Speed skating: women’s pursuit team sets another national record
Gold medals and breaking records: just another weekend for Ivanie Blondin, Isabelle Weidemann, Valérie Maltais.
The trio won a World Cup gold and set the national record last week in Salt Lake City with a time of 2:52.39.
On Saturday, they outdid themselves on home turf. They edged out Team Japan with a time of 2:52.07 en route to another gold. China finished a distant third with a time of 2:58.43.
The trio of Blondin, Weidemann, and Maltais are three-for-three this season in the team pursuit.
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In the men’s 1500m, it was Connor Howe’s first time on the individual podium. Howe claimed the first World Cup medal of his career after skating to a personal best 1:42.42 on Saturday.
The 21-year-old had been coming up just short of the podium, but broke through with a strong final sprint and was all smiles afterwards.
Howe was just 0.56 seconds off of American Joey Mantia. Norway’s Allan Dahl Johansson finished third.
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