The final day of competition at the Calgary CAN-AM event saw Daniel Greig snatch back the Australian 500m record from Ben Southee, skating a 36.76 to knock .02 of a second off the record. Daniel finished 7th of 44 skaters.
Sophie continued her great form to skate a 39.35 to take second place in her second 500m race.
If my count is correct, that is a total of 8 Australian records this season by all Australian skaters.
Ben Southee: 1500m, 500m
Sophie Muir: 500m x 3, 1000m x 2
Daniel Greig: 500m x 1
Don't expect to see our skaters break records every time they skate, but I can assure you, none of the skaters presently representing Australia have produced their 'potential best', so I predict you will see more records this season.
A great weekend's racing and some fantastic results and personal bests for those who competed, great work.
In regards to Shane Dobbins's (NZ) 10000m in Hamar, Desly Hill emailed me overnight and advised that Shane was on target for a 13:23 result and was only 3 secs behind Enrico Fabris with 6 laps to go when he crashed coming out of the corner.
He got up very fast and skated a 42sec lap even with the fall and went back to holding 33sec laps for the last laps, finishing in a 13:47.
In was unfortunate that Shane's fall saw him spend 30m extra in the outer lane which lead to his disqualification from the event.
It was an impressive effort and was unfortunate as it was a sure qualifier for Vancouver.
Monday, November 23, 2009
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