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Fresh off off a second straight Olympic gold medal in women’s team pursuit, Valérie Maltais of La Baie, Que., returned to the speed skating podium on Friday, picking up her third medal in Milan and second bronze.
Maltais delivered a time of one minute 54.40 seconds in the women’s 1,500 metres to keep retiring American Brittany Bowe off the Olympic podium in the event throughout her 16-year career. The 37-year-old was fourth in 1:54.70.
It was Maltais’s fourth time racing the 1,500 at the Winter Games. Before Saturday, her best finish was 12 years ago in Sochi, Russia.
Maltais collected bronze in the women’s 3,000 last Saturday.
Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong of the Netherlands won gold in 1:54.09 and Norway’s Ragne Wiklund went 1:54.15 for her second silver and third medal at these Games.
Valérie Maltais of La Baie, Que, claimed the 1,500-metre speed skating bronze medal on Friday, to go along with her gold medal in team pursuit and 3,000m bronze medal.
Ottawa’s Ivanie Blondin was eighth of 29 skaters in 1:54.93. The 35-year-old was also eighth at last year’s world championships and eighth in the World Cup standings this season.
In December, Blondin collected bronze at a World Cup event in the Netherlands, her first medal in the 1,500 since 2020.
Béatrice Lamarche, from Quebec City, placed 17th (1:57.65) coming off a seventh-place finish in the women’s 500 on Sunday.
The 27-year-old Olympic rookie’s fifth-place result in the 1,000 on Feb. 9 was Canada’s best in the distance since the 2010 Vancouver Games, where Christine Nesbitt won gold and Kristina Groves was fourth.
