The Canadian crew captured six medals, together with three gold, to open the ISU Four Continents Speed Skating Championships on Friday.
Laurent Dubreuil of Lévis, Que., kicked issues off with a victory within the 500 metres on the new Centre de glace Intact Assurance, in Quebec City’s first international long-track speedskating competitors in 30 years.
Valérie Maltais of La Baie, Que., gained gold within the ladies’s 3,000 metres, whereas Dubreuil, and Montreal’s Christopher Fiola and David La Rue gained gold within the males’s crew dash occasion.
In the boys’s 500, Dubreuil crossed in 34.462 seconds.
“This first international race in Quebec City was a lot of fun,” Dubreuil stated. “We’ve been waiting for it for a long time and I’m happy I was able to deliver a good performance today. It was a good race in general. I really wanted to perform well because there were a lot of people that came to watch me skate. It was a definitely a memorable moment after my victory, with the fans cheering on and my family . . . in the stands.”
Read extra:
Speedskater Laurent Dubreuil shatters Canadian document at World Cup cease in Calgary
Read More
-
(*6*)
Speedskater Laurent Dubreuil shatters Canadian document at World Cup cease in Calgary
Japan’s Yuma Murakami, who skilled with the Canadian crew in Quebec City this previous summer time, gained silver (34.880), whereas Korea’s Jun-Ho Kim (34.978) captured the bronze.
Maltais captured her first international senior gold within the 3,000 metres, successful gold in 4 minutes 3.150 seconds. Béatrice Lamarche of Quebec City gained bronze (4:10.666). Kazakhstan’s Nadezhda Morozova (4:05.517) raced to silver.
“It’s very special to win an individual distance medal in long track,” Maltais stated. “Today, my method was to consider that I may win, one thing that I’ve by no means had in a person distance since I switched to lengthy monitor. That method gave me good power, and never solely did I win at present, however I skated a season greatest time and executed one in every of my best-ever races.
Read extra:
Canada wins 1st ever Olympic gold in ladies’s crew pursuit velocity skating in Beijing
“Being able to win at home was amazing. There was really a special energy in the building. The fans were cheering so loudly that you could feel it each time you skated by the stands on the straight.”
Jordan Belchos of Toronto added a bronze within the males’s 5,000.
Read extra:
Short-track speedskating and the way Quebec does circles round the remainder of Canada
Alison Desmarais of Vanderhoof, B.C., Rose Laliberté-Roy of Saint-Étienne, Que., and Abigail McCluskey of Penticton, B.C., gained bronze within the ladies’s crew dash to cap the day.
The males’s and ladies’s 1,500 metres and mass begin races are Saturday.
© 2022 The Canadian Press
Canada wins 6 medals as international long-track speedskating returns to Quebec
Canada wins 6 medals as international long-track speedskating returns to Quebec
data with out going by way of us first, so we will present you the most recent and biggest information with out costing you a dime. The two of chances are you’ll be taught the specifics of the information collectively, supplying you with a leg up. We’ll get to the subsequent step when somewhat time has gone.
Our purpose is to maintain you up-to-date on all the latest information from across the globe by posting related articles on our web site, so that you could be all the time be one step forward. In this fashion, you will by no means fall behind the most recent developments in that information.
Canada wins 6 medals as international long-track speedskating returns to Quebec