Tuesday, 18 February 2014

Netherlands 1-2-3 in 10,000m speed skating

The Netherlands have achieved another podium lock-out in the speed skating, with this time Jorrit Bergsma taking gold in the 10,000m in an Olympic Record time.

Bergsma, paired with
Bart Swings of the Belgium, managed an impressive time of 12:44.45, which was almost five second ahead of his teammate Sven Kramer.

Kramer was the only other competitor to achieve a time of under 13 minutes with his 12:49.02 to take silver, while
Bob de Jong claimed bronze with 13:07.19.

There were no Team GB athletes in the event, but both American competitors
Emery Lehman and Patrick Meek finished 10th and 11th respectively.

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