Short Track - CDM in Erzurum (Turkey)
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Italian women & nbsp; on the shields & nbsp; on the opening day of & rsquo; last stage of & nbsp; the World Cup. The CITY Turkish & nbsp; Erzurum, where the & nbsp; & nbsp short track, he made his debut ever, seems to be & ndash; at least after Friday & Igrave; dedicated to & nbsp; batteries qualification & nbsp; & ndash; particularly lucky girls to orders from ct & nbsp; Kenan Gouadec. Gi & agrave ;, because & eacute; in the five previous stages of this World Cup, they had never seen so & Igrave; many Italian advance directly in the main draw. In & nbsp; Turkey & nbsp; will be well & nbsp; & nbsp six; presences race gi & agrave; certain to continue its path.
Friday 13 February 2015 14 minutes reading time
Twice with the formidable Arianna Fontana looking for new podiums, many with a positive Elena Viviani, and one each with Lucia Peretti & ndash; in the 1500 meters & ndash; and Arianna Valcepina, in 500. In addition to this, proceeds sent the way of the relay which in Dresden & egrave; was d & rsquo; silver.
Less positive & ndash; but not without good ideas - Fridays & Igrave; men, at least compared to the well-pi & ugrave; brilliant overall performance of the women's team. Skaters nostrani advance only on two occasions in the individual events. First with Tommaso Dotti who qualify directly for the finals of the 1000 meters (first series). Then, at the close of the afternoon, Yuri Confortola imitates him on the same distance, but in the second set. The others will have to pass all the repechage. Much better in the relay, able to go through eliminating the strong Canada and keeping alive their hopes of earning a pass to the World Championships in March in Moscow.
Below we retrace in detail and chronologically the day of qualifications for the & rsquo; Italian short track to Yenisehir Ice Arena in Erzurum.
In the women's 1,000 meters (first series) goes Elena Viviani, third and fished from its fast battery and qualified for the quarter-final tomorrow. The 22 year-old Olympic bronze medalist in the relay equals the best result of the season on the distance, got all & rsquo; debut in Salt Lake City. In the US, was the thirteenth and potr & agrave; aim to improve the placement. Federica Tombolato, however, does not exceed the rock-batteries coming fourth in the race won by Tao Jiaying.
No problem for Arianna Fontana in 1500. The Valtellina qualifies for the semi-finals with the fastest time of all: 2 & rsquo; 31 & rsquo; & rsquo; 963. The hunt for the third podium of the season & ndash; after a second and a third place & ndash; after the disqualification in the Final A last week, pu & ograve; therefore continue. Tomorrow, in the semifinals partir & agrave; with gallons of possible athlete to medal. On the sixth attempt on seasonal ranges, even Lucia Peretti is the qualification in the semifinals, will treat you to Bormina & agrave; Depending on the distance of the qualifying season. Missing l & rsquo; en plein blue perch & eacute; Arianna Valcepina not just fourth place to reach the result of Fontana and Peretti. The 20 year old Financial struggle, but suffers overtaking the Canadian Maltais & ndash; then winning in front of Liu and Kim & ndash; Two laps from & rsquo; arrival. L & rsquo; blue prover & agrave; l & rsquo; assault on the main draw in the repechage tomorrow morning.
The 500 meters reward once again the good Friday & Igrave; qualifications for Elena Viviani, second and qualified for the quarter-finals after the battery from won & rsquo; expert Korean Jeon Ji-Soo. Passes the turn even Arianna Valcepina, second and happy behind the Chinese Lin Yue. We will see the two blue in action in the quarterfinals on Sunday afternoon.
Second series of 1000 meters smiling widely at the Fountain, the first commitment seasonal & ndash; Cup & ndash; on the distance. The 24 year old star of the Italian national team easily won its battery by finding the cue decisive on the penultimate lap. First place in one & rsquo; 37 & rsquo; & rsquo; 316 in front of the British Gilmartin. Eliminated Lucia Peretti fifth and last in the battery won by 16 year old Korean Choi Minjeong, champion in 1500 and 2015 on fighting for the overall title in 1000 also.
