Jordan Stolz skates in the men’s 1000-meters during the Olympic Winter Games Beijing 2022 on Feb. 18, 2022 in Beijing.
Wisconsin teenager Jordan Stolz won medals in all three events he entered and set a pair of records in one of them as Calgary, Alberta, hosted a long track speedskating world cup event for the second consecutive weekend.
Fellow Olympians Erin Jackson and Kimi Goetz added a pair of medals in a big weekend for the U.S. team.
Stolz, 18, broke the junior world and American records in taking the silver medal in the men’s 500-meter Saturday with a time of 34.08 seconds. Kim Jun-Ho of South Korea won the gold medal in a personal-best 34.07 seconds, just .01 ahead of Stolz.
“I think it was close enough to perfect,” Stolz said. “I was really feeling good this week after all the rest. So, I think that definitely played a role going into this.”
Stolz began the weekend with a second-place finish Friday in the men’s 1,500 and then topped it off with a win Sunday in the 1,000 with a time of 1 minute, 6.72 seconds. He finished just .20 seconds behind world-record holder Kjeld Nuis of the Netherlands in the 1,500.
Erin Jackson, the 2022 Olympic gold medalist in the women’s 500, captured third place and her first individual medal of the world cup season in the 500 on Friday. Then, she teamed up with McKenzie Browne and Goetz to win the gold medal in the women’s team sprint Saturday. They won with a time of 1:25.68. The U.S. is now…
