Olympic speed skating: Women's 3000m results and highlights

Olympic speed skating: Women’s 3000m results and highlights

By Mike Dyce | Feb 10, 2018

GANGNEUNG, SOUTH KOREA - FEBRUARY 10: (L-R) Silver medalist Ireen Wust of the Netherlands, gold medalist Carlijn Achtereekte of the Netherlands and bronze medalist Antoinette De Jong of the Netherlands celebrate during the victory ceremony after the Women's Speed Skating 3000m on day one of the PyeongChang 2018 Winter Olympic Games at Gangneung Oval on February 10, 2018 in Gangneung, South Korea. (Photo by Maddie Meyer/Getty Images) /

The Netherlands had a clean sweep of the podim in speed skating, Ladies’ 3,000m at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

The Netherlands are always a dominant force in speed skating and they proved it once again on the first day of the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. The women of the Netherlands had a clean sweep of the podium in the Ladies’ 3,000m, winning every medal

Carlijn Achtereekte finished with gold, Ireen Wust with Silver and Antoinette De Jong winning bronze. All three finished within a second of one another and Achtereekte edged Wust for gold by 0.08 seconds.

Martina Sablikova of the Czech Republic finished fourth and Japan’s Miho Takagi finished fifth. Canada had a pair of women finish in sixth and seventh respectively.

Carlijn Schoutens of the United States finished in 22nd, well behind the leaders, with a time of 4:15.60.

MEDAL RESULT | Speed Skating Ladies' 3,000m

Carlijn Achtereekte

Ireen Wust

Antoinette De Jong

Full results (via ESPN):

WOMEN’S 3000M
FEBRUARY 10 – FINAL
1	NED	Carlijn Achtereekte	3:59.21
2	NED	Ireen Wüst	3:59.29
3	NED	Antoinette De Jong	4:00.02
4	CZE	Martina Sáblíková	4:00.54
5	JPN	Miho Takagi	4:01.35
6	CAN	Ivanie Blondin	4:04.14
7	CAN	Isabelle Weidemann	4:04.26
8	JPN	Ayano Sato	4:04.35
9	GER	Claudia Pechstein	4:04.49
10	OAR	Natalya Voronina	4:05.85
11	BLR	Marina Zueva	4:05.96
12	NOR	Ida Njåtun	4:06.67
13	ITA	Francesca Lollobrigida	4:08.58
14	POL	Luiza Zlotkowska	4:09.69
15	CZE	Nikola Zdráhalová	4:11.36
16	POL	Karolina Bosiek	4:12.44
17	POL	Katarzyna Bachleda-Curus	4:12.57
18	KOR	Bo-Reum Kim	4:12.79
19	JPN	Ayaka Kikuchi	4:13.25
20	CAN	Brianne Tutt	4:13.70
21	CHN	Jiachen Hao	4:15.56
22	USA	Carlijn Schoutens	4:15.60
23	GER	Roxanne Dufter	4:16.87
24	CHN	Jing Liu	4:20.95

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