Roest wins 5000 meters with a photo finish from Bloemen | Ice skating

sport">World record holder Ted-Jan Bloemen, who has been driving for Canada since 2014, finished second, just 0.02 seconds from the European champion at this distance. The Canadian Graeme Fish took bronze with 6.10.58.

sport">Roest (24) is still undefeated this season at the 5000 meters, both nationally and internationally. The leader of Jumbo-Visma won his sixth consecutive victory at this distance. In the combined world cup classification (5 and 10 kilometers) he took over the lead from the Russian Danila Semerikov, who did not get any further than the fifteenth time in Calgary (6,19.79).

sport">Jorrit Bergsma had to settle for the sixth time (6.13.94). Sven Kramer could not claim a starting ticket for the A-group in Calgary. The triple Olympic champion in the 5000 meters appears after the main program, on the Dutch night, on the ice for a race in the B-division, with four drivers simultaneously in the track.

Lean six

sport">Kramer gave up the world cup in November after the first tournament in Belarus. He had too many problems with his capricious back. With an individual training program in the Netherlands and Italy, he worked towards the Dutch National Championship distances at the end of December in Heerenveen. At that tournament he placed himself in second place, behind Roest, for the European and World Championship distances, and also for the World Championship all round at the end of this month in Hamar. With that his season was largely saved, although he still has to win a main prize.

sport">Roest gave himself a lean six in Calgary afterwards. “I drove a flat ride, but I didn’t find myself fast enough,” he analyzed at the NOS. “That will be better next week at the World distance distances in Salt Lake City. I just came from there after a training internship and I missed the good feeling I had there. I had to go very deep in the final phase to still be able to win. But winning remains good, even if it is only 0.02 seconds. “

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