Valerie Maltais has won bronze for Canada in the women’s 3,000 metre speed skating event at the Milan Cortina Olympics on Saturday.
Maltais, of La Baie, Que., had a time of three minutes 56.93 seconds, while Italy’s Francesca Lollobrigida took the gold on home soil with an Olympic record time of 3:54.28. Ragne Wiklund of Norway was second in 3:56.54.
It is Maltais’ third Olympic medal in her fifth Winter Games having won silver in the 3,000 metre short track relay in 2014 and gold in the team pursuit event in 2022.
Ottawa’s Isabelle Weidemann, who won bronze four years ago in Beijing, finished fifth with a time of 3:59.24. Laura Hall of Salmon Arm, B.C., finished 13th out of 20 skaters with a time of 4:06.13 in her Olympic debut.
