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Surprises, twists, suspensions, errors and falls for some of the big favorites. The first day of finals in the fourth stage of the World Cup condenses all the spirit-paced and unpredictable short track. All & rsquo; Oriental Sports Center in Shanghai (China) is & egrave; consumed a session really unpredictable races, with a series of twists really worthy of a thriller. A session which gave a big smile & Outdoors; Italian men's coach Kenan Gouadec: Final A relay was missing for over two years.
Saturday 12 December 2015 16 minutes reading time
In other races dominate Canada and Korea. The two powers won two races each on the four scheduled on Saturday Chinese: the success North American Charles Hamelin (1500 men) and Val & eacute; rie Maltais (1000 female) are contrasted with the victories of South Korean Choi Minjeong (1500m women) and Kwak Yoon-Gy (1000m men).
By Italian guys get a qualification for the final waiting over two years for the men's relay. Yuri Confortola, Davide Viscardi, Thomas and Andrea Dotti Cassinelli is played a lot in their semi-final, after demonstrating yesterday in battery to be fast and well together, touching the Italian record. In turn today implement a fast, yet shrewd tactic, hitting a second important in the run-up to the pass to the World Cup. The race sees the & rsquo; Hungary keep the lead from & rsquo; start to finish in the second semifinal of the men's relay on 5000 meters. Behind them, Russia and the Netherlands will tease with aggression & agrave; in the early stages, until the fall of & rsquo; athlete's Orange 5 laps. The Blues remain in close contact with the first three, for all 40 laps earlier, they can not find the & rsquo; decisive acceleration for overtaking groped on the Russians. Will be third & Outdoors; arrival at 6 & rsquo; 58 & rsquo; & rsquo; 85, behind the Magyars (6 & rsquo; 57 & rsquo; & rsquo; 23) and Russia (6 & rsquo; 57 & rsquo; & rsquo; 36). But they will be immediately disqualified and penalized by the judges. The blues climb cos & Igrave; in the second position and flying to the Final A, where you can play the podium with China, Canada and Hungary. An event that has not happened in the Cup from November 2013 & ndash; Palatazzoli to Turin - l & rsquo; last time a quartet in the race for a Final A of a men's relay.
Nothing Final A for the women's relay (Elena Viviani, Federica Tombolato Lucia Peretti and Arianna Valcepina), which must bow to the superpowers of women's short track China and Canada. The two National run away along the 27 laps on which develops the race. Detachment climbs steadily after half & agrave; some of the 27 total laps and becomes higher than the second after the 20 & deg; around. Then the two leading teams come off significantly from France and Italy closing of qualifying quite easily. First qualified & egrave; China (4 & rsquo; 13 & rsquo; & rsquo; 967) in front of 260 cents for the Canadians. Pi & ugrave; back come the French, third, and blue, fourth in 4 & rsquo; 16 & rsquo; & rsquo; 187. The Italian did not have the insights needed to attack both tactically and in action, the top two teams from the collective. They'll be back on the ice tomorrow in Final B against the transalpine, Japan and Russia. L & rsquo; objective & egrave; to improve the seventh place last week. In & rsquo; other semifinal Korea & ndash; without Shim after the fall in 1000 & ndash; It qualifies for the finals together & Outdoors; Holland.
In individual events, the 1500 Final A male (first series) could propose a new historic podium for both Hamelin brothers, gi & agrave; rose at the same time a week ago Nagoya, but about 500 meters. This time, for & ograve ;, the family party there & rsquo; & egrave ;. Because the pi & ugrave; younger of the two, Fran & ccedil; ois, & egrave; soon forced to retire because of a blow taken during the early stages of the race. Chinese Chen comes in contact with the French Sebastien Lepape and quest & rsquo; striking in the last carom Fran & ccedil; ois: all three fall and the race was stopped immediately. The Canadian seems one who has the worse and not take & agrave; to start the second start. In the subsequent restart to 6 competitors (net of injuries and suspensions), comes the & rsquo; affirmation of Charles Hamelin, who crossed the line in 2 & rsquo; 12 & rsquo; & rsquo; 634. Follow him on the podium & rsquo; Dutch Cup leader on the distance, Sjinkie Knegt (67 cents away from the winner) and the Korean Park Se-Yeong (1.23 seconds). For the Olympic champion over the distance comes cos & Igrave; fourth win of the season, the first distance pi & ugrave; long program.
Great 13 & deg; in the final rankings & egrave; l & rsquo; blue Nicola Rodigari, real bright spot of the Italian individual races, quite disappointing in this Saturday. The 34-year veteran of the national team for over 15 years within the World Cup, obtained a prestigious climbing batteries repechage. The Valtellina than two shifts in the morning, to show up at the start of the semifinals of the main draw. In his evidence in the semifinals, Nicholas & egrave; good, attentive and experienced in keeping away from the brawl and the classified fourth (2 & rsquo; 17 & rsquo; & rsquo; 259) behind Charles Hamelin, Chen Guang and surprise North Korean Choe A Song. A fourth that will be worth & agrave; intelligently Final B, which gets a good fifth in 2 & rsquo; 28 & rsquo; & rsquo; 188. But he won the Chinese Wei, ahead of Frenchman Vincent Jeanne. For the & rsquo; blue is the best finish since 2011 to present. 25 & deg; Andrea Cassinelli. The skater Piedmont can not get over the second and final round of the repechage morning.
