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Sweden’s Johan Röjler Men’s World Champion

Press release 20.2.2000

Johan Röjler from Sweden won the Men’s World Championship in Seinäjoki Junior speed skating World Championship competition. Röjler won the 5000-metre distance on Sunday and won the whole comptetition. Röjler’s performance has been very strong in Seinäjoki. He won both the 3000-metre and 5000-metre distance and was second on 1500-metre distance. His winning time on 5000-metre was 7:08.57.

The second on 5000-metre distance was Maurice van den Dool from the Netherlands, his time was 7:11.15, and the third was Jan Friesinger from Germany with time 7:12.88.

The second in final classification was Takaharu Nakajima from Japan and the third Jan Friesinger from Germany.