Winter Olympics 2022 - Irene Schouten wins third speed skating gold in Beijing with sprint finish in women's mass start

ByThe Editorial Team

Updated 19/02/2022 at 12:21 GMT

Irene Schouten lived up to her title as 'Queen of the Ice' with another speed skating gold in Beijing, adding the women's mass start to her 3000m and 5000m titles. Schouten won bronze in the mass start four years ago but went two better this time to take the win, stealing first from Canadian Ivanie Blondin with just 20m to go. Italy's Francesca Lollobrigida, also chasing the win, grabbed bronze.

Irene Schouten won a third speed skating gold medal in Beijing with a brilliant sprint finish in the women's mass start.

Schouten lived up to her title as 'Queen of the Ice' by adding the mass start gold to the 3000m and 5000m titles she already won for the Netherlands at the Games.

She ousted Ivanie Blondin into the silver medal position inside the last 20, the Canadian finishing just six hundredths of a second behind Schouten.

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And Italy's Francesca Lollobrigida, also chasing the win, grabbed bronze.

South Korea's Kim Boreum, who won silver four years ago in Pyeongchang, could only manage fifth this time around.

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Schouten, who bronze in the same event four years ago, was left without her compatriot Marijke Groenewould after just five laps as she crashed out during the second sprint.

Claudia Pechstein, winner of five Olympic gold medals in her glittering career, finished ninth in her final race as an Olympian. She turns 50 next week.

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