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Nine Olympic records were set on Milan ice at the 2026 Winter Games, including two by Jordan Stolz and four by Dutch skaters. (AP Photo)

Kim Gilli won Olympic gold in the women’s 1,500 meters and ended Minjeong Choi’s bid for a third straight title.

Corinne Stoddard made history as the first American woman to win an Olympic short track medal since 2010, claiming bronze in the 1500 meters at the Milan Cortina Olympics.

The final short track speed skating events of the Milano Cortina 2026 Olympic Winter Games were held on Friday.

The Dutch have traditionally been the dominant force in Olympic speed skating, reflecting a nation built around its waterways, and have now taken a firm grip on short track, the upstart younger branch of the sport.

One by one, the skaters before him Friday night had problems of their own, falling on ice shared by speedskating that some lamented was not the best of surfaces. Italy's Daniel Grassl crashed out of podium contention, as did Adam Siao Him Fa of France.