LIVE | Jutta Leerdam remains undefeated at 1000 meters, Hein Otterspeer also takes gold in Calgary | Sport

Leerdam was already the fastest at the World Cup competitions in Stavanger and Heerenveen. In Calgary she competed against Antoinette Rijpma-De Jong in the penultimate stage. With a fast second corner, the Jumbo-Visma skater left her teammate far behind and kept it up in the final round. She was 0.71 seconds under Goetz’s time.

Rijpma-De Jong came to 1.13.64 and that was good for fifth place. Olympic champion Miho Takagi from Japan was only fourth fastest in the final stage with 1:13.57.

Isabel Grevelt was unable to continue her third place in Heerenveen. Despite a shaky start, she set a new personal best and finished seventh with a time of 1:14.17.

Michelle de Jong also improved her own top time to 1.14.29. That earned her eighth place. Marrit Fledderus was stuck in thirteenth place in her ride against the American Kimi Goetz with 1.15.00.

Hein Otterspeer also took gold in the kilometer in Calgary. The 34-year-old skater from Reggeborgh reached 1:07.28 in his ride, narrowly ahead of the Canadians Laurent Dubreuil and Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu.

Thanks to a good first part, Otterspeer dived 4 hundredths of a second under Gélinas-Beaulieu’s time. He then saw that compatriots Thomas Krol and Joep Wennemars did not meet his time. Krol finished eighth with 1:07.70. Wennemars improved himself to 1:08.08, but only finished thirteenth.

Dubreuil started very fast in the penultimate stage, but still lost his lead in the last corner. He stranded at 2 hundredths of a second from Otterspeer.

Kai Verbij started his first 1000 meters of the competition season due to an earlier groin injury. The reigning world champion on the kilometer rode in the first stage against the British Cornelius Kersten and came to 1.07.63, good for seventh place.

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