Canadian women set new track record to win gold; men’s squad earns silver
HEERENVEEN, NETHERLANDS – For the second time in as many weeks, Canada earned a pair of World Cup medals in the Team Pursuit. The Canadian women’s team set a new track record to win their second straight gold medal in the discipline, while the men’s squad earned silver earlier in the day to kick-off the ISU World Cup Speed Skating in Heerenveen, the Netherlands.
The women’s team of Ivanie Blondin (Ottawa, Ont.), Isabelle Weidemann (Ottawa, Ont.) and Valérie Maltais (Saguenay, Que.) made it back-to-back gold medals on Friday, posting a time of 2:54.640 – a new track record at the historic Thialf oval – to finish ahead of the Netherlands (+0.94) and Norway (+3.58).