Daria Dmitrievna Kachanova (russian: Дарья Дмитриевна Качанова; born 17 September 1997) is a Russian
speed skater
Speed skating is a competitive form of ice skating in which the competitors race each other in travelling a certain distance on skates. Types of speed skating are long track speed skating, short track speed skating, and marathon speed skating. ...
who specializes in the sprint distances.
Career
Kachanova won the 2015/2106 ISU Junior World Cup title at the 500 m event. In March 2016 she won the gold medal in the 500m at the 2016 World Junior Championships in
Changchun
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, China.
At the
second competition weekend of the 2018–19 ISU Speed Skating World Cup she finished third in the second 500m event behind
Nao Kodaira and
Vanessa Herzog
Vanessa Herzog (''née'' Bittner; born 4 July 1995) is an Austrian speed skater. She competed at the 2013 World Sprint Championships in Salt Lake City, and at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi
Sochi ( rus, Со́чи, p=ˈsotɕɪ, a=Ru-С ...
. At the
second competition weekend she finished third in the first 500 m event as well as in the 1000 m event.
World Cup podiums
Source: ISU
Personal records
References
External links
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1997 births
Russian female speed skaters
Living people
Sportspeople from Nizhny Novgorod
World Single Distances Speed Skating Championships medalists
Speed skaters at the 2022 Winter Olympics
Olympic speed skaters for Russia
21st-century Russian women