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Speed/Short Track Skating - 14. November 2015.

Sábliková picks up where she left off in Calgary

Martina Sábliková (CZE) started her campaign for a tenth consecutive long distance World Cup victory with a gold medal in the first 3000m race of the season. Sang-Hwa Lee (KOR) won the Ladies 500m and Sven Kramer (NED) took gold in the Men’s 5000m on Friday. Calgary’s Olympic Oval again proved to be one of the fastest 400m rinks in the world. In total ten national records and 67 personal bests were set on the first of three competition days in Canada.


Sábliková picks up where she left off
Martina Sábliková picked up her skating skills easily after she qualified as a cyclist for the Olympic Summer Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro last September. The Czech endurance specialist took gold in the 3000m in 3:57.21 to win her fourth 3000m/5000m World Cup race in a row. Only two other skaters managed to stay under 4 minutes. Irene Schouten (NED) finished second in 3:58.39 (PB) and Natalya Voronina (RUS) third in 3:58.78. Voronina’s time was a Russian national record.

Before Sábliková took the ice in the penultimate pair, Marije Joling (NED) attacked the times of Schouten and Voronina. The Dutch lady was at world record pace halfway her race against Ivanie Blondin (CAN), could not maintain that speed but still managed to set a personal best in 4:00.48 to end up sixth. Blondin also set a personal best to finish seventh in 4:02.19. Dutch ladies Jorien Voorhuis (4:00.39) and Annouk van der Weijden (4:00.45, PB) finished 4th and 5th.

Marina Zuyeva set a Belarussian record when she skated 4:08.95 in the B Division.

Lee reigns in 500m again 
Sang-Hwa Lee was the only woman to skate below 37 seconds (36.96), when she beat Brittany Bowe (USA) in the penultimate pair of the Ladies 500m. The double Olympic 500m champion is back to her success coach in Calgary and seems more dominant than last season. Bowe skated a personal best in 37.22 to grab a bronze medal. China’s Hong Zhang took the silver medal in 37.18.

Last season’s 500m World Cup winner Nao Kodaira (JPN) skated a disappointing 38.01 in the final pair to end up 11th. Heather Richardson (USA), who finished 3rd in last season’s 500m World Cup defeated Jorien ter Mors (NED) with 37.29 in the third last pair and ended up fourth. Ter Mors, who skated at the ISU World Cup Short Track in Toronto last week, ended up ninth after crushing her personal best with almost a second (37.82) in the ninth 500m race of her career. Vanessa Bittner finished fifth in a new Austrian record: 37.49.

 

3000m Ladies

1

Martina Sábliková

CZE

3:57.21

2

Irene Schouten

NED

3:58.39 P

3

Natalya Voronina

RUS

3:58.78 N

 

500m Ladies

1

Sang-Hwa Lee

KOR

36.96

2

Hong Zhang

CHN

37.18 P

3

Brittany Bowe

USA

37.22 P

 

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