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Costa Verde - San Miguel

CIRCUITO DE PLAYAS - COSTA VERDE (ALTURA DEL ACANTILADO BERTOLOTO) - SAN MIGUEL

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men events	women events
300 m individual time trial	300 m individual time trial
500 m + distance	500 m + distance
10.000 m elimination	10.000 m elimination


men events
300 m individual time trial
500 m + distance
10.000 m elimination

women events
300 m individual time trial
500 m + distance
10.000 m elimination

Sport review

In this discipline, athletes compete in three individual events: 200 meter clock race, 500 meter speed race and 10,000 meter points race. In the race against the clock, each skater is timed individually, and the one that makes the shortest time wins.

In the 500 meters competition, the two athletes who arrive first in each qualifying round move on to the next round until they reach the final round. The point race has a collective start: skaters compete for points and the one who accumulates the most points is the winner.

The Lima 2019 speed skating competition was held in the Costa Verde in San Miguel. Before Lima 2019, the US led the table with 67 gold medals.

Keywords

Last push: Final effort of the athlete to gain speed in the last meters.

History

This is a sport that became more popular in the twentieth century. The first world roller skating championship was in Monza, Italy, in 1937. On that occasion only men with traditional skates participated. The discipline appeared as an exhibition sport in the 1979 Pan American Games, finally being included in all the Games since 1987. In 1992, traditional skates were changed to inline wheels.