Isabelle Weidemann
{{short description|Canadian speed skater}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=February 2020}}
{{Infobox speed skater
| name = Isabelle Weidemann
| image = Canada lagtempo 2022.jpg
| headercolor = #d7ecff
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1995|7|18}}
| birth_place = Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
| height = 188 cm
| weight = 70 kg
| country = Canada
| event = Team pursuit
| club = Gloucester Concordes
| coach =
| olympics = 2018
2022
| pb = 500=40,34
1,000=1.17,53
1,500=1.54,02
3,000=3.55,33
5,000=6.46,81
| show-medals = no
|medaltemplates=
{{MedalSport|Women's speed skating}}
{{MedalCountry|{{CAN}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|Winter Olympic Games}}
{{MedalGold|2022 Beijing|Team pursuit}}
{{MedalSilver|2022 Beijing|5000 m}}
{{MedalBronze|2022 Beijing|3000 m}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Single Distances Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2023 Heerenveen|Team pursuit}}
{{MedalSilver|2021 Heerenveen|Team pursuit}}
{{Medal|Silver|2024 Calgary|3000 m}}
{{MedalSilver|2024 Calgary|Team pursuit}}
{{MedalBronze|2020 Salt Lake City|Team pursuit}}
{{Medal|Bronze|2025 Hamar|Team pursuit}}
{{MedalCompetition|Four Continents Championships}}
{{Medal|Gold|2024 Salt Lake City|Team pursuit}}
{{Medal|Silver|2024 Salt Lake City|3000 m}}
{{Medal|Silver|2025 Hachinohe|3000 m}}
}}
Isabelle Weidemann (born July 18, 1995) is a Canadian speed skater.{{cite web|url=https://olympic.ca/team-canada/isabelle-weidemann/|title=Isabelle Weidemann Team Canada Olympic Profile|website=Canadian Olympic Committee|date=January 10, 2018 |access-date=February 5, 2022}}[http://speedskatingresults.com/index.php?p=17&s=20443 Speed skating results profile] She is a multiple Olympic medallist, winning gold in the team pursuit, silver in the 5,000 metre, and bronze in the 3,000 metre at the 2022 Winter Olympics. She is the third Canadian ever to have won more than two medals at a single Winter Olympic Games following Cindy Klassen and Gaétan Boucher.{{cite news |title= Canada sets Olympic record en route to speed skating gold medal in women's team pursuit |url= https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/speed-skating/canada-womens-speed-skating-weidemann-blondin-maltais-1.6351945 |author= John Molinaro |website= CBC Sports |date= February 15, 2022}} Weidemann also previously won a silver and bronze medal at the 2021 and 2020 World Single Distance Championships in women's team pursuit.
Career
Weidemann's first competition for the Canadian national team was during the 2014 World Junior Speed Skating Championships. She began competing in her first full senior season during the 2015-16 World Cup competition. At the 2015 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships she placed fifth in the 5,000 m, indicating the success she may have in the long-distance events in her career. Weidemann won her first World Cup medals when she won a pair of bronze medals as part of the team pursuit in the fall of the 2017-18 World Cup season. Weidemann was named to Canada's 2018 Olympic team where she finished seventh and sixth respectively in the 3,000 m and 5,000 m events in her first Olympic competition.{{cite web|url=http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/speedskating/canadian-olympic-speed-skating-team-announcement-1.4479749|title=Ted-Jan Bloemen, Ivanie Blondin front Canada's Olympic long track team|last=Harrison|first=Doug|date=January 10, 2018|website=cbc.ca/sports/|publisher=Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)|access-date=January 11, 2018}}{{cite news|last=Spencer|first=Donna|date=January 10, 2018|title=Speed skater Denny Weidemann and 'guardian angel' wife both headed to Olympics|url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/amateur/2018/01/10/speed-skater-denny-Weidemann-and-guardian-angel-wife-both-headed-to-olympics.html|agency=The Canadian Press|location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada|access-date=January 11, 2018}}{{Dead link|date=February 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web|url=http://www.speedskating.ca/news-and-info/news/canadian-long-track-speed-skating-team-named-for-pyeongchang-2018|title=Canadian long track speed skating team named for PyeongChang 2018|date=January 10, 2018|website=speedskating.ca/|publisher=Speed Skating Canada|access-date=January 11, 2018|archive-date=January 11, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180111000525/http://www.speedskating.ca/news-and-info/news/canadian-long-track-speed-skating-team-named-for-pyeongchang-2018|url-status=dead}}
Following the Olympics, during the 2018-19 World Cup season, she began to find individual success, finishing on the podium several times, including one gold medal. The following season, she finished second overall in the World Cup standings for long-distance events and had two gold medal wins. Weidemann also won a bronze medal as part of the team pursuit with Ivanie Blondin and Valérie Maltais at the 2020 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships. The trio of Canadian speed skaters would continue success together the following season, winning both World Cup events and winning silver at the 2021 World Single Distance Speed Skating Championships taking place during a pandemic shortened season.
