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You & egrave; open quest & rsquo; today the & rsquo; edition number 41 of the & nbsp; world championships & nbsp; & nbsp; short track. After & nbsp; first session & nbsp; of races on Mokdong track & nbsp; & nbsp Seoul, (South Korea) came the first verdicts. L & rsquo; Italy of c.t. & nbsp; Kenan Gouadec & nbsp; & ndash; in Asia with a contingent of 10 athletes in total, including these four skaters enrolled in individual competitions & ndash; obtained & nbsp; five qualifiers & nbsp; in total.
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They spend the first & ldquo; cutting & rdquo; twice the rookies in & rsquo; individual Davide Viscardi & ndash; 1500 and 1000 meters men's & ndash; and Lucia Peretti (in the photo on the cover), on about the same distances and fellow teammate. Arianna Valcepina only got through the first round in the distance pi & ugrave; short program, the 500. Tomorrow will be & agrave; among the participants to the quarterfinals. All we are waiting for the semi-finals of the relays: on Saturday the two blue teams will begin their path groped for an assault on the medals. Gi & agrave; Negative the World of Thomas Dotti. The pi & ugrave talent; Italian crystal of short track male debuted with three eliminations of many distances.
For now leading the overall classification the British Elise Christie and the Chinese Han Tianyu. But the potential their main antagonists & ndash; Choi Minjeong feminine and Charles Hamelin & ndash; They have not lost ground.
Here in detail the performance of the Italians, for each distance with all our qualifications in this first day.
In the 1500 meters, distance d & rsquo; opening of the show in 2016, was immediately eliminated Arianna Valcepina. The 21-year old Financial recently 11th in the last European Championships is ousted in the first round of qualifying fourth coming & ndash; time of 2 & rsquo; 36 & rsquo; & rsquo; 473 behind one of the big favorites for the title Shim Suk-hee (Korea), Kasandra Bradette (Canada) and Evgeniya Zakharova (Russia). Passes through and is won cos & igrave; a place for the semifinals tomorrow morning Lucia Peretti. The Bormina, star of a & rsquo; excellent second half of the season, comes in second place in the battery behind the Canadian Val & eacute; rie Maltais (2 & rsquo; 35 & rsquo; & rsquo; 105), detached 228 cents from the North American leader.
Even blue men do & ldquo; one in two & rdquo; after qualifying in the semifinals of the 1500 Fly Davide Viscardi, second and qualified in the & ldquo; busy & rdquo; Battery won by Canadian Samuel Girard in 2 & rsquo; 23 & rsquo; & rsquo; 672. The Milanese & egrave; good at preventing falls & ndash; out through suspension Russian Artem Kozlov and rescued the Chinese Wu Dajing & ndash; and in placing just behind the winner in 2 & rsquo; 26 & rsquo; & rsquo; 087. Nothing to do for Thomas Dotti, only the fourth & ndash; They passed the first two finishers & ndash; in a potentially to its flow battery. The 22-year-l & rsquo; last year 22 & deg; Overall on the distance you can not find the decisive inspiration and you have to queue in & rsquo; order Jack Whelbourne (Great Britain), John-Henry Krueger (USA) and Vladimir Grigorev (Russia). It will have & agrave; be content to refine his position in batteries for placings.
Women's 500 meters favorable only half & agrave; for the two blue arrows. At first Valcepina and Peretti had exceeded their preliminary rounds. Then, the first manages to finish third in his heat behind Kasandra Bradette and Suzanne Schulting. The time of & rsquo; Italian & ndash; 44 & rsquo; & rsquo; 502 & ndash; It enables it to be one of the three who fished were admitted directly to the quarterfinals scheduled for tomorrow. Lucia Peretti & egrave; Instead the second stop (45 & rsquo; & rsquo; 552) and decisive round closing fourth & ndash; four competitors at the start of its battery & ndash; behind the European vice-champion overall Charlotte Gilmartin (44 & rsquo; & rsquo; 284), l & rsquo; rainbow in office Minjeong Choi and Veronique Pierron.
Among men comes another stop in the first round for Thomas Dotti, fourth & ndash; They passed the first two finishers for each battery, pi & ugrave; the best two thirds & ndash; anticipated by Seo Yi Ra (Korea) Nurbergen Zhumagaziyev (Kazakhstan) and Liu Shaolin Sandor (Hungary). He stops mid & agrave; You can exploit to the quarter-finals for Davide Viscardi. The 25 year old dell & rsquo; Agor & agrave; Skating Team of Milan, after having passed the first preliminary, fails to go beyond the third place & ndash; chrono 42 & rsquo; & rsquo; 861 - in his heat behind the Chinese Han Tianyu (provisional overall leader) and l & rsquo; Israeli Vladislav Bykanov. Both Italians will be on the ice tomorrow & ndash; late night in Italy & ndash; to play for the placings in the distance pi & ugrave; short program.
Nell & rsquo; last distance faced by skaters from around the world in Friday & igrave; d & rsquo; debut for the World Cup, the 1000 meters, the girls of Gouadec celebrate Lucia Peretti, good to qualify for the quarter-finals in the race on 9 rounds total. L & rsquo; blue & egrave; among the top 16 athletes in the world on the kilometer thanks to its convincing battery finished in second place behind the Dutch class talent 1997 Suzanne Schulting. L & rsquo; oranje wins in 1 & rsquo; 36 & rsquo; & rsquo; 365 116 cents ahead of the Valtellina. Eliminated instead Arianna Valcepina, fourth in the test won by one of superfavorite for the podium, the British Elise Christie. Quest & rsquo; last, gi & agrave; overall European champion this season, & egrave; Also the provisional leader of the overall standings ahead of Val & eacute; rie Maltais. A ranking that will be & agrave; well defined with the first Saturday Finals, the 1500 and 1000 meters, which will help to define the ranking until the Super Final on 3000m which will qualify the first eight of the ranking. The taking into account all of 1500, 500 and 1000 meters.
Decidedly negative the race on 1000 & ndash; its distance & ldquo; strong & rdquo; & Ndash; Thomas Dotti. The young policeman Milan comes directly from the classification of specialty & agrave; conceding a penalty which compromises the World (take & agrave; zero points on kilometer). Well instead Davide Viscardi, able to fly in the quarterfinals set for Sunday. L & rsquo; blue qualifies getting the third best time of repechage & ndash; 1 & rsquo; 27 & rsquo; & rsquo; 443 - battery.
Tomorrow the stars of the short track will be back on the ice of the South Korean Mokdong Ice Rink. The program & egrave; rich and provides for the & rsquo; assignment of four individual world titles & ndash; two male and two female & ndash; in 1500 and 500 meters. In addition, l & rsquo; Italy we will play & agrave; his pi & ugrave cards; unpredictable: the relay. Women guided by the world champion Arianna Fontana in the semifinals will be opposite in Japan, Russia and Korea. Men & ndash; orphans as we know from time to Yuri Confortola & ndash; They will be played l & rsquo; access to Final A challenging three powers such as Holland, China and Korea.
Click here to see the detailed program, full results and standings updated after the first day of competition in Seoul. & Nbsp;
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