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Ottawa\u2019s Ivanie Blondin won the women\u2019s mass start in a speedskating World Cup event. The 35-year-old from Ottawa also helped Canada earn team pursuit silver with Valerie Maltais and Isabelle Weidemann earlier in the day.Canadians win silver behind Netherlands in women\u2019s team pursuitThe Canadian Press \u00b7 Posted: Nov 23, 2025 4:08 PM EST | Last Updated: 1 hour agoListen to this articleEstimated 2 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Canada\u2019s Ivanie Blondin, seen skating at the ISU World Cup event in Calgary on Saturday, won the women\u2019s mass start at the same event on Sunday. (Jeff McIntosh\/The Canadian Press)Ottawa\u2019s Ivanie Blondin won the women\u2019s mass start in a speedskating World Cup event.The 35-year-old from Ottawa also helped Canada earn team pursuit silver with Valerie Maltais and Isabelle Weidemann earlier in the day.Blondin surged into the lead heading into the final straightaway of the 16-lap mass start, which features head-to-head racing against 22 other women.Maltais, of La Baie, Que., was fourth after taking the silver medal in the season-opening race in Salt Lake City.Blondin won an Olympic silver medal in 2022 in the women\u2019s mass start.WATCH | Blondin wins women\u2019s mass start at World Cup in Calgary:Ottawa\u2019s Ivanie Blondin wins women\u2019s mass start World Cup gold in CalgaryIvanie Blondin of Ottawa finishes first in the women\u2019s mass startat the ISU Speed Skating World Cup in Calgary.Val\u00e9rie Maltais of La Baie, Que., just misses the podium with a fourth-place result.In winning the women\u2019s team pursuit, the Dutch laid down a time of two minutes 52.2 seconds in the six-lap race at the Olympic Oval. Ottawa\u2019s Weidemann and Blondin, and Maltais of La Baie, Que., skating in the final pairing with the United States finished in 2:52.68. Their national record is 2:52.067.\u201dI think we\u2019re pushing Japan and the Dutch. I think the Dutch [iced their] \u2018A\u2019 team today and we were close,\u201d Maltais told CBC Sports. \u201cWe\u2019re still [figuring out] where to put the hammer down to make sure we are consistent.\u201dOur speed is there. It\u2019s just fine-tuning. It\u2019s exciting to watch. The times are so close [and] that wasn\u2019t the case last season.WATCH | Canada places 2nd behind Netherlands in women\u2019s team pursuit:Canada captures silver in women\u2019s team pursuit at World Cup in CalgaryCanada\u2019s Val\u00e9rie Maltais, Ivanie Blondin and Isabelle Weidemann finish second in the women\u2019s team pursuit final at the ISU Speed Skating World Cup in Calgary.Japan placed third just over half a second back of the Dutch. \u201cI think we all heard the crowd, which was nice. Home crowd, and it\u2019s pretty electric,\u201d Blondin said, standing alongside her teammates. \u201cIt definitely adds a tad bit of motivation for all of us.\u201dWeidemann, Blondin and Maltais are the reigning Olympic champions in the event after taking gold in Beijing in 2022. \u201cI get to set the rhythm but the girls are pushing in the back,\u201d Weidemann said. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to work as a unit.\u201dThe Canadian trio opened the World Cup season with a silver medal in Salt Lake City and repeated it in Calgary.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Canada\u2019s Ivanie Blondin wins speedskating World Cup mass start gold in Calgary Ottawa\u2019s Ivanie Blondin won the women\u2019s mass start in a speedskating World Cup event. The 35-year-old from Ottawa also helped Canada earn team pursuit silver with Valerie Maltais and Isabelle Weidemann earlier in the day.Canadians win silver behind Netherlands in women\u2019s team pursuitThe […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12170,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118,1047,1],"tags":[116,1046],"class_list":["post-12169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-indigenous","category-ontario","category-uncategorized","tag-indigenous","tag-ontario"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/service.codeus.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}