Speed ​​Skating - CdM Final in Heerenveen
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L & rsquo; last act of the long season of & nbsp; World Cup & nbsp; & nbsp; speed skating & nbsp; & egrave; officially entered the highlight in the & ldquo; temple & rdquo; the long runway, the & nbsp; Thialf Arena & nbsp; & nbsp; Heerenveen. The sixth and decisive stage of quest & rsquo; year on & nbsp; ice & nbsp; has seen the consumption of the & nbsp; first session & nbsp; of races on the historic Dutch track. And with s & eacute; led the first few verdicts listens for Saturday and Sunday.
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Fridays & igrave; in & rsquo; oval stained by the home crowd cheering oranje has seen cheering the American Brittany Bowe & ndash; winner of the first series of 500 meters - the Russian Ruslan Murashow & ndash; King of the first round of the men's sprint race -, his compatriot Natalya Voronina & ndash; you & egrave; won the women's 3000m & ndash; and the Netherlands team & ndash; to sign in & rsquo; Men's Team Pursuit & ndash; and China, victorious in & rsquo; unusual for the ISU World Cup Team Sprint women.
Just the Team Pursuit men has seen the consumption of the disappointment a few cents from the podium & ndash; for the & rsquo; exactly 17 - of the Italian team of Andrea Giovannini, Michele Malfatti and Nicholas Tumolero (on the cover). The trio had blue l & rsquo; opportunity & agrave; groped for the & rsquo; assault on the podium in the overall standings because & eacute; arrived at Heerenveen in fourth place behind the Dutch, Poles and dell''assente Korea. Italians have failed to memorize options in & rsquo; business and have finished their trial along the eight-lap race in fourth place with a final time of 3 & rsquo; 47 & rsquo; & rsquo; 20. In front of all closed & ndash; 3 & rsquo; 42 & rsquo; & rsquo; 28 - l & rsquo; Netherlands Jan Blokhuijsen, Douwe de Vries and Arjan Stroetinga, who have given to their nation the sixth bowl of specialty & agrave; in history going to South Korea before a year ago. Nell & rsquo; last test you & egrave; Highlighting Norway B ø kko, Spieler Nielsen and Pedersen (3 & rsquo; 43 & rsquo; & rsquo; 42), which exceeded cos & igrave; in the overall standing right there & rsquo; Italy and Poland. Quest & rsquo; last & egrave; climb on & rsquo; just last podium of the season at the expense of the team coached by c.t. Maurizio Marchetto.
L & rsquo; Team Pursuit was also l & rsquo; only race with Italian representatives at the start this Friday & igrave ;. In the other distances, c & rsquo; & egrave; to report the first win of the year on the women's 500 meters weblog & ndash; the first gold over the distance short, after nine podium finishes in his career - Brittany Bowe. The US takes on his first series & ndash; the second & egrave; scheduled for Sunday & ndash; thanks to the time of 37 & rsquo; & rsquo; 84. Preceded compatriot Heather Richardson-Bergsma 18 cents and l & rsquo; Dutch Jorien ter Mors of 36. With this success, the 26 year old from Ocala (Florida) also lengthens top of the list of Great World Cup touching share 1285 points: Richardson & egrave; now distant 180 lengths. As for the ranking of specialty & agrave; 500, however, still leads the Chinese Zhang Hong & ndash; Quest & rsquo; & ndash now fifth, with 766 points. The heel just the Richardson (728) and Bowe (635). All pending the & rsquo; last effort. Zhang if he resists, top, bring back a & ldquo; cup & rdquo; the Chinese after four seasons.
It's always Russia party in the 500 meters men, marked by & rsquo; absence of the defending champion as well as & eacute; gi & agrave; mathematically first & ndash; sub judice - in the ranking Pavel Kulizhnikov. Quest & rsquo; last & egrave; He is frozen due to his recent positivity & agrave; to meldonium. But despite his forced forfeit, excels his compatriot Ruslan Murashow, winner of the first series with a time of 34 & rsquo; & rsquo; 96. The 24 year old is cos & igrave; his third hit ever in the Cup after the two previous wins came in 2015. L & rsquo; silver goes to the home favorite & ndash; as well as & eacute; Olympic bronze in 2014 - Ronald Mulder (35 & rsquo; & rsquo; 05), which precedes the podium Canadian Gilmore Junio ​​(35 & rsquo; & rsquo; 12). The US leaves the medal of wood to the Finnish Mika Poutala, & more ugrave; slow him only for 5 milliseconds. Ranked Cup & ndash; considered the first of Kulizhnikov position that could be struck by the resulting decisions to its positivity & agrave; doping - Murashow rises to 585, in front of 24 lengths than Junio.
The 3000 meters orphans women champion Martina S & aacute Cup; blikov & aacute ;, which had already & agrave; acquired the title after the previous stage of Stavanger, they have seen cheering on top of the podium Natalya Voronina. The 21-year old Russian had risen on a podium in the individual Cup only once before: in Calgary in 3000 played last November, when he was third. His first career victory came after 4 & rsquo; 08 & rsquo; & rsquo; 15 Fatigue on the Thialf ice. His exploits denies all & rsquo; Dutch victory Jorien Voorhuis, just 3 cents. For the & rsquo; experienced 31 year old oranje l & rsquo; appointment with the first hurr & agrave; Cup & egrave; postponed for the & rsquo; umpteenth time. Third (in 4 & rsquo; 08 & rsquo; & rsquo; 40) & egrave; a & rsquo; other thirtysomething, Russia's Olga Graf.
The women's Team Sprint has finally closed the day of Friday & igrave races ;. He won the Chinese team consisting of Yu Jing, Zhang Hong and Li Quishi with time of 1 & rsquo; 28 & rsquo; & rsquo; 98, ahead of Japan and the Netherlands podium. With this success & ndash; the second in the season & ndash; Asian property are also insured the & ldquo; cup & rdquo ;.
Click here to see the full results, the updated rankings and the program of the Cup Finals.
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