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Kimi Goetz completes breakthrough year with first speed skating World Cup win

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Kimi Goetz completed a year of speed skating firsts by earning her maiden individual World Cup win on Sunday.

Goetz won a 1000m in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland in 1 minute, 16.00 seconds. She edged reigning Olympic champion Miho Takagi of Japan by 18 hundredths and reigning world champion, countrywoman Brittany Bowe, by 43 hundredths.

Goetz, 28, prevailed one day before the first anniversary of her long-awaited Olympic debut. She placed seventh in the 1000m and 18th in the 500m at the 2022 Winter Games, then a month later picked up her first World Cup podium.

This season, Goetz picked up three more podiums before reaching the top step for the first time on Sunday. She is the lone U.S.

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