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The first & nbsp; Final A & nbsp; valid for the & rsquo; last stage of the World Cup & nbsp; & nbsp; & nbsp short track; reward almost exclusively the & nbsp; Korea. Today the four victories celebrated at Sportboulevard of & nbsp; & nbsp Dordrecht; (Netherlands), two indeed come from the Asian power. About the & nbsp; Choi Minjeong & nbsp; (1000 meters women) and & nbsp; Park Se-Yeong & nbsp; (1000 male meters). But there are also two novelties & agrave; represented by & rsquo; gold & nbsp; Marianne St-Gelais & nbsp; in the 1500 women & ndash; Canadian gets the first hurr & agrave; Career on the kilometer and a half & ndash; and the success of the bearer of & nbsp; Israel & nbsp; & ndash; first overall victory on the ice for his nation - & nbsp; & nbsp Vladislav Bykanov; (1500 men).
Saturday 13 February 2016 14 minutes reading time
L & rsquo; Italy concludes on Saturday with his Dutch scoresheet good seventh place in the 1500 Lucia Peretti feminine and with qualification in Final A for the women's relay, you & egrave; guaranteed cos & igrave; the possibility & agrave; to try to replicate the success achieved last Sunday in Dresden by Arianna Fontana and companions.
It ends to the quarterfinals of the path Elena Viviani in the first series of the 1000 meters. The bearer of yellow flame was l & rsquo; Italian only able to qualify after yesterday's Preliminaries. L & rsquo; blue closes in third place & ndash; They advancing only the first two semi-finals & ndash; covering the 9 laps in 1 & rsquo; 32 & rsquo; & rsquo; 799. Before her qualify Korean Noh Hee-Do and the Canadian Namasthee Harris-Gauthier. In the morning Arianna Valcepina had only grazed the repechage for the quarter and finished second behind the Japanese Hitomi Saito in the decisive semi-final recovery that promoted the & rsquo; Asian. Cos & igrave; the two Italian in the final ranking on the distance: Viviani 12 ^ and 22 ^ Valcepina.
Choi Minjeong won the Cup specialty & agrave; about 1,000 meters, adding to those of 1500 obtained of this and last season. The 8,000 points are enough to take for the first time in his career the general classification on the kilometer: the 17 year old South Korean can not memorize options pi & ugrave; It is mathematically ousted even after the second series that disputer & agrave; tomorrow. Merits of the second-place finish quest & rsquo; today the Sportboulevard of Dordrecht. Asian teenager phenomenal time you have to memorize options bow down in the Final A to British Elise Christie, who won strong in 1 & rsquo; 30 & rsquo; & rsquo; 616. The Choi controls the second place coming in 1 & rsquo; 31 & rsquo; & rsquo; 279 in front of the Canadian Jamie MacDonald. For the 25 year-old Edinburgh d & rsquo Champion; Europe 2016 is the third victory of the season in the Cup, the fifth in his career on 1000.
A tactic too wait in the semifinals for Lucia Peretti, does not allow the Valtellina fifth a week ago to log in again to the final of the 1500 A female meters. However, the 25 year-old Lombard gets a great seventh place, thanks to the brilliant Finale B, won in 2 & rsquo; 49 & rsquo; & rsquo; 990 on the Belgian and French Desmet Huot Marchand. This time l & rsquo; blue does not fly in the finals for medals because & eacute; & Egrave; fourth in the semifinal in 2''41 & rsquo; & rsquo; 577, behind Moemi Kikuchi (Japan), Yin Qi (China) and Jihyun Choi (Korea). Placing the still worth the qualification to the & ldquo; end part & rdquo ;, although a possible promotion Finale A & ndash; distant cronometricamente only 35.5 cents - could be within his reach. Out in the semi-finals repechage morning & ndash; both runners and raw materials excluded & ndash; both Cecilia Maffei Arianna Sighel. They placed 21th and 22nd respectively in the final classification on today's distance.
The victory & egrave; He went to the Canadian Marianne St-Gelais, who is a candidate cos & igrave; a leading role at the upcoming World Championships in March. Gi & agrave ;, because & eacute; The almost 26 year old & ndash; compir & agrave; the years next February 17 & ndash; gets her 15 & deg; individual success in the World Cup. But after 10 hurr & agrave; in the 500 and 4 in the 1000 arrives for her the first seal in 1500 at the height of a race in recovery and decided at the photo finish. The St-Gelais wins in 2 & rsquo; 34 & rsquo; & rsquo; 563 preceding by 24 cents the Chinese Guo Yihan revived. The bronze goes to the young Dutch Suzanne Schulting. The 1997 class rooms talented individual on the podium of the Cup for the second time after the & rsquo; silver in the 1000 Shanghai. The generic title of the 1500 was already & agrave; arithmetically it was won by the Korean Choi Minjeong after winning last week in Dresden.
