Short TrackPyeongChang 2018
Fisi Pentaphoto
The medal in the women's short track relay was possible and eventually came: Italy confirms itself on the Olympic podium but gets its best ever result in a women's relay.
Tuesday 20 February 2018 2 minutes reading time
Third medal in the last four Olympics for the blue that had been bronze in Turin 2006 and in Sochi 2014 and today Arianna Fontana, Lucia Peretti, Cecilia Maffei and Martina Valcepina have won the silver behind South Korea which is the sixth gold in the last Seven Olympics in this race, only Vancouver 2010 failed. In the final everything happened: after giving the change one of the landlords fell triggering a general carambola, Italy has risen in third position behind China and Korea who did a round, Korea cut first the finish line in front of the China that was disqualified, as well as Canada that was behind Italy.
Arianna Fontana arrives at 7 Olympic medals taking off as regards the short track and becomes the solo record holder by detaching the great Chinese Wang Meng, alongside Italian Manuela Di Centa and meanwhile today has also comfortably won his 1000 meter battery landing at the quarter-finals that will be staged the day after tomorrow. The bronze won the Netherlands and is his first medal in a short track relay, the Dutch have imposed in the final B setting incredibly the world record with a time of 4'03 "471, improving by 751 thousandths that established from Korea to Salt Lake City 15 months ago, Jorien Ter Mors became the first woman in history to win an Olympic medal on both the long and the short track.
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