Canadian velocity skaters Florence Brunelle and Courtney Sarault received Quick Observe World Tour gold on Sunday in Tilburg, Netherlands.
Brunelle, from Trois-Rivieres, Que., completed first within the ladies’s 500 metres for her first profession particular person World Tour title.
She crossed the road in 43.141 seconds, simply forward of Michelle Velzeboer (43.257) of the Netherlands and American Kristen Santos-Griswold (43.500).
A two-time world junior champion within the distance, Brunelle had received 500 silver in Beijing and Korea earlier this season, the primary senior-level medals of her younger profession.
“I am extremely happy and proud. … I knew that gold was possible, but it’s still important to make it happen,” she instructed Velocity Skating Canada. “I’m most completely satisfied about the way in which I achieved it.
“Lots of things have happened in the last month that could have destabalized me. But, in the end, I knew that what would be most beneficial for me was to stay in the moment.”
WATCH | Brunelle provides to season medal haul in ladies’s 500m:
Florence Brunelle captured a World Tour gold medal in ladies’s 500-metre A last Sunday in Tilburg, Netherlands.
Sarault, from Moncton, N.B., took high spot within the ladies’s 1,500 last in two minutes 27.388 seconds.
Belgium’s Hanne Desmet crossed the road first however missed out on gold after she was penalized for making contact with Arianna Fontana of Italy.
Sarault grabbed the lead halfway by the race however was overtaken by Desmet from the surface with two laps remaining.
The 24-year-old Canadian crossed the end line in 2:27.388 and was joined on the rostrum by Italy’s Elisa Confortola (2:27.406) and Corinne Stoddard of america (2:27.525).
It’s Sarault’s first particular person distance medal of the season, having missed the 2 World Tour stops in Montreal resulting from a concussion and coming shut with three A Closing appearances throughout the competitions in China and Korea.
WATCH | Sarault awarded gold medal after Belgium opponent penalized:
Courtney Sarault claims World Tour gold medal in ladies’s 1,500-metre A last in Tilburg, Netherlands.
“Yesterday, I fell a little bit short in the 1,000, so I knew that I only had two big efforts today and I was willing to really fight for it,” Sarault stated. “I feel I did the proper race to get myself in the best spot on the proper time.
“After the year I’ve had, I owed it to myself to just skate, be in the moment, and give myself the best chance by letting go of everything that has happened in the past.”
Within the males’s 1,000, reigning world champion William Dandjinou of Montreal was penalized and given a yellow card for the second day in a row after making a harmful move within the last that took out two fellow rivals. Felix Roussel (Sherbrooke, Que.) crashed out in that very same race, settling for a fourth-place end result.
The day resulted in controversy for the boys’s relay squad of Steven Dubois, Jordan Pierre-Gilles, Maxime Laoun and Roussel, who had been eradicated from medal competition after Dutch skater Jens van ‘T Wout knocked Dubois down on the exit of the ultimate nook.
The officers deemed there was joint accountability and didn’t hand out any penalties, leading to a Dutch victory on house ice, forward of Belgium and Italy.
Canada leaves Tilburg with 5 medals, together with gold from Sarault, Brunelle, Dandjinou and Dubois, in addition to silver from Jordan Pierre-Gilles.
After the primary 5 World Tour occasions of the season, Canada sits atop the ISU Workforce Crystal Globe rankings with 7,422 factors, comfortably forward of their closest rivals, the Dutch Lions (5,771).
The ultimate ISU Quick Observe World Tour cease is Feb. 14-16 in Milan, host of subsequent winter’s 2026 Olympic Video games.
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Different Canadian outcomes
Girls’s 500m
- Danaé Blais: eighth
- Kim Boutin: tenth
Males’s 1,000
- Felix Roussel: 4th
- Steven Dubois: sixth
Girls’s 1,500
- Claudia Gagnon: ninth
- Danaé Blais: nineteenth
Relay