Final A & ldquo; & rdquo thrilling; Also in the women's 1,000 meters. At the start, everything seemed to lead to & rsquo; yet another triumph of the favored South Korean Shim Suk-hee & ndash; gi & agrave; two wins on the season away - even aggressive against other finalists Val & eacute; rie Maltais, Suzanne Schulting and the 19-year old Chinese & ndash; rookie in the Cup - Qu Chunyu. Maltais wins: the 25 year-old of Qu & eacute; bec get cos & Igrave; his win number two in the World Cup at the individual level. The first victory arriv & ograve; back in October 2012, always on 1000. The North American & egrave; first with a time of 1 & rsquo; 30 & rsquo; & rsquo; 693 front & Outdoors; other neophyte Cup podium a total of: Suzanne Schulting. L & rsquo; Dutch, 18 years in September, meeting for the first time on the podium after only grazed in Montr & eacute; al, in the final of 1500 where vu fourth. This time comes the joy pi & ugrave; of big & rsquo; silver. No medals, n & eacute; points to two other finalists Shim and Qu, both off the charts because of their suspensions. At first the Chinese to create havoc & Outdoors; start of the race and takes a & rsquo; inevitable disqualification. Subsequently the judges penalize also Shim, after making contact with the Schulting. Cos & Igrave; Elise Christie falls on the podium, winning the B final which took place a few minutes before.
L & rsquo; Italian Elena Viviani, gi & agrave; who qualified yesterday the quarter-finals after the brilliant qualifying rounds, & egrave; ousted finishing third & ndash; advancing the first two & ndash; 1 & rsquo; 32 & rsquo; & rsquo; 736, behind Shim Suk-hee (Korea) Chunyu and Qu (China). It classificher & agrave; 12th in the overall ranking. For the 23 year old from Valdidentro is the best finish this season (equaled that of the 500 meters in Toronto). Pi & ugrave; back other blue. Federica Tombolato ends out in the semi-finals repechage and & egrave; 26th, while Cecilia Maffei is ousted since the recovery coils, peaking at 30 & deg; place in the final.
Kwak Yoon-Gy triumphs in the final in 1000 and does so with a tactical masterpiece. Korean remains sly until three laps from the end, in last position but in contact. Then he breaks the delay and within the last 2 laps exceeds Girard and Elistratov, before delivering the decisive attack on & rsquo; outside the Canadian Charle Cournoyer, leading up to the last meter. L & rsquo; Asia won in 1 & rsquo; 27 & rsquo; & rsquo; 682, before Cournoyer (1 & rsquo; 27 & rsquo; & rsquo; 860) and the winner of & rsquo; final round in Nagoya, the Russian Semen Elistratov (1 & rsquo; 27 & rsquo; & rsquo; 934). For the 25 year old from Seoul, it is the twelfth victory over 1000m, distance over which & egrave; He was also world champion in 2012, when he won the overall title.
Three Italians engaged in the quarterfinals & ndash; including Viscardi climbed by shifts repechage & ndash; no one can get through the round. The first in the final standings & egrave; Yuri Confortola, 17 & deg ;, which precedes the companion National Tommaso Dotti. Both close fifths in their evidence that schools imparted only the top two finishers. Sixth place in his quarter-final to David Viscardi, who instead square pi & ugrave; back in the final rankings and & egrave; 22nd.
In the women's final of the 1,500 meters (first series) rewards once again the world champion in charge Choi Minjeong. The Korean class 1998 did not even miss a beat this season and get cos & Igrave; his fifth individual success & ndash; the third in the 1500 & ndash; attacking quickly and decisively to the fifth of the 14 total laps. L & rsquo; & rsquo Asian wins in 2; 33 & rsquo; & rsquo; 187, anticipating & Outdoors; arrival the Chinese Tao Jiaying (2 & rsquo; 33 & rsquo; & rsquo; 226). In third place comes, surprisingly, the British who, until Charlotte Gilmartin & rsquo; exploits today boasted a ninth place as best result in his career in the World Cup. It ends on the ground one of the big favorites, the Canadian Marianne St-Gelais.
Arianna was Valcepina l & rsquo; only skater Italian present at the start of the repechage in the 1500 meters, given the disqualification yesterday sub & Igrave; ta Lucia Peretti. The 21-year old Financial fell in his heat of the repechage not ending cos & Igrave; proof. It classificher & agrave; to 29 & deg; place finish.
Click here for the complete results and the program of the races tomorrow, December 13, the final day of the stage in Shanghai.
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