Dennis

Women's 500m: Gold: Kim Boutin Silver: Xandra Velzeboer Bronze: Kristen Santos-Griswold Men's 500m: Gold: Lin Xiaojun Silver: Denis Nikisha Bronze: Jordan Pierre-GIlles

Men's 1.500m: Gold: Sun Long Silver: Jens van 't Wout Bronze: Brendan Corey Hwang Daeheon initially finished first, but hindered his compatriot Park Ji Won, eliminating both when riding in first and second during the race Very surprising podium with Sun (World Ranking: 20th), van 't Wout (26th) and Corey (29th)!

Women's 1.500m: Gold: Kim Gilli Silver: Kristen Santos-Griswold Bronze: Corinne Stoddard Hanne Desmet crossed the finish line in second place but hindered Santos-Griswold prior to that and received a penalty.

Day 2: Women's 1.500m -> Qualified to the A-final: Kim Gilli Hanne Desmet Kristen Santos-Griswold Gong Li Corinne Stoddard Shim Suk Hee Courtney Sarault Men's 1.500m -> Qualified to the A-final: Hwang Daeheon Hayashi Kosei Luca Spechenhauser Brendan Corey Park Ji Won Jens van 't Wout Sun Long

Day 2 - Skaters that made it through this morning's repechages: Women's 1.500m (--> Semifinals): Gloria Ioriatti Kim Hyo Jin Women's 500m (--> Quarterfinals): Zsofia Konya Arianna Sighel Men's 1.500m (--> Semifinals): Felix Pigeon Sebastien Lepape Hayashi Kosei (ADV) Tarik Omeragic (ADV) Men's 500m (--> Quarterfinals): Kay Huisman Jens van 't Wout

Day 1 - 1.000m Women Heats - directly qualified for Quarterfinals: Hanne Desmet Kim Boutin Courtney Sarault Danae Blais Gong Li Wang Ye Lisa Eckstein Arianna Fontana Elisa Confortola Hirai Ami Kim Gilli Shim Suk Hee Park Jiwon Xandra Velzeboer Suzanne Schulting Michelle Velzeboer Kamila Stormowska Kristen Santos-Griswold Corinne Stoddard Again, all the favorites are through to the quarterfinals on the women's side. Day 1 - 1.000m Men Heats - directly qualified for Quarterfinals: Brendan Corey Stijn Desmet Pascal Dion Steven Dubois William Dandjinou Liu Shaolin Lin Xiaojun Luca Spechenhauser Pietro Sighel Hayashi Kosei Miyata Shogo Yerkebulan Shamukhanov Park Ji Won Hwang Daeheon Jens van 't Wout Itzhak de Laat Michal Niewinski Felix Pigeon Kim Gun Woo (World Ranking: 8th) not making the quarterfinals directly is quite surprising. Roberts Kruzbergs (World Ranking: 7th), who did well all season, did not start. Emons and Treacy got a penalty and are eliminated already. Relay semi-finalists: Women: [no big surprises] Men: [top 4 of the world ranking are all in semifinal 1 ] Mixed: [no surprises, complete top 8 of the world ranking made it to the semis]

Yeah, not the best start at all. Maybe nerves? Due to work obligations, I wasn't able to watch the 1.500m and 500m, but his 1.000m preliminary looked alright to me. Let's see how he will do in the heats that will start in a few minutes.

Day 1 - 500m Women Heats - directly qualified for Quarterfinals: Hanne Desmet Kim Boutin Rikki Doak Fan Kexin Wang Ye Valentina Ascic Arianna Fontana Chiara Betti Kanai Rika Park Jiwon Xandra Velzeboer Selma Poutsma Suzanne Schulting Kamila Stormowska Gabriela Topolska Nikola Mazur Kristen Santos-Griswold Julie Letai Shim Suk-Hee and Danae Blais fell and have to go through the repechages, both big names but neither of them are 500m specialists. Day 1 - 500m Men Heats - directly qualified for Quarterfinals: Brendan Corey Nico Andermann Adriaan Dewagtere Steven Dubois William Dandjinou Jordan Pierre-Gilles Liu Shaoang Lin Xiaojun Pietro Sighel Denis Nikisha Park Ji Won Hwang Daeheon Kim Gun Woo Roberts Kruzbergs Teun Boer Diane Sellier Furkan Akar Danylo Fedorenko Both Lukasz Kuczynski (World Ranking: 8th) and Michal Niewinski (World Ranking: 10th) received a penalty. Lots of big names including Quentin Fercoq, Jens van 't Wout and Stijn Desmet will be fighting for the remaining quarterfinal spots in the repechage.

