Tatsuya Shinhama leads Japanese men’s 500 sweep at World Cup

Tatsuya Shinhama led a Japanese podium sweep within the males’s 500 meters Friday because the speedskating World Cup season bought underneath manner in Hokkaido.

Shinhama clocked 34.52 seconds to win by 0.17 over Wataru Morishige, with Yuma Murakami rounding out the medals 0.30 again at Meiji Hokkaido-Tokachi Oval in Obihiro.

Persevering with a profitable opening day for the host nation, Masaya Yamada gained the lads’s 1,000.

He crossed the road in 1 minute, 8.35 seconds, beating China’s Ning Zhongyan to the gold by 0.19. Jordan Stolz of the USA took bronze in 1:08.78.

Japanese Olympic star Miho Takagi needed to accept silver within the girls’s 1,000, ending 0.11 slower than Dutchwoman Jutta Leerdam’s profitable time of 1:14.57.