Canada's Dubreuil, Blondin skate to silver medals at World Cup season finale in the Netherlands

Canadian speed skaters Ivanie Blondin and Laurent Dubreuil claimed silver medals on Sunday at the final stop of the long track World Cup tour in Heerenveen, Netherlands.

The 32-year-old Dubreuil secured second place in the men's 500-metre standings with a time of 34.51 seconds in the season's final race, just 0.05 behind Kazakhstan's Yevgeniy Koshkin .

Dubreuil edged Dutch favourite Jenning de Boo by 0.01 seconds.

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Quebec's Laurent Dubreuil skates to a 500m silver medal in the Netherlands

"It was a good race and I'm really happy. I would have loved to win gold, and I was pretty close, only 0.05 seconds off," Dubreuil said in a press release. "I am starting to feel a bit of fatigue from a full season of racing. I didn't open as quickly as I could or as quickly as I did in previous weeks, but I'm still skating very well.

"I was happy to be able to have a good lap and pick up some good speed, even if my legs were a bit less explosive than last week."

Dubreuil, who hails from Lévis, Que., finishes the season with 476 points in the distance. He won a pair of silvers last week in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland. 

American star Jordan Stolz topped the standings with 568 points.

"Finishing second in the overall rankings is good. And winning six 500m medals in one season, despite dealing with an injury in the fall, makes this one of my best seasons," Dubreuil said.

The two-time Olympian has won 42 career World Cup medals (6 gold, 22 silver, 14 bronze), along with a silver medal from the 2022 Beijing Olympics and 10 world championship medals.

Ottawa's Blondin, 34, ended her World Cup campaign on a high note, earning a second-place finish behind two-time mass start world champion Marijke