Bart Swings will end after a reasonable 1500m as the eleventh at the world CHAMPIONSHIPS allround

More Sport With seventh place in the 1500 meter Bart Swings to say goodbye to the world CHAMPIONSHIP all-round speed skating. Swings showed the chronometer at 1:44.96 dwell on it. That was almost two seconds slower than the winner, the Norwegian Sverre Lunde Pedersen (1:43.11).

Swings placed himself not at the eight skaters, in Calgary at the 10,000 metres were allowed to participate. On the final settlement his name as the eleventh. Next week he closes the disappointing post-olympic skating season in Salt Lake City with the world cup finals.

After three parts Patrick Rust the best views on the title. The Dutch defending champion leads the standings. On the last distance, he's allowed more than four seconds to lose on Pedersen to his title to extend. Sven Kramer, the best skater of this century, is third.

It is not the first time that Swings to the ten kilometers, and the gc does not reach. Three years ago, he arrived in Berlin in the 5000 meters at val, giving him a high ranking was turned off. But in all other allroundtoernooien took the best Belgian skater, however, with the global elite. A third place in 2013 in Hamar is still his best result.