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ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Gdansk (Stage 6/6) Women's 500m [1/2]: 01. Selma Poutsma 02. Hanne Desmet 03. Kim Boutin Men's 500m [1/2]: 01. Seo Yi Ra 02. Steven Dubois 03. Lukasz Kuczynski Women's 1.500m: 01. Kristen Santos-Griswold 02. Suzanne Schulting 03. Corinne Stoddard Men's 1.500m: 01. Pascal Dion 02. Jang Sungwoo 03. Friso Emons Mixed 2.000m Relay: 01. the Netherlands 02. South Korea 03. Canada

19-year-old Jordan Stolz wins his 4th individual world title in an amazing time of 33.69! Dubreuil is the best of the rest and Żurek wins a great bronze medal.

Femke Kok prolongs her 500m World title, Kim Min-Sun takes silver after missing out on a medal last year and Kimi Goetz keeps her country's honour intact with a bronze.

Now 37.80 at the world championships. Sorry, I remembered this comment when I saw Pergher skate a PB two minutes ago.

Gold for in the men’s team pursuit Silver for and bronze for

My first correct prediction this tournament. win the women’s team pursuit, silver for Canada and Japan wins bronze.

And gold for again, 0.002 seconds faster than and bronze for Top 6 teams within 0.23 seconds

skates a new WR in pair 1, then improves that new WR in pair 2 by 0.01 second

And here is the gold medal for Silver for and bronze for 9 medals awarded to 7 different countries so far

Gold for Roest, silver for Ghiotto and bronze for Eitrem Nice podium again with a clear top 3, but a little sad Loubineaud finished 4th. Would’ve been a great medalist

Loubineaud 6:12.15

Gold for Schouten, silver for Weidemann and bronze for Sáblíková. What a great first podium of this tournament with three amazing skaters!

They’ll probably win one or more golden medals, a lot of the events are very close this year. It’s just that Canada hasn’t won many world cups either this year. Canada definitely has good chances in the women’s mass start with both Blondin and Maltais, they have a solid women’s team pursuit team and Ted-Jan Bloemen is one of the favorites for the men’s 10k (especially on his favorite rink in Calgary). A lot can happen on the men’s 500m where one mistake from Stolz could create chances for Dubreuil as well. This is just a fun prediction, but apart from Stolz and Takagi there aren’t any obvious winners on any of the distances, I think.

No prediction contest this year, so I'm just going to post my predictions here (with some surprises): Thursday: 3.000m Women: Ragne Wiklund (hoping she is fully recovered) Irene Schouten Marijke Groenewoud 5.000m Men: Patrick Roest Davide Ghiotto Ted-Jan Bloemen Team Sprint Women: the Netherlands Canada Poland Team Sprint Men: the United States of America Poland the Netherlands Friday: Team Pursuit Women: the Netherlands Canada Japan Team Pursuit Men: the United States of America Norway Italy 500m Women: Erin Jackson Femke Kok Kim Min-Sun 500m Men: Jordan Stolz Wataru Morishige Laurent Dubreuil Saturday: 1.000m Women: Miho Takagi Jutta Leerdam Kimi Goetz 1.000m Men: Jordan Stolz Kjeld Nuis Tatsuya Shinhama Mass Start Women: Irene Schouten Ivanie Blondin Mia Manganello Mass Start Men: Chung Jae-Won Bart Swings Andrea Giovannini Sunday: 5.000m Women: Irene Schouten Martina Sáblíková Ragne Wiklund 10.000m Men: Davide Ghiotto Michele Malfatti Jorrit Bergsma 1.500m Women: Miho Takagi Antoinette de Jong Joy Beune 1.500m Men: Jordan Stolz Kjeld Nuis Ning Zhongyan My predicted medal table: Country Gold SIlver Bronze United States of America 6 0 2 the Netherlands 5 6 4 Japan 2 1 2 Italy 1 2 2 Norway 1 1 1 South Korea 1 0 1 Canada 0 3 2 Poland 0 1 1 Belgium 0 1 0 Czech Republic 0 1 0 China 0 1 1

And Daleman is still a junior for two more seasons as she was born in March 2007.

Pan swimming 46.80 as the start swimmer in the men's 4x100m freestyle relay, a new World Record

3:41.72, so close!

O wow, didn't see this gold medal coming

Update after stage 5: South Korea - 6.677 points (+1.301 points) Canada - 6.031 points (+1.102 points) the Netherlands - 4.681 points (+988 points) China - 4.585 points (+320 points) Italy - 2.818 points (+397 points) the United States of America - 2.776 points (+687 points) Belgium - 1.867 points (+320 points) Poland - 1.692 points (+336 points) Japan - 1.543 points (+306 points) Kazakhstan - 1.477 points (+301 points) drops one spot after sending the full Junior team because of the Chinese National Winter Games that start this week. The juniors had their own National Winter Games events in January. I assume next week China will be represented by their juniors again. and had their strongest weekends of the season so far. (for obvious reasons) and disappointed a bit this weekend. One more event to go in Gdansk before the World Championships in Rotterdam

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Dresden (Stage 5/6) Overall World Cup Standings after Stage 5 - Women: Kim Gilli - 1115 points (-) Kristen Santos-Griswold - 980 points (-) Xandra Velzeboer - 875 points (-) Hanne Desmet - 869 points (-) Corinne Stoddard - 651 points (+1) Selma Poutsma - 558 points (-1) Seo Whimin - 484 points (-) Wang Ye - 480 points (+2) Shim Suk Hee - 457 points (+4) Courtney Sarault - 446 points (-1) Overall World Cup Standings after Stage 5 - Men: Park Ji Won - 931 points (+1) Steven Dubois - 822 points (-1) William Dandjinou - 784 points (-) Kim Gun Woo - 612 points (-) Jordan Pierre-Gilles - 524 points (+2) Liu Shaoang - 501 points (-1) Stijn Desmet - 500 points (+4) Felix Roussel - 474 points (+6) Pietro Sighel - 466 points (-3) Luca Spechenhauser - 459 points (-)

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Dresden (Stage 5/6) Women's 500m: 01. Xandra Velzeboer 02. Wang Ye 03. Kamila Stormowska Men's 500m: 01. Felix Roussel 02. Jordan Pierre-Gilles 03. Lukasz Kuczynski Women's 1.000m [2/2]: 01. Kim Gilli 02. Suzanne Schulting 03. Corinne Stoddard Men's 1.000m [2/2]: 01. Park Ji Won 02. Jang Sungwoo 03. Adil Galiakhmetov Women's 3.000m Relay: 01. the Netherlands 02. Canada 03. the United States of America Men's 5.000m Relay: 01. South Korea 02. Japan 03. Hungary

Impressive race by Kim! Love it when someone goes all out like this, no fear

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Dresden (Stage 5/6) Women's 1.000m [1/2]: 01. Kim Gilli 02. Xandra Velzeboer 03. Kamila Stormowska Men's 1.000m [1/2]: 01. Park Ji Won 02. Felix Roussel 03. Steven Dubois Women's 1.500m: 01. Hanne Desmet 02. Kristen Santos-Griswold 03. Suzanne Schulting Men's 1.500m: 01. William Dandjinou 02. Stijn Desmet 03. Kim Gun Woo Mixed 2.000m Relay: 01. the United States of America 02. the Netherlands 03. South Korea

And the first ever medal for in artistic swimming at a World Championship!

Amazing world record indeed, Stolz is in a league of his own.