Speed skater Brittany Bowe began a new 1000m World Cup win streak on Sunday, and reached a feat not seen in the sport in more than four years.
Winning both the 1500m and 1000m on Jan. 23-24 and again Jan. 30-31 in Heerenveen, Netherlands, Bowe won two distances at back-to-back World Cups for the first time in her already impressive career. She is also the first woman to win those two distances at consecutive World Cups since former teammate Heather Bergsma did so on straight weekends in November 2016; Bergsma’s were on two different tracks in Harbin, China, and Nagano, Japan, while Bowe’s were all at the Thialf venue as a result of the pandemic.