Dennis

Bad tournament at home for the Dutch

Men's 1.000m: Gold: William Dandjinou Silver: Pietro Sighel Bronze: Luca Spechenhauser

Just like in the men's 1.500m final, Park and Hwang hinder each other when they're skating in first and second place in the A final and again no medals for them.

Women's 1.000m: Gold: Kristen Santos-Griswald Silver: Kim Gilli Bronze: Arianna Fontana Santos-Griswold completes the set after her silver medal on the 1.500m and her bronze medal yesterday on the 500m. She also finished first in the 1.000m world cup final standings this season, right before Kim Gilli. I think this is Fontana's 18th World Championship medal, after already winning 11 Olympic medals and 76 World Cup medals. What a legend!

Schulting doesn't finish after the restart as she's injured, which is tough right before the relay finals as well

A restart after Desmet received a penalty Some of the skaters that fell look slightly injured, so I think this opens the possibilities for Fontana

In the women's 1.000m final, 3 of the 5 skaters ( Kim, Santos-Griswold and Schulting) fell together. Desmet finishes in first place, Fontana in second, Schulting gets up first and finishes in third, but no way these will be the final standings.

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