Schouten doubles in the 5000 meters, Francesca Lollobrigida fourth with the staff

Schouten raddoppia nei 5000 metri, Francesca Lollobrigida quarta con il personale
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Speed SkatingBeijing 2022

Schouten doubles in the 5000 meters, Francesca Lollobrigida fourth with the staff

The longest race against the time trial on the women's Speedskating program sees orange Irene Schouten rounding off the 3000m victory. The blue is 1.17 from the podium

In the first part of the session, the Russian Natalia Voronina, Bronze in PyeongChang 2018 and holder of the world record sets the bar on the time of 6.56.99 waiting for the opponents ready to go down on the ice after the resurfacing. The first attack comes from Martina Sablikova, chasing her eighth medal with the Olympic titles on the distance of 2010 and 2014 and the Silver of 2018, the Czech from Nove Mesto takes the lead of the partial classification with 6.50. 09. In the penultimate couple, Canadian Isabelle Weidemann. Bronze in the 3000 meters, she takes the baton stopping the chronometers on 6.48.18 while the Norwegian Ragne Wiklund undermines Voronina from the podium and is provisional third with 6.56.34 before Irene Schouten and Francesca Lollobrigida go down on the ice. Irene Schouten sets the Olympic record and climbs, as in the 3000 meters, on the highest step of the podium with 6.43.51 while Francesca Lollobrigida, who never went down in careers under 7 minutes, improves by 13 seconds but stops at less than two seconds from the podium, fourth with 6.51.76
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