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Nell & rsquo; last day of competition at & nbsp; & nbsp Seoul, comes the rainbow revolution. To & nbsp; Mokdong Ice Rink & nbsp; of the South Korean capital have closed 41esimi & nbsp; World Championships & nbsp; Short Track. And as often happens, the & nbsp; short track & nbsp; & nbsp does not skimp; reversals in the face & nbsp; of & rsquo; last moment. Cos & igrave; after & nbsp; the last two individual distances & nbsp; Sunday & ndash; 1000 and 3000 meters in Super Final & ndash; exult those up to 24 hours before chasing the first place overall: the female is confirmed & nbsp; & nbsp champion, South Korea & nbsp; Choi Minjeong, good at undermining the leaders of yesterday & nbsp; Marianne St-Gelais. At & nbsp; men, on the other hand, & egrave; d & rsquo; gold Chinese & nbsp; Han Tianyu, which exceeds the Hungarian Brothers & nbsp; Liu Shaolin & nbsp; & ndash; then bronze - and Liu Shaoang.
Sunday 13 March 2016 14 minutes reading time
Nothing to do for the multi-titled Charles Hamelin - & nbsp; & nbsp; true disappointed in the end of the first day luxury - it is still a great recovery in rankings in its Sundays. The Canadian 31 year old (pictured left with the world champion and bronze Han Tianyu Liu Shaolin) does not go beyond the & rsquo; final silver and does not break cos & igrave; tab & ugrave; not the & rsquo; one has seen triumph at World Championship level.
L & rsquo; Italy of c.t. Kenan Gouadec closes the festival South Korea without jerks. Drawing up the individual general classification the best & egrave; Davide Viscardi, good sixteenth after the conclusion of his three trials. Definitely forget the World of Thomas Dotti, only 43 & deg; in the overall ranking. Among women, however, c & rsquo; & egrave; to report the good 17 & deg; Total place obtained by Lucia Peretti, before the & rsquo; another Italian at the start, Arianna Valcepina, 25th out of 38 competitors. Not possible icing on the cake came in the team event. Yesterday the couriers were forced to cash out early eliminations & ndash; ie in the semifinals & ndash; who left a bit & rsquo; of regret. Engaged both in the B Finals today, the blue quartets were ranked fifth & ndash; guided by Women Arianna Fontana & ndash; and sixths.
On this Sunday the races, the Blues have ventured in the 1000 meters, only individual distance at which they were qualified. Davide Viscardi & egrave; It was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Sebastien Lepape and Samuel Girard, in proof that he also decreed the penalty of Han Tianyu. The Milanese closed cos & igrave; to 12 & deg; place over the distance. Female, however, Lucia Peretti had stopped in the quarterfinals won by Elise Christie of Qu Chunyu and Anna Seidel. The Bormina & egrave; He came fourth in his heat, finishing in 14 & deg; place in the final ranking on the distance. 37th Arianna Valcepina.
So in the men's competition celebrates World Championships Han Tianyu. The young skater China & ndash; an Olympic silver in 1500 in Sochi as the best career result - become China's second able to win the men's overall title in short track. Before him there was only managed Li Jiajun, champion twice in 1999 and 2001. Now the 19-year old native of the northeastern province of Liaoning & egrave; officially entered the history of his country. The title comes mostly thanks to the victory in the 1,500 meters yesterday and in the Super Final on 3000 meters, the only distances that they've got the necessary points to get to 68. Gi & agrave; because & eacute; the new champion of the world is not & egrave; I managed to go to n & eacute points; at 500, n & eacute; nor in the 1000 today, it closed at 16 ^ square due disqualified in the quarterfinals.
Just kilometers from the game was the furious comeback by Charles Hamelin, big disappointed the first day of finals closed with just one point to & rsquo; active. The Canadian champion & egrave; First imposed in the next Final A, ahead in 1 & rsquo; 24 & rsquo; & rsquo; 436 his compatriot Samuel Girard and the Chinese Wu Dajing, detached respectively 341 and 432 cents to & rsquo; arrival. Then, to memorize options ;, not & egrave; able to complete the run in the Super Final in fact won by Han Tianyu in 4 & rsquo; 49 & rsquo; & rsquo; 450 in front of the South Korean Park Se-Yeong and Hamelin. The 34 points collected by the Chinese with & nbsp; decisive attack three laps from the end, allowed him to close to 68 lengths in the overall classification. Second in the & ldquo; General & rdquo; - As well as & eacute; 3000 meters on the third decisive & ndash; you & egrave; classed Charles Hamelin, who had to say goodbye again to the dreams of a world title, adding cos & igrave; another silver to his previous two seconds and three third places. A & ldquo; & rdquo curse; rainbow that continues. Bronze & ndash; at an altitude of 41 - in the overall classification & egrave; He moved all & rsquo; Hungarian Sandor Liu Shaolin, the first after the two tests on Saturday, who in his Sunday only got another 2 points after coming seventh in the final 3000 meters and tenth in 1000.
