TOKYO, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) — Japan’s Masaya Yamada claimed his second gold medal on the ISU World Cup Speed Skating in Obihiro on Saturday with the boys’s 1,500m victory, a day after triumphing within the 1,000m occasion.
Yamada dazzled, ending in a single minute and 45.57 seconds. Jordan Stolz of the United States was 0.02 seconds behind for the runner-up, and China’s Ning Zhongyan took the bronze.
In the ladies’s 1,500m, Japan’s Miho Takagi displayed distinctive velocity, pocketing gold with a time of 1:54.54.
Japan additionally confirmed their dominance within the girls’s Team Pursuit, ending in two minutes and 58.03 seconds to clinch the gold medal forward of Canada and the Netherlands.
In the boys’s Team Pursuit, Norway’s trio of Sander Eitrem, Peder Kongshaug and Sverre Pedersen clocked three minutes and 40.83 seconds to safe the gold medal.
The Netherlands shone within the girls’s 2nd 500m, as Femke Kok seized gold with a time of 37.89 seconds. Her teammate Jutta Leerdam took silver in 38.00 seconds.