Joy for Kodaira as she seals hat-trick on home ice

BySportsbeat

Published 25/11/2018 at 14:34 GMT

Home favourite Nao Kodaira claimed her third gold medal of the weekend, by topping the 1000m at the ISU Speed Skating World Cup in Japan.

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Kodaira sealed her hat-trick, adding to the 500m and team pursuit titles that she had already claimed in Tomakomai, finishing ahead of Brittany Bowe in silver and Vanessa

Herzog in bronze.

The PyeongChang gold medallist also scooped a new track record in 1:17.318 to shatter the previous record set by compatriot Sayuri Yoshii.

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Canada's Isabelle Weidemann won her first individual World Cup medal, surprising the field to scoop gold in the women's 3000m.

The 23-year-old finished in 4:10.18, beating out competition from Martina Sablikova and Francesca Lollobrigida, who took silver and bronze respectively.

Despite no golds in the individual women's events on Sunday for the Netherlands, they made up for it with victory in the team sprint as they topped the podium ahead of Italy

and Canada.

In the men's competition PyeongChang gold medallist Kjeld Nuis once again asserted his dominance in the 1000m discipline as he topped the podium in a Dutch 1-2-3.

Nuis clocked a time of 1:10.453 seconds, just 0.269 ahead of teammate Kai Verbij in second, while Thomas Krol claimed bronze.

The result meant that 29-year-old Nuis leapfrogged Russian skater Pavel Kulizhnikov, who did not compete in Tomakomai, in the World Cup standings with 114 points, ahead of

Krol in second.

Bart Swings became only the second Belgian to claim World Cup gold in the 5000m, following in the footsteps of legendary namesake Bart Veldkamp.

Swings set a new track record with a time of 6:34.85 to take top spot ahead of Norwegian Sverre Lunde Pederson in second and Patrick Roest, who maintained his lead at the top

of the World Cup standings, in third.

Elsewhere, Russia shocked the Netherlands to claim gold in the men's team sprint, who led the race heading into the final lap, but for Viktor Mushtakov to lay down a marker

that the Dutch couldn't keep pace with.

Russia finished in a time of 1:23.540, just 0.1 seconds ahead of the Netherlands, while Canada were half a second back in third.

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