Shiffrin was among the early starters when low clouds caused flat light and snowfall slowed most racers before later starters benefited from improved conditions when skies cleared. Favorite us! Follow Shiffrin finished in seventh position at a World Cup super-G affected by changing weather conditions Sunday as the American skier missed out on a record-tying 86th career victory. Last year, Stolz made his Olympic debut with 13th- and 14th-place finishes. The two other skaters to win world junior and senior titles in the same year are also from Wisconsin: siblings Eric Heiden and Beth Heiden. Skaters have also won three or more distances at the world allround championships, which crown one champion combining results from sprint and distance races and date officially to 1893.Įarlier this season, Stolz became the youngest man to win a World Cup race, then won three more and last month swept the 500m, 1000m and 1500m at the world junior championships. German women Anni Friesinger (2003) and Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann (1997) also won three events at a single worlds. Most of the fastest times in history are set at high elevation in Salt Lake City or Calgary. In both the 500m and 1000m, he skated the second-fastest time in history at a sea level venue. On Friday, Stolz won the 500m to become the youngest gold medalist since the world single distances championships started in 1996. He clocked 1 minute, 43.59 seconds to beat two-time Olympic champion Kjeld Nuis of the Netherlands by 23 hundredths. Stolz, an 18-year-old who honed his skating on the pond behind his family’s Wisconsin house, won the 1500m on the last day of the four-day championships in Heerenveen, Netherlands. Favorite us!Īmerican Jordan Stolz became the first male speed skater to earn three individual gold medals at a world single distances championships. 4 Dominic Thiem, the 20 French Open runner-up, was upset in the first round.įRENCH OPEN DRAWS: Men | Women | TV Schedule The 39-year-old was pleased to double his match count over the last 16 months following a break for two knee surgeries.įederer, Nadal and Djokovic were in the same half of a Grand Slam draw for the first time.
He beat Nadal at the Australian Open, pushed the Spaniard to three sets in a clay-court final in Barcelona last month and won the Monte Carlo Masters before that.įederer, seeded eighth, withdrew after a third-round win to focus on Wimbledon prep. The Greek Tsitsipas is a formidable opponent. But Djokovic took him out in four sets in the semifinals. Nadal, seeded third, was going for a record-extending 14th Roland Garros crown, and a 21st major title overall to overtake his longtime Swiss rival. He can also get to 19 career Grand Slam singles titles, one shy of the record shared by Nadal and Roger Federer. Now he can make more historyĭjokovic gets Stefanos Tsitsipas in the French Open final, looking to become the first man in the Open Era to win all four majors twice.
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