ISU World Cup Heerenveen Day 2

Written by T Dobbin

Saturday was the second day of the ISU World Cup in Heerenveen, Netherlands. It was full of excitement watching the second round of the 500 meter sprint finals with Kato from Japan crashing in the first round 500 meter yesterday but winning the second 500 meter today. The speed some of the male sprinters reach is approximately 60 kilometers per hour. The second event for the day was the ladies 1500 meter finals and the final event was the 5 kilometer men's final where Sven Kramer (Netherlands) took yet another victory in this event but with the next four places all within point six of a second from each other. See results below from day two.

Ladies 500 meter Final 2
1st Jenny Wolf (Germany) 37.64
2nd Beixing Wang (China) 37.74
3rd Sang-Hwa Lee (Korea) 38.13

Men's 500 meter Final 2
1st Joji Kato (Japan) 34.82
2nd Fengtong Yu (China) 35.05
3rd Pekka Koskela (Finland) 35.09

Ladies 1500 meter Final
1st Kristina Groves (Canada) 1:57.22
2nd Daniela Anschutz Thoms (Germany) 1:57.91
3rd Christine Nesbitt (Canada) 1:58.08

Men's 5000 meter Final
1st Sven Kramer (Netherlands) 6:14.32
2nd Carl Verheijen (Netherlands) 6:20.18
3rd Enrico Fabris (Italy) 6:20.20
4th Chad Hedrick (USA) 6:20.35
5th Bob de Jong (Netherlands) 6:20.78

Sunday is the final day for the second ISU World Cup with the final events being the ladies and men's 1000 meter finals and the team pursuits.

For full results go to http://www.isuresults.eu/2008-2009/worldcup/heerenveen-1/index.html

For more photos go to http://www.fotos.desg.de/

Essent Cup 3 Eindhoven Annoucement

Written by T Dobbin

Today is the third Essent Cup race which will be held tonight in Eindhoven in the South Netherlands. The last race that was held there the temperature was 3 degrees and the ice was very bad. Tonight Shane Dobbin (DSB) and Dj Nation (New Zealand) are racing in the first division which follow the ladies race and start at 20:45. Last week Shane Dobbin (DSB) finished on the podium in third and will be wanting to do better this evening.

Racing in the A Grade for DSB is Ingmar Berga, Arjan Smit, Jan Maartien Heideman and Jeron de Vries.

Keep posted for full results that will be coming soon!

ISU World Cup Heerenveen Day 1

Written by T Dobbin

Last night was the first evening of events at the Heerenveen World Cup. There was an upset in the men's 1500 meter final with USA's Shani Davis taking out the victory and the hometown favourite Sven Kramer only finishing 11th. See below for full results

Ladies 500 meter Final 1
1st Jenny Wolf (Germany) 37.60
2nd Beixing Wang (China) 37.63
3rd Sang-Hwa Lee (Korea) 38.22

Men's 500 meter Final 1
1st Pekka Koskela (Finland) 34.88
2nd Dmitry Lobkov (Russia) 35.16
3rd Fengtong Yu (China) 35.18

Ladies 3000 meter Final
1st Renate Groenewold (Netherlands) 4:04.85
2nd Marina Sablikova (CZE) 4:05.54
3rd Diane Valkenburg (Netherlands) 4:05.70

Men's 1500 meter Final
1st Shani Davis (USA) 1:45.23
2nd Stefan Groothuis (Netherlands) 1:45.84
3rd Mark Tuiter (Netherlands) 1:45.90

For full results go to http://www.isuresults.eu/2008-2009/worldcup/heerenveen-1/index.html

For more photos go to http://www.fotos.desg.de/