggest update so far. Larissa Paes once more improved on her PBs and also a new NR for a Syrian skater. Furthermore some national records for more traditional speed skating countries such as Russia and Norway

Looking forward to the Wold Allround Championships in Calgary and the World Cup final in Salt Lake City (9-10 March) where a lot of NRs will be improved.

500m women

Vanessa Herzog  37,12 - 8-feb-19 - Inzell (GER)

Kaja Ziomek  38,09 - 8-feb-19 - Inzell (GER)

Victoria Rodriguez  39,02 - 9-feb-19 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Ainoa Carreno  42,70 - 25-nov-18 - Tomaszów-Mazowiecki (POL)

Tara Donoghue  43,10 - 5-jan-19 - Heerenveen (NED)

Larissa Paes  44,47 - 9-feb-19 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Andrea Cabrera  1.12,28 - 17-nov-18 - Groningen (NED)

1.000m women

Tara Donoghue  1.25,18 - 19-jan-19 - Heerenveen (NED)

Larissa Paes  1.30,08 - 1-dec-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

1.500m women

Ellia Smeding  2.04,38 - 5-nov-18 - Heerenveen (NED)

Valentina Espinosa  2.06,41 - 9-feb-19 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Larissa Paes  2.17,50 - 9-feb-19 - Salt Lake City (USA)

3.000m women

Valentina Espinosa  4.25,94 - 15-dec-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Larissa Paes  4.49,53 - 19-jan-19 - Salt Lake City (USA)

5.000m women

Natalia Voronina  6:50,39 - 9-feb-19 - Inzell (GER)

Gemma Cooper  7:42,40 - 10-feb-19 - Heerenveen (NED)

500m men

Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen  34,35 8-feb-19 - Inzell (GER)

Marten Liiv  35,71 - 17-nov-18 - Obihiro (JPN)

Rawad Ajameah  1:23,18 - 5-feb-19 - Arendal (NOR)

1.000m men

Mathias Vosté  1:08,88 - 9-feb-19 - Inzell (GER)

1.500m men

Ning Zhongyan  1:44,27 - 10-feb-19 - Inzell (GER)

3.000m men

Viktor Hald Thorup  3:44,36 - 19-jan-19 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Vladislav Bykanov  3.54,94 - 5-jan-19 - Heerenveen (NED)

5.000m men

Sverre Lunde Pedersen  6:07,16 - Inzell (GER)

10.000m men

Danila Semerikov  12:57,40 - 9-feb-19 - Inzell (GER)

World Cup season 2018-2019 is over. Final World Cup classification per individual distance:

Women's 500m:

1.  Natalia Maliszewska
2.  Martina Valcepina
3.  Lara van Ruijven

Women's 1.000m:

1.  Suzanne Schulting
2.  Sofia Prosvirnova
3.  Alyson Charles

Women's 1.500m:

1.  Suzanne Schulting
2.  Kim Ji Yoo
3.  Choi Min Jeong

Overall World Ranking:

1.  Suzanne Schulting
2.  Natalia Maliszewska
3.  Kim Ji Yoo
4.  Sofia Prosvirnova
5.  Martina Valcepina
6.  Alyson Charles
7.  Choi Min Jeong
8.  Lara van Ruijven
9.  Ekaterina Efremenkova
10.  Yara van Kerkhof

Men's 500m:

1.  Lim Hyo Jun
2.  Wu Dajing
3.  Samuel Girard

Men's 1.000m:

1.  Park Ji Won
2.  Hong Kyung Hwan
3.  Shaoang Liu

Men's 1.500m:

1.  Kim Gun Woo
2.  Steven Dubois
3.  Lee June Seo

Overall World Ranking:

1.  Lim Hyo Jun
2.  Kim Gun Woo
3.  Park Ji Won
4.  Hong Kyung Hwan
5.  Steven Dubois
6.  Wu Dajing
7.  Shaoang Liu
8.  Lee June Seo
9.  Samuel Girard
10.  Hwang Dae Heon

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. 

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!

