Quebec's Laurent Dubreuil skates to a 500m silver medal in the Netherlands
Laurent Dubreuil of Levis, Que., won silver on Sunday at the ISU World Cup speed skating event in Heerenveen, Netherlands.
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Watch the world speed skating single distances championships
ISU World Speed Skating Single Distances Championships: Day 3 - Hamar Live in 3 hours Click on the video player above beginning at 6:50 a.m. ET watch live coverage of the world speed skating distance championships Hamar, Norway. CBC Sports hosts Anastasia Bucsis and Signa Butler have all the action covered as Canada is led by Ivanie Blondin. The Ottawa native is a five-time world champion and double Olympic medallist who led all Canadians with eight World Cup podiums this season. On the men's side, Canada will be counting on Laurent Dubreuil. The 32-year-old sprinter won the men's 500m (the shortest race in long track) at the 2021 world championships before taking silver each of the last two years while grabbing an Olympic silver in the 1,000m in 2022. How to watch: Every race will be streamed live on and CBC Gem. The CBC TV network will have additional coverage on Saturday at 1 p.m. ET. Here's the full schedule of events. The full list of Canadians competing: Men Ted-Jan Bloemen: 5,000m, 10,000, Laurent Dubreuil: 500m, 1,000m, team sprint Christopher Fiola: 500m Graeme Fish: 5,000m, 10,000m Connor Howe: 1,000m, 1,500m, team sprint Anders Johnson: 500m, team sprint David La Rue: 1,000m, 1,500m, mass start Women Ivanie Blondin: 1,500m, 3,000m, mass start, team sprint, team pursuit Laura Hall: 5,000m Rose Laliberté-Roy: 500m Béatrice Lamarche: 1,000m, team sprint Valerie Maltais: 1,500m, 3,000m, mass start, team pursuit Brooklyn McDougall: 500m, team sprint Isabelle Weidemann: 3,000m, 5,000m, team pursuit
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Click on the video above to watch live coverage of the world speed skating distance championships today at 12:50 a.m. ET in Hamar, Norway. CBC Sports hosts Anastasia Bucsis and Signa Butler have all the action covered as Canada is led by Ivanie Blondin. The Ottawa native is a five-time world champion and double Olympic medallist who led all Canadians with eight World Cup podiums this season. On the men's side, Canada will be counting on Laurent Dubreuil. The 32-year-old sprinter won the men's 500m (the shortest race in long track) at the 2021 world championships before taking silver each of the last two years while grabbing an Olympic silver in the 1,000m in 2022. How to watch: Every race will be streamed live on and CBC Gem, starting today. The CBC TV network will have additional coverage on Saturday at 1 p.m. ET. Here's the full schedule of events. ISU World Speed Skating Single Distances Championships: Day 1 - Hamar Live in 2 minutes Watch the opening day of the ISU World Speed Skating Single Distances Championships from Vikingskipet in Hamar, Norway. The full list of Canadians competing: Men Ted-Jan Bloemen: 5,000m, 10,000, Laurent Dubreuil: 500m, 1,000m, team sprint Christopher Fiola: 500m Graeme Fish: 5,000m, 10,000m Connor Howe: 1,000m, 1,500m, team sprint Anders Johnson: 500m, team sprint David La Rue: 1,000m, 1,500m, mass start Women Ivanie Blondin: 1,500m, 3,000m, mass start, team sprint, team pursuit Laura Hall: 5,000m Rose Laliberté-Roy: 500m Béatrice Lamarche: 1,000m, team sprint Valerie Maltais: 1,500m, 3,000m, mass start, team pursuit Brooklyn McDougall: 500m, team sprint Isabelle Weidemann: 3,000m, 5,000m, team pursuit
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Canada's Dubreuil, Blondin skate to silver medals at World Cup season finale in the Netherlands
Social Sharing Canadian speed skaters Ivanie Blondin and Laurent Dubreuil claimed silver medals on Saturday at the final stop of the long track World Cup tour in Heerenveen, Netherlands. The 32-year-old Dubreuil secured second place in the men's 500-metre standings with a time of 34.51 seconds in the season's final race, just 0.05 behind Kazakhstan's Yevgeniy Koshkin (34.46). Dutch favourite Jenning de Boo rounded out the podium in 34.52. Quebec's Laurent Dubreuil skates to a 500m silver medal in the Netherlands 3 hours ago Duration 2:05 Laurent Dubreuil of Levis, Que., won silver on Sunday at the ISU World Cup speed skating event in Heerenveen, Netherlands. Dubreuil, who hails from Lévis, Que., finishes the season with 476 points in the distance. He won a pair of silvers last week in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland. American star Jordan Stolz topped the standings with 568 points. Ottawa's Blondin, 34, ended her World Cup campaign on high note with a second-place finish behind two-time world champion Marijke Groenewoud of the Netherlands. Groenewoud's time of 8:27.52 was just 0.02 seconds faster than Blondin's in the 16-lap race at Heerenveen's Thialf oval. Ottawa's Ivanie Blondin narrowly misses out on gold in the mass start 2 hours ago Duration 1:33 Ivanie Blondin won the silver medal in the women's mass start finishing .02 seconds behind Dutch skater Marijke Groenewoud at the ISU World Cup speed skating event in Heerenveen, Netherlands. Mia Manganello of the United States captured the bronze medal with a time of 8:27.62. Blondin, the top-ranked Canadian in the event, placed fourth in the standings with 223 points Groenewoud finished in top spot with 340 points, 93 more than the second-ranked Manganello.
