Bloemen earns individual World Cup speedskating title, Blondin claims silver
MINSK, Belarus — Calgary’s Ted-Jan Bloemen and Ottawa’s Ivanie Blondin earned gold and silver individual speedskating medals Saturday at the 2018 ISU World Cup final.
Bloemen, of Calgary, finished fifth in the men’s 5,000-metre event but still clindhed the overall 5,000-10,000 title. Norway’s Sverre Pederson won the race in six minutes 22.15 seconds to finish second in the overall standings.
Bloemen posted a time of 6:26.38.
Last month, Bloemen set an Olympic record on his way to winning gold in the 10,000 metres and claimed Canada’s first individual title in an Olympic speedskating discipline in 34 years.