While Canada’s long track speed skaters didn’t collect any medals on the final day of the World Cup season finale on Sunday, Valérie Maltais and Ivanie Blondin still gave the Quebec City crowd plenty to cheer about after the women’s mass start event brought the competition to a close. CBC | Sports News
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Ivanie Blondin wins mass start gold at speed skating World Cup opener
Ottawa’s Ivanie Blondin kicked off the World Cup long-track speed skating season with a gold medal in the mass start in Obihiro, Japan on Friday. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Blondin earns rare overall podium finish for Canadian women at allround speed skating worlds
Ivanie Blondin claimed a silver medal Sunday at the ISU world allround speed skating championships in Hamar, Norway, becoming the first Canadian woman to reach the overall podium at the event since Christine Nesbitt in 2012. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Ivanie Blondin claims mass start gold at world speed skating championships
Canadians took home three mass start medals on the final day of the ISU World Single Distances Championships at the Utah Olympic Oval, highlighted by Ottawa’s Ivanie Blondin’s gold medal skate. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Ivanie Blondin skates to 2 more gold, another track record at World Cup in Kazakhstan
Canadian speed skater Ivanie Blondin blazed to a gold medal and a new track record in the 1,500-metre event and added another in the women’s team pursuit at a World Cup event in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan on Sunday. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Ivanie Blondin snags speed skating gold at World Cup event in Kazakhstan
Canada’s Ivanie Blondin added to her World Cup medal haul with gold in the women’s 5,000 metres while fellow Canadian Isabelle Weidemann joined her on the podium with a third place finish. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Ivanie Blondin, Laurent Dubreuil add to speed skating medal run in Poland
Canada’s Ivanie Blondin and Laurent Dubreuil added to their speed skating medal haul in Poland on Sunday. Blondin earned silver in women’s mass start while Dubreuil picked up bronze in the men’s 500 metres in 34.975 seconds. CBC | Sports News
Read More »Canada’s Ivanie Blondin rules women’s mass start at speed skating World Cup
Ivanie Blondin rebounded in a big way with a first-place finish in Sunday’s mass start, just 24 hours after a 12th-place performance in the women’s 1,500 metres at a speed skating event in Minsk, Belarus. CBC | Sports News
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