OTTAWA: Jordan Stolz of the USA continued his dominance within the velocity skating World Cup as he clinched the boys’s 1, 000-meter title in Quebec, Canada on Friday.
Having reaped 4 golds within the Salt Lake Metropolis cease final weekend, the 19-year-old American skater clocked one minute and seven.96 seconds for his fourth straight World Cup victory on this occasion, reported Xinhua.
Tatsuya Shinhama of Japan got here in second with a time of 1:08.34. The bronze medal went to China’s Ning Zhongyan, who completed in 1:08.49.
Miho Takagi of Japan set a brand new event document to win her fourth World Cup victory within the girls’s 1, 000m this season. Crossing the road in 1:14.19, Miho broke the earlier event mark of 1:15.83 held by Canadian Ivanie Blondin.
Femke Kok and Isabel Grevelt of the Netherlands settled for second and third place with 1:15.07 and 1:15.72 respectively.
Dwelling skater Ted-Jan Bloemen received the boys’s 5, 000m race with one other event document of 6:13.87, whereas Irene Schouten of the Netherlands was topped within the girls’s 3, 000m with 4:01.11.
