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Speed/Short Track Skating - 09. March 2014.

Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating – Inzell (GER) – Day 3

On the last day of the Essent ISU World Cup in 2013 Heather Richardson (USA) was in great shape again, just missing the 1000m track record on her way to victory in that event.

 

 
1000m Ladies

The 1000m for ladies had to make do without Olympic champion Hong Zhang (CHN) and Ireen Wüst (NED), but the podium was identical to the last podium before the Olympic Games. Heather Richardson won her fourth race out of five with a time of 1:14.87, just 0.03sec outside the track record skated by Canada’s Christine Nesbitt in 2011.

World record holder Brittany Bowe (USA) was second again in 1:15.26, keeping Olga Fatkulina (RUS) behind her. The Russian finished in 1:15.34 and kept Olympic bronze medallist Margot Boer (NED), who skated 1:15.40, off the podium. Her 100 points today gave Richardson a total of 480, team-mate Bowe is second on 410 while Fatkulina is a distant third on 320. With 150 points for the winner next week, it is certain that only one of the American ladies can win the Cup.
 

 
Ladies Mass Start

 
Janneke Ensing soon took the lead and the first sprint, ahead of Mariska Huisman (NED), Francesca Lollobrigida (ITA) and Ivanie Blondin (CAN). The next intermediate sprint was won by Lollobrigida, who had escaped two laps earlier, followed by Irene Schouten (NED), Blondin and Ensing. Ensing tried to skate away, but Claudia Pechstein (GER) followed her and the sprint with five laps to go gave Ensing the five points, Pechstein three, Huisman two and Maria Lamb (USA) one point for fourth. A fall by Roxanne Dufter (GER) then took out Nana Takagi (JPN), Luiza Zlotkowska (POL) and Anna Ringsred (USA), and Ensing and Pechstein worked together and gained half a lap on the pack. In the final straight Ensing failed to pass Pechstein, who won with 31 points plus the three from the previous sprint. Ensing got 15 for her second place for a total of 26, Schouten was third with 10 extra points for a total of 13, while Huisman and Lollobrigida followed with 10 points apiece.
 
Richardson also leads the Grand World Cup, the ranking over all distances, with 89.5 points ahead of Wüst with 69 and Bowe with 66. The men’s Grand World Cup leader is Shani Davis with 76 points, in front of Koen Verweij with 48 and Michel Mulder with 44. Considering the distances in Heerenveen and who will skate there, it is unlikely that Davis will not win the Grand World Cup.
 
Next week the World Cups conclude with the Final in Heerenveen (NED).
 
Essent ISU World Cup Speed Skating - Inzell (GER) - Medal Winners Sunday

 

1000m Ladies

1    Heather Richardson    USA    1:14.87
2    Brittany Bowe    USA    1:15.26
3    Olga Fatkulina    RUS    1:15.34

Mass Start Ladies

1    Claudia Pechstein    GER    34 points
8:25.56
2    Janneke Ensing    NED    26 points
8:25.62
3    Irene Schouten    NED    13 points
8:30.66
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