November 14, 2025 – Salt Lake City, UT – In January 2024 when Jordan Stolz skated at the Olympic Oval in Salt Lake City, UT he set a new world record in the 1000m and his coach, Bob Corby, predicted it. The 2025 season begins this afternoon with the ISU World Cup in Salt Lake City.
Skating in his signature rich deep blue skin suit, Stolz crushed his previous best time in the 1000m and set a new world record, national record, personal best and season best with a time of 1:05,37. Stolz season best so far is a 1:06,70 from November 6, 2025 in Salt Lake.
Today, coming off a strong summer training regime, Stolz will toe the line with a big challenge ahead to better his time and possibly set another world record.
Stolz skates the 1000m in the Men’s A group this afternoon. Races begin at 4:56 p.m. and there will be 10 heats with Stolz skating eighth against Joep Wennemars of the Netherlands.
Wennemars is a formidable opponent. He won the gold in the 1000m in March 2025 in Hamar, Norway with a time of 1:08,05. Stolz finished that race at 1:08,26.
So far this season Wennemars has skated a 1:07,17 in the 1000m on November 2, 2025.
Over the weekend Stolz will also compete in the 1500m and 500m.
In the 1500m in Salt Lake in 2024, Stolz finished in a time of 1:40,87 which was 1,09 better than second place finisher, Zhongyan Ning of China.
For Stolz the time in the 1500m was a National Record, Personal Record, and Season Best. Click HERE for the unofficial final results
Stolz previous personal best in the 1500m was 1:42,26. The track record is 1:40,17 set by Kjeld Nuis on March 10, 2019. Â Â
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In the 500m in 2024, Stolz stood atop the podium again with a first-place finish time and new national record at 33,96. Click HERE for unofficial final results.
In Calgary in 2024, Stolz recorded his personal best in the 500m with a 33,69 finish.
Stolz will have some stiff competition as Dutch Speedskater Jenning de Boo clocked a 33,98 on October 31, 2025 at the Netherlands Single Distance Championships.
For the US, keep an eye on Cooper Mcleod who this season has the fourth fastest 500m at 34,30.
The track record at the Olympic Oval in Salt Lake in the 500m was set March 9, 2019 at 33,61 and held by Pavel Kulizhnikov.
Side notes:
Members of 4-H Wayne Crusaders gathered this past week to make posters to cheer on Jordan Stolz. We will be featuring their artwork through the 2026 Winter Olympics in Milan, Italy.
Flights out of Milwaukee to Denver to Salt Lake City were all on time. One interesting note, the airlines nationwide had been keeping track of flight data including cancellations and delays. Once at Mitchell International in Milwaukee, the checkin kiosk noted the 8 a.m. flight was delayed. At the Southwest counter, however, the clerk said it was simply delayed a minute. I wonder how much other data was included while flights were marked ‘delayed’ by a minute.
Had to take a photo of my friend’s favorite Midwest-themed gathering spaces at Mitchell International Airport. Does any other airport have such a signature space?
Flashback video to 2024 when Stolz set a new record in the 1500m
