Monday, 29 October 2007

The Netherlands, Canada and the US announced their teams for the upcoming Fall World Cups. The following athletes have been selected.

The Netherlands

US

Canada

Sunday, 28 October 2007

At the World Cup Team Selection in Calgary Christine Nesbitt finished second to Cindy Klassen in the 3000m by skating a new personal best time of 4:05.93. Klassen skated a 4:04.17. Arne Dankers won the 5000m (6:21.16), third was a new face: Aaron Sadlier. Sadlier skated a new personal best time of 6:31.10, shaving two seconds off his old best time. Second was Justin Warsylewicz.

For complete results see oval.sunergon.com

Saturday, 27 October 2007

More fast times in Calgary at the World Cup Team Selection. Both Jeremy Wotherspoon and Denny Morrison improved their personal best times in the 500m. Wotherspoon improved his own Canadian record by skating a 34.36, Morrison was second in 35.04. Morrison won the 1500m in 1:43.65, which is by far the fastest time of the season. Second was Jeff Kitura in 1:45.57. Christine Nesbitt won the 500m (38.67) and the 1500m (1:54.65), Cindy Klassen was second in the 1500m: 1:56.82.

For complete results see oval.sunergon.com

In Heerenveen Paulien van Deutekom and Simon Kuipers won the 1000m at the Dutch Single Distances Championships. Van Deutekom finished in 1:17.18, Annette Gerritsen was second, Ireen Wüst was third. Simon Kuipers needed 1:09.59 for his 1000m, second was Jan Bos, Erben Wennemars was third.

For complete results see http://www.aegonnkafstanden.nl/live-2008/nk/afstanden/

Friday, 26 October 2007

The Canadian World Cup Team Selection in Calgary started off with some very fast times in the 500m and 1000m for Jeremy Wotherspoon and Denny Morrison. Wotherspoon won the 500m in 34.51; Morrison skated a 35.17, which was a new personal best time and good for a bronze medal (Vincent Labrie finished second in 35.16). In the 1000m Morrison won (1:07.74), Wotherspoon finished second (1:07.80).

At the Dutch Single Distances Championships in Heerenveen Jan Smeekens and Annette Gerritsen took their first national titles in the 500m. Smeekens won both 500m’s (35.66, 35.56) and shared the podium with Simon Kuipers (silver) and Erben Wennemars (bronze). Annette Gerritsen won both 500m’s as well (39.07, 38.82), second was Margot Boer, third was Marianne Timmer. There were no surprises in the 5k: Sven Kramer took the national title in a time of 6:24.51, second was Carl Verheijen, third was Wouter Olde Heuvel.

For complete results see: http://www.knsb.nl/live-2008/nk/afstanden/index.asp

Wednesday, 24 October 2007

Despite the fact that this season the World All-round Championships will take place in Berlin, German speed skater Anni Friesinger announced today she will not be racing at this competition. Instead she prefers to focus on the World Sprint Championships in Heerenveen and the World Single Distances Championships in Nagano.

Saturday, 20 October 2007

Shani Davis competed at the first short track World Cup in Harbin, China, this weekend. In the 500m he was eliminated in the preliminaries:

Heat 2 (Splits)

1. 2 Hamelin, Charles CAN 42.059 Q

2. 1 Terao Saturo JPN 42.243 Q

3. 3 Davis Shani USA 44.088

4. 4 Ganbat Munkhamidral MGL 50.179

With the US relay team he finished third:

1. Koraea KOR

2. Italy ITA

3. United States USA

4. Canada CAN

5. France FRA

For full results see http://www.sportresult.com/federations/ISU/ShortTrack/

Chad Hedrick won the 1500m at the Time Trials in Salt Lake City, skating a time of 1:47.43. Second was fellow American Trevor Marsicano, skating a 1:47.99. For Marsicano, 18, this was a new personal best time (the old one was 2:01.15). Marsicano finished third at last year’s World Junior Championships, which was his fourth long track competition ever. On top of that he finished 15th at the short track World Junior Championships.

Wednesday, 17 October 2007

11 Norwegian speed skaters will be competing at the first World Cups of the season in Salt Lake City and Calgary. Now that Eskil Ervik en Even Wetten have retired from speed skating, there is room for some new faces:

Håvard Bøkko

Øystein Grødum

Christoffer Rukke

Mikael Flygind Larsen

Henrik Christiansen

Sverre Haugli

Odd Borgersen

Stian Elvenes

Maren Haugli

Hedvig Bjelkevik

Mari Hemmer

Sunday, 14 October 2007

This weekend Jenny Wolf won the 500m at the 'Internationale Saisoneröffnung' in Inzell with a time of 38.25, which is exactly the same time as the oudoor world record skated by Shihomi Shinya in 2003.

In Erfurt Sven Kramer fell while he was racing a 500m. He lost his balance in the last corner and went down, which caused a considerable amount of bruises and a headache. He did race a 1500m afterwards, but was not able to impress in that distance.

Sunday, 7 October 2007

Jeremy Wotherspoon is back. After taking a season off, he impressed at this weekend's Time Trials in Calgary by skating a 34.58 and a 34.64 in the 500m. Kang-Seok Lee was second: 34.79.

Wednesday, 3 October 2007

In an interview with Aftenposten today, Even Wetten (25) announced that he has retired from speedskating. He is not satisfied with his development as a skater; after quitting the national team in summer he considered continuing on his own or with a regional team, but eventually found that the best solution would be to quit skating altogether.

Wetten won a gold medal in the 1000m and a bronze medal in the 1500m at the World Single Distance Championships in Inzell in 2005.

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