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Kramer won the 5.000m at every big event he took part in since the 2006 WOG. Event Gold Silver Bronze 2018 Winter Olympic Games Kramer Bloemen Pedersen 2017 World Championships Kramer Bergsma Michael 2016 World Championships Kramer Bergsma Pedersen 2015 World Championships Kramer Bergsma De Vries 2014 Winter Olympic Games Kramer Blokhuijsen Bergsma 2013 World Championships Kramer Bergsma Skobrev 2012 World Championships Kramer De Jong Kuck 2011 World Championships* De Jong Lee Skobrev 2010 Winter Olympic Games Kramer Lee Skobrev 2009 World Championships Kramer Bøkko Marsicano 2008 World Championships Kramer Fabris Olde Heuvel 2007 World Championships Kramer Fabris Verheijen 2006 Winter Olympic Games Hedrick Kramer Fabris * Kramer took a sabbatical from skating of a year after the 2010 WOG.

Nine different countries in the top 10: Name another event at the Winter Olympic Games with athletes from 9 different countries and 4 different continents finishing in the top 10.

Bloemen only became really successful after moving to Canada and training there.

Kramer! 5th Dutch medal at these Olympics

One of the first laps. It was really close.

Pedersen might be disqualified for that change-over.

Draw women's 3.000m (Saturday): Pairs: 01. Ida NJATUN - KIM Bo-Reum 02. Nikola ZDRAHALOVA - LIU Jing 03. Luiza ZLOTKOWSKA - Ayano SATO 04. Katarzyna BACHLEDA-CURUS - Roxanne DUFTER 05. Carlijn ACHTEREEKTE - Karolina BOSIEK 06. Francesca LOLLOBRIGIDA - HAO Jiachen 07. Carlijn SCHOUTENS - Brianne TUTT 08. Maryna ZUYEVA - Ayaka KIKUCHI 09. Isabelle WEIDEMANN - Ireen WUST 10. Claudia PECHSTEIN - Ivanie BLONDIN 11. Antoinette DE JONG - Miho TAKAGI 12. Natalia VORONINA - Martina SABLIKOVA @hckosice This is the final start list. Oshigiri, Manganello, Van der Weijden, Li are not on the final start list, whereas Kim is. Looking at the season so far, there are no clear favorites for this event. The favorites are in the 4 final pairs, though. Many women who can win a medal, so this could be an exciting first speed skating event.

And Kiki Bertens won’t play.

indeed!

Today's results: Women's 1.000m: Gold: Arianna Fontana Silver: Suzanne Schulting Bronze: Anna Seidel Men's 1.000m: Gold: Sjinkie Knegt SIlver: Semen Elistratov Bronze: Roberto Pukitis Women's 3.000m SF: Gold: Sofia Prosvirnova Silver: Arianna Fontana Bronze: Suzanne Schulting Men's 3.000m SF: Gold: Vladislav Bykanov Silver: Thibaut Fauconnet Bronze: Sebastien Lepape Women's overall classification: Gold: Arianna Fontana Silver: Martina Valcepina Bronze: Sofia Prosvirnova Men's overall classification: Gold: Sjinkie Knegt SIlver: Vladislav Bykanov Bronze: Semen Elistratov Women's relay: Gold: Silver: Bronze: Men's relay: Gold: Silver: Bronze: Medal table: 05 + 02 + 01 = 08 04 + 03 + 00 = 07 02 + 04 + 03 = 09 01 + 01 + 01 = 03 00 + 01 + 03 = 04 00 + 01 + 02 = 03 00 + 00 + 01 = 01 00 + 00 + 01 = 01 Arianna Fontana's 7th individual European Championships' title, for Sjinkie Knegt this is his 3rd title.

Sjinkie Knegt won the 500m, 1.000m & 1.500m

Ready just in time to snatch 2 more gold medals at the Olympics

Blokhuijsen won after all, Giovannini 2nd, Zakharov 3rd. Too bad, would have loved to see a skater from win gold in speed skating.

Aah okay, still, the women's results were on there pretty quickly after the competition, even though there were more participants.

Still no official results on the ISU results page, which are normally updated during the competition.

