Saskia Alusalu

Saskia Alusalu (born 14 April 1994[1]) is an Estonian speed skater.

She attacked early and broke away from the field until three other athletes around the eventual winner Claudia Pechstein caught up with her and finally overtook her.

[2] Alusalu was Estonias's flag bearer at the 2018 Winter Olympics.

In August 2021, despite already training for the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, she announced that she was ending her career as a speed skater because she wanted to focus more on her personal life and felt she could no longer handle the physical stresses.

In addition to her current physiotherapy studies at the University of Tartu, she has obtained a coaching diploma to work as such in the future.