Speed Skating
Event
Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games
12 Jan 2023
-22 Jan 2023
United States of America, Lake Placid
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Shinno puts exclamation point on Japan long track dominance
Winter Games
20 January 2023
The long track speed skating competition concluded Friday at the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games with the women’s and men’s mass start races, won by Japan’s Misaki Shinno and Canadian David La Rue, respectively. Twenty-four female competitors, then 25 men took the ice at the same time for a 16-lap race totaling 6,400 […]
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Japanese Hat Trick at Olympic Oval
Winter Games
19 January 2023
Japanese speed skaters pulled the delegation’s – and Lake Placid 2023’s – second podium sweep on Tuesday when Taiyo Nonomura, Kazuya Yamada and Motonaga Arito won gold, silver and bronze, respectively, in the men’s 1500 metres of the FISU World University Games. Arito was the first of the trio to hit the ice, in the […]
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Resistance and speed: Korea and Japan win gold in long track speed skating
Winter Games
16 January 2023
It was a spectacular Sunday morning in Eastern New York, totally clear skies and radiant sun. Such was the setting for the first long track speed skating event of the Lake Placid 2023 FISU World University Games, the 1000m. The stands began to fill up well before the start of competition at the Olympic Oval, […]
