Joy Beune wins, Martina Sablikova ties record, U.S. earns team bronze at speed skating worlds

HAMAR, Norway — Joy Beune confirmed she's the new Dutch distance queen, Czech Martina Sablikova won a record-tying 27th medal and the U.S. made its first men's team sprint podium to open the World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships.

Beune won the 3000m in 4:00.39, overtaking the 37-year-old Sablikova by 18 hundredths on Thursday at the Viking Ship.

Beune, 25, won the 5000m at the 2024 Worlds and has become the Netherlands' top women's distance skater following the retirement of triple 2022 Olympic gold medalist Irene Schouten last year.

Sablikova, who made her Olympic debut in 2006 and won her first world medal in 2007, tied German Claudia Pechstein’s record for career world medals in individual events and has won a 3000m medal at each of the last 13 World Championships dating to 2009.

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Dutchwoman Ireen Wüst holds the overall record of 31 world medals — 19 individual and 12 coming in the team pursuit.

Sablikova can break her tie with Pechstein in Saturday's 5000m. These are Sablikova's final world single distances championships as he plans to retire after the 2025-26 Olympic season.

Another Dutchwoman, Merel Conijn, earned bronze Thursday, one hundredth ahead of Norwegian Ragne Wiklund. Conijn, 23, is making her world single distances championships debut.

Later, Norway's Sander Eitrem won the men's 5000m for his first world title. He was followed by Dutchman Beau Snellink, who earned his first individual world medal, and Poland's Vladimir Semirunniy, who took bronze in his senior world debut.

The U.S. took bronze in the men's team sprint with Austin Kleba, Cooper McLeod and Zach Stoppelmoor, who all earned their first world medals. They've trained together for three years and broke the world record in January.

"It's really special, just because we put in the work together, and it's just always nice to succeed with the people that you're training with," Stoppelmoor said.

The team sprint has been on the world championships program since 2019. It is not on the Olympic program.

Worlds continue Friday with the women's and men's team pursuits and 500m starting at 2 p.m., live on Peacock.

American Erin Jackson is the reigning Olympic women's 500m champion. American Jordan Stolz is the two-time reigning world 500m champion. The U.S. men are the world record holders in the team pursuit.

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