Ted-Jan Bloemen caps impressive 2018 with top award from Speed Skating Canada
Calgary’s Ted-Jan Bloemen capped an impressive 2018 season by being named Speed Skating Canada long track male athlete of the year on Friday.
Bloemen won the Jeremy Wotherspoon award for male athlete and Ottawa’s Ivanie Blondin took home the Catriona Le May Doan as top female in long track.
Bloemen set an Olympic record while winning gold in the 10,000 metres at the 2018 PyeongChang Games. He also captured a silver in the 5,000 and was the 2017-2018 World Cup champion in both distances.
Blondin called her season “bittersweet” in March. She represented Canada at the 2018 Games but came back from South Korea without a medal from four events. However, she won silver in the final mass start of the season, bolstering her overall World Cup ranking to bronze on the last day of the 2018 ISU World Cup Final.