Jordan Stolz won four races at a single speed skating World Cup for a fourth consecutive stop, running his streaks to 12 victories in a row on the circuit dating to last season and 16 in a row if counting strictly his primary events of the 500m, 1000m and 1500m.
Stolz, a 20-year-old from Wisconsin, won races at the 2022 Olympic oval in the 500m (track record) and 1500m on Friday, the 1000m (track record) on Saturday and another 500m on Sunday in the second World Cup stop of this season.
Speed skating World Cup highlights air on NBC on Sunday from 2-3 p.m. ET.
Stolz clocked 34.27 seconds in Friday’s 500m, edging Dutchman Jenning de Boo by 12 hundredths. Stolz’s time would have won Olympic gold and broken the Olympic record at the same oval in 2022.
He crossed in 1:07.62 in the 1000m, beating de Boo by two tenths. Stolz’s time would have won Olympic gold at the same oval in 2022.
At those 2022 Beijing Games, Stolz was 13th and 14th in the 500m (34.85) and the 1000m (1:09.12) as the only male or female speed skater under the age of 18 across all events, according to the OlyMADMen.
In the two seasons since, Stolz became the youngest skater to win a world title in a single distance and the first man to win three individual golds at a single world championships with his sweep of the 500m, 1000m and 1500m in 2023 and 2024.
About 90 minutes after Friday’s 500m victory, Stolz took the 1500m in 1:43.94, a time that would have earned bronze at the same oval at the 2022 Olympics.
Stolz’s 12 consecutive World Cup wins across all of his individual starts is the longest streak in years, perhaps decades. The annual World Cup circuit began in 1985.
Of the five men with the most individual victories in World Cup history, the longest win streak in individual starts was nine by Dutchman Sven Kramer and German Uwe-Jens Mey, according to Speedskatingstats.com.
On the women’s side, German Gunda Niemann-Stirnemann won 23 consecutive individual World Cup starts from 1992-94, according to her Speedskatingstats.com profile.
In the 500m alone, Stolz won his last seven World Cup starts. Canadian Jeremy Wotherspoon, who owns the men’s World Cup records for total individual victories (67) and 500m victories (42), had a best 500m win streak of eight starts in a row on two separate occasions, according to Speedskatingstats.
The International Skating Union has not confirmed the historical streaks.
The World Cup season takes a break, resuming in late January in Calgary.
