Short Track - European Championship in Sochi
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Thursday 21 January 2016 11 minutes reading time
After almost two years, the stars of the short track will return to tread the ice of & rsquo; Iceberg Palace of Sochi. Two seasons from Winter Olympics in February 2014 in disputatesi CITY South of Russia, international specialists & ndash; this time exclusively European - the short track will return to compete for the titles at the European Championships.
From tomorrow until Sunday, January 24 & agrave scatter; So the three days of races that decreter & agrave; 19f the continental champions, ready to follow the outgoing Elise Christie (Britain) and Sjinkie Knegt (Netherlands) in the history of the 111 meters long runway. After the Championships of 2003, the Russian Federation will host & agrave; Its the second edition of a European.
Going back 13 years ago, in St. Petersburg, the & rsquo; s & rsquo Italy made; en plein podiums male & ndash; overall title in front of Fabio Carta Michele Antonioli and Nicola Franceschina and won the medal & rsquo; gold relay, cos & Igrave; as the female quartet with Katia Borrello, Marta Capurso, Evelina Rodigari and Mara Zini. In 2016 & sar agrave; difficult to repeat the feats of those Europeans, but the Azzurri squad by coach Kenan Gouadec and from & rsquo; assistant Ermanno Ioriatti try to do their best in a context & ndash; that of & rsquo; Europe & ndash; definitely more & ugrave; balanced than the World Cup dominated by Asian and Canadian skaters.
L & rsquo; & egrave Italy; flew to Russia with five skaters competing in the individual competitions and consequently for the overall title that Prime & agrave; the top finishers after the three distances required & ndash; 1500, 500 and 1000 meters & ndash; in addition to the Super Final which will enter the top 8 in the summation of the partial classification on the three previous tests (which will award 34, 21, 13, 8, 5, 3, 2 and 1 points to the top eight finishers). L & rsquo; & blue will agrave; in competition at the women with Elena Viviani, Arianna Valcepina and Luca Peretti. Instead, the five-time European champion in career & ndash; that in Dordrecht since & Igrave; off the podium general finding only a silver on the 1,000 meters - Arianna Fontana confirmed its package. Quest & rsquo; last is preparing to return to compete in races in February at the World Cup. Among men, however, will be the standard bearers Italian Yuri Confortola & ndash; overall bronze in 2007 and three times d & rsquo; gold in the relay & ndash; and the pi & ugrave; young Tommaso Dotti.
Complete teams also Italian Cecilia Maffei and Federica Tombolato, that we will see action in relay & ndash; tomorrow battery against women committed in Ukraine, Germany and France. While the men's team event & ndash; back from second place in the World Cup in Shanghai - potr & agrave; count on & rsquo; contribution of Andrea Cassinelli, Nicola Rodigari and Davide Viscardi. Belarus, Ukraine and Russia will be the nations challengers in the first round. Women do not get on the podium in 2012, while men expect a medal team in 2010. For both competitions there are three teams favored to win: Russia, Holland and Hungary. If Italians will want to find a medal will senz & rsquo; overtake another one of these three teams.
At the individual level, however, the favorites for the title in 2016 in the standings appear to be again the champions of & rsquo; last year and Elise Christie Sjinkie Knegt. The 25 year old British, always on the podium in the last three leagues & ndash; two silvers and l & rsquo; gold 2015 & ndash; will have & agrave; look senz & rsquo; another from & rsquo; Dutch Jorien ter Mors & ndash; Olympic champion in 2014 and twice in Sochi 2014, but in long track. Then, among the most & ugrave; in form this season, there are the German Anna Seidel & ndash; two podiums season in the World Cup - the Polish Natalia Maliszewska, the French Veronique Pierron, the second to the British via Charlotte Gilmartin and l & rsquo; other Dutch Lara Van Ruijven. If they were to find the continuity & agrave; of results and a cue d & rsquo; excellence, the three Italian challengers may be as good as these. Will not be at the start the & rsquo; silver and bronze overall 2015 or the Russian Sofia Prosvirnova and Polish Patrycja Maliszewska.
Among men it is expected a duel between all the & rsquo; Dutch Knegt and Semen Elistratov, which will be at the start of Sochi 2016, unlike the outgoing runner Viktor Ahn. The 25-year oranje, gi & agrave; European champion twice & ndash; 2012 and 2015 & ndash; and world champion in 2015 prover & agrave; to reject the & rsquo; assault of Russian silver in 2014 and bronze in & rsquo; edition of & rsquo; last year. Attention to the trio of competitors Hungarian & ndash; Liu Shaolin Sandor, Liu Shaoang and Viktor Knoch - among European skaters pi & ugrave; in the form in the first half & agrave; Seasonal. To hold in high regard for the talk-podium the other two skaters home in Sochi, Dmitry Migunov and Artem Kozlov, cos & Igrave; as the Dutch Daan Breeuwsma and the overall champion in 2013 Freek van der Wart.
Click here to see orders and start lists. Below the complete program with schedules Italian European Championships 2016. Recall that RaiSport 2 will broadcast & agrave; the live show of the event from 12 noon Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 January.
Friday & Igrave; Jan. 22
8:10 am 8:35 pm Batteries Batteries 1500m women 1500m women's 500m Preliminaries male Hours 9:20 pm 9:42 pm 13:40 men's 500m Preliminaries Batteries 1000m women Hours 14:06 15:30 Batteries Batteries 1000m men's 3000m relay women 16:06 hours Batteries 5000m relay men
Saturday, January 23
7:35 pm Batteries placements of 1500 and 500 meters (female and male) Hours 12:02 hours 12:18 Semifinals Semifinals female 1500m 1500m 1500m female male Hours 12:50 Finals 13:07 pm Finals men's 1500m Hours 13: 38 Quarter-finals women's 500m Hours 13:49 Quarter-final men's 500m Semifinals Hours 14:15 14:23 hours 500m women's 500m Semifinals Finals 500m female male Hours 14:45 pm 14:57 pm 15:25 Finals 500m men's 3000m Relay Semifinals Hours 15:39 5000m Relay Semifinals female male
Sunday, January 24
8:50 pm Batteries placements 1000m men's and women Hours 12:02 Quarter-final 1000m women Hours 12:16 Quarter Finals men's 1000m Hours 12:46 hours 12:55 Semifinals Semifinals 1000m women 1000m men's Final Hours 13:19 1000m women's 1000m Final Hours 13:33 hours 14:03 male 3000m Super Final women's 3000m Super Final Hours 14:13 hours 14:39 male female 3000m Relay Finals 14:55 pm Finals men's 5000m relay
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