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China’s Gao takes gold at ISU Speed Skating World Cup in Poland

WARSAW, Dec. 9 (Xinhua) — Olympic champion Gao Tingyu claimed a title within the males’s 500m race on the ISU Speed Skating World Cup in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland on Saturday.

During the World Cup in Beijing in mid-November, Gao assured that he was on monitor to return to his greatest type, and he proved that on the Arena Lodowa.

China’s first males’s Olympic pace skating champion took an enormous triumph within the first 500m race with a time of 34.70 seconds. Gao, who had set a monitor report of 34.26 in Poland over two years in the past, beat Canada’s Laurent Dubreuil by 0.07 seconds. Wataru Morishige of Japan grabbed a bronze medal, 0.05 seconds additional behind.

Gao made a robust begin as he had the most effective time of 9.43 within the first lap after which saved a robust tempo to face on the very best podium as a present for his twenty sixth birthday, which can fall on December 15.

Ning Zhongyan collected a bronze medal within the males’s 1,500m Division A in 1:46.99. Norway’s Peder Kongshaug seized gold in 1:46:41. Jordan Stolz of the United States, who received the 1,000m competitors on Friday, added a silver medal to his assortment after ending 0.07 seconds behind Kongshaug.

China’s Han Mei earned 43 factors within the common standings after ending fourth within the girls’s 1,500m Division A, with the 25-year-old skater crossing the road in 1:58.76.

Japan’s Miho Takagi received the competitors with a time of 1:56.63, whereas the Dutch duo Marijke Groenewoud and Joy Beune took second and third respectively.

Erin Jackson of the United States received the ladies’s second 500m Division A race, beating South Korea’s Kim Min-sun by 0.16 seconds. Femke Kok of the Netherlands took third place.

Ethan Cepuran, Casey Dawson and Emery Lehman gave the United States gold medal within the males’s crew pursuit Division A, adopted by Italy and Norway. China took fifth place with a time of three:49.60.

Chinese pace skaters had been fourth within the girls’s crew pursuit. Japan grabbed the gold medal, forward of Canada and Poland.

The World Cup in Tomaszow Mazowiecki continues with the final-day competitions on Sunday.

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