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CBC
15-03-2025
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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
CBC
13-03-2025
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- CBC
World speed skating single distances championships
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
CBC
02-03-2025
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- CBC
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.
CBC
02-03-2025
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- CBC
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.
CBC
23-02-2025
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Dubreuil picks up his 2nd speed skating silver medal over 500m at Poland World Cup
A model of consistency of late, Canadian speed skater Laurent Dubreuil collected his second silver medal in three days over 500 metres in Sunday's World Cup men's race in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland. Dubreuil, who clocked 34.70 seconds behind Kazakhstan's Yevgeniy Koshkin (34.52), continues his strong form after becoming the first Canadian in nearly 20 years to reach the podium at Milwaukee's Pettit National Ice Center last month, where he took bronze in the 500m. Marek Kania of Poland also reached the medal podium, finishing 6-100ths of a second behind Dubreuil, who has earned 41 medals on the international scene. The Lévis, Que., skater reached the finish in 34.73 on Friday in a race won by American superstar Jordan Stolz in 34.49. Stolz has 130-point lead over Dubreuil in the season standings for the discipline, with the Canadian extending his hold on second place over Tatsuya Shinhama of Japan to 27 points. Dubreuil now has six gold, 21 silver and 14 bronze medals since joining the World Cup circuit during the 2011-12 season. WATCH | Dubreuil earns his 2nd World Cup silver medal of the week in Poland: Quebec's Laurent Dubreuil speeds to his 2nd 500m silver medal of the weekend in Poland 1 hour ago Duration 1:26 The speed skater was also won eight career medals (three gold, two silver, three bronze) at the world single-distance championships and has two medals from the world sprint championships. "After the last Olympics, I challenged myself — I was at 24 medals at that point, and I wanted to shoot for 50," Dubreuil said earlier this week. "It seemed a bit ambitious back then, but I won seven the year after the Olympics, five last season and I'm at four this season. Winning 50 medals is now the goal." Anders Johnson of Burnaby, B.C., was 18th of 20 finishers in 35.42. Meanwhile, Ottawa's Ivanie Blondin earned a pair of medals Sunday. She partnered with Carolina Hiller (Prince George, B.C.) and Quebec City's Béatrice Lamarche for team sprint silver. Their time of one minute 28.30 seconds was narrowly shy of the Polish trio (1:28.09) and ahead of the Netherlands (1:28.46). Earlier, Blondin took women's mass start bronze in 8:20.79. Marijke Groenewoud of the Netherlands was victorious in 8:20.34, 54-100ths ahead of Italy's Francesca Lollabrigida (8:20.88).
