Four more golds for Dutch speed skaters at second World Cup in Heerenveen Sunday, 31 January 2021
Dutch skaters completed another golden weekend on the home ice of Heerenveen in the second round of the International Skating Union (ISU) Speed Skating World Cup.
On the same ice in the Thialf Arena
last week Dutch speed skaters won nine of the 12 gold medals on offer over the final two days of competition - but this time they settled for eight golds.
Femke Kok, winner of two golds in the last World Cup round on this ice, matched that feat as she won her second 500 metres race, clocking 37.333sec to finish ahead of three Russian rivals - Angelina Golikova, just 0.03sec adrift, Daria Kachanova, at 0.30, and Olga Fatkulina, at 0.34.
Dutch regain gold standard at ISU Speed Skating World Cup Saturday, 30 January 2021
Home skaters returned to their customary gold standard today in the second round of the International Skating Union (ISU) Speed Skating World Cup in Heerenveen.
On the same ice in the Thialf Arena
last week Dutch speed skaters won nine of the 12 gold medals on offer over the final two days of competition.
But the division A events began with a restatement of intent from a United States skater as Brittany Bowe, winner of the women’s 1,000 metres and 1,500m events last week, earned further success at the longer of those distances, finishing in 1min 53.455sec.