Dennis

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

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  

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  

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  

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  

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 

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

Hachinohe City, Japan hosted the junior world championship this weekend:
 
Women:
500m: 1.  Angel Daleman 2.  Huidan Jung 3.  Hana Noake
1000m: 1.  Angel Daleman 2.  Emika Miyagawa 3.  Meike Veen
1500m: 1.  Angel Daleman 2.  Emika Miyagawa 3.  Meike Veen (yes, it's the exact same podium for 1000m and 1500m)
3000m: 1.  Aurora Grinden Lovas 2.  Hana Noake 3.  Akane Iida
Team Pursuit: 1.  Japan 2.  Netherlands 3.  Kazachstan
Team Sprint: 1.  Netherlands 2.  Kazachstan 3.  Canada
Mass Start: 1.  Angel Daleman 2.  Patricia Koot 3.  Hana Noake
 
Men:
500m: 1.  Kyungmin Koo 2.  Yuta Hirose 3.  Issa Gunji
1000m: 1.  Kyungmin Koo 2.  Issa Gunji 3.  Finn Sonnekalb
1500m: 1.  Didrik Eng Strand 2.  Finn Sonnekalb 3.  Szymon Wojtakowski
5000m: 1.  Sigurd Henriksen 2.  Metodej Jilek 3.  Didrik Eng Strang
Team Pursuit: 1.  Canada 2.  Norway 3.  Japan
Team Sprint: 1.  Norway 2.  Canada 3.  Poland
Mass Start: 1.  Yuta Fuchigami 2.  Daniel Hall 3.  Taiki Shingai
 
 
Another dominant performance for Daleman. And a rather anonymous tournament for the Dutch boys.

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

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

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

O wow, didn't see this gold medal coming  

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

First gold for  at a World Aquatic Championships! 3:59.44 for Erika Fairweather!

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

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