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How predictable are the & nbsp; Canada & nbsp; and & nbsp; & nbsp Korea; the national able to close very great protagonists from the second stage of & nbsp; the World Cup short track, a & nbsp; Toronto. On the ice of & nbsp; MasterCard Centre & nbsp; in the CITY s & rsquo; Ontario the two squads & nbsp; share out equally the spoils & nbsp; in the last six finals on Sunday. & nbsp; Three successes in the masculine & nbsp; go to the hosts & ndash; & nbsp; Charles Hamelin & nbsp; in the 500, & nbsp; Charle Cournoyer & nbsp; in 1000 and the & nbsp; relay & nbsp; & ndash; while the phenomenal & nbsp; Korean women & nbsp; centrate a trio victorious with & nbsp; Choi Minjeong & nbsp; (500 meters), & nbsp; Shim Suk-hee & nbsp; (1000) and & nbsp; team competition.
Monday 9 November 2015 20 minutes reading time
Not close properly l & rsquo; North American adventure for the Italian national team, the game yesterday & rsquo; excellent eighth place obtained yesterday by Davide Viscardi, who can not find any acute final. The best results for the patrol's technical Kenan Gouadec arrive by Lucia Peretti (500m), Yuri Confortola and Tommaso Dotti (both over 1000m), all eliminated in the quarterfinals.
Little glory in the 1000 meters distance where the & rsquo; Italy started with a double paper & Outdoors; assault prestigious goals. Yuri Confortola Dotti and Thomas, the two bishops blue gi & agrave; qualified for the quarter-finals now they say goodbye to dreams of glory. The first, he committed against Fathoullin, second in the 500 yesterday, and especially the Chinese world bronze in 2015 Shi Jingnan, can not & ograve; much against rivals. Part strong Chinese, Yuri follows in last place, until & eacute; than with the decision & rsquo; Dutch Breeuwsma but can not overtake other opponents until all & rsquo; last corner, when the Russian Kozlov touch with Kazakh Zhumagaziyev qualifier then Shi. Chip the first but not the baster & agrave; for qualifying, because & eacute; l & rsquo; blue & egrave; fourth in 1 & rsquo; 27 & rsquo; & rsquo; 671, when he should aim for the top two places for the semi-finals.
Quarter-final six contenders & ndash; instead of the canonical five & ndash; also for the Milanese Tommaso Dotti. The 22 year old is with s & eacute; the 24 year old World Junior Champion in 2011, Seo Yi Ra (Korea), experts Freek van der Wart, Ruslan Zakharov and rampant John-Henry Krueger. L & rsquo; blue snaps in third place after the start, immediately lost positions but remains in contact with the first. -6 Exceeds the Kazakh Zhaxybayev tip and others. And dates back more than good, all & rsquo; internal Zakharov at the penultimate last round, but failed to achieve the first two: Seo and van der Wart. Closes third in 1 & rsquo; 28 & rsquo; & rsquo; 251 still finding a performance & ndash; and overtaking expected against opponents of a good standard & ndash; that can not & ograve; only be positive for the upcoming events in December in Asia. The final placement of Dotti places it in 12th position, encouraging result for him, while Confortola & egrave; 16th.
Friday & Igrave eliminated; Preliminaries in the third blue Nicola Rodigari manages to reach the semi-finals of the recovery kilometer. The neo & ndash; yesterday - thirty-four is advanced to the next round by the judges after being damaged during his trial. In & rsquo; last act of his repechage tournament, for & ograve ;, does not go beyond the third place in 1 & rsquo; 27 & rsquo; & rsquo; 903 in the race won by American Keith Carroll & ndash; only qualified to the quarter - in 1 & rsquo; 27 & rsquo; & rsquo; 795 front & Outdoors; Australian Lachlan Lay.108 cents that have divided the top three in a race very uncertain until the last meters. The bearer of Forestry is piazzer & agrave; in 26th place in the final on away.
