Brittany Bowe returned to the top of the 1000m World Cup podium Sunday, hoping to start another speed skating win streak. This is her 29th career World Cup win and 18th in the 1000m, though her first in that distance in more than a year.
At the first of back-to-back World Cups held in a bubble environment in Heerenveen, Netherlands, Bowe won the penultimate race of the weekend in 1:13.607, two seconds slower than her world record but just 0.367 off the track record she set in December 2018.
Pumping her fist as she finished, Bowe beat out the Netherlands’ Jorien ter Mors, the reigning Olympic champion at this distance who finished in 1:13.