SPEED SKATING Preview: U.S. Nationals coming this weekend in Kearns

World Mass Start Champion Joey Mantia

The Olympic Oval in Kearns, Utah will be busy this weekend with the 2018 U.S. Long-Track Championships.

The event will be the U.S. qualifier for the fifth and sixth World Cups and for World Sprint Championships, World Allround Championships and World Single Distance Championships. So everybody will be there. The projected schedule:

28 December: Men’s 500 m and 5,000 m; Women’s 500 m and 3,000 m
29 December: Men’s 1,000 m and Mass Start; Women’s 1,000 and Mass Start
30 December: Men’s 1,500 m and 10,000 m; Women’s 1,500 m and 5,000 m

The top American skaters from the first four stages of the ISU World Cup include:

Men

500 m:
28. Kimani Griffin
54. Joey Mantia
57. Brett Perry

1,000 m:
10. Joey Mantia
19. Kimani Griffin
54. Austin Kleba

1,500 m:
8. Joey Mantia
60. Ethan Cepuran
65. Austin Kleba

5,000/10,000 m:
49. Ethan Cepuran
(Only scorer so far)

Mass Start:
6. Joey Mantia
36. Ethan Cepuran

Women:

500 m:
3. Brittany Bowe
13. Erin Jackson
33. Kimi Goetz

1,000 m:
1. Brittany Bowe
27. Kimi Goetz
40. Erin Jackson

1,500 m:
3. Brittany Bowe
38. Paige Schwartzburg
43. Mia Kilburg-Manganello

3,000/5,000 m:
24. Carlijn Schoutens
45. Maria Lamb
49. Mia Kilburg-Manganello

Mass Start:
20. Kimi Goetz
24. Mia Kilburg-Manganello

Look for results here.