SPORTS Tuesday, February 13, 2018 21 Wust breaks Ireenrecords Wust posted a time of one minute 54.35 seconds but had to wait for six more skaters to race before she could celebrate Pyeongchang to race before she could celebrate. metres. reen Wust became the Japan’s Miho Takagi took silver Wust’s gold was the fifth of her most successful Dutch and the Netherlands’ Marrit Leenstra Olympics career and her 10th medal OlympianI of all time as she was third. overall - one more than Germany’s won the women’s 1500m USA’s Brittany Bowe had set a Claudia Pechstein, who held the speed skating title at the competitive 1:55.54 that appeared speed skating record, and also former Pyeongchang Games. hard to beat until Wust took to the Dutch equestrian rider Anky van It was her 10th Games ice. Grunsven. medal which also meant Wust paced her duel with Canada’s The champion said: “It’s incredible. Ireen Wust from the Netherlands she became the most Brianne Tutt to perfection before It’s 12 years since my first gold medal competes (Pic courtesy: Xinhua) successful Olympic speed pressing in the final 400m to post her in Turin (2006 Games), my fifth gold skater. quick time. medal, my 10th Olympic medal. The 31-year-old posted World Cup winner Takagi was in “I started my own team three years a time of one minute the last pairing and looked on course ago with only one goal, win the gold 54.35 seconds but had to to pinch the gold from Wust, but the in the Olympics again. It worked out MEDAL TABLE wait for six more skaters Japanese skater faded in the closing this way and it’s incredible.” (BBC) Country Gold Silver Bronze Total 1. Germany 4 1 2 7 Dahlmeier wins second gold woman to complete the Olympic 2. Netherlands 3 2 2 7 sprint-pursuit double after 3. Norway 2 4 3 9 winning in a time of 30 minutes 35.3 seconds. 4. Canada 2 4 1 7 Slovakia’s Anastasiya Kuzmina 5. United States 2 1 1 4 Pyeongchang was 29.4 seconds behind, beating aura Dahlmeier became Anais Bescond of France for the a double Olympic silver medal. championL after winning the At last year’s Biathlon World women’s 10km pursuit in Championships, Dahlmeier won Pyeongchang. five of the six golds, plus a silver, The German biathlete, 24, and she claimed her first Olympic Germany’s Laura Dahlmeier celebrates (Pic courtesy: Xinhua) had a 24-second head-start after medal in the sprint. during the race in the first laps. I race. You have to stay focused winning the 7.5km sprint event She said: “It feels really great, just tried to stay focused and now on your own targets and I think on day one. it’s amazing. I felt really, really I’m here again. I am a little bit of a master of And she became the first tired before the race and also “It’s the same in any pressure perseverance.” (BBC) Kingsbury clinches moguls gold Fourcade defends Pyeongchang with an impressive run in with 82.57 while Japanese orld number one the six-man final. 20-year-old Daichi Hara biathlon pursuit title Mikael Kingsbury Kingsbury had took bronze with 82.19. heldW his nerve to win dominated the sport over It is the third Olympics Pyeongchang Sprint champion Olympic gold for Canada the past four years and in a row that a Canadian artin Fourcade brushed Arnd Peiffer only had a in the men’s moguls. his victory gave Canada man has won the event off his biathlon sprint head-start of 4.4 seconds The 25-year-old, who their second gold at after Alexandre Bilodeau disappointmentM to become the from his win on day two won silver four years ago Pyeongchang. Australian topped the podium in first man to defend the 12.5km and the German slipped to in Sochi, scored 86.63 Matt Graham won silver 2014 and 2010. (BBC) Olympic pursuit title. an eighth-placed finish. The six-time biathlon World Biathlon combines skiing Lundby clutches normal hill final Cup winner was eighth in the and shooting, and the men’s 10km sprint, meaning he started pursuit features five laps of a Pyeongchang World Cup rankings and second-placed German with a 22.1-second deficit. 2.5km course, with four shooting aren Lundby claimed the best jump Katharina Althaus and And the Frenchman, 29, went in rounds - the first two prone and became only of the first round in Japan’s Sara Takanashi, front at the start of lap four before the second two standing. theM second Olympic Pyeongchang. Her leading who are also behind cruising home in 32 minutes 51.7 Peiffer shot clean after the champion in women’s ski rivals staked their claim Lundby in the World seconds. first two laps to stay in front but jumping after winning the for gold in the final round Cup’s top three. Women’s Sweden’s Sebastian Samuelsson a missed target after lap three normal hill final. before Lundby won it with ski jumping was added to was 12 seconds behind in second, allowed Fourcade to take a lead France’s Martin The 23-year-old a jump of 110m. the Olympic programme with Benedikt Doll of Germany he did not relinquish. (BBC) Fourcade competes Norwegian is top of the That put her ahead of for Sochi 2014. (BBC) claiming bronze. (Pic courtesy: Xinhua).