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Winners highlighted in red above. On top of that, Niels Laros (athletics) won the Young Talent Award. The 18-year old is a double European Champion under 20 (1.500m and 5.000m). At the World Championships in Budapest this year he finished 10th place.

The final stage of the World Cup in calendar year 2023 has been completed. Two more stages to come in 2024. , and had a great showing here, had their worst weekend so far in terms of World Cup points won by their skaters. and are also not at the level they showed at the first two world cup weekends in Montréal. These are the top 10 countries in the world based on the number of World Cup points they have gained this year, including points gained in relays: South Korea - 5.376 points (+1.343 points) Canada - 4.929 points (+1.183 points) China - 4.265 points (+983 points) the Netherlands - 3.693 points (+1.007 points) Italy - 2.421 points (+548 points) United States of America - 2.089 points (+627 points) Belgium - 1.547 points (+416 points) Poland - 1.356 points (+314 points) Japan - 1.237 points (+233 points) Kazakhstan - 1.176 points (+381 points)

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Seoul (Stage 4/6) Women's 3.000m Relay: 01. the Netherlands 02. South Korea 03. China Men's 5.000m Relay: 01. China 02. the Netherlands 03. Belgium

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Seoul (Stage 4/6) Overall World Cup Standings after Stage 4 - Women: Kim Gilli - 865 points (-) Kristen Santos-Griswold - 805 points (-) Xandra Velzeboer - 695 points (-) Hanne Desmet - 689 points (-) Selma Poutsma - 508 points (-) Corinne Stoddard - 306 points (+2) Seo Whimin - 436 points (-1) Gong Li - 381 points (+1) Courtney Sarault - 372 points (-2) Wang Ye - 368 points (+3) Overall World Cup Standings after Stage 4 - Men: Steven Dubois - 683 points (+1) Park Ji Won - 681 points (+1) William Dandjinou - 604 points (+1) Kim Gun Woo - 540 points (-3) Liu Shaoang - 501 points (-) Pietro Sighel - 421 points (+1) Jordan Pierre-Gilles - 416 points (-1) Jens van 't Wout - 392 points (-) Hwang Daeheon - 383 points (+3) Luca Spechenhauser - 382 points (-1)

Ah yeah, I only just woke up. Didn't see the race, but I can't remember ever seeing a double winner on any distance

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Seoul (Stage 4/6) Women's 500m: 01. Xandra Velzeboer & Selma Poutsma 03. Wang Ye Men's 500m: 01. Liu Shaoang 02. Seo Yi Ra 03. Denis Nikisha Women's 1.500m [2/2]: 01. Kim Gilli 02. Kristen Santos-Griswold 03. Hanne Desmet Men's 1.500m [2/2]: 01. William Dandjinou 02. Park Ji Won 03. Steven Dubois

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Seoul (Stage 4/6) Women's 1.000m: 01. Hanne Desmet 02. Kristen Santos-Griswold 03. Xandra Velzeboer Men's 1.000m: 01. Steven Dubois 02. Hwang Daeheon 03. Pascal Dion Women's 1.500m [1/2]: 01. Kim Gilli 02. Corinne Stoddard 03. Gong Li Men's 1.500m [1/2]: 01. Park Ji Won 02. William Dandjinou 03. Felix Roussel Mixed 2.000m Relay: 01. the Netherlands 02. Italy 03. South Korea & United States of America (both PEN in the final)

Those would also be my picks, but I have a feeling they'll go with Verstappen again.

She was on the shortlist though, but speed skaters seldomly win outside of Olympic seasons.

Nominees for the awards organized by the Dutch NOC: Best male athlete: Harrie Lavreysen (track cycling) Mathieu van der Poel (road cycling / cyclocross) [winner 2019] Max Verstappen (formula 1) [winner 2016, 2021 & 2022] Best female athlete: Femke Bol (athletics) Sifan Hassan (athletics) [winner 2019 & 2021] Karolien Florijn (rowing) Best team: Women's 4x400m women (athletics) [winner 2022] Team Jumbo-Visma Men (road cycling) Women's waterpolo team [winner 1976 & 2008] Best male paralympic athlete: Daniel Abraham Gebru (track cycling / road cycling) Rogier Dorsman (swimming) Joël de Jong (athletics) Best female paralympic athlete: Lisette Bruinsma (swimming) [winner 2016] Diede de Groot (tennis) [winner 2022] Fleur Jong (athletics) Best paralympic team: Wheelchair tennis quads doubles - Niels Vink & Sam Schröder (tennis) Women's wheelchair basketball team Tandem men - Tristan Bangma & Patrick Bos (track cycling / road cycling) Coach of the year: Evangelos Doudesis (women's waterpolo team) Eelco Meenhorst (rowing) Laurent Meuwly (athletics) Merijn Zeeman (track cycling, Jumbo Visma) The winners will be chosen by athletes/coaches (50%) and a jury (50%, consisting of former athletes, old-winners like Arjen Robben, and press). Fair nominations in my eyes in all categories.

