World Sport News

Germany’s most successful winter Olympic athlete Claudia Pechstein missed her tenth Olympic medal at the start of the speed skating competitions at the Pyeongchang Winter Games.

The 45-year-old from Berlin occupied the ninth place in 4:04.49 minutes over her branch line 3000 m in 4:04.49 minutes. This coming Friday, the five-time Olympic gold medalist over 5000 m is the candidate for the medal.

The 28-year-old Dutch rider Carlijn Achtereekte won the gold medal and in 3:59.21 minutes she narrowly prevented her team mate Ireen Wüst’s (3:59.29) Olympic triple. Third place went to Antoinette de Jong (4:00,02) for Oranje.

The second German starter, Roxanne Dufter from Inzell, did not get past 23rd place in the 24-strong field in 4:16.87 minutes.