Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Italy, the gold medalists in the 2006 Winter Olympics men's team pursuit event. From left to right: Matteo Anesi, Enrico Fabris and Ippolito Sanfratello. Speed skating is a sport that has been contested at the Winter Olympic Games since the inaugural Games in 1924. [1]
At the 2014 Winter Olympics, Ahn won the bronze medal in the 1500 m event, which was the first short track speed skating medal that Russia had ever earned. [108] Ahn then won the first Russian gold medal in short track, winning the 1000 m event by leading the first Russian 1–2 finish in short track with Vladimir Grigorev. [109]
Natalya Sergeevna Voronina (Russian: Наталья Сергеевна Воронина; born 21 October 1994) is a Russian speed skater. She is a World Champion and a world record holder in the 5000 m event. Voronina is the current Russian record holder in the 3000 and 5000 metres. [1]
At 31 years and 191 days, Vladimir Grigorev became the oldest man to win a short track Olympic medal, winning silver at the 1000m event. [3] On 21 February 2014, he won the gold in the 5000m relay, upping the oldest short track male athlete record for both medals and gold medals. [4]
The medalists in 500 m ladies' speed skating. Silver medalist Olga Fatkulina of Russia was subsequently stripped of the silver medal on 24 November 2017 by IOC, but CAS returned the medal to her on 1 Feb 2018.
At 31 years and 191 days, Vladimir Grigorev became the oldest man to win a short track Olympic medal, winning silver at the 1000m event, at the 2014 Olympics on 15 February 2014. [6] On 21 February 2014, he won the gold in the 5000m relay, upping the oldest male shorttrack athlete record for both medals and gold medals. [7]
BEIJING — The International Olympic Committee has been operating under the apparent assumption that if Kamila Valieva is found guilty of doping, Russian skaters will forfeit the gold medals they ...
Germany won the most total medals, with six, though only a single gold. Belarus won its first medal in speed skating, with the nation competing in the Winter Olympics for the first time. Russia competed not as the Soviet Union for the first time and clinched five medals, building on its huge speed skating tradition. [3] [4]