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Patrick Roest (NED) and Davide Ghiotto (ITA) finally did away with the legends of the past in the 5000m at the fastest ice on earth on Sunday. Roest came out on top in a tight battle for gold in the longest distance at the World Cup in Salt Lake City, USA. Finishing in 6:02.98, he broke Sven Kramer’s Dutch record set in Calgary over 16 years ago. Ghiotto celebrated silver in 6:04.23, to beat the Italian record set by Enrico Fabris in 2009. Jordan Stolz (USA) also skated the 5000m, but the American youngster felt the legs burning after winning his fourth gold medal of the weekend in the 1000m just 20 minutes earlier.

Ivanie Blondin (CAN) competed in seven events in Salt Lake City, USA, but she never seemed to tire. On Sunday, the Canadian warrior beat Olympic champion Irene Schouten (NED) in a dominant sprint to add the Mass Start title to the Team Pursuit gold she won Saturday. Blondin also skated the concluding Relay Mixed Gender with Yankun Zhao (CAN), but finished just outside the podium, with Sun Chuanyi and Jin Wenling (CHN) seizing their first World Cup win. Kimi Goetz (USA) started the final day with her first 1000m win of the season in the absence of World Cup leader Miho Takagi (JPN).

Former international Figure Skater and Olympian Javier Raya (ESP) speaks about his role as an IOC Young Leader and how sport can help to promote inclusion, whilst also looking ahead to the Figure Skating competition at Gangwon 2024.

Erin Jackson (USA) was the only woman to skate the 500m in less than 37 seconds on Saturday, picking up her fourth win in eight World Cup races so far this season. Kimi Goetz (USA) took silver and Kim Min Sun (KOR) bronze in Salt Lake City, USA. Miho Takagi (JPN) won Saturday’s 1500m to seize her second gold medal of the World Cup weekend, while Canada won the Team Pursuit but Japan grabbed the World Cup Trophy by finishing second in the final race.

Team USA gave the enthusiastic crowd everything they wanted on home ice at the ISU World Cup in Salt Lake City on Saturday. After winning the 1000m in a stunning world record time on Friday, Jordan Stolz (USA) added gold in the 500m and the 1500m, before Ethan Cepuran, Emery Lehman andCasey Dawson (USA) brought the men’s competition to a climax in the Team Pursuit. Not only did the USA beat Norway face-to-face, they also broke the world record their rivals had set just a few weeks ago at the European championships in Heerenveen. 

Athlete Role Model Haralds Silovs (LAT) talks about his experiences at the Youth Olympic Winter Games Gangwon 2024 and hopes to inspire young skaters to focus on self-belief and to have fun in their junior careers.

“I can’t believe it,” Jordan Stolz (USA) said. Nobody could. The 19-year-old American took .32 seconds off the world record to win the first of two 1000m races at the ISU World Cup at the fast Utah Olympic Oval on Friday. The gap between Stolz and the rest of the field was 1.60 seconds, with Ning Zhongyan (CHN) second and David Bosa (ITA) third. Chung Jae Won (KOR) brought the first day of the World Cup to a close by winning gold in the Mass Start, beating Bart Swings (BEL) and Bart Hoolwerf (NED) to the line in the final sprint.

It was a long time coming, but Joy Beune (NED) finally won her first individual World Cup gold on Friday in Salt Lake City, USA. The four-time 2018 World Junior Champion left Olympic gold medallist Irene Schouten (NED) 1.34 seconds behind in the 3000m, while Valérie Maltais (CAN) seized bronze to take her first World Cup podium in a classic distance. 

The ISU Council allots the fifth ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating event to Helsinki (FIN) which will take place on November 15-17, 2024.

The International Skating Union (ISU) is proud to announce the official launch of its comprehensive Sustainability Strategy, aimed at fostering environmental responsibility, social progress, and economic resilience within the world of ice skating.

Angel Daleman (NED) and Finn Sonnekalb (GER) completed a clean sweep in the individual events by clinching victory in the Mass Sprint on the last day of Speed Skating action at the Winter Youth Olympic Games Gangwon 2024.

With skaters trying to steer away from the chaos on the ice during the first-ever Speed Skating Mixed Relay at the Youth Olympic Winter Games, China’s Liu Yunqi (CHN) and Pan Baoshuo (CHN) navigated to gold in a dramatic photo finish.

With the continental Championships in the books, international Speed Skating continues with the season’s fifth and penultimate World Cup leg in Salt Lake City. After many personal and national best times during the ISU Four Continents Championships at the Utah Olympic Oval last week, the World Cup promises to be even faster and more competitive now that the European contingent is back in the mix. A double 1000m will be the main ingredient of a spectacular weekend, that concludes with the new Mixed Gender relay, which features in the World Cup program for the second time.

Short Track prodigy Zhang Xinzhe (CHN) finished his Winter Youth Olympic Games on a high as he helped China to gold in the first-ever Mixed Team Relay on Wednesday. For Zhang, the Relay gold was his fourth medal after clinching the Men's 1000m gold and silver in the 500m and 1500m.

Finn Sonnekalb (GER) and Angel Daleman (NED) take second gold apiece as they top the podium in Men’s and Women’s Speed Skating 1500m events.