Winter Olympics: Kjeld Nuis wins speed skating 1,000m to add to 1500m gold

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Winter Olympics: Nuis takes men's 1,000m speed skating gold

XXIII Olympic Winter Games

Venue: Pyeongchang, South Korea Dates: 9-25 February

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The Netherlands' Kjeld Nuis won a second speed skating gold medal at the Winter Olympics with victory in the 1,000m final in Pyeongyang.

The world champion, 28, finished in one minute 7.95 seconds to become the third man to complete the 1,000m and 1500m double.

Norway's Havard Lorentzen, the 500m champion, took silver, 0.04secs behind at Gangneung Oval.

South Korea's Kim Tae-Yun, who was 0.27secs adrift of Nuis, won bronze.

American Eric Heiden won 1,000 and 1500m gold in 1980 and Canada's Gaetan Boucher in 1984.

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