Final day tomorrow with both the men's and women's 1.500m and the mass starts

Women's 1.500m:

1.  Dan Li -  Nikola Zdráhalova
2.  Noemi Bonazza -  Kali Christ
3.  Yekaterina Aydova -  Roxanne Dufter
4.  Mei Han -  Gabriele Hirschbichler
5.  Karolina Bosiek -  Xin Zhao
6.  Valerie Maltais -  Elizaveta Kazelina
7.  Natalia Czerwonka -  Melissa Wijfje
8.  Nana Takagi -  Ayano Sato
9.  Ragne Wiklund -  Antoinette de Jong
10.  Yekaterina Shikhova -  Ireen Wüst
11.  Francesca Lollobrigida -  Miho Takagi
12.  Brittany Bowe -  Evgeniia Lalenkova

In my opinion, the medal favorites are  Bowe,  Wüst, Shikhova,  Miho Takagi and  De Jong.

Men's 1.500m:

1.  Joel Dufter -  Zbigniew Bródka
2.  Takuro Oda -  Haralds Silovs
3.  Alessio Trentini -  Connor Howe
4.  Sindre Henriksen -  Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu
5.  Sergey Gryaztsov -  Mathias Vosté
6.  Zhongyan Ning -  Jin-Su Kim
7.  Sverre Lunde Pedersen -  Sergey Trofimov
8.  Masaya Yamada -  Bart Swings
9.  Joey Mantia -  Håvard Bøkko
10.  Thomas Krol -  Denis Yuskov
11.  Patrick Roest -  Seitaro Ichinohe
12.  Kjeld Nuis -  Min Seok Kim

The medal favorites are  Yuskov,  Nuis,  Krol,  Roest and Mantia, I think.

Beckert losing out on 0,002 seconds after 25 laps. 

Impressive win by Bowe! 

Great podium overall with Herzog and Kodaira

Verbij!

Sabilkova!  10th world title in a row on the 5.000m. 

Great time for Visser too.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

Herzog!  

Kodaira losing her first 500m since March 2016.

Draw 500m ladies:

1.  Letitia de Jong -  Qishi Li
2.  Yekaterina Aydova -  Gabriele Hirschbichler 
3.  Kaja Ziomek -  Ruining Tian
4.  Heather Mclean -  Kaylin Irvine
5.  Hege Bøkko -  Erin Jackson
6.  Marsha Hudey -  Janine Smit
7.  Jingzhu Jin -  Jutta Leerdam
8.  Maki Tsuji -  Konami Soga
9.  Hyun-Yung Kim -  Min Sun Kim
10.  Brittany Bowe -  Vanessa Herzog
11.  Angelina Golikova -  Daria Kachanova
12.  Olga Fatkulina -  Nao Kodaira

Draw not as stacked with all the medal favorites in the last three pairs and some outsiders in pair 7, 8 and 9.

Draw 500m men:

1.  Piotr Michalski -  Ronald Mulder
2.  Christopher Fiola -  Henrik Fagerli Rukke
3.  David Bosa -  Tingyu Gao
4.  Artur Nogal -  Artur Was
5.  Gilmore Junio -  Tae-Yun Kim
6.  Jan Smeekens -  Bjørn Magnussen
7.  Dai Dai Ntab -  Min Kyu Cha
8.  Ruslan Murashov -  Jun-Ho Kim
9.  Laurent Dubreuil -  Nico Ihle
10.  Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen -  Viktor Mushtakov
11.  Yuma Murakami -  Tatsuya Shinhama
12.  Pavel Kulizhnikov -  Tsubasa Hasegawa

Much more exciting to me with a number of outsiders in the early pairs and the favorites in the last pairs.

With the team pursuits also being skated today, I expect a lot of medals for  

2 hours ago, dcro said:

@heywoodu What's up with these "talentNED" suits?

 

Pretentious as hell.

It’s a sponsor. It’s an organization that focuses on developing Dutch talent in different sports. 

Pedersen! 

