Master Sprint Games 2017 (21 & 22 January 2017): MSG2017 has been finalized yesterday evening with a nice and cosy closing banquet in the “Festsaal” in Inzell. MSG2107 was a very successful event with a lot of motivated speed skaters and with a lot of very good speeds skating results. Two hundred and four competitors skated 492 season best times, 91 personal records, 18 age category track records (Max Aicher Arena) and 9 international master speed skating records (5 single distance and 4 combination sprint, 2 X 500 m and 2 X 1.000 m). In behalf of the board of the IMSSC I like to thank the whole MSG2017 organisation, in particular Hubert Kreutz and Steffi Kopp and the jury, who made MSG2017 to a very successful event!

The IMSSC single distance records:

L50+ 500 m Anja Bollaart (NL): 42,76 sec

L55+ 500 m Monique Boerema (NL): 44,53 sec

L55+ 1000 m Monique Boerema (NL) 1:27,48 sec

M50+ 500 m Ivar Njos (NO): 38,23 sec

The IMSSC spint combination records:

L75+ Alla Berezina (RUS) 288.585 points

L55+ Monique Boerema (NL) 176.970 points

L50+ Gerdien Meijers (NL) 171.735 points

M50+ Rene van Bernum (GER) 154.350 points

Tjeerd Smies, president.