More Sport On the first ten kilometres of the season is Bart Swings in 13:41.04 as the eighth ended. During the world cup in Poland, Tomaszow Mazowiecki, took the victory in the marathon for the langebaanschaatsers to the young Dutchman Marcel Bosker (13:25.27).
The first month of the postolympisch season for Swings changeable: relegation from the A-group in the 5000 meters, then a fortunate victory in the elite in the open air, moderate races in the 1,500 meters and Sunday a flat race on the longest distance that are just too slow to the best to do.
On the soft ice cream was the case in the first half of the race gently the right rhythm to find. A bold start would the skaters have to be expensive. It happened to the Russian Danila Semerikov, who the tank four laps from the end, completely empty. He was still third in 13:28.71.
Bosker (21), and Alexander Rumyantsev, the direct opponent of Swings, stepped not into that trap. The Russian had soon taken away from Swings, which are very long stable lap times of 32.5 seconds, but that after eight km not maintained, and after the finish line, exhausted, on a bench mount.
In the combined world cup classification of the five and ten kilometers leads Rumyantsev – Sunday second in 13:26.76, with 144 points, followed by Bosker (137) and the Norwegian Sverre Süperbetin Lunde Pedersen (134). Swings (121) is fourth.
In the morning, had nota bene the winner of olympic silver, the Dutchman Jorrit Bergsma, a time of 13:14.95 drops in the B-group. That the Italian rider Davide Ghiotte and the Canadian Graeme Fish as the second and third ended was of secondary importance.
But that the name of olympic champion Ted-Jan Bloemen only as the tenth in the results occurred (13:38.55) was extremely remarkable. Also earlier this season in Japan from Netherlands-born Canadian is already a fragile impression. He and the Swings get a rematch in the fourth world cup, next week in Heerenveen, the netherlands.