Draw Ladies 3.000m: Eliska Drimalova - Gloria Malfatti Natálie Kerschbaummayr - Sofie Karoline Haugen Esmee Visser - Camilla Lund Katarzyna Bachleda-Curus - Olga Graf Luiza Zlotkowska - Roxane Dufter Nikola Zdráhalova - Saskia Alusalu Francesca Lollobrigida - Karolina Bosiek Annouk van der Weijden - Anna Yurakova Natalia Voronina - Carlijn Achtereekte Draw Men 5.000m: Linus Heidegger - Fredrik van der Horst Sebastian Druszkiewicz - Magnus Bakken Haugli Hallgeir Engebråten - Jordan McMillen Davide Ghiotto - Adrian Wielgat Simon Schouten - Jan Szymanski Vitaly Mikhailov - Alexander Rumyantsev Danila Semerikov - Nicola Tumolero Andrea Giovannini - Marcel Bosker Danil Sinitsyn - Jan Blokhuijsen

Draw Ladies 1.000m: Natálie Kerschbaummayr - Rikke Jeppsson Andzelika Wójcik - Eliska Drimalova Elina Risku - Tatsiana Mikhailava Francesca Bettrone - Katarzyna Wozniak Martine Ripsrud - Anne Gulbrandsen Gabriele Hirschbichler - Yvonne Daldossi Lotte van Beek - Natalia Czerwonka Daria Kachanova - Michelle Uhrig Marrit Leenstra - Karolina Erbanova Vanessa Herzog - Yekaterina Shikhova Olga Fatkulina - Letitia de Jong Draw Men 1.000m: Samuli Suomalainen - Runar Njåtun Krøyer Johann Jørgen Sæves - Oliver Grob Zbigniew Bródka - Joel Dufter Mathias Vosté - Pekka Koskela David Andersson - Henrik Fagerli Rukke Nico Ihle - Alexey Yesin Haralds Silovs - Sebastian Klosinski Marten Liiv - Piotr Michalski Pavel Kulizhnikov - Mika Poutala Denis Yuskov - Thomas Krol Koen Verweij - Hein Otterspeer

I've never heard of her before, but I love it when athletes from different disciplines try long track speed skating and are successful at it, such as Jorien ter Mors and Chad Hedrick. So I'm excited to see how she can grow even more in the next month and what she can do at the Olympics.

Medals after Day 1: 2 + 1 + 2 = 5 1 + 2 + 1 = 4 1 + 0 + 0 = 1 0 + 1 + 0 = 1 0 + 0 + 1 = 1 Not only by looking at the medals, but by looking at the top 10 places per distance, we can see that and are miles ahead of the rest at this tournament. Today we saw athletes from 15 different countries. 10 different countries have finished top 10 on at least one of the distances today.

1.500m Men - Top 10: Denis Yuskov - 1:44,53 Thomas Krol - 1:45,20 Koen Verweij - :1:46,40 Marcel Bosker - 1:46,50 Sergey Gryaztsov - 1:46,72 Nicola Tumolero - 1:47,59 Haralds Silovs - 1:47,60 Konrad Niedzwiedzki - 1:47,98 Jan Szymanski - 1:48,07 Zbigniew Bródka - 1:48,44

Van Beek winning by more than a second and Skokova outside of the top 10.

1.500m Ladies - Top 10: Lotte van Beek - 1:55,52 Yekaterina Shikhova - 1:56,57 Marrit Leenstra - 1:56,58 Linda de Vries - 1:57,98 Gabriele Hirschbichler - 1:58,18 Natalia Czerwonka - 1:58,38 Nikola Zdráhalova - 1:59,69 Roxane Dufter - 1:59,75 Katarzyna Bachleda-Curus - 1:59,76 Francesca Lollobrigida - 1:59,80

500m Men - Top 10: Ronald Mulder - 34,80 Mika Poutala - 34,854 Pavel Kulizhnikov - 34,858 Nico Ihle - 35,03 Artyom Kuznetsov - 35,06 Pekka Koskela - 35,19 Michel Mulder - 35,23 Artur Nogal - 35,24 Ruslan Murashov - 35,28 Henrik Fagerli Rukke - 35,38

Yeah, I just noticed. I edited my post.

Yeah, it's a very impressive time for this track. In 2015 the World Championships were held on this track. Back then this time would have been enough for 2nd place, behind Sang-Hwa Lee but before Brittany Bowe. Vanessa's time is the third time ever on this track, as Jenny Wolf was also faster at the World Cup in January 2009. EDIT: 5th time, as Jenny Wolf skated faster twice in the same weekend and Sang-Hwa Lee also finished both heats at the World Championships with a faster time.