Speed Skater Ireen Wust Wins Gold Medal For Netherlands
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Quinn Rooney/Getty Image Sport(SOCHI, Russia) –Speed skater Ireen Wust of the Netherlands captured the gold medal at the Winter Games on Sunday in the women’s 3,000 meters.
The 27-year-old Wust finished with a time of 4 minutes, 0.34 seconds while defending Olympic champion Martina Salikova of the Czech Republic took home Silver after checking in at 4:01.95.
Olga Graf won Russia’s first medal of the Olympics with a third place finish at 4:03.47. Jilleanne Rookard from Woodhave, Mich., was the highest-finishing American, coming in tenth place at 4:10.02.
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