Similar story for the women's race. Marianne St-Gelais & egrave; forced to say goodbye to the golden dream, overwhelmed by the decisive recovery Choi Minjeong, which offers one of the only public gasps at the Seoul World Cup in a rather subdued for the Korean superpower. Decisive 1000 meters which opened on Sunday, in which the Canadian 26 year old can not access the finals for medals and & egrave; stopped out in the semifinals by Elise Christie and the Chinese Qu Chunyu. The stop of the North American leading the overall until Saturday & ndash; the result of the success in the 1500 and second place in the 500 & ndash; d & agrave; the green light to the comeback of Choi, which easily imposes on the next Finale At the kilometer in 1 & rsquo; 31 & rsquo; & rsquo; 933. The 17 year old native of Seongnam won the duel & ndash; just like in 2015, the race in which the & rsquo; Blue Fountain was bronze & ndash; Elise Christie. Scottish champion d & rsquo; Europe overall yields to Choi on lap four, but it is confirmed iridescent silver in 1 & rsquo; 31 & rsquo; & rsquo; 980. Third & egrave; Instead the Canadian Kasandra Bradette (1 & rsquo; 32 & rsquo; & rsquo; 607), who takes cos & igrave; its first medal in a World Cup. Only the sixth St-Gelais, losing cos & igrave; the advantage of points gleaned on Saturday.
Nell & rsquo; last act of the Super Final on 3000 meters & ndash; classifying the first eight of the ranking after the dispute of 500, 1000, and 1500 meters -, the Canadian non baster & agrave; arriving fifth in front of Choi in & ldquo; & rdquo control; on its direct competitor. In the final overall classification will be separated only by 3 points: 17 year old won the Asian cos & igrave; His second tournament in a row, this time with 66 lengths against 63 of the St-Gelais and 47 of a & rsquo; excellent Elise Christie, the third on 3000 meters & ndash; distance that has not assigned medals - behind the & rsquo; Dutch Suzanne Schulting Yihan and the Chinese Guo. Never a skater Britain had won a medal in open competition.
In the relay expectations that closed the World Cup 2016 & egrave; Everything was easy for the girls South Korean Choi Minjeong, Shim Suk-hee, Noh Do-Hee and Lee Eun-Byul, who have confirmed world champions for the second consecutive year. 4 & rsquo; 19 & rsquo; & rsquo; 545 their trial in the Final A, ahead of Canada and Russia, to the first team medal in a World Cup. Disqualified China. The Italians, on the ice with Arianna Fontana, Cecilia Maffei, Lucia Peretti and Arianna Valcepina have honored the & ldquo; end part & rdquo; full, going to win in 4 & rsquo; 14 & rsquo; & rsquo; 811 in front of the & rsquo; Japan and the Netherlands to France. The Italian, bronze in Moscow 2015, were classified cos & igrave; to fifth place overall.
Among men exult with the & rsquo; gold neck Chinese quartet Jingnan Shi, Wu Dajing, Tianyu Han and Xu Hongzhi. Curiously, even the male l & rsquo; gold goes to the National which saw the & rsquo; affirmation of his skater in the individual competition. Cos & igrave; Han does double celebration with his companions, victorious in 7 & rsquo; 05 & rsquo; & rsquo; 539 before Canada and Korea. All this on top of a hard-fought race that saw the four finalist teams reach the finish enclosed in just 4.02 tenths. Also in this case & ndash; cos & igrave; as was the case for Korean & ndash; win the defending champions in Moscow 2015. In the Final B, they were blue protagonists Nicola Rodigari, Andrea Cassinelli, Mark Giordano and Thomas Dotti, & egrave; arrived l & rsquo; affirmation of Russia Migunov and associates. The Azzurri came seconds, finishing cos & igrave; sixths.
The World Cup 2016 will close cos & igrave ;. In 2017 the baton passer & agrave; Rotterdam (Netherlands). Also in this case & ndash; cos & igrave; as happened for Seul -, sar & agrave; first & ldquo; & rdquo rainbow; for the city & agrave; host.
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