Heather Bergsma

In the last speedskating event at the Gangneung Oval, Lee Seung-hoon delivered the Olympic host nation’s first gold medal. Lee won the men’s mass start Saturday, highlighting a strong showing for the South Korean team on the final night of speedskating competition. Kim Bo-reum added a silver for South Korea in the women’s race. Kim was involved in a national...

Team USA’s long track speedskating drought is over after eight years as the women’s team won the bronze medal pursuit final Wednesday. No U.S. long track speedskater had won an Olympic medal since 2010, and no American woman speedskater has made the podium since Jennifer Rodriguez’s bronze in the 1500m in Salt Lake City in 2002.

Japan’s Nao Kodaira smashed the Olympic record in the women’s 500m to take the gold, beating South Korea’s two-time defending Olympic gold medalist Lee Sang-hwa. Kodaira, the reigning world champion, won the race with a time of 36.94. She already won a silver in the 1000 meter. Lee took silver in the 500 meter with a time of 37.33. The...

A year ago, it looked like Heather Bergsma could win the most medals of any U.S. athlete at the Pyeongchang Olympics. She’s now finished eighth in her two best races. The 28-year-old appears destined to leave the Games without a medal for a third straight time as part of another disappointing U.S. speedskating performance.

The Netherlands maintained its stranglehold on speedskating gold medals in Pyeongchang Wednesday as Jorien Ter Mors sprinted to an Olympic-record victory in the 1,000 meters. American Brittany Bowe missed the podium by less than half a second, coming in fourth place. Team USA’s Heather Bergsma, the reigning world champion in the discipline, came eighth, while Olympic rookie Jerica Tandiman came...

Three events into the Olympic speedskating competition and the Americans remain off the podium. The latest setback came Monday night when world champion Heather Bergsma finished eighth in the 1,500 meters. Brittany Bowe had the highest U.S. finish of fifth, while Mia Manganello was 22nd out of 26 skaters. Their results so far recall four years ago in Sochi when...

The Dutch women continued their dominance on the long track speed skating oval Monday, winning gold and bronze in the 1,500 meters after sweeping the 3,000 meters. Ireen Wust’s gold medal makes her the Netherlands’ most decorated Olympian, after she won silver in the 3,000.

Speedskating is spicing itself up with the Olympic debut of the mass start, featuring up to 24 skaters racing 16 laps at the same time. That’s quite a change from the traditional time trial format in which pairs race against the clock.

Bump into a skating teammate on the ice, and besides some black and blue bruises, chances are it ends up being a bunch of laughs, too. Not for Brittany Bowe.

Erin Jackson surprised herself and almost everyone else at the U.S. speedskating trials, becoming a first-time Olympian after just four months on ice.