=2022 Winter Olympics=
In January 2022, Weidemann was named to Canada's 2022 Olympic team{{cite web|url=https://olympic.ca/2022/01/17/16-long-track-speed-skaters-nominated-to-team-canada-for-beijing-2022/|title=16 long track speed skaters nominated to Team Canada for Beijing 2022|last=Nichols|first=Paula|date=17 January 2022|website=www.olympic.ca/|publisher=Canadian Olympic Committee|access-date=17 January 2022}}{{cite news|date=17 January 2022|title=Bloemen, Dubreuil leads Canada's long-track speedskaters into Beijing|url=https://www.thestar.com/sports/2022/01/17/bloemen-dubreuil-leads-canadas-long-track-speedskaters-into-beijing.html|work=Canadian Press|location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada|access-date=17 January 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/speed-skating/canada-long-track-team-speed-skating-beijng-olympics-1.6317853|title=Speed skating Olympians Blondin, Dubreuil front Canada's long track team for Beijing|date=17 January 2022|website=www.cbc.ca/|publisher=CBC Sports|access-date=17 January 2022}} She won Canada's first medal of the games, a bronze, in the 3000 metres event.{{cite news|last=Stinson|first=Scott|date=5 February 2022|title=Canada's Isabelle Weidemann wins Olympic bronze in long track speed skating|url=https://nationalpost.com/sports/olympics/isabelle-weidemann-2022-winter-olympics-team-canada-speed-skating-bronze|work=National Post|location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada|access-date=5 February 2022}} This was the first medal for Canadian female speed skaters since the 2010 Winter Olympics when Kristina Groves won bronze in the same distance.{{cite news |title=Isabelle Weidemann skates to Canada's 1st medal of Beijing 2022 with bronze in women's 3,000m|url= https://olympic.ca/team-canada/isabelle-weidemann/ |website= CBC Sports |date= February 5, 2022}} After winning the medal she told Canadian media that "It's pretty surreal right now, I'm pretty emotional. But I'm very excited." Weidemann would later win the silver medal in the 5000 metres event.{{cite web|url=https://olympic.ca/2022/02/10/weidemann-becomes-canadas-first-double-medallist-of-beijing-2022/|title=Weidemann becomes Canada's first double medallist of Beijing 2022|last=Cseplo|first=Simone|date=10 February 2022|website=www.olympic.ca/|publisher=Canadian Olympic Committee|access-date=15 February 2022}}{{cite news|last=Barnes|first=Dan|date=10 February 2022|title=Canada's Isabelle Weidemann wins Olympic bronze in long track speed skating|url=https://nationalpost.com/sports/olympics/speedskater-isabelle-weidemann-both-great-and-grateful-has-growing-olympic-medal-collection|work=National Post|location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada|access-date=15 February 2022}} Weidemann also won the gold medal in the team pursuit event.{{cite news|last=Boynton|first=Sean|date=15 February 2022|title=Canada wins gold medal in women's team pursuit speed skating at Beijing Olympics|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/8599999/canada-first-olympic-medal-ski-jumping-beijing-olympics/|work=Global News|location=Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada|access-date=15 February 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/article/canada-captures-gold-olympic-womens-speedskating-team-pursuit/|title=Canada captures gold in Olympic women's speedskating team pursuit|date=15 February 2022|website=www.sportsnet.ca/|publisher=Sportsnet|access-date=15 February 2022}} Due to her successes at the games, Weidemann was named as the closing ceremony flagbearer.{{cite web|url=https://olympic.ca/2022/02/19/weidemann-to-be-team-canadas-closing-ceremony-flag-bearer-at-beijing-2022/|title=Weidemann to be Team Canada's Closing Ceremony flag bearer at Beijing 2022|last=Nichols|first=Paula|date=19 February 2022|website=www.olympic.ca/|publisher=Canadian Olympic Committee|access-date=19 February 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/olympics/article/speed-skater-isabelle-weidemann-named-canadas-flag-bearer-closing-ceremony/|title=Speed skater Isabelle Weidemann named Canada's flag-bearer for Closing Ceremony|date=19 February 2022|website=www.sportsnet.ca/|publisher=Sportsnet|access-date=19 February 2022}}{{cite web|last=Dichter|first=Myles|url=https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/winter/beijing-olympics-canada-closing-ceremony-flag-bearer-1.6358010|title=Isabelle Weidemann, Olympic champion and triple-medallist, to carry Canada's flag in closing ceremony|date=19 February 2022|website=www.cbc.ca/|publisher=CBC Sports|access-date=19 February 2022}}
References
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{{Footer Olympic Champions Team Pursuit Women}}
{{Footer World Single Distance Champions Team Pursuit Speed Skating Women}}
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