In the men's quarterfinals on Andrew Cassinelli kilometer it is immediately eliminated coming fourth behind Park Se-Yeong (winner of the test in 1 & rsquo; 27 & rsquo; & rsquo; 625), Artem Kozlov and Richard Shoebridge. L & rsquo; blue gets a lap time of 1 & rsquo; 28 & rsquo; & rsquo; 519, but can not climb useful positions to be promoted to the next semi-finals. Will square nevertheless fifteenth, his best individual result in the World Cup. In the morning David Viscardi had come up all & rsquo; last step of stopping repechage recently more & ugrave; three-tenths off the ultimate promotion, advanced only by the Chinese Ren Haobo. The Milanese sar & agrave; 24th in the final ranking. Mark Giordano, third blue writing to 1000m, you & egrave; stopped in the second round of recovery, finishing 34 & deg; in the overall ranking.
Success & egrave; He went right to one of the & ldquo; & rdquo executioners; Piedmontese Cassinelli, ie in Park Se-Yeong. The 22 year-old South Korean (the cover with compatriot Kim) gets cos & igrave; his first win of the season after three podiums between individual and relay races. Park back to winning ways after a year and three months. In the hard-fought Final drive surpasses all & rsquo; last round l & rsquo; Hungarian Sandor Liu Shaolin, preceding him at the finish line for 62 cents. A 89 comes instead Joon Kim Chun leaving off the podium the most & ugrave; Experts Patrick Duffy and Vladimir Grigorev. Tomorrow & egrave; scheduled for the second series of the 1000, with semion elistratov ready to take the cup on the distance.
Cup which saw a turnover in the 1500 meters men. Without Sjinkie Knegt, leaders on the eve of the Dutch away from Dordrecht who had to raise the white flag after the ugly incident in the batteries of the relay, the title General & egrave; He went to South Korean Kwak Yoon-Gy. Quest & rsquo; last exploited cos & igrave; l & rsquo; the absence of & rsquo; oranje placing second & ndash; enough position to overtake - in & rsquo; last Final A seasonal, with a time of 2 & rsquo; 24 & rsquo; & rsquo; 919. Kwak, who had won the first two Championship test in Canada, finds cos & igrave; the all & rsquo head of the list; last breath, ahead Knegt for little more & ugrave; 2000 points.
The victory in the final & egrave; went from & rsquo; Ukrainian Israeli born Vladislav Bykanov. Never an athlete d & rsquo; Israel had won the first d & rsquo; now a race short track. Together with him and Kwak also celebrated another Korean returned within the short track after a long parenthesis: Lee Jung-Su. The Olympic champion in 2010, 1000 and 1500 meters back on the podium after more than a year's absence. Unfortunate proof of Thomas Dotti, l & rsquo; unique blue who qualified for the semifinals of quest & rsquo; today. The Milan of the Police Force suffers a penalty after a contact with the future winner Bykanov (which will be & agrave; then advanced into the final A). L & rsquo; blue is piazzer & agrave; 17 & deg; in the final ranking. Out in their difficult semi-final repechage & ndash; he rewarded the strong Canadian Charle Cournoyer & ndash; both Yuri Confortola Nicola Rodigari: they classify 28 & deg; and 31 & deg; in the overall ranking.
Well once again the women's relay, capable of flying to his second final in a row in the World Cup. Hoping that they can enjoy a bis d & rsquo; gold after the triumph of Dresden, Arianna Fontana, Arianna Valcepina, Elena Viviani and Cecilia Maffei, obtained with extreme safety one of two places-promotion of their semi-final. The blue close second behind Korea gi & agrave; champion on specialty & agrave; in the cup. 4 & rsquo; 13 & rsquo; & rsquo; 418 Time Italian, who remain glued to the Asian and they get rid of the other two national fearsome Netherlands and Japan. In Final A they will face China, France, Russia & ndash; fished out at the expense of Canada & ndash; and of course Korea.
Nothing to do for fellow men, who stop at the fourth place in the semi-final won by Canada in front of the & rsquo; Netherlands. Blue Confortola, Cassinelli, Rodigari and Dotti end the 5000 meters race by 7 & rsquo; 06 & rsquo; & rsquo; 862, also preceded by Belgium, while China suffers a penalty & agrave; that excludes from the struggle for specialty & agrave cup ;. The Italian quartet sar & agrave; engaged in the Final B against Hungary and the United States, but remained among the top eight in the world.
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