One of the certainties of & rsquo; Italian ice becomes the women's relay. The quartet blue goes in batteries and qualifies for the semifinals again tomorrow, when you will see the & agrave; with Canada, Russia and Hungary. A formality & agrave; or almost the first round of Arianna Fontana, Elena Viviani, Arianna Valcepina and Federica Tombolato who were facing the Canadian & ndash; who had beaten the Italians in the finals of Dresden & ndash; and Poland. The four arrows Italian qualify with the second time & ndash; 4 & rsquo; 11 & rsquo; & rsquo; 81 - behind the North American first for only 20 cents. Third and eliminated the Polish.
In the men's 1,000 meters (first series), Tommaso Dotti & egrave; l & rsquo; unique blue who qualified for the quarter-finals scheduled for tomorrow. The Milanese exploits the third time in his battery & ndash; behind Charles Hamelin and Shi Jingnan & ndash; and get the third and final time of repechage. With this qualification Dotti improves gi & agrave; his best performance & ndash; China was the 24th - on the distance in the season. Outside the second qualifying round, however, Andrea Cassinelli. While the third Italian in the race, Massimo Gurini is eliminated after his first race.
No blue take & agrave; part & ndash; unless they exceed the repechage rounds & ndash; the semi-finals of the 1500 meters. David Viscardi, Nicola Rodigari and Yuri Confortola skim all the passage of the moment & ndash; reserved for the first two of each of the seven batteries & ndash; and stop all third. Minimum separations for the Italian trio. By their opponents have missed the qualification in gaps between 9 cents to 20 Rodigari of Viscardi.
After being advanced in the first series of 1000, fails on two out of two to Tommaso Dotti. The 21 year old bearer of the Golden Flame you & egrave; stopped in fourth place in the second preliminary of 500 meters, in early & rsquo; order by Semion Elistratov & ndash; in the fight for the title -, Shi Jingnan and Richard Shoebridge, who won the & rsquo; direct access to the quarterfinals on Sunday. The second Italian in the race, Andrea Cassinelli, leaves the stage in the first round. Both will try re-entry into the main draw taking part in the repechage on Sunday morning.
The 1000 (second series) reward Italian on a three at the start. Viscardi and Gurini go ko immediately in Preliminaries. Yuri Confortola you & egrave; found himself in the grip of the samples, but & egrave; managed to get out of it with a qualification in your pocket. In the next battery had to contend with bicampione Olympic distance & ndash; 2006 and 2014 - An Victor and Lee Jung-Su, gold in Vancouver 2010. The Bormio & egrave; been fished out as among the best third and last will & agrave; at the start in the quarter-final on Sunday. Of note, in a day until then without twists & ndash; at least one of the favorites - the sensational disqualification sub & Igrave; ta leader on distance Sjinkie Knegt. L & rsquo; Dutch lost cos & Igrave; points and sar & agrave; forced to fight for everything in the first set of tomorrow, in which frontegger & agrave; the main rivals for the title Elistratov and Hamelin. But at this point, the main favorite & egrave; Korean Sin Da Woon, advanced in both series. Avr & agrave; available a double tank points.
In closing comes the smile, and l & rsquo; access to the semifinals, even for the men's relay engaged in difficult battery against Canada, Korea and the pi & ugrave; weak Turkey. The blues Rodigari, Confortola, Viscardi and Dotti to qualify & ndash; and hope cos & Igrave; still in the pass for the World & ndash; had to finish in the top two to finish in the third-placed with time pi & ugrave; fast. At the start with the previous reference of France & ndash; third in the previous battery in 6 & rsquo; 52 & rsquo; & rsquo; 060 & ndash; Italians do l & rsquo; fast pace to make the 5000 meters. Tactical move right, because & eacute; the rhythms are the right ones. But the Blues are not limited to control and duel with the Koreans & ndash; victorious in 6 & rsquo; 48 & rsquo; & rsquo; 925 & ndash; and precede with the lap time of 6 & rsquo; 51 & rsquo; & rsquo; Net Canada. Second place guarantees to the blues passing round without looking at the time. Canadians are out instead. L & rsquo; Italy disputer & agrave; his semi-final against Korea, Russia and Kazakhstan.
To see the full results of the first day, get information on schedules and attendance of the Italian race, click here. Recall also that sar & agrave; You can follow the live stream of the event from 12:30. Baster & agrave; go to the following link: http://livemanager.eurovision.edgesuite.net/isu/index.html
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