Canada’s Sarault Wins 1,000m Short-track Silver - Beritaja

MILAN – Canada’s Courtney Sarault won metallic successful the women’s 1,000-metre speedskating last for her 3rd badge astatine the Milan Cortina Olympics connected Monday.

Sarault vanished successful 1 infinitesimal 28.523 seconds.

The Netherlands’ Xandra Velzeboer (1:28.437) grabbed gold, while South Korea’s Kim Gilli (1:28.614) earned bronze.

The short-track speedskater held the lead for the first six of 9 laps erstwhile Velzeboer passed her, and Gilli went into 2nd soon aft pinch 2 laps left. Turning the area for the last lap, Sarault overtook Gilli but couldn’t walk Velzeboer adjacent the end.

In the men’s 5,000-metre relay, William Dandjinou, Steven Dubois, Maxime Laoun and Félix Roussel secured Canada’s spot successful Friday’s last pursuing a melodramatic title that saw respective falls during 1 exchange. Italy, South Korea and the Netherlands will subordinate Canada to compete for the apical spot successful the finals.

This study by BERITAJA was first published Feb. 16, 2026.