Speed Skating - Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics - Women's Mass Start semifinal - Gangneung Oval - Gangneung, South Korea - February 24, 2018 - Annouk van der Weijden of the Netherlands and Claudia Pechstein of Germany react after the second semi final. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson
GANGNEUNG, South Korea (Reuters) - Dutch speed skater Annouk van der Weijden made a stunning recovery to qualify for the final of the Olympic women's mass start race at the Gangneung Oval on Saturday after Canada's Ivanie Blondin crashed and took her down.
Van der Weijden managed to catch up with the pack and finish second behind the Czech Republic's Nikola Zdrahalova, with China's Li Dan coming third, after Blondin fell coming around a corner and took out two skaters behind her.
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