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Seasonal leader and world record holder, the Swede van der Poel wins the Olympic Gold medal only in the last laps overtaking the Dutch Patrick Roest, at the head of the leaderboard for more than an hour,
Sunday 6 February 2022 2 minutes reading time
Patrick Roest scores the Olympic record with 6.09.31 in the first rounds, well before the ice is made, and for an hour he sits and sees his opponents' ambitions fall one after the other with the Norwegian squire Engebraaten ( 6.09.88). The seasonal leader Nils van der Poel succeeds only in the last heat, recovering two seconds in the last three laps and winning the Gold medal with a time of 6.08.84
Davide Ghiotto is eighth with 6.16.92, fifteenth Michele Malfatti (6.21.47) and twentieth Andrea Giovannini (6-30.11)
Today's race celebrated the swan song of the legendary Sven Kramer, winner of the last three Olympic titles in distance, who recovered from the Orange after the defeat in the trials and finished in ninth position with a time of 6.17.04.
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