I don't have an answer to this, but it does indeed look like it.

These are the relay teams that would now qualify for the world championships (top 11 countries + the host country the Netherlands): However, there are still 3 World Cups to go in the qualification period. Rank Men Women Mixed 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 ----- 13 14 15 16 17 18 19

That means Stage 3 of the World Cup has been completed. Host country has shown well here, much better than in the first two World Cups. and the also had their best World Cup weekend of the season so far in Beijing. was disappointing, but can hopefully make up for that next week in front of their home crowd in Seoul and also and as well as had their worst weekend of the season so far. Poland was pretty invisible this whole weekend except for the women's relay. These are the top 10 countries in the world based on the number of World Cup points they have gained this year, including points gained in relays: South Korea - 4.025 points (+1.014) Canada - 3.728 points (+1.153) China - 3.282 points (+1.505) the Netherlands - 2.686 points (+1.094) Italy - 1.873 points (+520) United States of America - 1.462 points (+476) Belgium - 1.115 points (+318) Poland - 1.028 points (+264) Japan - 992 points (+297) Kazakhstan - 779 points (+333)

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Beijing (Stage 3/6) Women's 3.000m Relay: 01. the Netherlands 02. South Korea 03. Poland Men's 5.000m Relay: 01. Canada 02. South Korea 03. China

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Beijing (Stage 3/6) Overall World Cup Standings after Stage 3 - Women: Kim Gilli - 615 points (-) Kristen Santos-Griswold - 600 points (-) Xandra Velzeboer - 525 points (+1) Hanne Desmet - 479 points (-1) Selma Poutsma - 372 points (+3) Seo Whimin - 343 points (-1) Courtney Sarault - 306 points (-1) Corinne Stoddard - 306 points (+4) Gong Li - 305 points (+6) Lee Soyoun - 212 points (-1) Overall World Cup Standings after Stage 3 - Men: Kim Gun Woo - 534 points (-) Steven Dubois - 473 points (-) Park Ji Won - 456 points (-) William Dandjinou - 374 points (-) Liu Shaoang - 373 points (+3) Jordan Pierre-Gilles - 370 points (+13) Pietro Sighel - 345 points (-1) Jens van 't Wout - 327 points (+1) Luca Spechenhauser - 293 points (-2) Stijn Desmet - 292 points (+1)

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Beijing (Stage 3/6) Women's 500m [2/2]: 01. Xandra Velzeboer 02. Selma Poutsma 03. Fan Kexin Men's 500m [2/2]: 01. Jordan Pierre-Gilles 02. Steven Dubois 03. Sun Long

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Beijing (Stage 3/6) Women's 1.000m: 01. Kristen Santos-Griswold 02. Corinne Stoddard 03. Gong Li Men's 1.000m: 01. Liu Shaoang 02. Park Ji Won 03. Jang Sungwoo

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Beijing (Stage 3/6) Mixed 3.000m Relay: 01. the Netherlands 02. China 03. United States of America

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Beijing (Stage 3/6) Women's 500m [1/2]: 01. Kristen Santos-Griswold 02. Fan Kexin 03. Wang Ye Men's 500m [1/2]: 01. Jordan Pierre-Gilles 02. Quentin Fercoq 03. Jens van 't Wout

ISU World Cup 2023/24 - Beijing (Stage 3/6) Women's 1.500m: 01. Kim Gilli 02. Gong Li 03. Xandra Velzeboer Men's 1.500m: 01. Kim Gun Woo 02. Li Wenlong 03. William Dandjinou

Malfatti!

If you get lapped, you get taken out of the race. Schouten passed almost everyone in her final sprint and therefore more than half of the skaters were taken out of the final classification.

I go for some surprises: Pool A: Pool B:

Yuki Kawauchi was so close. He's probably my favorite marathon runner

Interesting New York marathon with the women starting 25 minutes before the men, but Tola finishing in 2:04:59 was only shortly after the top 3 women with Obiri winning the women's race in 2:27:23. The women were consistently running at a 2:30:00+ pace for more than 35km, where the men's race was hard right from the start.