Short track: Poland's Maliszewska earns World Cup silver in Montreal

Poland's Natalia Maliszewska has claimed the silver in the women’s 500 metres event at the short-track speed skating World Cup in Montreal.

Natalia Maliszewska

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The Netherlands’ Xandra Velzeboer won the event on Sunday, outracing Maliszewska in the final.

❤️ @NMaliszewska ze srebrnym medalem PŚ w Montrealu! 👏 Z kolei Nicola Mazur wygrała finał B i została sklasyfikowana na 6. miejscu! 😍

500 m:
🥇 Xandra Velzeboer 🇳🇱
🥈 Natalia Maliszewska 🇵🇱
🥉 Suk Hee Shim 🇰🇷

Sponsorem polskiego łyżwiarstwa szybkiego jest @Grupa_PGE. pic.twitter.com/hawxy8cr27

— Polski Związek Łyżwiarstwa Szybkiego (@pzls_pl) October 30, 2022

Another day, another gold for Xandra Velzeboer 🇳🇱 as she clinches the Women's 500m gold 🏆 in Montreal! #ShortTrackSkating pic.twitter.com/pmgBIjm50V

— ISU Speed Skating (@ISU_Speed) October 30, 2022

Maliszewska in November 2018 became the first Polish short-track speed skater to win a World Cup event.

In February 2019, she became the first Pole to win an overall World Cup title in the sport.

In January last year, Maliszewska took the silver in the women’s 500 metres at the 2021 European Short Track Speed Skating Championships on home ice in the northern Polish city of Gdańsk.

.@NMaliszewska druga na 500 metrów w PŚ w Montrealu! Bardzo dobra forma Polek na inaugurację sezonu #ShortTrackSkating

👇https://t.co/5GjLiixSvY

— Sport PR (@sportradiopl) October 30, 2022

This year, Maliszewska was one of Poland's medal hopes at the Beijing winter Olympics. But she was ruled out of the 500m event in China in February due to COVID-19 and then failed to make her mark in the women's 1000 metres and 1500 metres after being eliminated in the heats.

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Source: PAP