Suzanne Schulting of the Netherlands won all five events at the world short track speed skating championships over the weekend, but one gold medal stood out in particular.
Schulting, 23, and teammates were in tears after she won the 500m on Saturday on home ice in Dordrecht.
“The first thing I thought about really was Lara,” Schulting said, according to an International Skating Union translation.
At the last world championships in 2019, countrywoman Lara van Ruijven took gold in the 500m sprint. Van Ruijven died last July following complications from an autoimmune disorder after feeling ill at a training camp in the French Pyrenees.