Wiklund beats world champion Beune to 1,500m World Cup win
Ragne Wiklund won the women’s 1,500 metres at the Beijing World Cup in 1:53.84, finishing ahead of world champion Joy Beune and Dutch Olympic champion Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong.
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Ragne Wiklund beat world champion Joy Beune by more than a second to win the women’s 1,500 metres at the World Cup event in Beijing on Saturday. The Norwegian clocked 1:53.84, while Beune finished second in 1:55.16.
China’s Han Mei took bronze. Olympic champion Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong finished 10th in 1:58.07, while Marijke Groenewoud was fifth, ahead of Dutch team-mates Gioya Lancee and Merel Conijn.
Wiklund was runner-up in the 1,500 metres at the Milan Winter Olympics.
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