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Winter Olympics 2022 - Irene Schouten achieves distance double with stunning 5000m Games record

Irene Schouten produced the best Winter Olympic 5000m performance in women's speed skating by winning her second gold of the Games in Beijing. The Dutch athlete — who is also the 3000m champion — crossed the line in an Olympic record time of 6:43.51, smashing the previous best mark by over three seconds which was set 20 years ago in Salt Lake City, to beat Canada's Isabelle Weidemann and Martina Sablikova to the title.

Medals update: Irene Schouten posts Olympic record to claim second Beijing 2022 title winning women’s 5000m speed skating gold

Dutch sensation Irene Schouten smashed the 20-year-old Olympic record to win the women’s 5000m gold medal at the National Speed Skating Oval on Thursday (10 February).

Weidemann gets second medal with silver in women's 5,000M

Isabelle Weidemann has her second medal of the Beijing Games.

JUEGOS DE INVIERNO | LA INTRAHISTORIA El podio olímpico del mantra de Villeneuve, la Lollobrigida y la medalla 200 para Canadá

y la veloz neerlandesa Irene Schouten lo usa como mantra de vida. En la final femenina de 3.000 m de patinaje de velocidad, celebrado en óvalo de Pekín, se llevó el oro olímpico con un tiempo de 3:56.93 destrozando un récord que llevaba vigente 20 años. Triunfo naranja que fue el preludio de un podio con tintes cinematográficos ya que la plata se la colgó Francesca Lollobrigida, sobrina nieta de Gina, la musa del celuloide transalpino.

Winter Olympics: Host nation China wins its first gold in the Beijing Games

"You can always trust China" began trending in posts on social media platform Weibo after the country's short track skaters won the mixed team relay, an event making its Olympic debut and one that China has dominated in international competition.

Winter Olympics 2022 - German speed skater Claudia Pechstein becomes oldest female winter Olympian at 49

German speed skater Claudia Pechstein has become the oldest ever female Winter Olympian at 49 years of age. Pechstein, competing in her eighth games, set the record when she raced in the 3000m speed skating event on Saturday. Ad/> She overtakes luger Anne Abernathy, who was 48 years old when she competed in the 2002 Games at Salt Lake City.

German Pechstein becomes oldest female Winter Olympian at 49

Pechstein became the oldest female Winter Olympian when she raced in the 3,000 meters speed skating at the Beijing Games on Saturday. Already the first woman to win five consecutive medals at the Winter Games, the 49-year-old Pechstein carried Germany's flag at Friday's opening ceremony, but came 20th and last in her event. Although she finished more than 20 seconds behind Dutch gold medallist Irene Schouten who also took her Olympic record Pechstein raised her arms and looked relieved as she crossed the finishing line.

Speed skating-Fans delighted by silver medallist Lollobrigida's film star connection

BEIJING : Speed skating fans were excited to discover on Saturday that women's 3,000 metres Olympic silver medallist Francesca Lollobrigida was the great-niece of Italian film star Gina Lollobrigida.

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Winter Olympics 2022 - Irene Schouten achieves distance double with stunning 5000m Games record

Medals update: Irene Schouten posts Olympic record to claim second Beijing 2022 title winning women’s 5000m speed skating gold

Weidemann gets second medal with silver in women's 5,000M

JUEGOS DE INVIERNO | LA INTRAHISTORIA El podio olímpico del mantra de Villeneuve, la Lollobrigida y la medalla 200 para Canadá

Winter Olympics: Host nation China wins its first gold in the Beijing Games

Winter Olympics 2022 - German speed skater Claudia Pechstein becomes oldest female winter Olympian at 49

German Pechstein becomes oldest female Winter Olympian at 49

Speed skating-Fans delighted by silver medallist Lollobrigida's film star connection