Canadian speedskater Isabelle Weidemann pushes her way into world’s elite
CALGARY — Isabelle Weidemann has hit her stride, literally and figuratively, in long-track speedskating.
Currently ranked No. 1 in the world in women’s distance racing, the 23-year-old from Ottawa points to last February’s Winter Olympics as her defining moment of 2018.
Weidemann was sixth in the 5,000 metres and seventh in the 3,000 in her first Olympic Games. Those results did not satisfy her.
“I was really hoping to push the podium a little bit more,” Weidemann told The Canadian Press. “I was very far off the podium and that kind of stung.