Schouten Wins 2nd Olympic Gold, Completes Distance Sweep
Feb 10, 2022, 8:04 AM
BEIJING, CHINA - FEBRUARY 10: Irene Schouten of Team Netherlands celebrates after winning the Gold medal in a new Olympic record time of 6:43.51 during the Women's 5000m on day six of the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics at National Speed Skating Oval on February 10, 2022 in Beijing, China.
BEIJING (AP) — Irene Schouten of the Netherlands completed a speedskating sweep of the women’s distance events at the Beijing Olympics.
She set another Olympic record with a victory in the 5,000 meters.
Schouten also won the 3,000 in Olympic-record time.
She was even more dominant in the longest women’s race with a winning time of 6 minutes, 43.51 seconds.
From another world! 🤯⛸
Irene Schouten (Netherlands) dominates #SpeedSkating – Women's 5000m to take home the #Gold medal, her 2nd one at #Beijing2022!#StrongerTogether | @TeamNLtweets | @schoutenirene
— Olympics (@Olympics) February 10, 2022
That broke the 20-year-old Olympic mark held by Germany’s Claudia Pechstein.
No one else was even close.
Schouten finished 4.67 seconds ahead of silver medalist Isabelle Weidemann of Canada.
The bronze went to Martina Sáblíková of the Czech Republic.
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