Competitions “Kolomna ice” is always a fusion of youth and experience. From the very beginning of these races young sportsmen and their trainers asked to admit them to the start. Masters can not refused to young athletes in possibility to start on the beautiful ice of the Skating Center in Kolomna. So it was this time. Young people admired the sports longevity of Masters, and experienced skaters watched on the future of speed skating. Almost two hundred athletes of all ages competed for 3 days. Six skaters have exceeded 10 IMSSC records. Excellent results of Lyudmila Filimonova, who approached the Kolomna ice in very good shape: 1500m – 2.14.70 and 3000m – 4.44.53 ! In the morning of the final day of the competition, there is only one skater was on the ice for an hour of action. The athlete from Germany Olaf Kotva (on the right hand side in the picture together with Sergej Orlov), in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of his own sporting achievement (two world records in this discipline, on the ice rinks of Inzel and Calgary) covered a distance of 37 km 214 m. You can view this race at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf4L5grD2dQ&feature=share. Unfortunately, this time there were not so many skaters from abroad. Probably because four weeks before sportsmen participate in 10th International Masters’ Sprint Games in Moscow. We hope that in the years to come there will be more participants in “Kolomna Ice” !!!
Results: https://www.speedskatingnews.info/en/results/?eventID=38222 or 8th-Kolomna-Ice—results.pdf
Photo: http://www.kolomna-speed-skating.com/news/1956
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