Keiichiro Nagashima, silver medalist in the men's 500-meter speed skating at the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics, said Thursday he plans to retire at the end of the upcoming season. The 35-year-old Nagashima came out of retirement last summer in a bid to compete at next ...
The Japan Skating Federation reiterated its support Thursday for the city of Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, to host the 2020 speed skating world championships — even if the tournament merges with the world sprint speed skating championships that year. The federation filed for candidacy to ...
Yukinori Miyabe, bronze medalist in the speedskating men's 1,000 meters at the 1992 Albertville Winter Olympics, died Tuesday, according to a source close to the skater. He was 48. He passed away at a hospital in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward. The cause of death was not ...
Miho Takagi became the first Japanese speedskater in 17 years to win a medal at the world all-around championships when she captured the bronze on Sunday. Ireen Wust of the Netherlands claimed her sixth world title and Martina Sablikova of the Czech Republic took silver ...
Tsubasa Hasegawa barely missed the podium when he finished a career-best fourth in the men's 500 meters at a World Cup speedskating event in Germany on Sunday. On the final day of the three-day meet in Berlin, the 22-year-old Hasegawa crossed the finish line in ...
Miho Takagi won the women's 1,500 meters in an ISU World Cup speed skating event on Sunday as Japan claimed nine podium finishes in the three-day competition in the Kazakhstan capital. Takagi, who also won the women's 1,000 and team pursuit on Saturday, crossed the ...
Miho Takagi wrapped up the speedskating world single distances championships by taking third in the women's mass start on Sunday. Takagi, who struck out in her four other races at the meet, finished behind winner Ivanie Blondin of Canada and South Korea's Kim Bo-reum in ...
Winter Olympic champion Lee Sang-Hwa of South Korea won the women's 500 meters and Nao Kodaira turned in a runner-up finish at the first World Cup meet of the season on Friday. Lee, who defended her Olympic title at this year's Sochi Games, posted a ...
Japan missed out on a medal in women's speedskating team pursuit on Saturday at the Sochi Olympics. Japan, which won the silver medal four years ago at the Vancouver Games, was defeated by host Russia in the bronze-medal race, while the Netherlands won gold, its ...
Park Seung-hi of South Korea won Olympic gold in women's 1,000 meter short track, giving her a third medal at the Sochi Games. Park took over the lead from American Jessica Smith early in the race Friday night and stayed in front the rest of ...
Park Seung-hi cried when the women's Olympic short track 3,000-meter relay ended. This time, she wept tears of joy after her South Korea team won the gold medal with a dramatic last-lap pass of China. Four years ago in Vancouver, the South Koreans finished first, but ...
The U.S. speedskating team is dumping the suits that were touted as the fastest in the world. Under Armour's senior vice president of innovation, Kevin Haley, said that the American team has received permission from the International Skating Union to switch back to its previous ...
