Best Athletes Cup: Hanna Damaratskaya clinches gold in Women’s 1,000m

  MINSK, 27 February (BelTA) – Hanna Damaratskaya of Belarus won the Women’s 1,000m at the ongoing 2025 Best Athletes Cup: Speed Skating at Minsk Arena, BelTA has learned. 

The Women’s 1,000m event featured three Belarusian and seven Russian athletes. Leader of the Belarusian national speed skating team Hanna Damaratskaya clocked 1:16.96 to secure gold. Silver and bronze medals went to Irina Kuznetsova and Aleksandra Kravchenko from Russia. Yekaterina Gagiyeva of Belarus finished fourth. Russia’s Darya Kachanova had a fall and failure to complete the run. 

Hanna Damaratskaya earlier won silver in the Women’s 500m and gold in the Team Sprint.