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Canada's Hudey, Dubreuil among top 10 at long track World Cup

Canadian long-track speed skaters Marsha Hudey and Laurent Dubreuil posted top-10 results on Saturday in the second day of competition at the ISU World Cup event in Minsk, Belarus.

Ivanie Blondin 12th in women's 1,500 metres; event ends Sunday in Belarus

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Marsha Hudey of White City, Sask., posted a time of 38.558 seconds Saturday to finish eighth in the 500 metres at a long track speed skating World Cup event in Minsk, Belarus. (Todd Korol/Canadian Press/File)

Canadian long-track speed skaters Marsha Hudey and Laurent Dubreuil earned top-10 results on Saturday in the second day of competition at the ISU World Cup event in Minsk, Belarus.

Hudey, from White City, Sask., posted a time of 38.558 seconds to finish eighth in the 500 metres.

That result surpassed her 2018-2019 season's best 10th place finish at the World Cup in Hamar, Norway.

Dubreuil of Levis, Que., finished ninth in the 1,000, completing the race in 1:10.282.

The sprint specialist, who was ranked 15th overall in the distance on the World Cup circuit last season, looks poised to improve upon that result. He earned only one top-10 finish in the 1,000 last season, a seventh-place result in Obihiro, Japan.

Fish, Belchos miss mass start final

Ottawa's Ivanie Blondin finished just outside the top-10 with a 12th-place result in the 1,500.

Graeme Fish of Moose Jaw, Sask., and Toronto's Jordan Belchos both competed in the semifinals of the mass start, however neither skater qualified for the final.

Other Canadian results:

  • Kaylin Irvine (Calgary): 16th in 500 metres
  • David La Rue (Saint-Lambert, Que.) 16th in 1,000
  • Heather McLean (Winnipeg): Fourth in 500 (B Division)
  • Antoine Gélinas-Beaulieu (Sherbrooke, Que.): 7th in 1,000 (B Division)
  • Tyson Langelaar (Winnipeg):13th in 1,000 (B Division)
  • Valérie Maltais (Saguenay, Que.): 10th in 1,500 (B Division)
  • Béatrice Lamarche (Quebec City): 22nd in 500 (B Division), 18th in 1,500 (B Division)

The competition wraps up Sunday with the men's 500 and 1,500, plus the 1,000 and mass start on the women's side.

CBC Sports will continue its live streaming coverage beginning at 7 a.m. ET.

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