{"id":462755,"date":"2026-02-11T19:35:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/462755\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T19:35:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T19:35:09","slug":"breaking-wisconsin-speedskater-jordan-stolz-claims-first-gold-medal-of-milan-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/462755\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Wisconsin speedskater Jordan Stolz claims first gold medal of Milan Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RHO, Italy \u2013 In what could be a sign for things to come for Kewaskum-native speedskater Jordan Stolz at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan-Cortina, the 21-year-old made his mark in his first event claiming gold in the 1,000 meter race and setting an Olympic-record in the process.<\/p>\n<p>Stolz took the medal with a 1:06.28 time, more than a second ahead of the prior Olympic record. It was the largest margin of victory in the Olympic event since 1984.<\/p>\n<p>He had to wait a bit longer than expected to officially claim the title due to a re-skate for Joep Wennemars of the Netherlands. Fellow Dutch skater Jenning de Boo took the silver and Zhongyang Ning of China earned the bronze.<\/p>\n<p>He has three more races to run in these Olympics: the 500 meter race February 14, the 1,500 meter February 19, and the mass start competition February 21. <\/p>\n<p>This is a breaking news story; more information will be added as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"RHO, Italy \u2013 In what could be a sign for things to come for Kewaskum-native speedskater Jordan Stolz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-462755","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}