Medals update: Bart Swings wins thrilling men's speed skating mass-start final

Bart Swings raced to victory in the speed skating men's mass start, winning the first gold medal from a Belgian athlete at Beijing 2022 and their second medal in total at the Games.

The 31-year-old who also won silver in the event's debut at PyeongChang 2018 now owns a quarter of all medals Belgian athletes have won in Winter Games history.

Swings, who goes by the nickname 'Swings with Wings', fended off a pair of challengers from Republic of Korea, as Chung Jae Won claimed silver and Lee Seung Hoon - the PyeongChang gold medallist - took the bronze.

The last time a Belgian athlete won gold at the Olympic Winter Games was all the way back in 1948 when Micheline Lannoy and Pierre Baugniet triumphed in the pairs figure skating event.

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