The 18-year-old American blew away his competition with a time of 34.10 seconds, only 0.03 seconds shy of the track record and 0.36 seconds ahead of runner up Laurent Dubreuil
Jordan Stolz won the men’s 500m event at the 2023 ISU World Speed Skating Championships in Heerenveen, the Netherlands on Friday to become the youngest ever single distance world champion. . “I think it was a perfect race,” Stolz told the International Skating Union website. “There’s a point in the turn where I just let off the gas, when I enter the lean, and then there’s just a point where I could keep building.
Already, Stolz is drawing comparisons to his fellow Wisconsinite Eric Heiden, one of speed skating’s greatest figures, who won five gold medals at the 1980 Olympic Games. Earlier this season, Stolz became the youngest ever man to win an individual World Cup speed skating race and won five medals, including three golds, at last month’s World Junior Speed Skating Championships.
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