Thomas Krol has won the third World Cup of the season in the 1000 meters in Salt Lake City. The Jumbo-Visma skater was the fastest in the Utah Olympic Oval with a time of 1.06.44. He stayed ahead of fellow countrymen Kjeld Nuis and Hein Otterspeer.
Krol beat Olympic champion Nuis in the last stage, who finished second with 1.06.86. He was previously also the best in the second World Cup competition on the 1000 meters in Stavanger.
Otterspeer had some things to make up for after his mistake in the 500 meters, where he was disqualified due to the lack of the transponder for the time measurement. In the 1000 meters, the 33-year-old skater from Reggeborgh improved himself again. With 1.06.95 he dived below 1.07 for the first time. He defeated Kai Verbij in the penultimate stage. The reigning world champion in the kilometer finished fifth with 1.07.03.
Merijn Scheperkamp came to 1.07.46 and dived well below his old top time of 1.08.10. That was good for twelfth place.
De Jong
Antoinette de Jong finished third in the 1500 meters. The Dutch champion achieved a personal best of 1.51.72 minutes. The victory went to Japan’s Miho Takagi for the third time this season, who remained just above her own world record (1.49.83) with 1.49.99. De Jong defeated the American Brittany Bowe in her stage with a strong final lap and set a considerable personal record. She still drove her old top time of 1.53.20 in Heerenveen. The Japanese Ayano Sato was slightly faster than De Jong with 1.51.46.
In her ride, Wüst couldn’t get past Takagi’s split times and was significantly slower in every lap. The reigning Olympic champion came in at 1.52.10 and finished fourth.
Irene Schouten had to pass Irena Goloebeva from Russia in her ride on the line. She finished in 1.52.12 but just behind Wüst, well below her personal best, which was more than 2 seconds slower. She was sixth. Jorien ter Mors lost a lot of time in the final lap in her ride and came out at 1.55.07, good for nineteenth place.
otter spear
The skaters had to settle for places in the second top on the second 500 meters. Hein Otterspeer seemed to be the best Dutchman, but was disqualified. Kai Verbij was ninth with 34.31. The victory went to Wataru Morishige, who dived under 34 seconds: 33.99. He was thus ahead of the Russian Artem Arefjev (34.00) and world champion Laurent Dubreuil (34.05) from Canada. The result is subject to change because the Japanese Tatsuya Shinhama, who was hindered, will still run over.
Otterspeer was just ahead of Dutch champion Kai Verbij in his ride and was 0.1 seconds faster with 34.26 than two days ago. However, his time was not valid in the end, because he was not wearing a transponder. The Chinese Tingyu Gao, who set the fastest time of the weekend with 33.96 last Friday, started wrong and was also disqualified.
Dai Dai N’tab came to 34.34. That was good for tenth place. Merijn Scheperkamp was unable to improve his new top time of 34.48 from last Friday. He ran 34.53 in his second 500 meters at the Utah Olympic Oval and placed twelfth.
mass start
Marijke Groenewoud finished second in the mass start. The reigning world champion was beaten in the sprint with a minimal difference by Canadian Ivanie Blondin. In the final meters, the two skaters caught up with the escaped Sofie Karoline Haugen from Norway, who finished third.
Irene Schouten, who had won the first race on the mass start in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland, finished fourth. With a long effort in the final laps, the North Holland rider had ensured that the peloton with teammate Groenewoud could come close to the Norwegian leader again.
Team Pursuit
The Dutch skaters finished sixth in the team pursuit. Jan Blokhuijsen, Marcel Bosker and Marwin Talsma came to a time of 3.39.79 minutes and were thus far removed from the time of the winners from the United States. They drove a world record with 3.34.47.
The Netherlands saw opponent Japan drop out in the final stage. Riku Tsuchiya crashed in a corner, so Japan was overtaken by the Netherlands and had to stop.
Previously, the Netherlands had lost its world record. The American team with Joey Mantia, Emery Lehman and Casey Dawson dove under the old world record of 3.34.68, which Sven Kramer, Marcel Bosker and Douwe de Vries had set at the Utah Olympic Oval in Salt Lake City in 2020.
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