Womens 1000 m speed skating
Womens 1000 m speed skating gold!
Speed skating at the Winter Olympics – Women's metres
Speed skating event at the Winter Olympics
The women's m competition in speed skating at the Winter Olympics was held on 17 February, at the Beijing National Speed Skating Oval ("Ice Ribbon") in Beijing.[1]Miho Takagi of Japan won the event, becoming the first Japanese Olympic gold medalist in this event, and second Asian gold medalist after Zhang Hong in It was also her first Olympic gold medal in an individual event.
Womens 1000 m speed skating
Jutta Leerdam of the Netherlands won the silver medal, her first Olympic medal. Brittany Bowe of the United States was third, her first individual Olympic medal.
The champion and the Olympic record holder, Jorien ter Mors, retired from competitions.
The silver medalist, Nao Kodaira, and the bronze medalist, Takagi, were both competing. Bowe was the World Single Distances champion at the m distance and also the world record holder at the beginning of the Olympics. Leerdam and Elizaveta Golubeva wer