Canada’s Dubreuil wins silver in men’s 1,000m speed skating at Beijing Games | CBC Sports
Canada’s Laurent Dubreuil has achieved the first Olympic podium of his career.
On Friday, the Levis, Que., native won silver in the men’s 1,000-metres at Beijing 2022, earning Canada’s 24th medal of the Games.
The 29-year-old skated to a time of 1:08.32 in the final pair to earn Canada’s first podium in the event since Denny Morrison at Sochi 2014.
He shared the podium with Thomas Krol of the Netherlands, who added a gold medal to his silver in the 1,500m, and Norway’s Harvard Lorenzen, who won bronze, 0.16 seconds back of Dubreuil.
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“I thought I had a good chance to medal this week, more so in the 500m and to finish fourth in the 500 by three- hundredths and to have a really tough week, to get over it and show up today and win a medal is amazing,” Dubreuil said.
“I was happy in life before the last two weeks, and I didn’t have an Olympic medal before today, so it’s just the best sporting moment of my life, maybe — but it’s a bit of a bonus on top of my happy life so far.”
Skating alongside Kai Verbij of the Netherlands, Dubreuil worked his way through the race where Vebij pulled up with a physical issue mid-lap.
21-year-old Connor Howe, of Canmore, Alta., skated to a time of 1:08.97 to finish 12th in his Olympic debut, while 29-year-old Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu, of Sherbrooke, Que., finished 2.15 seconds back of Krol and in 22nd place.
The Canadian men’s speed skaters now look toward the mass start — the final event of their Games — at 2:45 a.m. ET on Saturday.
All the action will be streamed live on CBC Gem, the CBC Sports app and CBC Sports’ Beijing 2022 website.
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