According to the Canadian Press on Monday, the International Skating Union has cancelled World Cup speed skating events in Canada this fall because of coronavirus. There were to be two World Cup short track speed skating events in Quebec this Read more
Isabelle Weidemann of Ottawa, Ontario won her third World Cup gold medal of the season on Saturday. In the women’s 3000m World Cup in Heerenveen, Netherlands, Weidemann had a winning time of 3:59.759 and was the only speed skater to Read more
Anyway you look at it, this was simply a sensational World Single Distance Speed Skating Championship for Team Canada. In four days of competition, the Canadians came through with nine medals, third only to the Netherlands and Russia. After getting Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Ted-Jan Bloemen of Calgary, Alberta has won the gold medal for Canada at the 2020 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships in Salt Lake City, Utah on Thursday. Bloemen’s gold was one of two medals won Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Ted-Jan Bloemen of Calgary, Alberta and Ivanie Blondin of Ottawa, Ontario each won silver medals on Saturday at a World Cup speed skating event in Calgary. Canadian speed skaters won three medals overall as Graeme Fish Read more
Canadian Olympic gold medalist Denny Morrison of Chetwynd, British Columbia retired from competitive speed skating at the age 34 on Saturday. Morrison won the gold medal for Canada at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver in the men’s team Read more
Ivanie Blondin of Ottawa, Ontario won two gold medals and three medals overall at a World Cup speed skating competition in Nagano, Japan this past weekend. Blondin won the gold medal in the women’s mass start on Thursday, gold in Read more
It was an unbelievable World Cup weekend for Ivanie Blondin of Ottawa, Ontario. Blondin won three gold medals at a World Cup speed skating competition in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. Her gold medals came in the women’s 5000 metres on Friday, in Read more
Team Canada won three medals at a speed skating World Cup in Tomaszow Mazowiecki, Poland this past weekend. On Saturday, Canada won bronze in the women’s team pursuit competition, and on Sunday, Ivanie Blondin of Ottawa, Ontario won the silver Read more
Ivanie Blondin of Ottawa, Ontario won her eighth career World Cup gold medal on Sunday at a World Cup women’s mass start competition in Minsk, Belarus. Blondin, who also won a bronze medal in the women’s 3000 metres on Friday, recorded Read more