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Canadian speed skaters Ivanie Blondin and Laurent Dubreuil claimed silver medals on Saturday at the final stop of the long track World Cup tour in Heerenveen, Netherlands.
The 32-year-old Dubreuil secured second place in the men’s 500-metre standings with a time of 34.51 seconds in the season’s final race, just 0.05 behind Kazakhstan’s Yevgeniy Koshkin (34.46).
Dutch favourite Jenning de Boo rounded out the podium in 34.52.
WATCH l Dubreuil takes silver in 500m:
Laurent Dubreuil of Levis, Que., won silver on Sunday at the ISU World Cup speed skating event in Heerenveen, Netherlands.
Dubreuil, who hails from Lévis, Que., finishes the season with 476 points in the distance. He won a pair of silvers last week in Tomaszów Mazowiecki, Poland.
American star Jordan Stolz topped the standings with 568 points.
Ottawa’s Blondin, 34, ended her World Cup campaign on high note with a second-place finish behind two-time world champion Marijke Groenewoud of the Netherlands.
Groenewoud’s time of 8:27.52 was a mere 0.02 seconds faster than Blondin’s in the 16-lap race at Heerenveen’s Thialf oval.
Mia Manganello of the United States captured the bronze medal with a time of 8:27.62.
WATCH l Blondin claims mass start silver:
Ivanie Blondin won the silver medal in the women’s mass start finishing .02 seconds behind Dutch skater Marijke Groenewoud at the ISU World Cup speed skating event in Heerenveen, Netherlands.
Blondin, the top-ranked Canadian in the event, placed fourth in the standings with 223 points
Groenewoud finished in top spot with 340 points, 93 more than the second-ranked Manganello.
Canada’s long trackers will compete at the world single-distances championships in Hamar, Norway from March 13-26.
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