Speed Skating: Esmee Visser Wins 5000m and Brings 11th Medal to Netherlands in Speed Skating
Esmee Visser won women’s 5000m event, finishing in 6 minutes 50.23 seconds, and gained her first Olympic medal. The athlete brought the 11th medal to the Dutch speed skating team at 2018 Olympics in PyeongChang.
Martina Sablikova from Czech Republic, 3-time gold medalist of 2010 and 2014 Winter Olympics, earned a silver medal after finishing in 6 minutes 51.85 seconds. Natalya Voronina, an Olympic Athlete from Russia, finished in 6 minutes 53.98 seconds and got a bronze medal.
Martina Sablikova
The rest of the competitors finished in the following order:
4 Annouk van der Weijden (Netherlands)
5 Ivanie Blondin (Canada)
6 Isabelle Weidemann (Canada)
7 Maryna Zuyeva (Belarus)
8 Claudia Pechstein (5-time gold, 2-time silver and 2-time bronze medalist of the Winter Olympics) (Germany)
9 Misaki Oshigiri (Japan)
10 Jelena Peeters (Belgium)
11 Carlijn Schoutens (USA)
12 Nana Takagi (Japan)
