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Bookmark or Share- Erin Jackson wins 500m speed skating gold at Winter Olympics ... - CNNThe 29-year-old Jackson is the first US woman to win a speed skating gold at the Olympics since Bonnie Blair did so in 1994, as well as the first Black woman to win an individual medal in...
- Van der Poel breaks the world record in the men’s 10,000-meter ...Feb. 11, 2022. Nils van der Poel broke his own world record Friday night en route to winning the men’s 10,000-meter speedskating race and picking up his second gold medal of the Beijing Olympics.
- Speed Skating History: Timeline & How it started⏳ Origins and Evolution: Speed Skating originated in Northern Europe, with ties to ancient ice-bound cultures. The sport evolved over centuries, spurred by innovations in skate design and the establishment of formalized competitions and governing bodies.
- Speed skating - WikipediaSpeed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long-track speed skating, short-track speed skating, and marathon speed skating.
- Speed skating | History, Rules, & Facts | BritannicaSpeed skating, the sport of racing on ice skates that originated in the Netherlands. Organized international competition developed in the late 19th century, and the sport was included as a men’s event in the first Winter Olympics in 1924. A women’s event was added at the 1960 Winter Games.
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