In the final lap, Hagos Gebrhiwet (ETH) crushed the field by 1.65 seconds to get the first win of the season with a World Leading time of 7:30.36.
Going against the defending champ Martina Sablikova (CZE), Ireen Wust (NED) finished with a winning time of 4:02.43. Sablikova finished 2nd in the event, trailing Wust by 2.37 seconds.
Team China won the race after a skater collided with one of team Korea, sending them to the ground with only 3 laps left to go. Chinese team member Wang Meng won the overall WC.
Sin Da-Woon (KOR) finished 2nd in the 3000m giving him total of 86 points. Da-Woon won the 1500m and 1000m. Kim Yun-Jae won the 3000m with a time of 4:54.17.
Even though Shim Suk Hee (KOR) walked away with the win, it still wasn’t enough to take down Wang Meng (CHN). Meng didn’t finish the final due to a penally, but was still able to win the overall with 68 points.
Short track speed skating is one of the most dynamic sports of our age, where the point is overtaking other skaters by competing against each other.
Ireen Wüst finished with a record time of 3:58.68, beating second place Diane Valkenburg by nearly 7 seconds. Wust finished 6th overall in the WC, as the overall win went to Martina Sábliková.
Martina Sábliková (CZE) finished the final 3000m race in 6th place with a time of 4:07.44, securing her spot at the top of the podium. Claudia Pechstein finished in second place.
A standard speed skating track of 400 meters to the lap laid out at the Ice Stadium Thialf, an artificially frozen indoor skating rink in Heerenveen. The radii of the inner and outer competition lanes are 26 and 30 meters, respectively.
The skaters compete on a 111.12-meter oval track on a standard size ice rink (30m x 60m), with 8-m radius circles in the curves.
There was not much competition in the small field and Will Leer all but cruises to victory at 8:07.84, winning by 8.85 seconds.
As they came to the line, Lisa Uhl tried to push it too hard for an inside pass and both she and Chelsea Reilly fell to the ground; neither were disqualified as Reilly won at 9:23.12.
Ireen Wust (NED) won the 3,000m event finishing in a time of 4:05.41. Wust leads after 2 events with a total of 80.251.
The women of Team USA finished with a time of 4:17.828, narrowly beating Japan by .162 seconds.
Mercy Cherono (KEN) gets the win by only 0.01 seconds, taking the Diamond League lead from Vivan Cheruiyot (KEN), at 8:41.21
Isiah Kiplangat Koech (KEN), the 2009 World Champion, secures the victory in the 3000m by .56 seconds at 7:30.43.
2012, Istanbul, Turkey, IAAF Indoor Track and Field World Championship, Lagat (USA) ran a near perfect race for the win at 7:41.44, his three title win, the second as an American.
In the ISU Individual Skating Championships held in Netherlands, China, Sablikova (CZE) finished with a time of 4:01.88, beating 2nd place Stephanie Beckert (GER) by 2.21 seconds.
May 6, 2011: Ethiopia’s Yenew Alamirew surges to victory in the men’s 3000m at the Diamond League meeting in Doha.
Ireen Wust (NED) finished with a race winning time of 1:54.67, and finished 2nd overall in the WC. Wust also won the 3000m race yesterday. The overall WC win went to her fellow countrywoman Marrit Leenstra.
Will Leer talks about getting his 2nd gold medal of the weekend, after he finished 1st in the Men’s 3000m.
Alyson Dudek (USA) finished with a time of 45.422, beating 2nd place Yara Van Kerkhof by.077. Dudek also helped team USA win the 3000m Relay B Final.
(L-R) Meseret Defar of Ethiopia, Allyson Felix of the U.S., Veronica Campbell-Brown of Jamaica and Vivian Cheruiyot of Kenya pose during a news conference for the Diamond League athletics meet in Doha, May 10, 2012. (REUTERS/Mohammed Dabbous) By Mike Rowbottom for the IAAF Doha, Qatar – Speaking on the eve of the Samsung Diamond League […]
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May 15, 2011: Brimin Kiprop Kipruto of Kenya kicks to victory in the men’s 3000m steeplechase at the Diamond League meet in Shanghai.
July 22, 2011: Brimin Kiprop Kipruto wins the men’s 3000m steeplechase in a time of 7:53.64.
Aug. 30, 2011: Russia’s Yuliya Zaripova wins gold in the women’s 3000m steeplechase.
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