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Havard Lorentzen Wins 500m Speedskating Gold; Latest Women Team Pursuit Results

Norway's Havard Lorentzen set a new Olympic record to claim the gold medal in the men's 500-metre speedskating at Pyeongchang 2018 on Monday.

His time of 34.41 seconds was just 0.01 seconds faster than South Korea's Cha Min-kyu, who claimed the silver medal in front of an enthusiastic home crowd at the Gangneung Oval.

China's Gao Tingyu took the bronze with a time of 34.65 seconds. The full result can be found at Pyeongchang2018.com.

Here is the latest medal table:

Tsubasa Hasegawa's benchmark time of 35.08 set in the first of 18 pairs held strong for much of the earlier stages of the competition on Monday.