Day 1 - 1.500m Women Quarterfinals - directly qualified for Semifinals: Hanne Desmet Danae Blais Courtney Sarault Renee Marie Steenge Zang Yize Gong Li Cloe Ollivier Rebeka Sziliczei-Nemet Maja Dora Somodi Arianna Sighel Arianna Fontana Mirei Nakashima Kim Gilli Shim Suk Hee Suzanne Schulting Michelle Velzeboer Kamila Stormowska Kristen Santos-Griswold Corinne Stoddard All big favorites are through, all other skaters will have to go through two rounds of repechages to qualify for the semis. Day 1 - 1.500m Men Quarterfinals - directly qualified for Semifinals: Brendan Corey Tobias Wolf Pascal Dion William Dandjinou Steven Dubois Sun Long Zdenek Sejpal Niall Treacy Luca Spechenhauser Pietro Sighel Keita Watanabe Yerkebulan Shamukhanov Kim Gun Woo Park Ji Won Hwang Daeheon Roberts Kruzbergs Jens van 't Wout Friso Emons Itzhak de Laat Oleh Handei Andrew Heo Stijn Desmet and Li Wenlong are the biggest names not making it through. Desmet should get through the repechages, but Li is out after receiving a penalty.

Difference between Lollobrigida (4th) and Han (5th) after 4 distances: 0.01 seconds

Schouten who won 3 golden medals and 1 silver medal this weekend has decided to retire! She also won 3 golden medals at the 2022 Olympics. Quite a surprise to be honest

Ghiotto destroys the competition and defends his world title in style! wins the silver and bronze as Ted Jan Bloemen and Graeme Fish finish in 2nd and 3rd place.

Surprising gold medal for Joy Beune who had big doubts whether she should start here as the 1.500m that will be skated in about 3 hours from now is her favorite distance that she won in Quebec during the last World Cup weekend of the season. Silver for the big favorite Irene Schouten and bronze for the legend Martina Sáblíková

Joy Beune faster than Schouten

The women's 5.000m about to start with Horikawa and Weidemann in pair 1. Both have good chances of finishing top 5 or even on the podium. It'll be interesting to see the time they can set.

The World Cup season 2023-2024 is now over. The World Championships in Rotterdam will start on March 15th

Final ranking: South Korea - 8.247 points (+1.475 points) Canada - 7.284 points (+1.177 points) the Netherlands - 6.089 points (+1.332 points) China - 4.869 points (+206 points) the United States of America - 3.594 points (+742 points) Italy - 3.451 points (+515 points) Poland - 2.260 points (+554 points) Belgium - 2.193 points (+286 points) Kazakhstan - 1.964 points (+475 points) Japan - 1.954 points (+324 points) had by far their strongest weekend of the season, right before the World Championships in Rotterdam. The same goes for in front of their home crowd and showed under their new trainer that they're making great progress. Team is also improving towards the World Championships. had a poor showing, but that was expected with their senior team all competing in the Chinese National Winter Games, started the season off great in Montréal but in hindsight that seems to have been a positive outlier and also had their poorest showing of the season as well.

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Final World Cup Standings Women's Overall World Cup: 01. Kim Gilli - 1.211 points 02. Kristen Santos-Griswold - 1.180 points 03. Xandra Velzeboer - 1.085 points 04. Hanne Desmet - 999 points 05. Corinne Stoddard - 791 points 06. Selma Poutsma - 743 points 07. Shim Suk Hee - 577 points 08. Seo Whimin - 553 points 09. Courtney Sarault - 526 points 10. Danae Blais - 487 points Men's Overall World Cup: 01. Park Ji Won - 1.071 points 02. Steven Dubois - 1.052 points 03. William Dandjinou - 784 points 04. Kim Gun Woo - 692 points 05. Felix Roussel - 576 points 06. Jang Sungwoo - 562 points 07. Jordan Pierre-Gilles - 558 points 08. Stijn Desmet - 544 points 09. Pascal Dion - 505 points 10. Liu Shaoang - 501 points