The victory of the 1000 meters is a newcomer to the success as Charle Cournoyer, albeit gi & agrave; Olympic bronze medalist in the 500 meters in Sochi 2014, which has the better of the duo Korean Seo Yi Ra and Kwak Yoon-Gy, winner of the first two in 1500 this season. The Canadian born in 1991 driving safely until & rsquo; attack Seo. The two engaged in a duel that sees resist with stubbornness & agrave; Cournoyer. It all comes down to the & rsquo; last curve, crossed pi & ugrave; quickly from Korean, speed & agrave; that does not allow him to overtake the American. Cournoyer wins at age 24 his first race of the World Cup, after having touched three times & ndash; three silvers at the World Cup, the & rsquo; last a week ago in the 500 & ndash; and anticipates rival for just 31 cents. In the overall standings of the 1000 points, Cournoyer back in second place behind the Chinese Shi Jingnan, now fourth in the final.
In the race that opened the program to the male, there & rsquo; & egrave; It was nothing to do for David Viscardi, fresh from brilliant eighth place yesterday in 1500, which undergoes the stop in the decisive preliminary repechage of 500 meters (second series). The Milan comes fourth in 42 & rsquo; & rsquo; 602 behind Shoebridge, Azghaliyev & ndash; the latter promoted & ndash; and Kurginian. Same fate for the other two blue ice in the morning Canadian Mark Giordano and Andrea Cassinelli, both coming third in their batteries and finish first out. Any regrets in pi & ugrave; especially for the second, just 67 cents from the second place that would allow access to the following batteries. These are the final placings of the three Italians: Cassinelli 29 & deg ;, Jordan 30 & deg; Viscardi and 37 & deg ;.
A victory in the Final goes to a sumptuous Charles Hamelin, who captures cos & Igrave; his second victory of the season. Behind him & egrave; the historic one-two for the & rsquo; Hungary Liu Shaolin Sandor, gi & agrave; silver at the World Championships in 2015, followed by loose cannon Viktor Knoch. Quest & rsquo; last went to medal in the World Cup only un''altra chance & ndash; Erzurum, in the stage of closure of the last Cup - when he won. No podium for the defending champion in the World Cup on 500 Dmitry Migunov and for the winner of yesterday & ndash; first series & ndash; Samuel Girard. Hamelin takes over the race very well using the start and went on to win with a & rsquo; & agrave authorities; and security that distinguishes samples of great race, in 40 & rsquo; & rsquo; 691. Behind him on the penultimate lap, he unleashes the struggle to keep up. Migunov slips alone, Girard & egrave; disqualified and go up on the podium to surprise the two Hungarian Liu Shaolin (86 cents) and Knoch, trailing by more than six seconds behind the Canadian.
In the women's section ends the quarter-finals of the second series of 500 meters, achievement gi & agrave; Friday & Igrave ;, race Lucia Peretti. Combined with Han Yutong (China), Anna Seidel (Germany) and fished Noh Hee-Do, the Bormina does not go beyond the third. At the start, the & rsquo; blue takes second after the Han Chinese. It maintains contact with her but can not & ograve; yield & Outdoors; attack from & rsquo; inside of Seidel & Outdoors; beginning of & rsquo; last lap. Sar & agrave; third behind the & rsquo; Asian and German 44 & rsquo; & rsquo; 852. For her arriver & agrave; the 12th place in the final standings.
Repechage in the morning had finally arrived a little smile for a & rsquo; another veteran contingent blue in Canada: Cecilia Maffei. The thirty-conditioning in Montr & eacute; to some physical problem, he spends his first round & ndash; between the main draw and recoveries & ndash; in the second set distance pi & ugrave; short of Toronto. In batteries & egrave; second behind the Korean Noh Hee-Do, but his run ends in the subsequent semi-finals, where he fails to grab the & rsquo; only place available for the promotion. Maffei will & agrave; third in 45 & rsquo; & rsquo; 652 behind Noh (45 & rsquo; & rsquo; 377) and the Russian Malagich (45 & rsquo; & rsquo; 460). For the & rsquo; Italian comes a 20th place overall equaling his sixth best individual performance in its ten years of career in the World Cup.