Today the team sprints and the 5.000m for men and 3.000m for women. Quite exciting draws:

5.000m men:

1.  Graeme Fish -  Takahiro Ito
2.  Ted-Jan Bloemen -  Peter Michael
3.  Jorrit Bergsma -  Vitaly Mikhailov
4.  Michele Malfatti -  Ryosuke Tsuchiya
5.  Håvard Bøkko -  Jordan Belchos
6. Sergey Trofimov -  Andrea Giovannini
7. Davide Ghiotto - Sven Kramer
8.  Alexander Rumyantsev -  Bart Swings
9. Sverre Lunde Pedersen -  Danila Semerikov
10.  Patrick Roest -  Patrick Beckert

The favorites and outsiders spread out throughout the draw with Bloemen, (WR holder) in pair 2, Bergsma in pair 3, Kramer (3x Olympic champion) in pair 7, Pedersen and Semerikov (both won a World Cup this season) in pair 9 and Roest in pair 10.

3.000m women:

1. Carlijn Achtereekte -  Sofie Karoline Haugen
2.  Ida Njåtun -  Ireen Wüst
3.  Nana Takagi -  Roxanne Dufter
4. Saskia Alusalu -  Valerie Maltais
5.  Claudia Pechstein - Elena Sokhryakova
6. Evgeniia Lalenkova -  Miho Takagi
7.  Antoinette de Jong - Ayano Sato
8. Francesca Lollobrigida - Natalia Voronina
9.  Isabelle Weidemann -  Ivanie Blondin
10. Martina Sáblíková -  Maryna Zuyeva

The entire top 13 of the Olympic 3.000m in Pyeongchang are starting here, with the Olympic Champion Achtereekte already starting in pair 1. Pretty stacked draw I would say.

Update on national records skated this season. Larissa Paes improves every competition she enters, so curious to see her progress.

500m women

Vanessa Herzog  37,23 - 15-dec-18 - Heerenveen (NED)

Victoria Rodriguez  39,60 - 27-okt-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Ainoa Carreno  42,70 - 25-nov-18 - Tomaszów-Mazowiecki (POL)

Tara Donoghue  43,10 - 5-jan-19 - Heerenveen (NED)

Larissa Paes  44,92 - 19-jan-19 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Andrea Cabrera  1.12,28 - 17-nov-18 - Groningen (NED)

1.000m women

Tara Donoghue  1.25,18 - 19-jan-19 - Heerenveen (NED)

Larissa Paes  1.30,08 - 1-dec-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

1.500m women

Ellia Smeding  2.04,38 - 5-nov-18 - Heerenveen (NED)

Valentina Espinosa  2.06,94 - 24-nov-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Larissa Paes  2.20,74 - 24-nov-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

3.000m women

Valentina Espinosa  4.25,94 - 15-dec-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Larissa Paes  4.49,53 - 19-jan-19 - Salt Lake City (USA)

500m men

Marten Liiv  35,71 - 17-nov-18 - Obihiro (JPN)

3.000m men

Viktor Hald Thorup  3:44,36 - 19-jan-19 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Vladislav Bykanov  3.54,94 - 5-jan-19 - Heerenveen (NED)

 and  qualified through the 2019 World Qualification Event.

So the qualified teams are:  (host)            

Update on national records skated this season. Tara Donoghue justed turned 17, so she could make some progress. Bykanov is an established short-track speed skater who often trains with the Dutch team.

500m women

Vanessa Herzog  37,23 - 15-dec-18 - Heerenveen (NED)

Victoria Rodriguez  39,60 - 27-okt-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Ainoa Carreno  42,70 - 25-nov-18 - Tomaszów-Mazowiecki (POL)

Tara Donoghue  43,10 - 5-jan-19 - Heerenveen (NED)

Larissa Paes  45,15 - 15-dec-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Andrea Cabrera  1.12,28 - 17-nov-18 - Groningen (NED)

1.000m women

Tara Donoghue  1.25,57 - 5-jan-19 - Heerenveen (NED)

Larissa Paes  1.30,08 - 1-dec-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

1.500m women

Ellia Smeding  2.04,38 - 5-nov-18 - Heerenveen (NED)

Valentina Espinosa  2.06,94 - 24-nov-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Larissa Paes  2.20,74 - 24-nov-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

