Olympic champion Erin Jackson extends spectacular file in Beijing with second World Cup triumph

Olympic champion Erin Jackson soared to her second ISU Pace Skating World Cup gold in three days with one other blistering 500m triumph in Beijing.

She adopted it up 48 hours later with one other dominant show on the identical Chinese language ice she made historical past on final yr.

Jackson had develop into the primary black girl to win a Winter Olympic gold medal in a person occasion when she sped to the summit of the rostrum in Beijing simply over 18 months in the past.

And she or he prolonged her red-hot file on the Nationwide Pace Skating Oval this weekend by beating the Netherlands’ Jutta Leerdam and South Korea’s Kim Min-sum to gold.

Later within the day on the ultimate afternoon of motion within the Chinese language capital, three-time Olympic champion Kjeld Nuis clinched males’s 1000m glory forward of Norwegian Haavard Lorentzen and China’s Ning Zongyan.

The Dutch star claimed 1500m gold earlier within the weekend and cemented his hegemony over the shorter distance with one other slick efficiency.

Elsewhere, Norway’s Ragne Wiklund grabbed gold within the girls’s 3000m earlier than Naomi Verkerk, Helga Drost and Antoinette Rijpma-de Jonga steered the Netherlands to a powerful girls’s crew triumph.

And within the remaining race of the second World Cup occasion of the season, Italians reigned supreme as Andrea Giovannini and Daniele Di Stefano took males’s mass begin gold and silver forward of Olympic champion Bart Swings.