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While it seemed launched towards the eleventh medal, the blue falls after a contact with the American Santos and cannot increase the number of her laurels while Suzanne Schulting repeats the Gold of 2018.
Friday 11 February 2022 3 minutes reading time
In the quarter-finals of the women's 1000 meters it opens with the fireworks of the world record, 1.26.514, scored by the Dutch Suzanne Schulting while in the third quarter Arianna Fontana heads the race and easily wins the victory. All Chinese and Canadian Courtney Sarault leave the competition.
In a hard-fought semifinal, the blue closes in second position behind the American Kristen Santos. Suzanne Schulting and the Belgian Desmet win the final in the other semifinal as the Korean Choi Minjeong recovered as the best third.
Arianna Fontana is in the second lane at the start, Kristen Santos on the rope and on the right the Korean Choi with Schulting in fourth and Desmet on the outside. It is the Dutchman who takes the lead with the blue immediately following her, the battle breaks out and at the penultimate corner the blue falls into contact with Kirsten Santos. Wins Suzanne Schulting, Silver medal to the Korean Choi Minjeong and, surprisingly, Bronze for the Belgian Desmet.
In the men's 500m heats, which will close the tournament on Sunday, Andrea Cassinelli closes in third position with no repechage opportunities for the time while in the last battery a good Pietro Sighel qualifies for the quarter-finals with the second position .
The blue men's relay made up of Pietro Sighel, Yuri Confortola, Tommaso Dotti and Matteo Cassinelli who is second behind Canada in the first semifinal while China and Japan fall with the hosts who are advanced by decision of the judges. In the second semifinal they qualify for the final on Wednesday South Korea and Russia which precedes, and eliminates, the Netherlands by two thousandths.
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