3.000m women

Valentina Espinosa  4.25,94 - 15-dec-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Larissa Paes  4.56,57 - 15-dec-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

500m men

Marten Liiv  35,71 - 17-nov-18 - Obihiro (JPN)

3.000m men

Vladislav Bykanov  3.54,94 - 5-jan-19 - Heerenveen (NED)

5 hours ago, wumo26 said:

Swedish national team player, Louise Sand, has chosen to stop her career at the age of just 26 years. In a podcast, Louise Sand tells that she has experienced gender dysphoria that can occur when you experience inconsistencies between the original/ biological gender and the gender a person experience.

 

- I've had it bad lately, and I know what has caused it. I was born in the wrong body. I have never seen myself as a public person, but I fell this can't go under the radar. Therefore, I choose to tell it in my own way and in my own words. If an ordinary 26-year-old had told about gender dysphoria, it would most likely have gone unnoticed. I hope you all understand and respect my decision. Now it's time to live my life how I want to, she says. 

 

 

I don't think anyone is surprised as Sand has always looked quite masculine. Good for them that they are open about it.

On ‎01‎/‎12‎/‎2018 at 22:02, Dennis said:

Today,  Larissa Paes skated a new national record on the 1.000m women. As I love stats, I looked up which national records have been improved this season so far as summarized below. With the world allround championships in Calgary and the world cup final in Salt Lake City this year, I expect a lot more national records to be improved during the later stages of the season.

 

500m women

Vanessa Herzog  37,23 - 15-dec-18 - Heerenveen (NED)

Victoria Rodriguez  39,60 - 27-okt-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Ainoa Carreno  42,70 - 25-nov-18 - Tomaszów-Mazowiecki (POL)

Larissa Paes  45,28 - 24-nov-18 - Salt Lake City (USA) 45,15 - 15-dec-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Andrea Cabrera  1.12,28 - 17-nov-18 - Groningen (NED)

 

1.000m women

Larissa Paes  1.30,08 - 1-dec-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

 

1.500m women

Ellia Smeding  2.04,38 - 5-nov-18 - Heerenveen (NED)

Valentina Espinosa  2.06,94 - 24-nov-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Larissa Paes  2.20,74 - 24-nov-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

 

3.000m women

Valentina Espinosa  4.29,83 - 15-sep-18 - Salt Lake City (USA) 4.25,94 - 15-dec-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Larissa Paes  4.56,57 - 15-dec-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

 

500m men

Marten Liiv  35,71 - 17-nov-18 - Obihiro (JPN) 35,60 - 15-dec-18 - Heerenveen (NED)

I adjusted the list above with new national records highlighted in grey now that we're two weeks further into the season.

4 hours ago, Monzanator said:

Yeah, I saw the hit on the replay. So, is she out of the tournament now?

No, she might be back tomorrow. She had no concussion, but a migraine attack.

21 minutes ago, dcro said:

That Guatemalan record though.

Maybe good to mention that she is 33 at the moment and still improving herself. 

Today,  Larissa Paes skated a new national record on the 1.000m women. As I love stats, I looked up which national records have been improved this season so far as summarized below. With the world allround championships in Calgary and the world cup final in Salt Lake City this year, I expect a lot more national records to be improved during the later stages of the season.

500m women

Victoria Rodriguez  39,60 - 27-okt-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Ainoa Carreno  42,70 - 25-nov-18 - Tomaszów-Mazowiecki (POL)

Larissa Paes  45,28 - 24-nov-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Andrea Cabrera  1.12,28 - 17-nov-18 - Groningen (NED)

1.000m women

Larissa Paes  1.30,08 - 1-dec-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

1.500m women

Ellia Smeding  2.04,38 - 5-nov-18 - Heerenveen (NED)

Valentina Espinosa  2.06,94 - 24-nov-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

Larissa Paes  2.20,74 - 24-nov-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

3.000m women

Valentina Espinosa  4.29,83 - 15-sep-18 - Salt Lake City (USA)

500m men

Marten Liiv  35,71 - 17-nov-18 - Obihiro (JPN)