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Final World Cup Standings Women's 500m: 01. Xandra Velzeboer - 650 points 02. Selma Poutsma - 610 points 03. Wang Ye - 377 points 04. Fan Kexin - 308 points 05. Michelle Velzeboer - 279 points 06. Park Jiwon - 244 points 07. Rikki Doak - 225 points 08. Martina Valcepina - 224 points 09. Kamila Stormowska - 196 points 10. Wang Xinran - 196 points Men's 500m: 01. Jordan Pierre-Gilles - 486 points 02. Steven Dubois - 433 points 03. Felix Roussel - 369 points 04. Denis Nikisha - 355 points 05. Seo Yi Ra - 337 points 06. Liu Shaoang - 310 points 07. Quentin Fercoq - 241 points 08. Michal Niewinski - 238 points 09. Teun Boer - 235 points 10. Lukasz Kuczynski - 216 points Women's 1.000m: 01. Kristen Santos-Griswold - 585 points 02. Kim Gilli - 540 points 03. Corinne Stoddard - 372 points 04. Hanne Desmet - 355 points 05. Seo Whimin - 283 points 06. Kamila Stormowska - 256 points 07. Lee So Yeon - 252 points 08. Park Jiyun - 235 points 09. Claudia Gagnon - 230 points 10. Courtney Sarault - 213 points Men's 1.000m: 01. Park Ji Won - 625 points 02. Steven Dubois - 399 points 03. Luca Spechenhauser - 306 points 04. Jang Sungwoo - 305 points 05. William Dandjinou - 284 points 06. Jens van 't Wout - 257 points 07. Roberts Kruzbergs - 242 points 08. Kim Gun Woo - 232 points 09. Liu Shaoang - 191 points 10. Pascal Dion - 176 points Women's 3.000m Relay: 01. the Netherlands - 400 points 02. South Korea - 320 points 03. Canada - 300 points 04. the United States of America - 290 points 05. China - 214 points 06. Poland - 196 points 07. Italy - 184 points 08. Hungary - 168 points 09. Japan - 162 points 10. Kazakhstan - 140 points Top 12, which includes Ukraine and Germany qualified for the World Championships Men's 5.000m Relay: 01. Canada - 380 points 02. South Korea - 340 points 03. China - 330 points 04. Japan - 260 points 05. the Netherlands - 226 points 06. Kazakhstan - 218 points 07. Belgium - 210 points 08. Italy - 184 points 09. Hungary - 174 points 10. the United States of America - 162 points Top 12, which includes Poland and Great Britain qualified for the World Championships

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Gdansk (Stage 6/6) Women's 500m [2/2]: 01. Xandra Velzeboer 02. Selma Poutsma 03. Shim Suk Hee Men's 500m [2/2]: 01. Steven Dubois 02. Denis Nikisha 03. Michal Niewinski Women's 1.000m: 01. Kristen Santos-Griswold 02. Kim Gilli 03. Corinne Stoddard Men's 1.000m: 01. Park Ji Won 02. Kim Gun Woo 03. Hayashi Kosei Women's 3.000m Relay: 01. the Netherlands 02. South Korea 03. the United States of America Men's 5.000m Relay: 01. Canada 02. South Korea 03. Japan

First ever medal for I think with Wenger taking the bronze in the men’s mass start. Swings wins yet another gold medal on the mass start after the gold at the 2022 Olympics and 2023 World Championships and a very surprising silver for Gélinas-Beaulieu

Schouten wins her third gold medal of the tournament after falling early in the race. Blondin came close and won a silver medal before Groenewoud with a bronze medal. Great mass start to watch with lots of action!

Stolz wins his 5th world title maintaining his 100% score at world single distance championships. Another silver for today as Ning is the best of the rest and wins bronze

Takagi wins her first individual world title, exactly two years after winning the Olympic gold on the women’s 1.000m in Beijing. Surprising silver for Han, 0.01 seconds before Leerdam

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Final World Cup Standings Women's 1.500m: 01. Kim Gilli - 655 points 02. Hanne Desmet - 504 points 03. Kristen Santos-Griswold - 495 points 04. Corinne Stoddard - 419 points 05. Shim Suk-Hee - 330 points 06. Gong Li - 291 points 07. Danae Blais - 259 points 08. Xandra Velzeboer - 225 points 09. Courtney Sarault - 191 points 10. Claudia Gagnon - 186 points Men's 1.500m: 01. William Dandjinou - 500 points 02. Kim Gun Woo - 456 points 03. Park Ji Won - 446 points 04. Pascal Dion - 329 points 05. Stijn Desmet - 315 points 06. Friso Emons - 276 points 07. Itzhak de Laat - 220 points 08. Steven Dubois - 220 points 09. Niall Treacy - 204 points 10. Li Wenlong - 204 points Mixed 2.000m Relay: 01. the Netherlands - 380 points 02. China - 330 points 03. South Korea - 300 points 04. the United States of America - 284 points 05. Italy - 280 points 06. Belgium - 210 points 07. Canada - 200 points 08. Poland - 172 points 09. France - 158 points 10. Japan - 132 points Top 12, which includes Germany and Hungary qualified for the World Championships