Brittany Bowe earned her sixth straight World Cup 1000m victory on Friday, running her win streak past a full year.
Bowe, fourth and eighth in the event at her two Olympics, clocked 1:14.28 in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan, beating Russian Daria Kachanova by .47. PyeongChang gold and silver medalists Jorien ter Mors of the Netherlands and Nao Kodaira of Japan were eighth and fourth, respectively.
For the first time during her win streak, which also included a world championships gold in February, Bowe failed to lower the track record. She was .18 shy of her own mark in Nur-Sultan.
Bowe ended last season by breaking the world record by .48 on the fast ice of the 2002 Olympic oval in Kearns, Utah. That time -- 1:11.61 -- would have been the men’s world record as recently as 1997.
Bowe, a former Florida Atlantic point guard who missed all of 2016-17 with a concussion, is up to 25 career World Cup wins. That’s fifth on the U.S. all-time list behind Bonnie Blair (69), Shani Davis (58), Dan Jansen (46) and Heather Bergsma (34), according to schaatsstatistieken.nl.
The Nur-Sultan World Cup continues Saturday and Sunday, streaming live for NBC Sports Gold subscribers. Olympic Channel: Home of Team USA airs same-day delayed coverage on Friday (6 p.m. ET), Saturday (11:30 p.m.) and Sunday (7:30 p.m.).
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