In the second final of the 500 meters place last weekend in Toronto he saw in pole position for a successful three-time world champion and record holder over the distance Fan Kexin. With her the agguerritissime Minjeong Choi (Korea), Marianne St-Gelais (Canada) and her compatriot Han Yutong. In short, there & rsquo; were all specialists who have disregarded the prediction of a final crackling. The Canadian uses the sudden spring and moves quickly in front of all. Guide for all four rounds and a half, but in the meantime, Choi goes from & rsquo; last place & ndash; start not perfect - and exceeds the Fan and Han and finally the St-Gelais. One thousandth of a second separates the winner Choi, really foolproof thanks to the prodigious comeback ended with the leg 42 & rsquo; & rsquo; 998. The Canadian, before a week ago in Montr & eacute; al, had to settle the square d & rsquo; honor and to maintain its leadership in the ranking of specialty & agrave ;. Third at the finish line & ndash; surprise & ndash; & Egrave; China's less waiting, the 21-year old Han Yutong (43 & rsquo; & rsquo; 117 his time) who finds his first podium of the season.
In the 1000 meters at the feminine & egrave; Arianna Valcepina fast enough, Friday & Igrave eliminated; Preliminaries in, and out again in the first round this time in recoveries. The 21 year old Cepina does not go beyond the third round of the repechage he excelled the Chinese Zhou Yang in 1 & rsquo; 45 & rsquo; & rsquo; 873 front & Outdoors; American Jessica Smith. L & rsquo; blue finished in 1 & rsquo; 46 & rsquo; & rsquo; yielding 110 & Outdoors; attack Zhou launched the third of a total of nine laps. Better than she does the & rsquo; other Italian Elena Viviani, good at overcoming the first heat of the repechage, won in front of the & rsquo; Hungarian Bacskai. The Financial Valdidentro, for & ograve ;, not & egrave; He managed to accomplish the & rsquo; last step to be readmitted to the quarterfinals in the afternoon and in & rsquo; last and decisive round of recovery & egrave; finished third (advancing only first and second) behind Smith (USA) and Hout Marchand (France). Both l & rsquo; have surpassed in the penultimate round, when the & rsquo; blue was transited to the second position. Elena finished with a time of 1 & rsquo; 34 & rsquo; & rsquo; 942, less than half a second behind the winner. For the & rsquo; blue comes the 21th place in the final rankings, in which the Valcepina stops in 25th place.
With the two Italian out of the game, the speech for the win has seen the consumption of the winning monologue by Shim Suk-hee, the third victory of the season. This time for the race & ograve ;, & egrave; decided by a thrilling finale featuring the photo finish. Especially on the Canadian Val & eacute; rie Maltais, who tried in every way to undermine the Korean, l & rsquo; & egrave when attacking; head, surpasses all & rsquo; internal, resists for two laps ahead of all but must tag along to 18 year-old Olympic bronze medalist over the distance, winning in 1 & rsquo; 33 & rsquo; & rsquo; 964. The podium & egrave; bitter for Maltais, because & eacute; undergoes l & rsquo; attack of a determined and extremely competitive Elise Christie (1 & rsquo; 34 & rsquo; & rsquo; 028) & ndash; gi & agrave; yesterday the winner of the 500m series - which relegates the Canadian in third place, leaving behind for just 13 cents. Disappointment for the & rsquo; Dutch Jorien ter Mors, l & rsquo; twice Olympic long-track in Sochi, returned to the short track after a year and a half, falling to -3 from time. But will & agrave; a & rsquo; formidable opponent for anyone later in the season.
Total also show the relay, which confirm what was seen in the individual events earlier. Korea's Choi Minjeong, Shim Suk-hee, Do No-Hee and Kim Alang drive rivals triumphing for the second time in a row ahead of China and Russia. The race is resolved in favor of the reigning world champions to only tert & rsquo; last lap. In the 5000 meters at the final of the men, smiles again Canada, finding a victory that was missing since November 2013 Cup, obtained in the stage of Turin. Samuel Girard, Charles Hamelin, Charle Cournoyer and Patrick Duffy close a Sunday special for skaters to home, anticipating Hamelin photo finish with the Korean team and the Chinese.
The challenges of the World Cup will start again in less than a month, from & rsquo; Asia. In Nagoya (Japan) will be held & agrave; the third stage 4 to 6 December next.
Click here to see the full official results and standings of the World Cup after a stop in Toronto.
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