WARSAW, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) — Dutch skater Marijke Groenewoud, a Beijing 2022 Olympic bronze medalist, gained the ladies’s 1,500m on the International Skating Union (ISU) Speed Skating World Cup in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland on Saturday.
Groenewoud timed one minute and 56.67 seconds, 1.16 seconds quicker than runner-up Ragne Wiklund of Norway. Japanese Miho Takagi completed third in 1:58.02.
Chinese skater Li Qishi completed eighth in 2:00.46, adopted by her compatriot Han Mei in 2:00.65.
Japan’s Wataru Morishige clinched the lads’s 500m title in 34.78 seconds, adopted by Canadian Laurent Dubreuil (34.87) and Japan’s Yuma Murakami (35.03).
Italy’s Davide Ghiotto took the lads’s 5,000m crown in 6:17.45. Four-time Olympic medalist Patrick Roest of the Netherlands obtained the silver in 6:18.27, and Sander Eitrem from Norway pocketed the bronze in 6:18.45.
Canada gained the ladies’s workforce pursuit in 3:00.97, adopted by the Netherlands (3:01.74) and the United States (3:04.01). China (Han Mei, Li Qishi, Yang Binyu and Chen Xiangyu) completed eighth.